Chengde Mountain Resort and its outlying temples
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How it came to be
The Mountain Resort at Chengde in Hebei was the summer palace of the Qing emperors. It was built over 89 years, from 1703 to 1792, with palaces, administrative and ceremonial buildings and gardens set among lakes, grassland and forest. The palace area in the south was designed to resemble the Forbidden City in Beijing.
Emperors including Kangxi and Qianlong spent each summer and autumn here, handling military and state affairs, receiving the leaders of ethnic minorities and foreign envoys, and setting out for the autumn hunt at Mulan. The gardens hold 72 scenic spots named by Kangxi and Qianlong, and the Tower of Mist and Rain on the lake copies a tower at Nanhu Lake in Jiaxing, Zhejiang.
Twelve temples were built on the hills to the east and north, combining Han, Mongolian and Tibetan architecture, and they helped to build ties with minority peoples. The resort and its outlying temples were inscribed in 1994.
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