Summer Palace is an imperial garden in Qing Dynasty. Ordered by the Empress Dowager Cixi, the reconstruction of the
garden was started in 1888 and completed in 1895. It covers a total area of 290 hectares with 3,000 palaces, galleries and
pavilions. The design gives prominence to the greenery Longevity Hill and the clear Kunming Lake. Looking from the Longevity
Hill, you will have a bird's-eye-view of the picturesque Kunming Lake with the Seventeen-Arch Bridge and the South Lake
Islet floating on it.

The Long Corridor is among many other beautiful sights in the garden. Skirting the northern bank of the Kunming Lake,
the Long Corridor is decorated with more than 8,000 paintings of landscapes, flowers and human figures.