Beihai Park was built in accordance with traditional Chinese legend. It is believed that once upon a time there were three magic mountains Penglai, Yingzhou and Fangzhang which have many gods live in those mountains. The Gods of the mountain had a kind of herbal medicine which would help human to obtain immortality.
Easy to guess, many emperors in China have searched for those mountains in order to get immortality, but they failed. One of the emperor has built a large pool and piled up three earth hills at his palace just to imitate the condition described in the legend.
It was believed that different mountain water combinations in ancient Chinese architecture led to totally different effects. The Chinese traditional map of three mountains were built by one emperor after another. almost every emperor during the succeeding dynasties would build a royal garden with one-pool-with-three-hills' layout as a fairyland near his palace. Beihai Park was surely built after this traditional style: the water of Beihai (North Sea) with Zhong Nan Hai (Central and South Seas) is the Taiye Pool; the Jade Flowery (Qionghua) Islet, the island of the Circular City and the Xishantai Island represent the three magic mountains.
Beihai Park of Beijing, if you see in Chinese map, is located in an area of about 0.27 sq miles. Half of which is taken up by the lade.
Find in Chinese map about Beihai Park of Beijing. It is one must visit place in Chinese map.
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