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The Goddess Pavilion

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The Goddess Pavilion, which was built in 2005, gets its name for it holds a marble goddess statue which indicates that Mountain Lishan hot springs are one of the sources of human civilization in ancient days. The statue of three goddesses, respectively holding plant, fish and pointed-bottom vase, vividly portraits the scene about 6,000 years ago when people worshiped and used the hot springs. It marked the beginning of Huaqign Pool's cultural history.


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The Nine-Dragon Lake

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The Nine-Dragon Lake, an artificial lake built in 1959, covers an area of about 5,300 square meters. With the Nine-Dragon Bridge laid across the surface, the lake is divided into two parts: the Upper Lake and the Lower Lake. In the upper part there is a modern fountain. On the Lower Lake, a Dragon Boat floats on the surface and a Statue of Yang Guifei, Emperor Xuan Zong's favorite, stands not far away. To the west of the lake lies a stone-dam on which many characters and phrases praising the beauty of the lake are scribed.

Around the lake you will find many buildings in the Tang Dynasty architectural style such as the Marble Boat, the Nine-bend Corridor, the Chenxiang Hall, the Frost Drifting Hall, the Yichun Pavilion, etc. These buildings have red as their key color and are surrounded with green pines, weeping willows and grasses, completing a picturesque view.


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The Pear Garden

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The Pear Garden, literally, is a pear orchard. In fact, the Pear Garden is a special name which refers to China's ancient music and dancing arts dating back to 714 A.D. Tang Emperor Xuanzong advocated and decided the Pear Garden to be the center for music, dancing and opera activities, which focuses on teaching and practicing performing skills. With many famous musicians and dancers of the time flocked together, the Pear Garden became the first imperial comprehensive art school. Hence, it is regarded as the cradle of Chinese opera art.

The Tang Huaqing Palace Pear Garden is by far the only evacuated ruins of Tang Pear Garden. It provided important and sufficient historical datal for the study of the imperial palace layout, architecture and bath custom of Tang Dynasty and the ancient music and dance development history.

In May 1995, Tang Pear Garden Art Exhibition Hall was built on the site of small pool and the ruins of Pear Garden. The three-storied hall is in the Tang architectural style with a total area over 2,000 square meters. On the first floor is the ruins of Small Pool and the art exhibition hall which shows music and dance scores, palatial musical instrument, Tang dancing costumes, murals of music and dancing. The Tang music and dance performance hall is on the second floor. Above that is the Tang Tea room where guests will appreciate the tea ceremony of Tang Dynasty. Now the Pear Garden has become a comprehensive place of cultural relics exhibition, Tang music and dancing performance and Tang tea ceremony.


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The Five-Room Hall

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Among the many building in Huaqing Pool Garden, there is a hall of brick and lumber structure named the Five-Room Hall. It gets its name for its comprising of five single rooms. With Mountain Lishan to its south and the Lotus Pool to its north, this garden has wide and level court yard planted with luxuriant green trees.

The Hall is a main magnificent building in the Guhuan Garden. Every red column of the front porch is so big that one can get his arms around. The Hall with the surrounding Three-Roomed Hall, the Wanghe Pavilion, the Flying Rainbow Bridge and the Flying Rosy Cloud Pavilion completes a harmonic picture.

The Hall was built during late Qing Dynasty. In 1900 empress dowager Cixi flied Beijing and stayed here when The Eight-Power Allied Forced seized the capital city. In 1934, it was renovated and became a resort place for high officials.

In October and December of 1936, Chiang Kaishek went to Shanngxi and stayed in the Five-Room Hall where he held high-ranking military meetings. Doggedly persisted in carrying the reactionary policy “domestic tranquility is a must for the resistance against the Japanese invaders”, he commanded the Northeast and Northwest Armies, headed by Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng, attack the Red Army. In order to urge Chiang to fight against the Japanese invaders and save the country from crisis, the two generals put forward to Chiang the proposal of forming a united front with the Communist Party for the resistance drive, which, however, was rejected by Chiang. Thereupon, Zhang and Yang started the famous Xi'an Incident. On December 12, They ordered a squad of bodyguards, to surround the Huaqing Pool. They fought a fierce battle there. Heard the sound of firing in the bedroom, Chiang crept out of a window in his nightgown and slippers. What is more, he hurt his back and lost one of his slippers while crossing over the back wall. He staggered up Mountain Lishan under the support his guards, and hid himself behind a stone in a crevice. Later the brave soldiers began to search the mountain and found him. They escorted him to Xi'an. From west to east, the five rooms are secretary's office, Chiang's bedroom, Chiang's office, the meeting room, and the office of Qian Dajun, head of his guards. The shot holes, which witnessed the fierce fight, can still be found in the panes and walls of the Hall. The copied furniture and other utensils in every room remain where the original ones were.

The Three-Room hall next to the Five-Room Hall was built in 1900 and once the dwelling place for high officials and rich persons. In October and December of 1936, some of Chiang's guards and secretary lived in this hall. In the morning of December 12, Chiang's guards rushed out and fought back under the cover of the architectures in the yard. Also the shot holes can still be found in the walls and panes.

The Three-Roomed Hall has changed into an exhibition hall with a lot of cherished documents introducing Chiang's activities in Huaqing Pool.


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Tang Well

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The Tang Well is the only existing one in the Huaqing Pool dates back to Tang Dynasty. It provided water for emperors in the Tang Dynasty. In particular, it was Lady Yang's well during her stay in Huaqing pool. In 1987, archeologists found that the 1300-year old well is 8.3 meters deep. It takes the shape of an ellipse. It is 1.9 meters from south to north and 1.26 meters from east to west. At the bottom it is a bit smaller. The wall has a thickness of 0.25 meter and is covered by tiles.


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