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28-508: Western Park is the name of various areas worldwide: Western Park, Beijing , a former imperial park now divided into the public Beihai Park and government Zhongnanhai compound Western Park, Auckland , a park in Auckland, New Zealand Western Park, Leicester , a park in the English city of Leicester Western Park Warragul , a recreation reserve in

56-709: Is best remembered in China today from the scene of "Clear Waves at Taiye Lake" ( 太液晴波 , Tàiyè Qíngbō ). The literal meaning of the Chinese characters 太液池 is "Great Liquid Pool" or "Great Liquid Pond". Prior to the Taiye Lake watershed system in Beijing that still exists today known as North, Central and South Seas, the name "Taiye" had honored several lakes in imperial gardens or palaces in various locations that once served as capital cities of imperial China. An early example of Taiye Lake

84-461: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Western Park, Beijing Taiye Lake was immortalized in the early 1410s when the Yongle Emperor commissioned The Eight Views of Beijing ( 北京八景圖 ), recording the capital's chief sites in poetry and painting in order to legitimize his removal of the imperial capital away from Nanking . It

112-689: Is located in the city of Xi'an . Two lakes named Taiye existed in Xi'an (known as Chang'an). The earlier Taiye Lake was excavated in the Han dynasty by the Emperor Wu in the 1st century BC as part of his Jianzhang Palace ( 建章宮 , Jiànzhānggōng ). This lake, along with the Kunming Lake , was a necessary addition to the city's water supply after the expansion of the capital city under Emperor Wu's reign. The second Taiye Lake in Xi'an

140-457: Is located to the west of the lake. It served as a place for banquets, performances, and religious rites. It consisted of three halls—a front, middle, and rear hall—adjacent to each other. An imperial park could be found north of the palace complex. The Sanqing Hall was located in the northeast corner the Daming Palace and served as a Taoist temple for the imperial family. The area around

168-616: The Ming dynasty , construction on the present-day Forbidden City began in AD 1406 as part of the Yongle Emperor 's relocation of the capital away from Nanjing . The new palace was south of the former Yuan one and the Taiye was expanded south along with it. The soil excavated from the lake and the fortress's moat were piled up to the palace's north to form the Mountain of Long Life (now known as Jingshan ), burying

196-564: The "Three Great Halls" and were respectively part of the outer, middle, and inner court. The central southern entrance of the Daming Palace is the Danfeng Gate. The gate consisted of five doorways. The present site covers more than 4,800 mu , making it 3.5 times more expansive than the Forbidden City , 3 times more than Versailles , and 13 times more than the Louvre . After passing through

224-402: The 17th century, the new government reduced the extensive Ming-era parks around the lake, enclosed the smaller present-day area within walls attached to the imperial palace, and began calling the separate sections by their modern names. Successive emperors built pavilions and houses along the lake shore, where they held court during the summer. Daming Palace The Daming Palace was

252-654: The Chinese Dadu) around Zhangzong's former palace and Lake Taiye, which was an important part of the capital's water supply. The lake was expanded until it covered the area of the present northern and central "seas" and three palaces were built around it. The purity of the reservoir was protected by law: from its source at a spring on Yuquan Mountain to Lake Taiye, the Jinshui was given separate passes where it crossed other streams and commoners were forbidden to bathe, wash clothes, water livestock, or dump trash along its course. Under

280-579: The Danfeng Gate, there is a square of 630 metres (2,070 ft) long with at the end the Hanyuan Hall. The Hanyuan Hall was connected to pavilions by corridors, namely the Xiangluan Pavilion in the east and the Qifeng Pavilion in the west. The pavilions were composed of three outward-extending sections of the same shape but different size that were connected by corridors. The elevated platform of

308-596: The Daning Palace ( t   大寧宮 , s   大宁宫 , Dànínggōng , lit.  "Palace of Great Peace" ) beside the new lake in 1179. During the Yuan dynasty , the ruined site of Zhongdu and its more meager water sources were abandoned in favor of the Gaoliang watershed. The imperial engineers Liu Bingzhong and Guo Shoujing directed the construction of the new Imperial City of Khanbaliq ( Marco Polo 's Cambaluc &

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336-456: The Hanyuan Hall is approximately 15 metres (49 ft) high, 200 metres (660 ft) wide, and 100 metres (330 ft) long. The Hanyuan Hall, where many state ceremonies were conducted, would serve as the main hall for hosting foreign ambassadors during diplomatic exchanges. The Xuanzheng Hall is located at a distance of about 300 metres (980 ft) north of the Hanyuan Hall. State affairs were usually conducted in this hall. The office of

364-767: The West Gippsland town of Warragul, Victoria, Australia Sun Yat Sen Memorial Park , formerly called Western Park, a park in Sai Ying Pun, Victoria City, Hong Kong Western Park, Oak Cliff , a small neighborhood in the Oak Cliff area of Dallas, Texas, United States Five Sisters Park , also known as the Western Park, an urban park in Warsaw, Poland See also [ edit ] West Park (disambiguation) Weston Park (disambiguation) [REDACTED] Topics referred to by

392-615: The Xuanzheng Hall. It housed the central government offices. For officials, it was considered a great honor to be summoned to the Zichen Hall. The Taiye Pool, also known as the Penglai Pool, is north of the Zichen Hall. The former gardens that surround the pond and island have been recreated, based on the historical record, with peony , chrysanthemum , plum , rose , bamboo , almond , peach , and persimmon gardens. The Linde Hall

420-575: The former Yuan site and improving the fengshui of the new one. The lake now comprised the three present-day "seas", which were divided by bridges, but continued to be known collectively as Taiye. The grounds were known as the Xiyuan or Western Garden ( 西苑 , Xīyuàn ) and the Jiajing Emperor and others retreated to it to escape life at court. After the establishment of the Manchu -led Qing dynasty in

448-528: The former capital city of Song dynasty in the south. During the reconstruction of Beijing, a Taiye Lake was built near the palace of Jurchens. The relic of this Taiye Lake is in today's Xicheng district outside of the southwestern second ring road and roughly near the Guang'an Gate of Beijing in later dynasties. The still-existing Taiye Lakes in Beijing were first created in the Mongol -led Yuan dynasty when Beijing

476-657: The imperial palace complex of the Tang dynasty , located in its capital Chang'an . It served as the imperial residence of the Tang emperors for more than 220 years. Today, it is designated as a national heritage site of China , and part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site " Silk Roads: the Routes Network of Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor ". The area is located northeast of present-day Xi'an , Shaanxi Province. The palace

504-550: The palace complex grounds is currently planted with locust trees, willows, flowers, and bushes on all sides. The site of the Daming Palace was discovered in 1957. Between 1959 and 1960, the earliest surveys and excavations of the Hanyuan Hall site were carried out by the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences . Preventive conservation measures of the Hanyuan Hall site began in 1993. From 1994 to 1996, for

532-425: The palace's completion before his death in 635, and construction halted thereafter. Empress Wu commissioned the court architect Yan Liben to design the palace in 660 and construction commenced once again in 662. In 663, the construction of the palace was completed under the reign of Emperor Gaozong . Emperor Gaozong had launched the extension of the palace with the construction of the Hanyuan Hall in 662, which

560-413: The restoration and preservation of the site, numerous surveys and excavations were conducted. The State Administration of Cultural Heritage (SACH) and UNESCO drew up and adopted a two-phased plan by 24 July 1995 to safeguard the Hanyuan Hall site. Work on the project started in 1995 by the joint effort of the Chinese government, Chinese and Japanese institutes, UNESCO, and various specialists. Most of

588-574: The retired Emperor Gaozu was living in Da'an Palace ( 大安宮 ) to the west, which he considered an inhospitable place as it was built on low-lying lands of Chang'an that was plagued by dampness and heat during the summer. According to him, ever since Emperor Taizong moved to the countryside during the summers, his retired father was left behind in Chang'an to suffer in the summer heat. However, his father would always decline any invitation from Emperor Taizong to spend

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616-430: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Western_Park&oldid=1225528029 " Category : Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

644-584: The secretariat was located to the west of the Xuanzheng Hall and the office of the chancellery was located to the east. From this area, structured in a Three Departments and Six Ministries system, the Department of State Affairs , the Chancellery , and the Secretariat handled the central management of the Tang empire. The Zichen Hall, located in the inner court, is approximately 95 metres (312 ft) north of

672-525: The summer together. Ever since the bloody palace coup of the Xuanwu Gate Incident in 626, it seemed that father and son had drifted apart to an extent that their relationship never healed. In 634, Emperor Taizong launched the construction of the Daming Palace at Longshou Plateau. He ordered the construction of the summer palace for his retired father, Emperor Gaozu , as an act of filial piety . However, Emperor Gaozu grew ill and never witnessed

700-560: Was excavated in the Tang dynasty by the Emperor Taizong next to his father 's Daming Palace , after the capital had been relocated several miles northward due to the growing salinity of the water source at the original site. There are older Taiye Lakes in Beijing, too. In 1151, Beijing (known as Zhongdu) became the capital city of the Jurchen -led Jin dynasty . The emperor Wanyan Liang ordered to rebuild Beijing in style of Kaifeng ,

728-460: Was finished in 663. On 5 June 663, the imperial family began to relocate from the Taiji Palace into the yet to be completed Daming Palace, which became the new seat of the imperial court and political center of the empire. Beginning from the south and ending in the north, on the central axis, stand the Hanyuan Hall, the Xuanzheng Hall, and the Zichen Hall. These halls were historically known as

756-434: Was originally known as Yong'an Palace but was renamed to Daming Palace in 635. In 662, after renovations to the palace, it was renamed Penglai Palace . In 670, it was renamed Hanyuan Palace or Yuan Palace . Eventually, in 701, the name was changed to Daming Palace again. The former royal residence was the Taiji Palace ( 太極宮 ), built in the previous Sui dynasty . In 632, chancellor Ma Zhou charged that

784-586: Was reconstructed as Khanbaliq (Dadu) after the previous Beijing city had been seriously damaged during the Mongol conquest of the Jin dynasty . The lake was first constructed as part of the Jinshui River canal system under the Emperor Zhangzong of Jin . Although still within the limits of modern Beijing, the Jin capital of Zhongdu was located well south of the site, in a separate watershed. Zhangzong constructed

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