Kuoru Pavilion
A place of cool respite in the blazing heat in the middle of a mid-summer's day.
This structure is considered to be the most prominent of the 40 pavilions in the Summer Palace's grounds. It is also the China's largest pavilion. It consists of two layers of eaves forming an octagon-shaped roof, supported by a total of 42 pillars. An open walkway passes it.
Located on the shoreline of Kunming Lake at the eastern end of the Seventeen-Arch Bridge (just off-camera to the right), the Kuoru Pavilion is a wooden structure of unusual size, some 300 m2. During the Qing Dynasty, Emperor Qianlong and his scholars often drank wine and composed poetry here. Tablets with Emperor Qianlong’s poems, and couplets written by the scholars in response, are still hung in this pavilion.
Scanned from a negative.
Kuoru Pavilion
A place of cool respite in the blazing heat in the middle of a mid-summer's day.
This structure is considered to be the most prominent of the 40 pavilions in the Summer Palace's grounds. It is also the China's largest pavilion. It consists of two layers of eaves forming an octagon-shaped roof, supported by a total of 42 pillars. An open walkway passes it.
Located on the shoreline of Kunming Lake at the eastern end of the Seventeen-Arch Bridge (just off-camera to the right), the Kuoru Pavilion is a wooden structure of unusual size, some 300 m2. During the Qing Dynasty, Emperor Qianlong and his scholars often drank wine and composed poetry here. Tablets with Emperor Qianlong’s poems, and couplets written by the scholars in response, are still hung in this pavilion.
Scanned from a negative.