Half amazement, half sigh

📍Yuanmingyuan 🚗Transportation: South Gate: Metro Line 4, Yuanmingyuan Station, Exit A/B West Gate: Metro Line 4, Xiyuan Station, Exit A East Gate: Bus 305/320/365/375 Yuanmingyuan East Road Stop ⏰Opening hours: 7:00-21:00 (admission stops at 19:00) 🎫Tickets: • Tickets: 10💰/person •Combined ticket (including the Western Building Ruins): 25💰/person • Free for children under 6 years old and over 60 years old 👣Save your feet route: Enter from the East Gate → Western Building Ruins Scenic Area → Take a boat or sightseeing bus → Junction of the Three Gardens → Visit the Lotus Garden and take a walk by the lake → Old Summer Palace Ruins Park-Pier → Exit from the South Gate (near the subway station) 🌟 Dashuifa: The iconic building in the Old Summer Palace, a textbook scene, and the largest artificial fountain ever 🌟 Watching the Waterworks: Opposite the Great Waterworks, the emperor's throne, sit here and admire the Waterworks 🌟 Yuanyingguan: On the north side of the Dashuifa, there is a Western clock tower-style hall, displaying various Western treasures 🌟 Yuanmingyuan Haiyan Hall: It means "peaceful seas and peaceful rivers, a peaceful country and a peaceful people". It was once the place where the twelve animal heads were placed. The twelve bronze heads symbolize the twelve hours. At every hour, the corresponding animal head will spray water for 2 hours. 🌟 Yellow Flower Array: Also known as the Wanhua Array, it is a maze. Every year on the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15, the emperor would play here. The concubines would hold lotus lanterns. The first one to reach the center of the pavilion could receive the emperor's reward. (Enter the maze and walk to the right, follow the outer circle to the central fork, turn left and you will reach the center of the pavilion. If you don’t walk in the right way, you may spend half an hour wandering around in there) 🌟Fang Appearance: The mosque where Rong Fei (the legendary Xiang Fei) prayed 🌟Harmonious and interesting: The first European-style water-powered hall built in the Western Building, where the emperor appreciated musical instruments, has many fountain groups