Restored Yinghai Immortal Mountain Pavilion on the eastern island.
Built around 1725,the third year of Emoeror Yongzheng's reign,on the three isles in the middle of the Fuhai Lake,it was commonly known at that time as Penglai Island and renamed Immortal Abode on Penglai Island in the early years of Emperor Qianlong's reign.According to Records of the Historian,Qin Shihuang(reigning 221-210BC),the first emperor of a united China,longed for an eternal life .Alchemist Xu Fu told him that there were three holdy islands-Penglai,Fangzhang,and boys on a voyage to search for these place and an elixir of eternal life.
The immortal Abode on Penglai Island was landscaped in the image of the painting,"One Poll and Three Hills"by LiSixun(651-716),a renowned Tang-dynasty painter.At the height of Yuanmingyuan,the emperor would head a group of ministers and imperial family members,and stay in the Wangyingzhou(gaze on the Yingzhou Island) Pavilion on the west bank to watch the dragon-boat race on the Fuhai Lake,while the empress and concubines wouls laze and amuse themselves on the Penglai Island.
The elaborate complexes on the the islands survived the 1860 fire only to be burnt to the ground in 1870.
In 1985,repair and cleaning word restored the foundations,embankments and bizarre-shaped stones on the three islands.as well as the hexagonal Yinghai (Vast Ses) Immortal Mountain Pavilion on the eastern island,a courtyard on the weatern island and a winding bridge.
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