Bishu Shanzhuang
royal residence, China
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- In Chengde: History
…summer residence there, calling it Bishu Shanzhuang (“Mountain Estate for Escaping the Heat”). It became the usual practice for the Chinese emperor to leave Beijing for Chengde every summer. About this time the area around Chengde became one of the first intensively colonized and cultivated areas outside the Great Wall;…
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