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Visitors are seen at the exhibition on Chinese Old Summer Palace (Yuanmingyuan) held at the View Two gallery in Liverpool, Britain, Aug. 19, 2013. More than 20 computer-drawn pictures on Yuanmingyuan' rebuilding and a video clip demonstrating more than 100 original scenes in the garden are presented at the exhibition, by a team led by Guo Daiheng, a senior architect and professor with the School of Architecture at China's Tsinghua University. [Xinhua/Yin Gang]
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Roaming around View Two, a gallery in Liverpool, visitors could see the pond of water lily, rockwork and a small bridge winding through, and may feel that they were in an old Chinese imperial garden.
This is a refreshing scenery as the gallery unveiled an exhibition on August 19 evening, themed the renowned Old Summer Palace, or Yuanmingyuan in the Chinese language, the "garden of gardens" before it was torched by British and French invaders in 1860.
More than 20 computer-drawn pictures on Yuanmingyuan' rebuilding and a video clip demonstrating more than 100 original scenes in the garden are presented at the exhibition, by a team led by Guo Daiheng, a senior architect and professor with the School of Architecture at China's Tsinghua University.
"Many Chinese people have special feelings about the garden," Guo said. "It is a reminder of shame in the past, and left a pity for the Chinese."
Guo and her team, which involves some 80 researchers, have been working on rebuilding Yuanmingyuan over the past 13 years. They have rebuilt more than 80 sites and completed 4,000 drawings for Yuanmingyuan, which was located eight kilometers northwest of the imperial city and home to five Chinese emperors.
In 1992, Guo was consulted for the construction of a "new Yuanmingyuan" in southeast China's Guangdong Province. She said that it was the first time she engaged in massive studies of the garden.
Guo began to conduct systematic studies on Yuanmingyuan in 2000 and started to make 3D duplication pictures for the garden.
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