Every year around the winter solstice (December 21 ~ 23), there will be a "golden light hole" spectacle on the 17th bridge of the Summer Palace. Winter solstice is the year of the lowest altitude of the sun one day, the winter solstice in Beijing at noon the sun only 26 ° 34 ', it is said that when the builders of the marble seventeen-arch bridge which elaborate design, the setting sun and the marble seventeen-arch bridge which the tropic of Capricorn into vertical state, so when the sun sets, the maximum with the marble seventeen-arch bridge which every little tunnel, a golden light pierced the strange landscape. It attracts a large number of tourists and photographers.
The 17-arch bridge in the Summer Palace is now "golden light pierced"
The setting sun shines through the bridge.
The Summer Palace is commonly known as the "royal garden museum", the largest of which is the 17-arch bridge. The whole landscape is given priority to with longevity hill and kunming lake, the kunming lake accounted for most of the area, with a small island in the lake, south lake island), connected to the kunming lake on the east and south lake island the stone bridge, is the marble seventeen-arch bridge which, it not only is the only road to the south lake island, its itself is also a strange building worth taste and appreciation.
The marble seventeen-arch bridge which is 150 meters, is 8 meters wide, modelling beautiful, spectacular, kunming lake rippling the surface of the broad, if without the deck of the marble seventeen-arch bridge which, it seems too tedious, a stone bridge across the surface of the water with this, more full of vitality and appeal. Under the light of the sun, the bridge is closely connected with the reflection of the water, and the shape is graceful, like a long bow.
The marble seventeen-arch bridge which as the name implies, seventeen holes, it is said that the selected 17 hole to build, because the biggest count from left to right in the middle of the hole for the "nine" a hole, and "nine", is the emperor considered to the most auspicious number. The marble seventeen-arch bridge which was built in qing qianlong seventeen imitation "Marco Polo bridge", on the bridge of the stone is vivid, the two ends of the bridge each have two water beast, on either side of the railing and all kinds of stone lions, to a total of 544, many more than lugouqiao. These lions are different in size and pose, as if they were real. We can guess the name of the water and copper bull that stands on the east side of the bridge. We can guess that it is used to suppress the flood and pray for the safety of the people.