Garden of Harmonious Interests
 Located on the eastern part of Rear Hill, the garden was built in imitation of Jichangyuan Garden in Wuxi during the reign of Emperor Qianlong. Emperor Qianlong once went to Southern China for inspections and resided there for several times.He admired the architectural art of the garden, and decided to built a similar garden in the Summer Palace. When it was first built in 1751, it was named Huishan Garden. In 1881, after a large-scale restoration, Emperor Jiaqing of the Qing dynasty renamed it the Garden of Harmonious Interests. In 1860, the garden was burned down by Anglo-French allied forces and in 1892 reconstructed by the order of Empress Dowager Cixi. As a typical garden of southern China, it has five halls, seven pavilions, several corridors and five small bridges on a lotus pond. In the center of the garden is a pond, which, with an area of half an acre, is covered with lotus and surrounded by a covered gallery connecting towers and pavilions. In the center of the pond, a pavilion rises out of the water, which was the fishing place of Empress Dowager Cixi. When Cixi lived in the Summer Palace,one of her favorites was fishing. In order to please the bad-tempered and impatient lady the devoted eunuchs would dive into the water and put live fish on her hook. Therefore whenever she fished, she would catch a lot of fish. Emperor Qianlong once wrote a poem to the garden, which says: "a pavilion a path, a pace a scene, the scene changes with each pace, and each pace is of great interests". The interests of the garden lie in the following items:
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