Yuanmingyuan (old Summer Palace)

Covering an area of 210 hectares with 40 percent water surfaces, the garden was comprised of ten small gardens, the Fuhai in the east as the largest lake in the garden, and its surrounding isles. Almost square-shaped with each side around 500 to 600 meters long, the lake was the venue of the Dragon Boat Festival (the fifth day of the fifth lunar month), the lamp Sailing Festival (the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month) and other folk activities in the garden's days of glory.