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Hua Zhong
You comprises the group of pavilions, towers and chambers along the hill road.
They were first built in the Emperor Qianlong's reign, destroyed in the war of
1860 and restored to the present state in the Emperor Guangxu's reign. Built close
to the hill, the halls were all connected by verandas, cleverly making use of
the geographical variations.
The group of architectures consists of an octagonal two-story building, two
octagonal pavilions in symmetry and other two pavilions.
Passing the high stone arch behind the octagonal pavilion, from where we can
overlook the few nearby yellow and green glazedtiled octagonal buildings. And
the lake and hills add radiance and beauty to each other in the dis-tance. Also,
we can have a bird's-eye view of the six bridges at the western bank, and the
rolling Yuquan Hill in the west. People may feel like in a picture, the implication
of the name of Hua Zhong You.
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