Jade Belt Bridge

[1] It was erected in the years 1750, during the reign of the Qianlong Emperor, and was built in the style of the delicate bridges in the country-side of southern China.

The clearance of the arch was chosen to accommodate the dragon boat of the Qianlong Emperor.

As the Kunming Lake inlet to the neighboring Yu River, and when during special occasions, the emperors and empress and their dragon boat would specifically pass under this bridge.

The modern scholar Wang Chaosheng proposed that some degraded writing on the back of a stele was actually a poem composed by the Qianlong Emperor, dated to 1755, referencing the Jade Belt Bridge of the Pictures of Tilling and Weaving that were in the original Summer Palace, then known as the Gardens of Clear Ripples (清漪園; Qingyiyuan).

[3] To the west of Jade Belt Bridge - the Pictures of Tilling and Weaving The silk clouds of the weavers and the rain of the plowing farmers study the methods of Wu.