Pictorial plan of the Summer Palace, c. 1888.
![Photograph shows a canal which has een discovered at the Great Palace Gate excavation site at the Old Summer Palace, northwest Beijing, January 28, 2019. [Photo: VCG]](http://img0.zhytuku.meldingcloud.com/images/zhycms_chinaplus/20190129/1db2a588-b527-4a4e-bb8c-3d8f236215a7.jpg?x-oss-process=image/resize,w_650)
Photograph shows a canal which has een discovered at the Great Palace Gate excavation site at the Old Summer Palace, northwest Beijing, January 28, 2019. [Photo: VCG]
![Cypress nails in a canal excavated at Great Palace Gate area of the Old Summer Palace, northwest Beijing, January 28, 2019. [Photo: VCG]](http://img1.zhytuku.meldingcloud.com/images/zhycms_chinaplus/20190129/1bf1834a-1f17-4940-a9f8-e4d2e6963511.jpg?x-oss-process=image/resize,w_650)
Cypress nails in a canal excavated at Great Palace Gate area of the Old Summer Palace, northwest Beijing, January 28, 2019. [Photo: VCG]
![Undated photo of the Old Summer Palace ruins. [Photo: www.yuanmingyuanpark.cn]](http://img2.zhytuku.meldingcloud.com/images/zhycms_chinaplus/20190129/4b5b1910-9e11-463b-9862-4dbcea30702a.png?x-oss-process=image/resize,w_591)
Undated photo of the Old Summer Palace ruins. [Photo: www.yuanmingyuanpark.cn]