Fragrant Hills
Fragrant Hills Park (Xiangshan Park; Chinese: 香山公园; pinyin: Xiāngshān Gōngyuán) is a public park at the foot of the Western Mountains in the Haidian District, in the northwestern part of Beijing, China. It covers 1.6 km² (395 acres) and consists of a natural pine-cypress forest, hills with maple trees, smoke trees and persimmon trees, as well as landscaped areas with traditional architecture and cultural relics. The name derives from the park's highest peak, Xianglu Feng (Incense Burner Peak), a 557 meters (1827 ft) hill with two large stones resembling incense burners at the top.
Famous quotes containing the words fragrant and/or hills:
“Such fragrant flowers do give most odorous smell;
But her sweet odour did them all excel.”
—Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599)
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Earth is bursting into song,
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Who are going to die perhaps.”
—Charles Hamilton Sorley (1895–1915)