The clouds gather summer's hues, and tree leaves stir with autumn's sound. Start of Autumn has arrived, yet the summer heat has not yet faded. Haidian's mountains, waters, plants and trees are already quietly brewing the prelude to autumn!
Jingxi Rice Fields • Early Autumn Limited Edition
The rice ears have quietly plumped up, gently swaying in the breeze. Sunlight filters through branches and leaves, casting a soft luster upon the rice blades. Strolling through the rice fields, feeling the gentle breeze brushing past the rice leaves, as if one could hear the whispered conversation between wind and rice waves.
Cishou Temple • Ancient Pagoda Autumn Shadow
In Linglong Park, the Cishou Temple Pagoda has stood quietly in autumn light for over four hundred years.
At the Start of Autumn season, though the ginkgo trees have not yet turned fully golden, the Jian Pool on the north side of the pagoda has already begun to reflect the sky's light and cloud shadows. A pool of still water, the ancient pagoda's reflection, and where the autumn wind passes, the pagoda's mottled brick carvings dance with branches and leaves just beginning to take on autumn colors.
Summer Palace • Osmanthus Fragrance Floating
The autumn wind sweeps past vermilion walls, first rippling the surface of Kunming Lake into scattered gold, then circling beneath the eaves of the Hall of Benevolence and Longevity, stirring the potted osmanthus trees throughout the garden—that is the gentleness exclusive to autumn at the Summer Palace. Between century-old ancient architecture and millennium-old osmanthus fragrance, savor the most richly aromatic taste of Haidian's autumn!
Fragrant Hills • Awaiting the Layered Forests in Full Color
The scenery at Fragrant Hills is still a sea of verdant green at this moment! But with the arrival of Start of Autumn, the autumn colors have begun their countdown. In a few more days, this place will blaze with mountain-wide crimson. Why not take advantage of the smaller crowds now and first stroll through the ancient tree conservation demonstration area, listening to the wind in the forest—that is Fragrant Hills quietly preparing for the magnificent autumn colors to come.
Autumn in Haidian has never had just one face. It is the bowing rice ears in the fields, the mottled light and shadow beneath the ancient pagoda, the relaxed diffusion of golden osmanthus fragrance in the garden, and the first reddening tip of a leaf on the mountain. This Start of Autumn, between Haidian's millennia-old cultural lineage and natural scenery, encounter autumn's very first appearance.
