What is the bright scenery?

Pavilion of Bright Scenery

Originally built during Emperor Qianlong's reign (1736-1795), the structure of Pavilion of Bright Scenery was a copy of a painting "A Picture of Enjoying the Cool under the Lotus Pavilion", painted by Zhao Mengfu (1254-1322), a well-known artist in the Yuan Dynasty.

The pavilion got its name from a line in a famous verse entitled A Note on the Yueyang Tower by Fan Zhongyan (989-1052), who wrote: "The Spring is peaceful and the scenery is bright, the billows are asleep." Burned down by the Anglo-French Allied Forces in 1860, it was rebuilt in 1992.