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This court is well shaded with trees, and is a fitting site for this pavilion which is called Ch’ien-lungs Tea house, there are reception rooms for visitors close by, with pleasant cool retreats from the glare and heat of the sun, romantic looking little walks lead round rugged points of artificial rocks which are brought very prominently out by the clear azure of the sky, and a group of bamboos, or a tiny temple, here and there break the sameness and relieve their barrenness.