The Grand Beauty of Yuanmingyuan is a general-interest book that offers a comprehensive introduction to Yuanmingyuan. This book is based on the finely drawn, interesting, and extraordinary Forty Scenes of Yuanmingyuan and Western-style Buildings Copper Engravings of Yuanmingyuan, vividly recreating the grand vision of Yuanmingyuan in its heyday, showcasing its elegant architecture, delicate gardens, and lively springs and rocks. Meanwhile, supplemented with Landscape and Architectural Views of Yuanmingyuan, Leisure Time at Yuanmingyuan in 12 months of the Yongzheng Reign, and other atlases and Yuanmingyuan-related national treasures of cultural relics, this book recreates the beauty of living, clothing, artifacts, and the four seasons in Yuanmingyuan. This book explores the abundant historical and cultural connotations of Yuanmingyuan, analyzes the unique Chinese cultural symbols and Chinese literary allusions contained therein, and shows Yuanmingyuan in three dimensions—no longer merely an abstract historical symbol, but a flesh-and-blood, full-of-life historical existence. This allows readers to have a deeper understanding of the rich historical and cultural value of Yuanmingyuan, as well as the unique historical value of Yuanmingyuan in the long history of the Chinese nation. It enables readers to delve into the rich historical and cultural values of Yuanmingyuan and its unique position in the history of the Chinese nation, to feel the vicissitudes of the Qing Dynasty during the past 150 years, and to see the incomparable Chinese aesthetics of the “Garden of Gardens”.