Jingming Garden, Imperial garden in Wanliu, China

Jingming Garden is an imperial garden on Jade Spring Hill in Beijing, west of the Summer Palace. Its layout climbs the hill around the Jade Spring, with the octagonal seven-storey stone Jade Hill Tower, 47.7 m tall, on the main peak, the white marble Huazang Tower, the crenellated Chengzhao Pass over 6 m high, and the Lanka Cave with its Qing esoteric Buddhist cliff carvings.

Jingming Garden began in the Jin dynasty as Lotus Palace, also called Jade Spring Pavilion. The Qing Kangxi emperor built the Clean Heart Garden here in 1680 and renamed it Jingming Garden in 1692. Anglo-French forces burned it in 1860 and the Eight-Nation Alliance in 1900. After 1911 it housed the Jade Spring Hill Water Company and opened to visitors; from 1949 it served as a summer retreat for national leaders, and the plan to arrest the Gang of Four was drawn up here. It was listed as a National Key Cultural Relic Protection Unit on 25 May 2006.

The garden's name changed with its rulers: the Jin called it Lotus Palace, the Kangxi Emperor named it Clean Heart Garden in 1680, and it became Jingming Garden in 1692. The Lanka Cave holds Qing-dynasty esoteric Buddhist bas-reliefs carved on its rock faces, and the Huazang Tower is a white marble tower of eight sides and seven eaves.

Jingming Garden sits on Jade Spring Hill west of the Summer Palace and is not open to the public as a regular attraction; since 1949 it has served as a summer retreat for senior national leaders. Views of Jade Hill Tower, 47.7 m tall on the main peak, and of Chengzhao Pass, whose crenellated wall rises over 6 m, are obtained from outside the grounds.

The plan to arrest the Gang of Four was drawn up at Jingming Garden, which served as a summer retreat for national leaders after 1949. The garden had earlier been opened to the public as the Jade Spring Hill Water Company following the 1911 Revolution.