进入颐和园东门,在南侧不远处有一座不显眼的耶律楚材墓。一些游人也许觉得奇怪,在风光如画的皇家园林中怎么会出现一座古墓呢?其实,早在颐和园诞生前600年,耶律楚材墓就被迁葬在瓮山(今万寿山)之阳,到了清慈禧太后修建颐和园时,才将它移到东门这边来,它算得上是这座园林最早的“古迹”了。北京人对耶律楚材是应该引以为自豪的。耶律楚材不但是一位地道的“老北京”(他的家世代就住在香山附近),而且在12世纪末至13世纪初蒙古人的铁骑横扫亚洲大陆的大 Enter the east gate of the Summer Palace, not far from the south there is a conspicuous Yelv Chu tomb. Some tourists may find it strange that there will be an ancient tomb in the picturesque imperial garden. In fact, as early as the 600 years before the birth of the Summer Palace, the Yelv Chu Tomb was moved to be buried in the mountain of Xun Mountain (now Longevity Mountain) When it was time for the Empress Dowager Cixi to build the Summer Palace, it was moved to the East Gate, where it counted as the earliest “monuments” in the garden. Beijingers should be proud of Yelv Chu. Yelu Chu material is not only an authentic “Old Beijing” (his family lived in the vicinity of Fragrant Hills), and in the late 12th to early 13th century Mongolian cavalry swept across the Asian continent