The annual exhibition of the Summer Palace, A story of Gardens VII: A Journey between North and South: Relocating Treasures for Perpetuity, kicked off on Friday at the Summer Palace Museum and the Deheyuan, or Garden of Virtue and Harmony, in Beijing. The exhibition will run until Nov 16.

This year marks the 80th anniversary of the victory in the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression (1931-45). This exhibition features 160 sets of cultural relics that survived the ravages of the war, many of which are from the Summer Palace's collection, alongside treasures from institutions such as the Palace Museum and Nanjing Museum.

The exhibition is themed on the Summer Palace's cultural relics' southward relocation, to protect them, and return to the north from 1933 to 1951.

It adopts an innovative first-person narrative from the perspective of the cultural relics, presented on exhibition boards, guiding visitors back to the historical scenes.