What are the top ten gardens in ancient China?

The First Summer Palace

The Summer Palace is located in Haidian District, northwest of Beijing. It is the most complete and largest royal garden in my country and one of the world's famous tourist attractions. A group of national key cultural relics protection units. The Summer Palace was originally the palace and garden of the emperor. In 1750 AD, Qianlong rebuilt it here as Qingyi Garden. In 1860, Qingyi Garden was burned down by the British and French forces. In 1888, Empress Dowager Cixi misappropriated 30 million taels of navy funds to rebuild it and renamed it its current name.

Second place Humble Administrator’s Garden

Humble Administrator’s Garden is one of the Suzhou gardens and the most famous one. Covering an area of ??5 hectares, there are Yuanxiang Hall, Xiangzhou, Eighteen Mandala Flower Pavilion, Zhouliu Yuanyang Pavilion and Liuting Pavilion. The Humble Administrator's Garden was built during the Zhengde period of the Ming Dynasty. The landscape of the Humble Administrator's Garden pays equal attention to mountains and rivers. The water surface accounts for three-fifths of the whole garden. The overall layout is also centered on the pool. All kinds of buildings stand near the water, and the pavilions, trees and pavilions are reflected in the water. Reflect each other. The Humble Administrator's Garden is divided into three parts: east, west and middle. The middle part is the main part.

The Third Master of the Nets Garden

The Master of the Nets Garden is located in Shiquan Street in the south of Suzhou City, covering an area of ??only 0.54 hectares. It was built in the Southern Song Dynasty and was used by the Song Dynasty bibliophile and official minister. The former site of "Wanjuan Hall" was built by Yangzhou scholar Shi Zhengzhi, and the garden was named "Yuyin". During the Qianlong period, Song Zongyuan, a retired Shaoqing of Guanglu Temple, built the garden. Because it faced Wangsi Alley (now Kuo Street Alley), the garden was named "Master of the Nets Garden" with a homophonic pronunciation. Net master means fisherman or fisherman, and it also agrees with "Yuyin", which means living in seclusion in the rivers and lakes.

The fourth place Jichang Garden

Jichang Garden is located on Huishan Heng Street, adjacent to Xishan and Huishan Temple, covering an area of ??15 acres. From 1506 to 1520 during the Zhengde Period of the Ming Dynasty, the Qin Dynasty used the Huishan Temple monk's residence as a separate business. During the Wanli period, the garden was passed to Qin Yao, where the weeds were sorted out, the mausoleum valley was transformed, and twelve sceneries were listed. After Wang Xizhi's poetry, the garden was renamed and sent to Qin Yao. Changyuan. At the end of Ming Dynasty and the beginning of Qing Dynasty, the garden was divided. At the end of the Shunzhi period of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Kangxi period, Qin Yao's great-grandson merged it and renovated it. He invited Zhang Qin, a famous garden architect, to manage the mountains and water, dredge springs and erect stones, and the garden became more beautiful.

Fifth Geyuan

Geyuan is a national key cultural relic protection unit. During the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty, Lianghuai Salt Manager Huang Zhiyun rebuilt it on the site of Shouzhiyuan in the Ming Dynasty. The owner of the garden "loves bamboo". Yuan Mei of the Qing Dynasty had a saying that "the moon reflects the bamboo into a thousand characters", hence the name. The garden is mainly composed of bamboo and stone, and is characterized by the use of stones for peaks. Its most famous rockery is the four seasons: the spring mountain has jagged bamboo shoots and stones, making bamboo shadows; the summer mountain has strange hollows and clear pools; the autumn mountain has yellow stones and red maples, steep and clinging to the clouds; the winter mountain has rocks that look like lingering snow.

Sixth place Yuyuan

Yuyuan is located in Nancheng District, Shanghai, covering an area of ??more than 20,000 square meters. It is a famous Jiangnan classical garden and a national key cultural relics protection unit. Yuyuan Garden was first built during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty and was completed from 1559 to 1577. It has a history of more than 400 years. It was built by Pan Yunduan, a former Sichuan chief envoy, to honor his parents and took the meaning of "please parents, "To take care of the rest of our lives", so it was named "Yu Garden". 1

Seventh Qiyuan

Qiyuan is located in Huayuan Lane, Wuyuan Town, Haiyan County, Zhejiang Province. Qiyuan was originally known as "Feng's Garden" and is a typical private garden style in the south of the Yangtze River. In the ninth year of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty (AD 1871), the owner of the garden, Feng Zhuanzhai, built a house here. The following year, Feng Zhuanzhai integrated the essence of Zhuoyi Garden and Yanyuan Garden in the Ming Dynasty, run by his father-in-law Huang Xieqing, in his own residence "Feng Sanletang". Later, land was allocated to build a garden, and the current Qiyuan Garden was built. It has become a famous pearl in Zhejiang gardens.

The eighth place is Qinghui Garden

Qinghui Garden is located on Qinghui Road, Daliang Town, Shunde City. It is also known as Guangdong together with Foshan Liangyuan, Panyu Yuyin Shanfang and Dongguan Keyuan. The four famous gardens are provincial cultural relics protection units. The garden was originally built by Huang Shijun, the number one scholar in the late Ming Dynasty. During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, it was purchased by Long Ying, a Jinshi scholar. Afterwards, it was carefully constructed by several generations of the Long family. By the early years of the Republic of China, the layout began to take shape.

The Ninth Ancient Lotus Pond

The Ancient Lotus Pond is located in the center of Baoding. It is a classical garden with pavilions built around water as its prominent feature, and has the beauty of northern and southern Chinese gardens. The total area is 24,000 square meters, and the pool area is more than 7,900 square meters. In midsummer, the pond is full of lotus flowers, hence the name Lotus Pond. The ancient lotus pond is a national cultural relic protection unit and one of the top ten famous gardens in the country. The main buildings in the garden include Shuidong Tower, Zaoyong Hall, Junzi Immortality Pavilion, Xiangqin Pavilion, Gaofen Pavilion, Hanlv Pavilion, Linyi Pavilion and Guanlan Pavilion.

The tenth Old Summer Palace

Historically, the Old Summer Palace was composed of the three gardens of Old Summer Palace, Changchun Garden and Qichun Garden, covering an area of ??more than 5,200 acres (350 hectares) and containing hundreds of famous scenic spots. . Since the 46th year of Kangxi's reign in the Qing Dynasty (1707), it was originally a "gift garden" given by Emperor Kangxi to the fourth son of the emperor Yinzhen (Yongzheng). After Yongzheng ascended the throne in 1722, large-scale construction was carried out according to the pattern of the Forbidden City. During the Qianlong period, the Qing Dynasty's national power was at its peak, which was the climax of the construction of the Old Summer Palace. It used all the power of the country to expand the Old Summer Palace on an unprecedented scale.