Top Ten Famous Gardens in China

The Summer Palace (Beijing) The Summer Palace is located in Haidian District in northwest Beijing. It is the most complete and largest royal garden in my country. It is also one of the world's famous tourist attractions and one of the first batch 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.

The Humble Administrator's Garden (Suzhou, Jiangsu) The Humble Administrator's Garden is one of the most famous garden buildings among the many gardens in Suzhou. 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 Master of the Nets Garden (Suzhou, Jiangsu) 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 the home of Shi Zhengzhi, a Yangzhou scholar who was a book collector and official in the Song Dynasty. The former site of Wanjuan Hall, the garden is named Yuyin. During the Qianlong period, Song Zongyuan, a retired Shaoqing of Guanglu Temple, built the garden. Because it faced Wang Si Lane (now Kuo Street Alley), the garden was named Master of Nets Garden with a homophonic pronunciation. Net master means fisherman or fisherman, and in agreement with Yu Yin, it means living in seclusion in the rivers and lakes.

Jichang Garden (Wuxi, Jiangsu) Jichang Garden is located on Heng Street, Huishan, adjacent to Xishan and Huishan Temple, covering an area of ??15 acres.

From 1506 to 1520 in the Zhengde period of the Ming Dynasty, the monks' residence in Huishan Temple was converted into a separate business. During the Wanli period, the garden was passed to Qin Yao, where the weeds were cleared, the mausoleum valley was transformed, and twelve sceneries were listed. Wang Xizhi changed the name to Jichang Garden due to his poetic sentiment. At the end of the Shunzhi period of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Kangxi period, Qin Yao's great-grandson renovated it and invited Zhang Qin, a famous garden architect, to arrange the mountains and water, sparse springs and erect stones, and the garden landscape became more beautiful.

Ge Garden (Yangzhou, Jiangsu) Ge Garden 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 loved bamboo, and Yuan Mei of the Qing Dynasty said that the moon reflects the bamboo into a thousand-character sentence, hence the name. The garden is mainly composed of bamboo and stone, and is characterized by the use of stones for peaks.

The most famous one is the rockery in four seasons: the spring mountain has jagged bamboo shoots and rocks, making shadows; the summer mountain has a strange hollow space and the muddy pool is clear; the autumn mountain has yellow stones and red maples, steep and cloudy; the winter mountain has rocks that look like snow. Not eliminated.

Yu Garden (Shanghai) Yu Garden 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 relic 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 to please and support them. Tiannian, so it was named Yuyuan.

Qiyuan (Haiyan, Zhejiang) Qiyuan is located in Huayuan Lane, Wuyuan Town, Haiyan County, Zhejiang Province.

Qiyuan was originally the Feng Garden, a typical private garden style in Jiangnan. In the ninth year of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty (AD 1871), the owner of the garden, Feng Zuanzhai, built three houses here. The following year, Feng Zhuanzhai integrated the essence of Zhuoyi Garden and Yanyuan, the two ruined gardens of the Ming Dynasty, run by his father-in-law Huang Xieqing, and built it behind his own residence, Feng Sanletang. He built a garden on the land and built the current Qiyuan. It has become a famous pearl in Zhejiang gardens.

Qinghui Garden (Shunde, Guangdong) Qinghui Garden, located on Qinghui Road, Daliang Town, Shunde City, is a provincial cultural relic protection unit. 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 Ancient Lotus Pond (Baoding, Hebei) 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 it has the beauty of gardens in northern and southern China. 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. The main buildings in the garden include Shuidong Tower, Zaoyong Hall, Junzi Immortality Pavilion, Xiangqin Pavilion, Gaofen Pavilion, Hanlv Pavilion, Linyi Pavilion, Guanlan Pavilion and other buildings.

Old Summer Palace (Beijing) Historically, the Old Summer Palace consisted 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 reign in the Qing Dynasty (1707), it was originally a 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. But unfortunately, when the Eight-Power Allied Forces invaded Beijing, a fire burned the Old Summer Palace to only the ruins it is today. China's Ten Famous Forests are the lungs of the earth. The lush forests covering the earth are a huge and most precious green wealth owned by nature and mankind. Let us go into the forest together and enjoy the beauty that the forest brings to us.