The top ten gardens in China include the Old Summer Palace in Beijing, Jichang Garden in Wuxi, Qiyuan Garden in Zhejiang, Qinghui Garden in Guangdong, Master of the Nets Garden in Suzhou, Summer Palace in Beijing, Humble Administrator's Garden in Suzhou, Yuyuan Garden in Shanghai, Ancient Lotus Pond in Beijing, Jiangsu Geyuan.
First place: 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. The first batch of national key cultural relics protection units.
The Summer Palace covers an area of ??290 hectares (4350 acres), of which water accounts for about 3/4. The entire garden is centered on the 41-meter-high Buddhist Incense Pavilion on Wanshou Mountain. According to different locations and terrains, exquisite buildings such as halls, halls, buildings, pavilions, corridors, and pavilions are arranged.
A 728-meter long corridor was built at the foot of the mountain, which is like a colorful line connecting various buildings, green mountains and blue waves. The entire garden art is ingeniously conceived and has a prominent position in the history of Chinese and foreign garden art. It is a rare masterpiece of garden art in the world.
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, Liuzhou Yuanyang Pavilion and Liuting Pavilion. The Humble Administrator's Garden was built during the Zhengde period of the Ming Dynasty. The landscaping of the Humble Administrator's Garden pays equal attention to mountains and rivers
The water surface accounts for three-fifths of the entire garden. The overall layout is also centered on the pool, with various buildings standing near the water. , the pavilions, trees and pavilions are reflected in the water, setting off each other. The Humble Administrator's Garden is divided into three parts: east, west and middle. The middle part is the main part and the name Humble Administrator's Garden has always been used.
Third place: 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 book collectors and officials The former site of the "Wanjuan Hall" of Yangzhou scholar Shi Zhengzhi, the minister, and the garden is called "Yuyin". During the Qianlong period, the retired Guanglu Temple
Shaoqing Song Zongyuan 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.
Fourth place: Jichang Garden
Jichang Garden is located on Heng Street, Huishan, 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, borrowed from Wang Xi
The poem was renamed Jichang Garden.
Fifth place: Geyuan
Geyuan is a national key cultural relics 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. There is a wind tunnel on the south wall, which can hear the sound of the low wind, while the leaky window on the west wall brings in the spring scenery from afar.
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".
Seventh place: 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.
Eighth place: Qinghui Garden
Qinghui Garden is located on Qinghui Road, Daliang Town, Shunde City. It is also known as Foshan Liangyuan, Panyu Yuyinshanfang and Dongguan Keyuan. One of the four famous gardens in Guangdong is a provincial cultural relic protection unit.
Ninth place: 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. There are mainly buildings in the garden such as Shuidong Tower, Zaoyong Hall, Junzi Immortality Pavilion, Xiangqin Pavilion, Gaofen Pavilion, Hanlv Pavilion, Linyi Pavilion and Guanlan Pavilion. The beautiful Wanhong Bridge, Qu Bridge and the White Jade Bridge built in the Yuan Dynasty are scattered among the rockeries, rocks, trees and lotus ponds, forming a beautiful picture of "scenery in the lake and poetry in the scenery". The garden layout is rigorous, orderly, elegant and unique. It is known as "City Penglai" and "Little West Lake".
Tenth place: Old Summer Palace
Historically, the Old Summer Palace was composed of three gardens: Old Summer Palace, Changchun Garden and Qichun Garden. It covered an area of ??more than 5,200 acres (350 hectares) and had hundreds of famous scenic spots. at. 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. The Old Summer Palace was expanded on an unprecedented scale with all the strength of the country. Later, it was continued in the Jiaqing, Daoguang, and Xianfeng years. It took 5 emperors 151 years to complete it. It employed countless skilled craftsmen and spent hundreds of millions of dollars on its construction and operation. The Old Summer Palace was once famous for its grand geographical scale, outstanding gardening art, exquisite architecture and rich cultural collections. Its reputation spread to Europe, where it was known as the "Garden of Ten Thousand Gardens" and "the model of gardens in the world."
At its peak, it covered an area of ??more than 5,200 acres and had a circumference of more than ten kilometers. Unfortunately, this famous garden was looted and burned by the British and French forces in October 1860, leaving a tragic page in Chinese history.