The private garden of Chen Xiong, a wealthy businessman in Nanxun, was built in the first year of Tongzhi in Qing Dynasty, and the inscription of Meishiting in the garden is the most precious. Every evening, birds gather in the garden and become a spectacle. It is a cultural relic protection unit in Nanxun Town.
Yingyuan, located on the Yu He River in Nanxun Town, is a residential garden in Chen Xiong in the Qing Dynasty, commonly known as one of the eight cows, and covers an area of 1 1.07 mu. It was built in the first year of Tongzhi in Qing Dynasty (1862) and completed in the first year of Guangxu (1875). People praised it for its charm, exquisiteness, quietness and elegance. Famous garden experts praised Chen Yuan for building a pavilion on the first floor around the pond, with clear reflection and extremely compact and colorful. The ancient trees in Sakura Garden are lush, including Magnolia grandiflora, Cinnamomum camphora and Wisteria for more than a hundred years. There is also a pool, a pavilion, and the first floor. Taihu rocky rockery is strewn at random, with a winding path leading to a secluded place, which can be climbed on the steps. The Moon View Building stands by the pool, with a row of long purple mahogany glass windows, painted beams and carved columns, which are antique. On the other side of the pool, there is a Yangxin Pavilion, which used to be the place where the gardener recited poems and painted. Chi Pan also built the Yuxiang Pavilion, where you can enjoy the scenery in the garden when you go upstairs. The park is also good at all kinds of carving, such as brick carving, stone carving and wood carving. There is also an exquisite Shimeiting on the rockery in the park. There is a Shi Mei monument in the pavilion, which is138cm high and 79cm wide. The picture of Shi Mei on the tablet is the masterpiece of Wang Li (18 13 1879), a famous calligrapher in Qing Dynasty, and it is the best stone carving.
Sakura Garden is famous for its ancient crafts, including Magnolia grandiflora, fragrant branches and wisteria for over 100 years. The pavilion is built along the pool, and the rockery in Taihu Lake is strewn at random, with winding paths leading to a secluded place and steps to climb. Moon-watching building is located on the pool surface, with long glass windows lined with purple flowers, painted beams and carved columns, and antique.
There is a heart-nourishing pliers with a Uwa powder wall in the north of the pool, which used to be the place where Chen Xiong used to sing poetry, paint and play the violin. Yuxiang Pavilion was also built in Chixi, with brick and wood structure, refined lines and originality. If you climb upstairs, you can enjoy the scenery in the garden.
Yingyuan is also good at all kinds of carving. Among brick carvings, stone carvings and wood carvings, it is almost a small sculpture art museum. For example, on the doors and windows of Yangxin, there are exquisite knives, lifelike boxwood carving and celebrity calligraphy. Its compact "Plough-Weaving Map" is woven by men and women, and the combination of coarse ore and delicacy is vivid. On the floor-to-ceiling windows of Chen Huike's original Qingfeng Studio, there are still some boxwood carving of The West Chamber. There are stone windows embedded in brick walls on both sides of the hall, which are both beautiful and airy.
The pavilion on the rockery is called Shimeiting. There is a plum stone tablet in the pavilion, which is 138 cm high and 79 cm wide. The map of the squatting plum stone is the representative work of Wang Li, a famous calligrapher in Qing Dynasty (18 13- 1879). Stone carving is a fine work in stone carving. The inscription on the stone tablet reads: It means the brushwork of Sun Lei, the satrap of Hanyang, a layman. beginning of autumn set up Wang Lizhou from Bajiao three days ago.
After liberation, Yingyuan has been repaired many times, and the main scenery is well preserved. Professor Chen Congzhou, a well-known ancient garden expert, once praised Sakura Garden in the article "The Water Town is Shocking" as: Chen Yuan is surrounded by a pond, with pavilions and buildings, and its reflection is clear, compact and unique, which is quite charming of Suzhou Lion Forest.