China’s ancient architecture can be described as uncanny workmanship. Even today we cannot guarantee the creation of such beautiful architectural communities. Chinese gardens are famous both at home and abroad for their complete and exquisite structures. Come take a look at some of China’s outstanding gardens!
:Yu Garden AAAAA, Huangpu District, Shanghai
Yu Garden is located in the northeast of the old city of Shanghai, north of Fuyou Road, east of Anren Street, and southwest of the Old Shanghai City God Temple. It is a famous Jiangnan classical garden, a world-famous scenic spot and tourist attraction, and a national key cultural relic protection unit. Yuyuan Garden is a private garden in the Ming Dynasty. It was first built during the Jiajing and Wanli years and has a history of more than 400 years. Pan Yunduan, the owner of the garden, served as the envoy of Sichuan Province. His father, Pan En, named Ziren, was a native of Jiang Li. He was an official of the Zuodu court and the Minister of Punishment. The Pan family was a prominent family in Shanghai at that time. In the 32nd year of the Jiajing reign of the Ming Dynasty (1553), the Jiuli Great Wall in Shanghai was built, which gradually quelled the Japanese invasion of the southeastern coast. Over the past two decades, the people of Shanghai, whose lives and property were often threatened, have gained some stability, their social economy has recovered, and they have begun to become wealthy. Scholar-officials built gardens one after another to enjoy their feelings and cultivate their temperament. Pan En resigned and returned to China. Pan Yunduan wanted his father to enjoy his old age in peace.
:The Summer Palace AAAAA, Haidian District, Beijing
The Summer Palace is the largest and most complete royal garden in China and one of the four famous gardens in China (the other three are Chengde Summer Resort , Suzhou Humble Administrator's Garden and Suzhou Liuyuan). Located in Haidian District, Beijing, 15 kilometers away from downtown Beijing, it covers an area of ??approximately 290 hectares. It is a large-scale natural landscape garden built based on Kunming Lake and Wanshou Mountain, based on Hangzhou West Lake, and absorbing some design techniques and artistic conception of Jiangnan gardens. It is also the best-preserved royal palace and is known as the Royal Garden Museum. The Summer Palace, formerly the palace and garden of the Qing Dynasty emperor, was formerly the Qingyi Garden, with three mountains and five gardens (the three mountains refer to Wanshou Mountain, Xiangshan Mountain and Yuquan Mountain). There are three gardens on the three mountains: Qingyi Garden, Jingyi Garden, and Jingming Garden. In addition, there are also the nearby Changchun Garden and Old Summer Palace, which were the last gardens to be built among the five gardens.
Suzhou Gardens (Suzhou Classical Gardens) AAAAA
Xiangcheng District, Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province
As the saying goes, "Jiangnan gardens cover the whole country, and Suzhou gardens cover Jiangnan." Generally speaking, Suzhou gardens have three characteristics. 1. The garden landscape imitates nature: taking the natural landscape as the theme, adapting measures to local conditions, artificially imitating the natural landscape, building pools along Fulei Mountain and depressions, skillfully building pavilions, decorating trees, and emphasizing poetry and painting. 2. Pay attention to elegance and tranquility in gardening: the landscape of the garden is small but large, borrowing scenery from inside and outside, painting within painting, natural layout, beautiful and solemn. Third, highlight the national style in the construction of the garden: integrate the ancient buildings in the garden through artistic techniques such as painting, calligraphy, and poetry. There are poems in landscapes and paintings in poems, which are the crystallization of ancient Chinese culture and art. Suzhou gardens are typical representatives of classical gardens in southern China. Among them, the Humble Administrator's Garden, Canglang Pavilion, Lion Grove Garden and Willow Garden are famous, and they are also known as the four famous gardens in Suzhou.
Huaqingchi AAAAA
Lintong, Xi'an, Shaanxi
Huaqingchi is a royal palace located on the site of the Qing Palace in the Tang Dynasty, 30 kilometers west of Xi'an and adjacent to Lishan Mountain in the south , north of the Wei River. Because of its eternal hot spring resources, the love story between Tang Dynasty and Yang Guifei, the place where the An Incident occurred, and rich cultural and historical resources, it has become a famous cultural tourist attraction in China, a national key cultural relics protection unit, and one of the first batch of AAAAA tourist demonstration scenic spots in the country. Huachi combines human history and natural landscape. Emperors of Zhou, Qin, Han, Sui, Tang and other dynasties all built palaces here. The imitating Tang Dynasty buildings in the scenic area are majestic and can be regarded as unique
Huishan is located in the west of Wuxi. It was hailed as the first mountain in the south of the Yangtze River by Emperor Qianlong. It was also known as Lishan, Huashan and Shenxi in ancient times. Its mountain shape resembles the leaping shape of Jiulong Mountain, so it is also called Jiulong Mountain. Xishan is the relic of Huishan, and the origin of Wuxi’s place name has a special origin with Xishan. As early as the Neolithic Age four to five thousand years ago, ancestors lived here in Xishan, shining with the light of Majiabang culture. Qin Shihuang once stationed his troops here, leaving behind Qin Huangwu and other relics. In the later Han Dynasty, a woodcutter found a piece of stone in the Western Mountains. The inscription said: There are tin soldiers, and the world is fighting for them; Wuxi, the world is hot and cold. It adds a magical color to the origin of Wuxi’s place name. Wuxi Xihui Garden Cultural Relics Scenic Area contains the essence of Xihui Scenic Area. Xihui Scenic Area brings together rich historical and cultural landscapes and scenic resources, with a complete range of types and distinctive features in the foothills. It has enjoyed the reputation of Wuxi's open-air history museum for thousands of years.
: Xihui Garden AAAA, Nanshan District, Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province
Splendid China is China’s first large-scale cultural tourism area integrating folk art, folk customs, and residential buildings of various ethnic groups. . Invested and built by Hong Kong China Travel Service and Shenzhen OCT Economic Development Company, it is located on the beautiful Shenzhen Bay and adjacent to the famous Splendid China Miniature Scenic Area. This 180,000-square-meter folk culture village follows the guiding principle of "originating from life, higher than life, gathering the essence, and making choices" to reflect the folk culture of my country's multi-ethnic groups from different angles. According to the 1:1 ratio of the original landscape, there are 24 unique villages, courtyards and markets of 21 ethnic groups in China. Among them, villagers from 16 villages presented folk songs and dances with rich local flavor to guests from their respective villages. The programs at 80 scenic spots are all performed by local ethnic actors. The village will hold large-scale folk festivals such as the Torch Festival and Water Splashing Festival once a month.