Hangzhou gardens include: Guozhuang, Liuzhuang, Jiangzhuang, Hongzhuang, Yunsong Bookstore, Hu Songyan’s former residence, etc. The scenery is very beautiful. Among the gardens around West Lake in Hangzhou, the most beautiful garden open to the public is Guozhuang. It is more valuable than West Lake and is also an integral part of the complete beauty of West Lake, but many people ignore it. Speaking of gardens, people’s first reaction is Suzhou. In fact, there are many famous gardens in Hangzhou. If these gardens in Hangzhou were placed in other cities, they would shine and become iconic local attractions. However, they were born in Hangzhou and were surrounded by the lakes and mountains here. Guozhuang is known as the "Crown of West Lake Classical Gardens". The overall building is built with ancient Chinese traditional garden construction techniques.
1. Chen Congzhou, the owner of the garden, said: If you don’t visit Guozhuang, you don’t visit the West Lake. Guozhuang has the style of Su-style gardens, but it is not the same. There is a Jingsu Pavilion in Guozhuang. Standing outside the pavilion, you can see the Six Su Causeway Bridges. The mountains are as beautiful as the moon, the flowers are as bright as cheeks, and the warm wind is like wine. There are poems to prove it: The embankment is like a strip of water, and the small pavilion is like a shadow in the sky. It's as if no one is around at the end of the song, and the wind in Liusi is quiet in the dark. Liuzhuang, also known as Shuizhuju, as the name suggests, except that the water is bamboo, the entire garden is almost covered by water columns. Shuizhu is surrounded by mountains and rivers, with a quiet environment, luxurious architecture and simple and elegant furnishings. Liuzhuang's curved bridges, pavilions, corridors, and landscapes draw on each other, and are reasonably laid out. They have unique oriental garden characteristics. They showcase the beauty of the West Lake and fully display the interest of nature. Therefore, it is known as "the first famous garden in West Lake".
2. Now, Liuzhuang has become the West Lake State Guesthouse. Jiangzhuang is located in the Huagang Guanyu Park at the southwest end of West Lake. It is a "garden within a garden". It is located between the "Yingbo" and "Suolan" bridges of Su Causeway in the east, facing Xishan Mountain and Xili Lake in the north. “Suburban gardens value wildness, while residential gardens value freshness.” Jiangzhuang integrates the scenery inside the garden with the world outside the garden, "adding new atmosphere with the beauty of mountains and rivers", thus achieving the excellent artistic effect of "two long embankments, three willows, one mountain and one lake".
3. Wangzhuang: The Xizi Hotel at the foot of the West Lake Sunset Mountain was the former Wangzhuang. The entire manor is surrounded by mountains and rivers, making it a leisurely and leisurely place. In the village, there are pavilions, cornices, rockeries, stalagmites, and green trees and flowers. In the 1950s, Wangzhuang built a new main building, auxiliary buildings, corridors, wide lawns and cedar forests, and renamed it Xizi Hotel and opened it to the outside world. Xixi Hongyuan: Xixi Hongyuan was built by Hong Zhong, a minister of the Ming Dynasty, who lived in seclusion in Xixi Wuchang in his later years. This is a place for rest and chanting. It has hedges, huts and a small bridge across the river. That year, Hong Zhongcheng inherited the legacy of his ancestors and accumulated Green Xiangying. A library has been built, and the children in the class can freely study Qingyu and chat with fellow villagers about mulberry and hemp. Nowadays, in the renovated park, there are mountains and rocks, clouds and mist, and flowers and trees. It is quiet and indifferent, far away from the hustle and bustle.
4. Hu Xueyan’s former residence: white walls surround a huge courtyard. Within the city wall, there are open corridors and dark alleys, pavilions, courtyards and patios, cliffs and rockeries, small bridges and flowing water, Zhu Feizi, and carved gate towers. Hu Xueyan's former residence also has calligraphy and stone carvings by famous artists such as Dong Qichang, Zheng Banqiao, Tang Bohu, and Wen Zhengming. This unobtrusive style is the style that a famous garden should have. Yunsong Bookstore: Compared with the previous garden, Yunsong Bookstore seems to be less famous and has a long history. However, friends who are familiar with Jin Yong's novels must know that the manor imprisoned in Xiao'ao Jianghu is called Meiyuan, and Yunsong Bookstore is in The Meiyuan later built was financed by Mr. Jin Yong. The study house is densely forested, backed by the north and south peaks, and facing the water of the West Lake.