After the completion of Yiyuan Garden, it has become a place where scholars meet and play the piano, and scholars and guests come and go. Gu Wenbin, the owner of the garden, built the Cloud Pagoda on 1873, which was taken from "Painting and calligraphy are to people, and children's eyes are like passing clouds". 1875 After the completion of the Yunta, Gu Wenbin resigned and returned to his hometown to concentrate on collecting paintings and calligraphy. There is a saying that "Jiangnan gathers the great achievements of the world and crosses the cloud floor." Gu Jia is one of the four famous schools in Suzhou, "Zhang Zhu, Lu Gu". He has been a scholar for several generations, a champion and seven prime ministers.
Yiyuan Garden has a natural layout, with lakes, rocks, flowers and plants in the courtyard, a pool in the west and rockeries and buildings around it. Because the garden was built late, Yiyuan Garden can learn from various garden landscapes, such as colonnade imitating Canglang Pavilion, master garden of pool net, rockery imitating Huanxiu Villa, cave, lion forest, dry boat imitating Humble Administrator's Garden, etc. The pavilions are small and elegant, and the flowers and trees in the mountain pool are sparse and pleasant.
This garden is very small. As soon as I entered, I broke into a quiet place, towering old trees, shaded by shade, and several bamboo forests, full of green eyes. The curvy high cloud wall blocks the line of sight, showing the trend of "locking green", which is called "locking green porch" and means "locking green in the deep courtyard". The name of Suo Lvxuan is taken from Du Fu's poem "Since the palace on the shore is closed by thousands of doors, fine willows and new rushes, who are you green for?" . The word "Lock Green Pavilion" on the pole was written by Zhu Zhishan, four great talents in the south of the Yangtze River, and the word "Allow Ming" was written on the pole. Stepping into the door of a circular landscape frame, the essence of the garden is like a panoramic picture scroll, with rockeries, flowers and trees, buildings and lotus ponds presented one by one.
Stop at the "Lake Stone Forest" with different shapes, and sit around the cloister in the pavilion, only to see that "there is a bamboo path outside the wall, which runs radially south and the bamboo is exhausted. There is a pavilion with flying eaves, which is smart and printed with the words "dancing outside the cloud", which is the famous Jinli Pavilion. Xin Qiji's "Water Blends Everything with a Glass of Wine": "There are guests in Ling Du, and a swirling cloud has just been built. "Take it as a pavilion." "Beyond the cloud" refers to high places. Architecture should be interpreted as planting. Dancing is dancing, which means that the wind blows the osmanthus trees and the branches sway and dance. The pavilion is surrounded by osmanthus trees, with reflections and clear water. At the beginning of autumn wind, golden chestnuts are pitted, the fragrance floats, and osmanthus falls.
The garden is surrounded by water on three sides, with towering old trees, especially a pine tree beside the pavilion. Gu Zhuo was vigorous and upright, and the Japanese learned this oriental Zen from China and carried it forward. Courtyards of wealthy families and geisha houses in Gion show Japanese preference for pine trees. "Song of Blue Creek, Shadow of Gu Song", on which there is a pavilion that reads "Song Lai". Looking at the railing, you can see that the green hills are faint and the green waters are far away. There is also a pavilion, green and stone. In the lotus pond, the lotus leaves are high, the water lilies are low, and the lotus flowers show first. Over time, here is another scene of "the lotus leaf is infinitely blue the next day, and the lotus flower is infinitely red the next day".
Walking around the cloister to the southeast, the stone calligraphy and painting in the cloister is not only the calligraphy and painting in the garden, but also the treasure in the garden. After a while, I came to a huge mirror called "side wall". According to legend, Dharma folded the reed to cross the river, ending in Songshan Shaolin Temple, and the wall was enlightened. This pavilion faces the stone wall, and there is a mirror on the wall, which makes people face the mirror. Looking from the mirror, you can see the essence of the garden from the mirror, which is quite Zen. As Wang Yanting once wrote, "A famous garden creates beauty by painting Zen, and a thousand worlds are a millet", which is a profound Zen meaning that ordinary people like us can't understand. The gardener has the responsibility to understand and carry forward Zen Buddhism, which shows the harmony and understanding of the gardener.
Further south, trees are shaded and exquisite houses are hidden in the middle, which is for the sake of "Wu Bi Qifeng". Before and after Qifeng Pavilion in Wu Bi, plane trees were planted. Since ancient times, there has been a saying that "a plane tree has been planted". This name is taken from Bai Juyi's "Loufeng is content with Wu, diving fish likes algae". It is hidden in the city, with mountains and valleys in its heart. "Children are not fish, but the happiness of fish in peace?" . In the courtyard of Linglong Courtyard, there are literati and painters in twos and threes, spreading out Xuan paper, studying pen and ink, and painting artists, taking the landscape, courtyard and black corrugated roof in their hands. Whether they are enjoying the "pleasure of fish" alone at the moment is unknown. However, compared with the hustle and bustle of Renmin Road, this is a beautiful place to concentrate on creation and wash the body and mind.
Further east, you will reach the main building in the garden-Yuanyang Building. In the north of the hall, Du Fu's poem "The trees are sparse and the clouds are empty, and the lotus flowers are fragrant in spring" is named Lotus Hall. This complex consists of waterside pavilions, pavilions, winding corridors and winding bamboo bridges. Lotus flowers are in full bloom all around. Open the antique door on a sunny day, and a few steps away, you will see "Stone Bridge Trilogy, with red columns and green covers set each other off". On rainy days, you can have tea with friends and listen to the sound of rain by the window lattice engraved with complex patterns. When you think of lotus roots in a dream of red mansions, lotus roots in Yiyuan are quite similar to those in a dream of red mansions.
Merlin has its own system, planted in the southeast corner of the garden, and plum blossoms bloom in winter. The south name of the main hall is "Chu Yue Xuan", which is taken from Sadula's poem "Today is like a dream yesterday" in the Yuan Dynasty. There are hundreds of plum blossoms, so it is also called "Meihuatang". In severe winter, you can watch the snow in Xun Mei through the warm pavilion. The entrance "Plum Blossom Hall" is engraved with the full text of "Yiyuan Garden". Presumably, the host is a plum blossom lover, and I think of Lin Bu, Chu Shi in the Northern Song Dynasty, who planted plum blossoms in seclusion. He wrote in "Xiao Mei in the Mountain Garden" that a faint fragrance came at dusk. "It's a vivid portrayal of plum blossom, a household name, and is known as the eternal swan song. In the afternoon of late spring and early summer, I shuttled through Meilin, as if I smelled plum blossoms and touched them. " One, two, three or four, five, six, seven or eight, nine, ten, countless, I can't find them in the flower garden. "People who love Mei are often hermits, do not cater to kitsch, and have their own dignity and pride. Thinking of this, I pay more respect to the owner of the garden.
The pavilions are chic at all times, dust-proof locks, green hoes, and loose listening to the moon. This kind of "hiding in a small building" is chic. Without it, it is comfortable, enjoyable, and for "Yiyuan".
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