The back of the bookstore was owned by Taoist Shen, and the mansion in the garden was owned by Wang Meiji, a doctor in Taichang, and later by Cheng, Zhao and Wang.
1877, Zhang Jieyuan changed the West Garden of Humble Administrator's Garden to "Attached Garden". Zhang repaired many details, and the remaining West Garden of Humble Administrator's Garden was formed during Zhang's takeover.
"Supplementary Garden" covers an area of more than 8,000 square meters. The park is centered on the pool water, and the central area has a tortuous water surface connected with the big pool. There are 36 Yangyang Pavilion, Liuting Pavilion, Taying Pavilion, Fucui Pavilion, Who to Sit with, Li Pavilion, Yiliang Pavilion and Daoguang Studio in the Supplementary Garden.
Thirty-six Yuan Yang Pavilion is the main building of "Garden Supplement", with a square plane and four wing rooms. The hall is divided into north and south parts, exquisite and gorgeous. It is called "Eighteen Datura Flower Pavilion" in the south and "Thirty-six Mandarin Duck Pavilion" in the north. In summer, it is used to see the lotus waterfowl in the north pond, and in winter, it is used to enjoy the rockery and camellia in the south yard.
A building has two names at the same time, which is a form of Yuanyang Hall in ancient buildings. A hall is divided into two parts by screens, lids and gauze purlins. The beam is made of flat material on one side and round material on the other, which seems to be the merger of two halls. Its function is that the south is suitable for winter and spring, and the north is suitable for summer and autumn.
Yuanyang Hall is three rooms wide, with a hard-topped appearance and a square plane. There are exquisite ear rooms at the four corners, also known as Nuan Pavilion. The northern half is lifted out of the water, and the pavilion is supported by eight stone pillars on the pool.
The ginkgo wood carving glass screen in the center of the museum divides the hall into two parts. In the North Hall, there is Linqing Pool. In summer and autumn, floating lotus ponds and mandarin ducks can be seen outside the window. Huo Guang, the general of the Eastern Han Dynasty, "chisels a large pond in the garden, plants five-colored water lilies and raises 36 pairs of mandarin ducks, which looks like brocade", and the name of the museum takes its meaning. This tablet was inscribed by Hong Jun, the champion of Suzhou in Qing Dynasty.
The South Hall is the Eighteen Datura Flower Hall, which is suitable for living in winter and spring. The hall faces south to the sun, and the wall of the small courtyard is both windproof and warm, so that there is a proper amount of sunshine in the room.
Datura flower is camellia. At the end of Qing Dynasty, when Zhang was building this museum, he planted 18 rare camellia plants. In winter, flowers wither, but camellia is like a proud snowy wintersweet. "Millions of trees swallow fire together, and the residual snow burns red for a long time." Showing exuberant vitality and unique aesthetic feeling.
The plaque in the museum was inscribed by Suzhou scholar Lu Runxiang in the late Qing Dynasty. Lu Zhuangyuan and Hong Zhuangyuan are homophonic red and green in Suzhou dialect. Two top scholars in the same city wrote plaques for the same building, which added a lot of color to the hall.
The ceiling of the 36-yuan Yangting is in a continuous four-roll arch shape, which not only covers the beam on the roof in a curved and beautiful way, but also uses this arc roof to reflect sound, enhance the acoustic effect, and make the aftersound curl around the beam.
The host is here to entertain friends, receive guests and have a rest. Elegant environment. In the hall, there is a red flag, playing flute and singing. The furnishings are antique, paintings and calligraphy are hung on the screen, and the furniture is well furnished.
Liuting is located in the north of the 36-yuan Yangting. It is a single-story pavilion, light in shape, with windows around and a platform in front. From the overall appearance, Liuting Pavilion is an abstract ship hall, and the platform in front of the hall is like the bow. The pond on the left is full of lotus flowers, and its leaves, buds, flowers and fruits are all postures during its growth.
There are three-dimensional carvings of pine, bamboo, plum and magpie in the Qing Dynasty, which soften the two patterns of "three friends in the cold" and "magpie climbing plum", leaving no traces at the seams, which is a rare boutique in the garden.
Each stage has its own unique beauty, from a little green on the pond surface in late spring and early summer, to the full pond in midsummer, and then to the thick dead leaves and flowers in autumn.
As the saying goes, a hundred flowers bloom for a hundred days, and no matter how beautiful the flowers are, they will eventually be smashed into mud and crushed into ashes. The bleak evening scene with broken flowers and fallen leaves is always unbearable to witness, but the withered lotus here has a kind of incomplete and beautiful artistic conception.
Li Shangyin, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, famously said, "Stay in the lotus and listen to the rain", which is a poetic name for the pavilion.
Looking back at the tower shadow pavilion in the south, it feels wonderful. The pointed octagonal pavilion is a unique landscape in western gardens, reflecting the water like a pagoda, dignified and pleasant.
The tower shadow pavilion is inconspicuous and has reached the end of the garden. The owner of the garden built a small pavilion at the end of the water source, which made the beauty of the whole garden stop here and didn't feel abrupt. Even better, there are not only pavilions, but also shadows, just like the end of the song, which expands the image space of people.
There is a fan-shaped pavilion in the northeast, "Who will sit under the porch with you". Who is sitting on the porch is a small pavilion in the "makeup garden", which is small and exquisite, very chic and made into the shape of a folding fan. Su Shi has a saying, "Who will you sit with? The moon, the breeze, me ",hence the name" Who will sit with me on the porch ".
The entrance is built by water, and its plane shape is fan-shaped. The roof, porch door, window opening, stone table, stone bench, porch top, lampshade, wall plaque and half column are all fan-shaped, so they are also called "fan pavilions".
On both sides of the fan-shaped window in the porch, Du Fu's poem "Jiangshan is waiting to turn, Liu Hua is selfless." Fan Pavilion is located at the foot of the mountain, with a good geographical position. The trees are tall and straight, and the stone buildings stand tall. People can feel the beautiful scenery in the porch whether they are leaning against the door or sitting near the window.
There is also a small pavilion called "Li Ting" on the dirt mountain behind the porch where you are sitting. The pavilion is round, with a gentle slope at the top, just like a hat, hidden among the leafy grass trees, abandoning all decorations and being unpretentious. The mountain pavilion is small and well-proportioned, lining the landscape in front of the pavilion, just like a fisherman wearing a hat fishing, carefree.
Who sits in the porch and Li Ting are two different art forms of garden architecture, and they are also rare pictographic buildings in classical gardens. Pavilion, porch combination, seamless.
There is an octagonal two-story building on Liting Mountain, which is tall and majestic, with dense trees and green grass. From a distance, it seems to be built on a floating shade, hence the name "Floating Cuige". Looking around the pavilion, I saw mountains and rivers, the sky was high and the clouds were light, and the full of green in the garden was full of vitality, which made people feel relaxed and happy.
Who is sitting with Xuan, Li Ting and Fu Cuige? The geographical location is near the water, in the mountains and at the top of the mountain. They have different shapes and sizes, from low to high, step by step.
Sitting in the north of the porch is an inverted photo studio. Inverted photo studio mainly looks at the reflection in the water. This building is divided into two floors. Downstairs is the "Bai Wen Shenyi House". Wen refers to, Shen refers to Shen Zhou. They are all famous painters in Suzhou, and Shen Zhou is Wen Zhiming's teacher.
Zhang, the owner of Xiyuan, built this building at 1894 to express his admiration for them. At the same time, Zhang also embedded his own collection of portraits of Shen Zhou, rubbings of Wang Humble Administrator's Garden and stone carvings of Yu Sulu, a calligrapher in the Qing Dynasty, on the left and right walls downstairs.
Zheng Banqiao's paintings and calligraphy are engraved on the skirt in the inverted photo studio. On the water side, a long transparent window with low wooden strips was installed between the columns.
Standing by the railing, you can see the scenery by the water. On the left is the wavy corridor, and on the right is the porch where you sit together. The picturesque reflections of these landscapes catch your eye. Coupled with the underwater bright moon, floating clouds and waves in the pool, the scenery is excellent.
The upstairs of the photo studio used to be Zhang's daughter-in-law Wang's study. There are countless osmanthus flowers planted around this building. You can enjoy osmanthus in autumn, such as drunken people. Whether reading and learning Chinese characters, reciting poems and painting, and enjoying the scenery, the environment is pleasant, fragrant and lovely.
There is a rockery on the left of the cave. Along the stone path on the rockery, there is a hexagonal pavilion standing on the top of the mountain, which is Yiling Pavilion. The two pavilions in the northwest are opposite to the inverted photo studio.
Looking at the West Garden from the Central Garden, after the progressive scenery unfolds, two pavilions should protrude from the ridge of the corridor, so that the scenery of the whole Central Garden is endless, forming a very far-reaching landscape space, which is a typical example of "neighboring borrowing" in gardening techniques.