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Geyuan Garden

Geyuan Garden

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Geyuan Garden

  Garden (Chinese: 个园;: Gè Yuán) is located in Yangzhou, a city renowned for traditional private gardens, in Jiangsu Province, southeast China.

  The Geyuan Garden is open to the public, throughout the four seasons. Spring is demonstrateda picture of bamboo and rock. Summer is represented by the steel-Taihu stone, a popular tourist attraction. Autumn is depicted by Huangshan stone, and winter by Xuan

Geyuan Garden

  The Geyuan Garden was known as "the garden of the long-lived Ganoderma" during the Ming Dynasty. In 1818 (the 22nd year of the reign of the Jiaqing Emperor), salt distribution commissioner Huang Zhiyun bought the land and rebuilt the garden as a private retreat. Huang Zhiyun loved bamboo, believing that they were as persistent, modest, straightforward and loyal as a good man. A cluster of three bamboo leavesthe Chinese character 个 (pronounced “”). This was also noted by Yuan Mei, a writer during the Qing Dynasty: "the moonlight made the bamboo shadows hundreds of the character". The owner chose the name ”Ge Yuan” for his garden to correspond to his name, Zhi Yun (Chinese: 至筠, which also means "bamboo"Geyuan Garden is known for its seasonal rock gardens, which paint alandscape: "the rockery in spring is flamboyant like a bright smile, in summer is verdant like sparkling dewdrops, in autumn is clean like a light makeup, and in winter, it is pale like a sleeping beauty". The "spring hill isvisit, summer hill issight, autumn hill is for climbing, and winter hill is for residence".

Geyuan Garden

  The garden covers an area of 2.5 hectares (6.2 acres). It is a small, elegant urban wooded, primarily made up of bamboo and rocks. Rocks of different hues and shapes are used to represent scenes from the four seasons; hence, the rock garden was named the “Artificial Mountain of Four Seasons”. This artificial mountain has a typical Chinese artistic conception, as described in the poem below.

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