Shimei Garden

Shimei Garden

Shimei garden is famous for its elegant and simple environment and excellent service. There are a lot of visitors to it. Shimeiyuan veteran cadre activity center often introduces its experience at the relevant provincial conferences in Suzhou and Jiangsu, and has won many honors: it has been rated as the advanced unit of Suzhou's elderly sports work since 1988, the advanced activity room of Suzhou and Jiangsu Province in 1990, the first prize of the national advanced activity room for veteran comrades in 1991, and the provincial "advanced activity room for veteran cadres" in 1998 Heart ".

brief introduction

Shimei garden is a new classical garden. It is located at the historical site of Shimei and the former site of Baiyi nunnery in the southeast of Yushan Mountain, adjacent to Shutai park. It is a place for veteran cadres' activities. According to the mountain, the garden has stone paths, storied pavilions, promenades, real mountains, flowing springs and dripping pearls. Artificial nature, the integration of the two United States, for retired cadres service, won the praise of tourists at home and abroad, won the "U.S. - China Art Exchange Center" Washington, D.C. awarded the only medal in the province. This garden is the original creation of Yudi garden in the new era. Shimei garden is located at the historical site of Shimei and the former site of Baiyi nunnery in the southeast of Yushan Mountain, adjacent to the reading platform of Xiao Tong, Prince of Liang Zhaoming, and the present reading platform park.

The legend of Shi Mei

There is a legend about Shi Mei. It is said that Huang Chuping, the immortal of the Han Dynasty, toured here and threw the plum kernel into the stone wall of the hillside, which made the tree grow overnight. Later generations carved seven plum blossoms between the stone walls, hence the name "stone plum". Today, there are no plum blossom carved in stone. Only the character "Shi" in Gu Guangyao's seal style of Xishan is still clearly visible on the cliff. Nearby Shimei street, Shimei primary school and Shimei farm are all named after this.

Decided to build the park

In the spring of 1984, the Municipal Bureau of veteran cadres decided to choose the place to build the activity room for retired veteran cadres. The leaders of the Municipal Bureau of veteran cadres and the Bureau of construction, after many surveys and repeated comparisons, finally put forward the planning idea of building a park in Shimei historic site: the activity room for veteran cadres in Shimei should be connected with the construction of Yushan scenic spot in Taihu Lake scenic spot, which is full of national traditional characteristics, beautiful and practical, making it a scene of Yushan; a comprehensive idea, one-time planning, year by year implementation, and gradually established It is a relatively complete activity center.

Work together to tackle key problems

The construction of Shimei garden was listed as one of the city's 15 major events in that year. The financial allocation for the whole project was 700000 yuan, and it was supported by many units in the city, with a sponsorship of nearly 500000 yuan. The Bureau of veteran cadres has set up a preparatory group. The preparatory group agreed to use the corridor to connect the up and down slopes, connect the landscape architecture, use the soil and gravel to build the rockery vegetation, and invited Professor Sima Quan from the landscape teaching and Research Office of the Department of architecture of Tongji University to visit through the Municipal Construction Bureau. Professor Sima agreed with the above plan and worked out a detailed plan. The plan was approved by the preparatory group. (2) in the spring of 1984, the architectural design of the first phase of the project was designed by the design office of the former Municipal Housing Management Office (incorporated into the municipal Architectural Design Institute in 1986), and the engineering team was invited to enter for construction. In the second phase of the project, the planning scheme and single building design of the guest house in the park are prepared by Professor Sima, and the design of other supporting decoration facilities in the park is completed by DONGBANG construction engineering team.

planning scheme

Shimei garden makes full use of part of the hillside conditions of "Ten Mile green mountains and half into the city", adopts the style of Jiangnan classical gardens with rich national characteristics and Ming and Qing Dynasties, and pays attention to the coordination with the overall layout of Yushan scenic area around. The building group of the park is divided into two parts: the first part is activity room building, and the second part is garden gardening, that is, pavilion, platform, pavilion, corridor and other decorative environment buildings. The whole project is implemented in two phases: the first phase is the main project such as activity room, with a building area of 1050 square meters. It was constructed by the construction engineering team of Yushan forest farm, which lasted for one year. It was completed and accepted in January 1985, and the completion ceremony was held in the Spring Festival on February 12, which was officially opened. The second phase is a supporting project, including guest house, restaurant, teahouse, barber shop, canteen, front room, gate court, fence, gate and decorative environment building, etc., which is constructed by DONGBANG construction engineering team, with a construction area of more than 1300 square meters. It was completed from September 1985 to May 1, 1987. Since then, some small-scale construction has been increased, expanded and repaired over the years.

According to the planning scheme, the activity room of the main project is located in the former site of Shimei, Baiyi'an, Wengjia ancestral hall and Zhuangyuan tomb (the first Tomb of Zhuangyuan of Tang Dynasty in Changshu). Experienced masons from Yushan Forest Farm dig and pile, and gradually build different styles of antique buildings. Yunhui building, the majestic main building, is of wood structure. The corridor on the ground floor adopts sparrow eaves. The roof is of mountain rest type, and the ridge is of cucumber ring back type. The plaque in the middle of the building "yunhuilou" was written by Zheng Ying. The bottom floor is backed by the stone wall of the mountain, with reinforced concrete columns, classical wooden doors and windows, and a cement platform in front of the door. Jinshi and shamanweng, a calligrapher, are invited to write the title "dashishan house" for the room. Yunhui tower, Qiying hall and Shimei pavilion are built along the historical sites.

inscription

When digging a hill and cutting stones on a ruins, grass, and rocky slope, we found a stone tablet against Japanese invaders in the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty. This monument, a witness of Changshu people's resistance to foreign aggression, was set up in the "Anti Japanese pavilion" under the "ink fragrance Pavilion". The plaque of "kangwoxuan" was inscribed by Su yuanlei, a professor of East China Normal University, and the plaque of "moxiangge" was inscribed by Wu Mu, a painter of Wumen. The northern end of the plaque was based on natural boulders, and the southern end was poured with reinforced concrete columns to support the whole building. The plaque of "panshilou" was inscribed by Xie zhiliu, a calligrapher, painter and cultural relic appraiser. Downstairs, natural boulders are used as walls, and seven valleys are dug on the stones to divert water to form a stream, which symbolizes the "Qixian Qinchuan" of Changshu ancient city. Wei Wenbo, former Secretary of the East China Bureau of the Communist Party of China, inscribed it "Qinchuan hall". On the west side between Yunhui building and Panshi building, in addition to the wooden staircase corridor, a two-story pavilion was built, which was inscribed "Fuxiang Pavilion" by Fu Wenyan, a calligrapher and painter. The classic wooden structure corridor is circuitous and continuous from top to bottom, so that visitors can have sunshade in sunny days, and do not hold umbrellas or wet feet in rainy days. The plaques in the corridor are inscribed by calligraphers Yan Gongda and pan Dexi.

In addition to the guest house, wall and corridor, the second phase of the project is mainly a large flat building complex to the south of Qinchuan hall. This used to be a "pillow stone pavilion" and "yixinlu" teahouse. After the old houses were cleared, teahouses, restaurants, front rooms, barbershops, canteens, gatecourts, ponds, longevity bridges and waterside pavilions were built. Finally, walls and stone gates were built. The hanging plaque of teahouse was written by Wang Xuezhong, a calligrapher, painter and aesthetic theorist, with the seal character "pinquanshi". The teahouse, restaurant, waterside pavilion, gate and surrounding wall were designed and constructed by GE Gensheng, a 72 year old famous sculptor of Dong Bang. He has his own ingenuity. He used cement lime to make "Eight Immortals crossing the sea, each showing his own magic power", "Jiang Taigong riding four different horses", "Zhao Xuantan without taboos", "Three Lions rolling embroidered ball", "hundred horses" and so on. They are vivid and amazing. Sanshi plum garden covers an area of 7366 square meters (nearly 12 mu), with a construction area of 2885 square meters. The existing green area is 3623 square meters, with a green coverage rate of 70%. There are 4 large and small ponds, about 140 square meters, with a site area of 950 square meters. The whole garden is located on the mountain, along with the trend, cutting stone path, ingenious layout, majestic momentum, simple and elegant. The garden is full of grotesque rocks, beautiful flowers and trees, pavilions and pavilions, with the style of Ming and Qing Dynasties. From south to north, when you look up, you can see the layers of buildings and pavilions; from bottom to top, the gallery is winding, winding and serene, with endless artistic conception. It has the feeling of "gradually climbing up, but not knowing the height, and only knowing it when it is nearly 100 Zhang".

After the early completion of Shimei garden, a group of famous calligraphers and painters splashed ink and painted inscriptions to add color to the garden. Han Peixin, then Secretary of Jiangsu provincial Party committee, wrote the name of the garden "Shimei garden" and the publication "Shimei garden land"; Jiang Weiqing, then member of the Central Advisory Committee, inscribed the plaque "home of old comrades" for the garden gate.

A paradise for retired cadres

In various revolutionary historical periods in Changshu, many people with lofty ideals devoted themselves to the revolution, and some gave their precious lives. The veteran cadres who come here are the survivors among them. There are more than 1000 retired cadres in the city, which is the largest among the six counties (cities) in Suzhou. In addition, there are more retired cadres. There are two or three hundred old people who come to activities every day. They spent a happy old age here. On the opening day of shimeiyuan, the Municipal Bureau of veteran cadres set up the Management Committee of the activity center for veteran cadres, set up offices, service departments and other institutions, improved the system, strengthened management, improved the environment, and improved the service level, so that shimeiyuan played its due functions.

Shimeiyuan is the location of Changshu veteran cadre activity center, which creates a good condition for the retirees in the city to enjoy their life and provides an ideal activity place. In this blessed land of Yushan, the old people are composing their own Ode to the sunset and playing the second movement of life.

Address: Southeast foot of Yushan Mountain, Changshu City, Jiangsu Province

Longitude: 120.73928458936

Latitude: 31.646365685085

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