Water painting garden

Water painting garden

Water painting garden, a national AAAA scenic spot, was built in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasty. It is located in the northeast corner of Rugao City, Jiangsu Province. It is the unique representative of Jiangnan garden architecture in China. It is an outstanding one among many famous gardens in China. It is a bright pearl on the Jianghai plain.

The water painting garden was built in the late Ming Dynasty and has a history of more than 400 years. It is a secluded place where Dong Xiaowan, one of the eight beauties of Qinhuai, and Dong Xiaowan, one of the four princes of the late Ming Dynasty, lived in Xinjiang. Covering an area of 270000 square meters, shuihuayuan scenic spot is composed of shuihuayuan, shuiminglou ancient buildings, China Rugao longevity Museum (yaofenglu), China rugai bonsai garden (Gudan garden), Yiyuan and dongdajie historical and cultural district.

historical origin

Among the many famous gardens in China, one of the most outstanding is Rugao water painting garden, which was built in the late Ming Dynasty and early Qing Dynasty by the Jiangnan talent Mao Bijiang and the Qinhuai beauty Dong Xiaowan

. Water painting garden is a bright pearl on the river sea plain. The garden is beautiful and elegant, with water as the most precious and reflection as the best. The garden expresses its ambition with the garden, and integrates poetry, literature, piano, chess, calligraphy, painting and erudite. Quyi is the characteristic of a garden, which proves that it is a scholar's garden with scholarly atmosphere.

China's first couple Cultural Park, shuihuayuan scenic spot, is located in Rugao, an excellent tourist city in China and a famous longevity town in China, covering an area of about 300000 square meters. It is composed of national key cultural relics protection units, such as Shuihua garden, shuiminglou ancient buildings, China rupai bonsai garden (Gudan garden), hidden peak Lu, Yiyuan, China Rugao longevity Museum, Lingwei temple, zoo, amusement park and other scenic spots.

geographical position

The water painting garden, located between the Yangtze River and the Huaihe River, is a masterpiece of Dong Xiaowan, a talented man in the late Ming Dynasty and a famous Ji in the Qinhuai River. The garden did not set up Yuanyong, but made use of the geographical characteristics of Rugao River, such as the sea and the water network. Along the small streams, it connected the Xibo pool and Yuechi pool, and the vast water surface was clear.

In silence, the tower reflects the water, and when it is noisy, the oar dances and the fish leaps. It is not only a natural barrier, but also a rare waterscape. The one in the water is more beautiful than the one on the bank. The water surface is easy to maintain. Harvest season, fish fat lotus strong, good harvest scene. There is also an ancient saying that the advantages of this water painting are: "the earth is painted with plants, the heaven and the Han are painted with articles, the Xiongfu is painted with Yang Ma, the Lihan is painted with Zhong Wang, the nunnery (water painting garden is also called water painting nunnery) is unique, but it is painted with bright moonlight.". It brings visitors to a state of transcendence.

Layout structure

Water painting garden, north by the city wall, borrow the city as the scene, the city surrounded by half garden, battlements Yan Ran. If the winter snow, but see the North City snow, comfort for spectacular. It integrates the appreciation, protection, background and concealment, and complements each other. It is unique in China's private garden, known as the first in the world.

The water painting garden is adjacent to Zhongchan temple in the South and Bixia mountain in the west, all of which are surrounded by water, forming a pattern of "pin". The water here is full of water, and only one place of Xiashan bridge can lead to the garden. At the bridge site, there is a thatched pavilion and a painting bank with lotus and peach and willow trees. In spring, hundreds of peach blossom trees are in full bloom, carrying long strips of water to brush the water. There are thousands of tenderness, and pedestrians have the feeling of mistaking Taoyuan. At the head of the gate, there are six or seven fortresses on each side, and the three characters of "Shuihua nunnery" on the front of the gate are written by the owner of the garden. The only hill in the gate is Huangshi. On the hill, there is an Pavilion, with "the memory of the Qin Dynasty and the memory of the Yi and Han Dynasties". It is a true portrayal of the master's heart.

"Rugao water painting garden is a famous garden in the world.". This is the opening remark of Professor Chen Congzhou, an expert of classical gardens in Tongji University, in the record of rebuilding water painting garden. The praise of Professor Chen Congzhou, a great landscape architect, is not over praise. It is true that in Jiangnan gardens: Nanjing's gardens, gardens, Shanghai, Yu Garden, Suzhou's Humble Administrator's Garden, Lingering Garden, net master garden, Yangzhou's garden, He Yuan, Jiaxing's misty rain building, Shaoxing Shenyuan garden... be well-known , far and near.

Ancient and modern gardens

Water painting garden, beyond its category, is outstanding, and can be called the world famous garden. But if we read their details carefully, we think Rugao water painting garden, which is located in a corner of the river and sea, should be an extraordinary leader. For example, it is not less successful than Humble Administrator's Garden. It is not inferior to Shen Yuan, nor is it less natural than watching gardens and Yu Garden.

Water painting garden is located in the northeast corner of Rugao ancient city, in the outer city of Hanoi, at the end of the inner city river, on the South Bank of Rutai canal.

Tourism strategy

Senior citizens over 80 years old are free with valid certificates; those under 1.2 meters are free; officers and disabled people are free with valid certificates.

Adult ticket 50 yuan

Children's ticket 25 yuan (height 1.2m-1.5m children)

Senior ticket 25 yuan (60-79 years old with relevant certificates)

Personal annual card 80 yuan

Couple annual card 120 yuan

Parent child annual card 120 yuan (one adult, one child)

Family annual card 150 yuan (two adults, one child)

It was built in the Ming Dynasty

Located in the northeast corner of Rugao County, Shuihua garden was built in the Wanli period of Ming Dynasty. It used to be the consistent manufacturing industry of the local people Mao. It was perfected after the fourth generation to the time when Mao established Xinjiang. Maobijiang reorganized the old garden, endowed it with ideas and elaborately added decorations, and built more than ten beautiful places in the garden, such as "Miaoyin fragrant forest", "yimozhai", "zhenyanting", "hanbitang", "xibochi", "xiaoyuxi", "Heyu", "xiaosanwu", "boyanyu jade Pavilion", "Xiangzhong Pavilion", "selangpo", "Jingge" and "biluolu". Chen Weisong, a famous scholar in the early Qing Dynasty, wrote in his "notes on the garden of water painting" that "the painter is also able to paint. The north, the south, the East and the West are all painted in water, and the beautiful flowers in the mountains and forests are hidden, just like painting."

According to Chen Weisong's Shui Hua An Ji, there was a small bridge (today's Xiashan bridge) at the gate of Shui Hua Yuan at that time. There was a pavilion at the end of the bridge. Passing the pavilion, there was a painting dike with lotus and peach trees. The gate wall is like a city wall, on which there are six or seven wall buttresses. On the forehead of the gate is a horizontal plaque with the title of "Shuihua nunnery". More than 100 steps along the water Pavilion, there is a view of earth slope barrier. Here planted green bamboo, bamboo Ying Wuxi, known as "Miaoyin fragrant forest.". From here, turn left to yimozhai, and then to Hanbi hall.

Facilities in the park

There is a basin in front of the hall. Xibo pool was originally the release pool of Zhongchan temple built in Tang Dynasty, which is located on the left side of Zhongchan temple. Zeng Zhao, the third younger brother of Zeng Gong, a famous writer in Song Dynasty, came to Rugao with his father when he was young. He studied in the temple and often washed bowls in the pool, so he got the name Xibo pool. Later, Zeng Zhaokao was a Jinshi in the imperial examination and became the magistrate of Taizhou. In memory of the experience of studying in Rugao Zhongchan temple, he specially engraved the stone tablet of "yinyuzhai" and placed it in the temple. To the east of Xibo pool is Yiyuan, which was built by maomengling, the grandfather of maobijiang. From Xibo pool to the north is Xiaowu river. The twists and turns of the stream flow in and out of the reed, which has a unique wild interest. In the water, there is a small island named Heyu. On the island, a small three Wu pavilion was built. In the old days, red crowned cranes used to nest on the island.

The water painting garden built in maobijiang has no walls and is surrounded by clear water. With the water flowing on the ground, the garden naturally forms a beautiful picture. Here, there are the mirrors on both sides of the painted dyke, the graceful Fuxi River, the subtle fragrance of the fragrant forest, the Maoting Pavilion floating like a mirror, the emptiness of the Xibo pool and the uninhibited island. The water reflects the "blue fall" in winter, the "cold blue" in early spring, the "hanging dew" in summer, the "smoke splashing jade" in cool autumn, and the hesitant astringent wave slope and the pleasant smoke pillow Pavilion. The center of the garden is the Xibo pool, where the water is divided into several parts. In addition, in shuizhongzhou, there are one hall, one room, one studio, one Lu, two pavilions and three pavilions on its circular waterway, and the rest are waterscape, which just points out the gardening characteristics of the plain in the water network of the Yangtze River Delta.

After the collapse of the Ming Dynasty, he was disheartened and changed the name of Shuihua garden to Shuihua nunnery, determined to live in seclusion. At that time, the water painting garden was elegant and eye-catching. At that time, some famous scholars, such as Qian Qianyi, Wu Weiye, Wang Shizhen, Kong Shangren, Chen Weisong, Dai benxiao, came to Rugao one after another to get together. They sang in the garden poems and chanted in the wine cup. Liu Tiren, a scholar in the early Qing Dynasty, said: "at that time, those who crossed the river to the north and those who crossed the river to the South all took Rugao as their home." Water painting garden flourished for a time.

Related allusions

Shuiming building was built by Wang Zhiheng, salt envoy of Anhui Province, in 1758 by the almost deserted Xibo pool of Shuihua garden. Its name comes from the poem of Du Fu, a great poet of Tang Dynasty. The construction of this building contains Wang's deep admiration for maobijiang and Dong Xiaowan, and his memory for the water painting garden. Shuiming building was originally supported by wooden piles and built on water. Danying flying, reflecting the blue waves, water color and sky light, bright and picturesque. The whole complex is more than 40 meters long from north to south. There are pavilions in the front, halls in the middle, and lofts in the back, which are connected by the corridors with nine bends and three bends. When you visit the building, you can see that it is small and exquisite everywhere: the walls are carved with green bricks, and the windows are carved with flowers; the interior space is not large, and the tables and chairs are arranged in an orderly way. Outdoor jade plum green bamboo, banana stone set. Under the east window, the blue water rippling waves give people the feeling of floating on the water. The central part is separated by leaky windows. The interior, middle road and veranda are well-defined, and the Youhu stone is connected with the warm Pavilion, so that the scenery is different step by step. Within a short distance, you can see the scenery of Huling garden in the southeast and the former site of Shuihua garden in the north.

Yuxiang nunnery is located in the west of Shuiming building, closely connected with Shuiming building complex. Its address is the original one

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