Vimo Villa

Vimo Villa

Weimo villa, located on the top of Yushan Mountain in Changshu, is a garden scenic spot built in 1983 by using the ruins of xiweimo temple. Here is surrounded by verdant, carrying mountains, green shade, pleasant scenery. In the manor, the flowers and trees are deep and beautiful, the mountain light and cloud shadow, the green forest and birds are singing, and the environment is secluded. There are historical and natural famous sceneries such as wanghailou, Boyu spring, Hulu spring, etc. The winding corridors and deep courtyards make it known as "vimo rising sun". In addition, baigui garden, Qingxin hall and other beautiful landscape are added, which not only has the artistic conception of traditional villa garden, but also has the wild interest of natural forest, spring and stream, becoming a famous scenic spot in Yushan.

A glimpse of the scenery

There are many tourists in Yushan. Walking up the mountain from the city, past Xinfeng Pavilion and Yushan gate tower, the mountain road is gradually flat. When you look at the green tea garden beside the road, you can see a group of buildings with white walls and tiles and scattered height in the sparse forest not far away. This is Weimo villa. It is located near the top of Yushan Mountain. Just in the middle of the main road between xinfengting, yushanmen tower and Jianmen mountain, the villa leads to Shiwu stream in the north, the cliff Lake Pavilion in the South and the green mountains in the West. The forest is deep and beautiful, and the environment is beautiful. Since its completion in 1987, the villa has become a garden scenic spot characterized by seclusion and full of wild interest. It is favored by people from all walks of life and has become a resort for people to explore, watch the sunrise and enjoy entertainment and leisure.

Historical Retrospection

Vimo villa was built in the ruins of the former vimo temple and got its name. Located on the top of Yushan Mountain, Weimo temple was built in 1163, the first year of Longxing in the Southern Song Dynasty. Its original name is Shiwu Weimo nunnery. Because it is on the Shiwu stream on the north slope of Yushan Mountain, it is named after Weimo nunnery.

In the third year of Chunxi (1176) of the Southern Song Dynasty, Zeng Huai, the right prime minister, as well as the Sumi envoy, and a native of the city, invited him to be the court of merit and virtue, and Xiaozong granted him the amount of "Xianqin Zifu Chan court".

Ming Xuande four years (1429) began to change its name "vimo temple.". Because of the layout of the temple, it faces east from the West. Every time the sun rises, the forest is dyed and the scenery is gorgeous. In Jiajing period of Ming Dynasty, Chen Ru, a Gongsheng and Yiren, once praised the poem that "the sky is clear and the sun shines on the mountains, and the painting of green bamboo and red maple can be evaluated". In the temple, there is "Wanghai tower", also known as Wangjiang tower. The winding corridor is quite interesting. In the past, literati often stayed here at night together. In the morning, they climbed the tower to watch the sunrise. It is extremely spectacular. It is known as "Weimo Sunrise" and is one of the "Eighteen scenes of Yushan". Once upon a time, there was a couplet written by Liu Rushi, a strange woman from the south of the Yangtze River in the Ming and Qing Dynasties: "the sun is on the hub, the sky is on the left, and the earth is on the edge of the East.".

In 1765, Qu Chenglin, the magistrate and native of Jingzhou, invested in the reconstruction of the temple, and built a garden behind the temple and a terrace of spring pools. The couplet hanging on the Mountain Gate "the Grand View of the river and the sea, the outstanding structure of the song and Liang Dynasties", was originally written by Zeng Huai, and was re written by Lu maozong in the late Qing Dynasty.

In 1860, the temple was destroyed because of the fierce battle between Taiping Army and Qing army in Yushan. During the reconstruction in the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, the descendants of the Qu family also helped to build the Wanghai building. In the building, there was a statue of Qu Chenglin, with a long couplet hanging, saying: "the sound of Zhong pan Ding mountain, there was a history of white clouds throwing their spears in the past; the lattice bars connected with the atmosphere of the sea, holding the red sun to illuminate vimo far away.".

Before and after the founding of the people's Republic of China in 1949, there was no management, the temples were deserted, and the temples and houses were gradually dilapidated.

Scenic Area Planning

In 1982, Jiangsu Taihu Lake Scenic Area Construction Committee listed Yushan scenic area as one of the ten scenic spots of Taihu Lake Scenic Area (including Suzhou and Wuxi cities and Wuxian, Changshu, Wujiang, Wuxi and Yixing counties). In March of the same year, according to the deployment of the provincial Commission of Taiyuan construction, the county infrastructure Bureau organized the preparation of the planning of Yushan scenic area (1982-2000), which listed the Weimo Xuri scenic spot as one of the planned scenic spots. The master plan shall be submitted to the provincial government and the provincial Commission for the construction of Taiyuan after being reported to the county magistrate's office meeting and the joint meeting of the county Party committee and the county government for examination and approval, and deliberated and approved by the Standing Committee of the county people's Congress and the standing Committee of the county CPPCC.

In December 1982, the State Council announced the first batch of 44 national key scenic spots, including Taihu Lake in Jiangsu and Zhongshan in Nanjing. The following year, the provincial Office of Taiyuan Construction Committee, together with the municipal government and the municipal infrastructure Bureau, decided to build the "vimo Sunrise" scenic spot first, and decided to use the remains of vimo temple to build the vimo villa, so as to change the status quo of the temple's long-term neglect and give full play to its role of landscape resources.

Layout planning

The county infrastructure bureau shall organize the preparation of the detailed planning for the construction of the villa, determine the original construction layout according to the temple site, and construct according to the architectural modeling, color, etc. and garden function requirements of the traditional gardens in the south of the Yangtze River. First, the necessary new construction and reconstruction of houses shall be carried out, which is the first phase of the project. The second is to reorganize and reconstruct the forest spring stone folding and sightseeing buildings, garden roads, etc., replant flowers and trees and green, etc., which is the second phase of the project.

The first phase of the project started in October 1983. The architectural design was undertaken by the design office of the municipal real estate company, and the construction was carried out by Yushan forest farm construction company, which was under the guidance of the municipal ancient construction company. By January 1985, the completed projects were: rebuilding the wall, rebuilding the abandoned buildings of Tianwang hall and Mituo hall as garden buildings, replacing the rotten wood structure of the main hall, and transforming it into the main hall in the garden. The former hall was rebuilt as a tea hall, and the former hall which had been seriously damaged at the south entrance was rebuilt as a south entrance hall. The north and South attached rooms were rebuilt, and a new kitchen and water room was built. The second phase of the project was completed in April 1985 and started in May. Except that the garden gate of the villa was still constructed by the forest construction company, the rest was constructed by the third team of the city ancient construction company, namely the Wu ancient construction team.

The completed projects include: stacking of rockery and stone cave at the entrance of back garden, renovation of huluquan scenic spot and stone stacking at the revetment of Jiandao, renovation of Boyuquan scenic spot, relocation of pump house and stacking rockery, construction of new qingxintang and front pedestal of villa gate and setting of Jinshan stone railings, etc. Weimo villa, with its gate overhanging, was written by Cao Datie, a famous figure in the field of poetry, calligraphy and painting who was engaged in architecture in the early years of our city. The whole garden greening and replanting were carried out by the greening team of the municipal landscape department. The project took nearly two years and was completed in early 1987. The total investment of the above projects is 520000 yuan, of which 210000 yuan was successively invested by the Municipal Construction Bureau and the Municipal Construction Commission, and 310000 yuan was specially allocated by the Taiyuan Construction Commission.

Construction of famous experts

In 1989, Mr. Zhang Zhaoming and Mrs. Zhou Wanyu, former alumni of Changshu Xiaoyou middle school and Chinese American, were enthusiastic about the construction of their hometown, benefiting Sangzi. They invested in planting 100 osmanthus trees in the mountain manor. Up to now, they have become a green forest. Autumn is full of fragrance, known as the "laurel garden". Engraved on the steles in the garden are eight characters: "Qin xiangtian Zui, Qiao Laoxin GUI", written by Zhao Lin, the daughter of Mr. Zhao Guni, a famous calligrapher and painter in modern Shanghai. Baiguiyuan, wanghailou, qingxintang, huluquan and Boyuquan are famous scenic spots of the villa.

Address: Central Yushan, Changshu, Jiangsu Province

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