Guanshe Villa

Guanshe villa is located at the intersection of Taihu Lake, Lihu lake and Liangxi River in Wuxi, with a total land area of about 43.4 hectares. A main garden road runs through the whole garden, connecting wanqingtang, Yumeiren cliff, zhumeiting, wanqinggudu, siyuanting, Meiyuan waterworks industrial site, Yangjia ancestral hall, Zhenhu nunnery and other ancient buildings. The mountain villa is built along the lake, and the mountains and rivers depend on each other. The aquatic tourism distribution center echoes with the Wetland Park, where tourists can take a boat to visit the outer Taihu Lake.

Guanshe Villa

Guanshe villa is located at the intersection of Taihu Lake, Lihu lake and Liangxi River in Wuxi, with guanshe mountain in the west, Dushan dam in the East, wanqingtang in the South and Huanhu road in the north. The total land area is about 43.4 hectares.

Introduction to guanshe Villa

A main garden road runs through the whole garden, connecting wanqingtang, Yumeiren cliff, zhumeiting, wanqinggudu, siyuanting, Meiyuan waterworks industrial site, Yangjia ancestral hall, Zhenhu nunnery and other ancient buildings. Guanshe villa is built along the lake, with mountains and rivers. The 2km long wooden trestle and hydrophilic platform connect all kinds of wetlands. The aquatic tourism distribution center echoes with the Wetland Park, where tourists can take a boat to visit the outer Taihu Lake.

Guanshe's ancestral hall is located in the south of Shandong, facing the mountain and facing the lake. It is said that it was the hermit Yang Ziyuan's seclusion place in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasty. All his life, Yang Ziyuan clothed himself and loved landscape. He built his own temple in guansheshan. Later, he was born in the Republic of China. Wanqingtang, Meiting and gudukou in the south foot of Shandong Province are ancient buildings and ancient sites left behind by the development of Taihu scenic spot in the early last century. After the founding of new China, guansheshan has become the location of Meiyuan waterworks, the earliest Waterworks in Wuxi. The original water intake and some workshops have become industrial heritage, adding historical and cultural connotation to guansheshan.

Planning and construction of guanshe Villa

For the design of guanshe villa, Wuxi Zhihui Landscape Design Co., Ltd., garden branch of Design Institute of Zhejiang University, eco landscape architecture office of UK, Pan Asia international company of Australia and Wuxi Landscape Design Institute were organized by the planning and construction leading group office of Lihu District of Wuxi City to prepare the plans respectively. After the comparison of the plans by the expert group, it was finally determined to absorb the eco landscape of UK The garden branch of the Design Institute of Zhejiang University is responsible for the detailed design.

Introduction to guanshe Villa

1. Wanqing Hall

Wanqingtang in guanshe villa is the first scenic spot in the development of Taihu Bay in Wuxi history. The ferry from wanqingtang was also the only channel from Wuxi to Yuantouzhu. In the summer of 1915, when Yang Hanxi and others toured the Sheshan mountain, they saw that the ancient temples and temples facing the vast expanse of Taihu Lake had collapsed and the statues had withered, and they all made a pledge for reconstruction. It was built in March of the next year and named "wanqingtang". Wanqingtang is located on the three mountains of Taihu Lake, with Yuantouzhu and Zhongdu mountain on the left and Xiaoji mountain and Daji mountain on the right. Yuan Hanyun, the second son of Yuan Shikai, once wrote a couplet: "the waves of the three mountains, the waves of the three mountains, the sea, the Pavilion of the lake, the double ninth sun and the wind and rain are in the south of the Yangtze River", praising the scenery of wanqingtang. In the early 1990s, wanqingtang and others were under the jurisdiction of Wuxi Landscape Department and Yuantouzhu scenic area. In 1992, a comprehensive renovation was carried out to restore the former scenic spots. The view of Taihu Lake is comparable to Yuantouzhu.

In 2008, under the leadership of planning and construction in Lihu District, Wuxi City, wanqingtang was restored. First, the dilapidated wanqingtang old building and some water plant land along the lake in the former Meiyuan water plant were included in the public scenic spot; second, the old wanqingtang building was repaired and reinforced in situ, and the viewing platform in front of the hall was expanded, and "bibowan" was carved on the wall of the high platform The four characters "Qing" are inscribed by famous calligrapher Zhou Huijun in Shanghai. The third is to restore the nearby scenic spots such as Yu Meiren cliff, Wanqing ancient ferry and Zhumei Pavilion, deepen and extend the historical and cultural connotation of the place, and display the history of the development of Taihu Lake scenic spot and its past and present life in Wanqing hall for tourists to understand and appreciate the poems and paintings of celebrities praising Taihu Lake.

2. Yang's cemetery and ancestral hall

Yang's cemetery and ancestral hall are at the eastern foot of guanshe. Yang Weining (1674-1736), the word Ziyuan, had been clothed all his life and had sex with mountains and rivers. He built his own business in guanshe mountain and was named guanshe mountain man. During the period of the Republic of China, Yang's descendants built temples here. The ancestral hall is a group of official buildings imitating the Qing Dynasty. It is high and open, with two entrances and a two-story Pavilion. At the back of the ancestral hall, there is a poem Tomb of Yang Weiyun (1868-1948), the second minister of Finance and industrialist of the Beiyang government, on which is engraved the inscription of Zhang Shizhao "crossing the Huage in his life, fishing Huangxi in Dayin"; the tomb of Yang Weiyun and his wife, Liu Haisu's inscription of "cloud in shuangsong"; the tomb of Yang Weiyun's eight younger sisters and painter Yang lingfu in the United States, in front of which is inscribed with Liu Haisu's inscription of "patriotic couple"; and Yang Jingyu, Yang Weiyun's son（ The tomb of Rong Shuren and his wife, female Yang Jinghui. It is one of the witness of many famous families in Wuxi.

3. Yu Meiren cliff

On the right side of wanqingtang is a stone cliff, which is very beautiful and is called Yu Meiren cliff. Cliff stone on a pine, curved as cover, Li Ming "car cover.". After the victory of the Anti Japanese War, those who planned to build the bridge destroyed the stone cliff to make the bridge foundation. The back bridge was not built, but the beautiful scenery was destroyed. In memory of the historical figure Xiang Yu and his beauty Yu Ji, after restoration, four big red characters "Yu Meiren cliff" have been re written under the original cliff, and Yu Meiren grass has been planted under the cliff to rebuild the pavilion in the United States.

4. Pavilion in America

There is a cliff on the east side of Wanqing hall. It is said that Xiang Yu lived here to avoid his hatred for Wuzhong, so it is called Yu Meiren cliff. On the cliff is a square pavilion with colorful paintings and classical double eaves. It is a pavilion for staying in the United States. It contains the story of Xiang Yu and Yu Ji.

The pavilion was built in 1916 by Yang Hanxi and others. In the 1980s, due to the destruction of the cliff, it was moved here. In July 2008, the planning and construction leading group office of Lihu District in Wuxi City renovated the building as it was, and transformed the surrounding environment, highlighting the past.

5. Huizeting

Huizeting is located beside the water intake pipe beside the lake. Together with siyuanting at the water source mouth, it is an unforgettable history that Lihu was once an important water source of Wuxi's tap water, and Meiyuan waterworks was the first Waterworks in Wuxi. Clear the lake and benefit the people. When we think about Fuyuan, we should cherish water like gold.

6. Industrial heritage of Meiyuan Waterworks

For thousands of years, Wuxi people have been drinking river water, well water and pond water. In the early 1950s, Meiyuan waterworks was built to supply water. Since then, people in Xicheng have been eating clean tap water. Now, the historical mission of Meiyuan waterworks has been completed. On August 19, 2008, Wuxi Municipal People's government listed it as the second batch of industrial heritage protection list.

Address: 250m west of Xianyu bridge, Lianghu Road, Binhu District, Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province

Longitude: 120.224265

Latitude: 31.545159

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