Fish Viewing at the Flower Pond

Fish watching in Huagang is one of the ten sceneries of West Lake. Enjoying fish in the stream full of flowers brings elegant pleasure to tourists.

The park is divided into five scenic spots: red fish pond, peony garden, flower harbor, big lawn and dense forest. Among them, the first three scenic spots are places that tourists must visit. They used to be private gardens of officials in the Southern Song Dynasty. A mountain stream flows from Huajiashan to the West Lake, which is called Huagang. There are fish in the water, flowers by the stream and a pavilion in the garden - "Peony Pavilion". Peony and peony are planted in the garden, which is also the best place to enjoy fish.

Fish Viewing at the Flower Pond

Fish watching in Huagang is a scenic spot characterized by flowers, harbor and fish. One of the ten sceneries of the West Lake. It is located in the west side of the south section of SUDI.

After the completion of the second phase expansion project in 1964, it covers an area of 20 hectares. The park is divided into five scenic spots: red fish pond, peony garden, flower harbor, big lawn and dense forest. It faces Leifeng Pagoda and Jingci Temple across the Su Causeway.

The red fish pond is located in the south of the central part of the park, which is the central area of the whole park. The Bank of the pond is zigzag and natural. The earth in the pond forms an island. A curved bridge is erected on the pond. Looking down from the bridge, thousands of golden scale red fish come and go in groups, splashing and splashing in the water.

brief introduction

Huagang Guanyu is located in the west of the south section of the Su dike. It is a quiet plant garden that inherits the light of Buddha. In front of Huagang, there are Nanping mountain with verdant mountains, Xishan Mountain with verdant hills in the west, Xiaonanhu lake and xilihu lake with calm as a mirror, respectively. The park is on the peninsula between Xili Lake and Xiaonanhu lake.

Main scenery

Huajiashan shangliu Huagang

Huagang Guanyu is located in the southwest of West Lake, facing water on three sides and mountain on one side. It is a large park covering more than 300 mu. At the foot of Huajia mountain behind damailing, there is a clear stream flowing through it and flowing into the West Lake, so it is called Huagang. In the Southern Song Dynasty, Lu Yunsheng built a villa at the foot of Huajia mountain, which was called "Lu garden". In the garden, flowers and fish were planted. The pool water was clear and the scenery was wonderful. Later, Lu Yuan was abandoned, and the scene declined. During Kangxi's southern tour of the Qing Dynasty, on the former site of Dingxiang temple between Yingbo bridge and Suolan bridge, ponds were built to raise fish, pavilions were built to build gardens, and steles were erected with the words "watching fish in Huagang".

In the Southern Song Dynasty, there was a stream flowing from Huajiashan to the West Lake, which was called Huaxi. At that time, Lu Yunsheng, the internal servant, built a cottage on the side of Huaxi River, which was called "Lu garden". In the garden, the beams are built as houses, the rocks are piled as mountains, the ground is dug as pools, the ports are built as harbors, the fish of different colors are raised, and the plants are widely planted. Because of the tranquil scenery, the collection of tourists and the chanting of refined scholars, it is known as "watching fish in Huagang". Huagang fish watching park is located in the west of the south section of SUDI, on a peninsula between Xili Lake and Xiaonanhu lake. At that time, it was called Luyuan, and it was also called "Huagang" because it was close to Huajiashan. During this period, the court painters included it in the ten scenes of the West Lake when they created it, which made it famous. In ancient times, there was only one pool, one Monument and three mu of land. After expansion, the garden covers an area of nearly 300 mu. Today's fish watching in Huagang is a large park covering more than 20 hectares. In the breeze, flowers and trees are falling and floating on the water along the Bank of the pool. It's a moving picture of "fish with flowers and fish with flowers". Everyone can't help admiring fish.

In the 38th year of Emperor Kangxi's reign, Xuanye drove to the West Lake, wrote a book about watching fish in Huagang, and carved a stone tablet beside the fish pond. Later, when Qianlong visited the West Lake in the south of the Yangtze River, some poems were inscribed on the tablet. The stele is divided into two sides: the inscriptions in Yang and Yin, which are respectively inscribed by Emperor Kangxi and Emperor Qianlong. Qianlong wrote a poem: "Huajiashan goes down to Huagang, and the flowers are full of fish, and the fish suck the flowers.".

The stone tablet for watching fish in Huagang was inscribed by Emperor Qianlong when he went down to Jiangnan. The word "fish" in traditional Chinese is four points, which represents fire. Qianlong changed it to three points, which represents water. It means that people's life is in good weather, and rivers and mountains are stable and peaceful. There is also a saying: "Huagang Guanyu" is the handwriting of Emperor Kangxi of Qing Dynasty. Kangxi believed in Buddhism all his life, and was known as "Buddha" and "good man". His grandson, Emperor Qianlong, also advocated "the virtue of living well". However, in Chinese characters, three points are water and four points are fire. The four points at the bottom of the traditional Chinese character "fish" are originally fire characters. When fish meet with water, they will die. The emperor could not bear to see the fish die, so he changed the four points at the bottom of the word "fish" in the inscription into three points to make the fish live happily in the water forever, so as to show the emperor's boundless kindness and the meaning of all things. This also left an interesting allusion for later generations.

——Qianlong (Qing Dynasty)

Huajiashan goes down to Huagang, where the flowers are full of fish. Most of all, spring is the best time to pick up the west, and autumn is the best time to realize Nanhua!

The flower stream winds into the flower pool

After the end of the Qing Dynasty, the scenery declined. On the eve of the founding of the people's Republic of China, only a pool, a monument and three acres of barren garden were left. The square pool on the right side of the east gate of Huagang fish watching is a historical relic of that year. In 1952, on the basis of the original "fish watching in Huagang", it developed westward. Taking advantage of its superior environment, undulating terrain and several original private manors, it dredged the Harbor Road, opened up a goldfish pond, a peony garden and a large lawn, renovated Jiangzhuang and zangshan pavilions, and built new tea rooms and rest pavilions. By 1955, it had initially built a "flower", "port" and "fish" garden It is a scenic spot with unique features. From 1963 to 1964, the second phase of the expansion project was carried out, forming a new park with an area of 20 hectares, 100 times larger than the old park.

The artistic layout of fish watching in Huagang makes full use of the original natural terrain conditions. The scenic spots are clearly divided with distinct themes and characteristics. Big lawn, cedar tall and straight, broad and cheerful; red fish pond, baiting by fence, fish happy; Peony Garden, surrounded by flowers and trees, scenery everywhere; new flower harbor, shady Road, particularly deep. It inherits and develops the excellent tradition of Chinese garden art, which is close to mountains and water, high and low, and permeated with poetic and picturesque. In the space composition, the opening and closing, the level is rich, the landscape rhythm is clear, the ups and downs are caused, not only the twists and turns, but also the overall coherence, one at a time. Its greatest feature lies in the ingenious integration of the artistic layout of Chinese gardens and European gardening techniques, the combination of Chinese and western, and the absence of traces of chiseling, so that the landscape is elegant, profound, open-minded and harmonious. In particular, the use of a large area of lawn and plants as the main body of the landscape combination space, in the development of Chinese garden with national characteristics and the characteristics of the new era, has a pioneering role.

Drunken Princess and flowers

Zangshan Pavilion is an exquisitely carved building built on a rockery. The opposite is Jiangzhuang, formerly known as xiaowanliutang. Jiangzhuang is one of the relatively complete private courtyards in Hangzhou, where Ma Yifu, a famous scholar, once lived. Now the main building is Ma Yifu Memorial Hall.

The west head of Hongyu pond is a peony garden with great gardening ingenuity. The Qiufu uplift is the highest place where a Peony Pavilion is built. Around the pavilion, hundreds of peonies and peonies are planted. According to different varieties, it is divided into more than ten flower border blocks. Around the year of the rain, it shows the style of the king among the flowers, and its national color and natural fragrance, and its name is true.

In front of the red fish pond is the peony garden, which covers an area of about 10000 square meters. The crisscross cobble paths divide the whole garden into 18 districts. Hundreds of peonies with bright color and unusual fragrance are cultivated in the garden, such as Weizi, yaohuang, Lvyu, Rouzhi Dianyu and Jiaorong tricolor, among which the most famous one is yulouchun from Ningguo County, Anhui Province. In addition, it is also equipped with mountain stones, pines, cypresses, peonies, red maple, Lagerstroemia indica, crabapple, Rhododendron, plum and other flowers and trees, which are scattered in height and appropriate in density.

The highest part of the peony garden is the Peony Pavilion with double eaves and octagonal peaks. The plaque is inscribed by Mao Dun, a contemporary writer. There is a platform on the southeast slope, on which there is a pattern of black and white pebbles imitating plum trees, and an ancient plum tree is planted beside the platform. In the Song Dynasty poet Lin Hejing's poem "little plum in the mountain garden", the mood of "thin shadow slanting horizontally, clear water, faint fragrance floating in the evening of the moon" is taken. On one side of the path beside the Peony Pavilion, an ancient plum tree is planted. Under the plum tree, black and white pebbles are used to build this plum shadow pattern on the road surface, which is called "plum shadow slope" by modern Confucian Ma Yifu.

Paeonia suffruticosa is native to the northwest of China, and mostly wild in Qinling Mountains and Northern Shaanxi mountains. It has a long history of cultivation in China, and has become an ornamental plant in the northern and Southern Dynasties. In the Tang Dynasty, it was planted in Chang'an, and in the Song Dynasty, it was called Luoyang peony, which is also called Luoyang flower. There are more than 180 kinds of peonies recorded in Qunfang Pu, which has a history of more than 1500 years. Peony is the king of flowers, known as "national color and natural fragrance". It has big flowers, bright colors and incomparable beauty. It has red, yellow, white, pink, purple, ink, green, blue and other colors. The flowers are multi petaled, elegant and fragrant. Chinese people regard it as a symbol of prosperity, and call it "fuguihua" and "bailiangjin". As early as in the Tang Dynasty, the capital of Chang'an, peony was very popular for planting and viewing. Bai Juyi said in his poem, "twenty days after the flowers bloom and fall, everyone in a city is crazy.".

During the reign of Changqing, Huicheng, a monk of Kaiyuan Temple, obtained a tree peony from Chang'an and brought it back to the temple for planting. Since then, there has been a tree peony in Hangzhou. The peony garden in Hangzhou is the most prosperous among all the peonies. There are many kinds of peonies, such as "drunken Yang Fei" and "Jiao Rong San Bian". Peony cut into more than a dozen different shapes of community.

Peony is a famous flower in China for a long time. It is graceful, elegant and beautiful. It is a symbol of auspicious prosperity. There are hundreds of colorful peonies planted in the peony garden of Huagang. When you look down from a high place, you can see the red and green flowers in the flower beds of different sizes. The peony flowers are as colorful as the clouds. They are so beautiful that you can't forget to return. The plants in the garden are exquisitely arranged. There are seasonal flowers in four seasons and evergreen trees in eight festivals, which develop the characteristics of "flower", "harbor" and "fish". Every 4

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