Dongpo Garden

Dongpo Garden

Dongpo garden is located in Gushan of Huizhou West Lake scenic area, covering the "Gushan Suji" scenic area of Huizhou West Lake and its surrounding land, with a total land area of 32000 square meters. The total investment is about 18.8 million yuan. Dongpo garden integrates human landscape and natural landscape, adopts the traditional Chinese landscape design techniques, and moves the landscape step by step. The park was planned and designed by Shenzhen beilinyuan landscape and architectural planning and Design Institute Co., Ltd., and won the bronze award of Lingnan Characteristic Landscape Design Award in 2011 "Guangdong Lingnan Characteristic planning and architectural design appraisal activity".

Overview of scenic spots

During his three-year residence in Huizhou, Su Dongpo left a large number of historical relics and literary poems, as well as many moving stories about his relief for Huizhou people. "As soon as he was banished to the South China Sea, he did not dare to be a little Huizhou", which fully reflects Su Dongpo's important position in Huizhou history. Taking Su Dongpo's historical sites in Huizhou as the line, the overall project of Gushan Dongpo garden of West Lake in Huizhou will build Gushan Dongpo garden into an open and commemorative theme park displaying Dongpo culture and West Lake scenery, which will further highlight Huizhou's urban cultural heritage and improve the cultural taste of the city.

Su Dongpo is a legendary scholar in Chinese history. He left a lot of good stories about his achievements, political morality, splendid articles, good deeds and anecdotes. The design and construction of Dongpo garden fully embodies Su Dongpo's bold and unrestrained spirit, and the artistic conception of Qingkuang chaomai. Dongpo garden integrates human landscape and natural scenery, perfectly combines the historical relics related to Su Dongpo with the scenery of West Lake, and makes them set off each other, becoming a bright pearl in the background of Great West Lake scenic spot.

Su's trail in the lonely mountain

GUSHAN is a place where Su Dongpo, the West Lake in Huizhou, has a lot of famous works. This mountain was named because it was surrounded by water, which is very similar to the Gushan of the West Lake in Hangzhou. In the Song Dynasty, there was a qichan temple on the mountain. Su Dongpo had a deep friendship with the monks in the temple. After the founding of the people's Republic of China, Gushan has been turned into a tourist attraction. On the mountain, there are Zhaoyun tomb, Liuru Pavilion, Dongpo Jushi statue (built in 1983, is a granite round carving with a total height of 4.4 meters), Chaoyun statue (built in 2008), Dongpo Memorial Hall (first hall, second hall, built in 1983 and 1986 respectively), Dongpo huishu trace (stele wall) and other buildings The forest space makes the whole scenic spot not only have the wild interest of mountains and forests, but also have rich historical and cultural connotation. Visitors can visit Dongpo and soak in the spirit of Po Xian. Maybe they can have a good relationship with this great literary master of Song Dynasty in the beautiful mountains and waters of the West Lake. Because there are a lot of Su Dongpo's famous works in Gushan, it has the reputation of "Gushan Su trace". Dongpo's famous works on Gushan are also the central content of "commemorating the nostalgic area" in Dongpo garden.

Five functional areas

The overall project includes five functional areas, namely entrance square area, cultural leisure area, memorial nostalgia area, Xiangju scenic area and lakeside leisure view scenic area

Entrance square area

The entrance square is located in front of the statue of Dongpo. The square adopts a rectangle with axial symmetry to highlight its commemoration. At the same time, it forms an axial relationship with the statue of Dongpo and the memorial hall of Dongpo, and becomes the entrance of the whole nostalgic Memorial area. The square does not make a three-dimensional structure, but keeps the square open to meet the needs of tourists' distribution. At the same time, it also serves as the "guide" of the whole scenic area, leading tourists to the core scenic area and leaving the landscape climax behind. At the same time, open the sight corridor facing the West Lake. There is a sentence in Dongpo's Shi Li Chi, a stone inscription on the ground, that is, "not to be a Lingnan man for a long time", as well as Dongpo's poem "first visit to Huizhou" and Dongpo's life.

Dongpoyuan cultural leisure area

The cultural leisure area is a leisure park with greening as the main part. The park is equipped with an antique building complex with litchi Pavilion and surrounding litchi forest, with Dongpo poetry inscriptions and four poems such as planting tea, written by LAN Guanghao, a famous calligrapher in Huizhou.

Reminiscence District

The memorial area includes the existing Dongpo memorial hall, Liuru Pavilion and other scenic spots in Gushan, with a new group of buildings. On the west side of Gushan, Jingxian temple, Xiaopu wuweixuan and other buildings have been restored. There are also stele Gallery, fishing platform, guizui Pavilion, Chaoyun statue and other scenic spots, which reflect the historical sites and culture of Su Dongpo in Huizhou, as well as the sincere love between Su Dongpo and Wang Chaoyun.

The newly built statue of Chaoyun is located on the lawn beside Liuru Pavilion. Together with the existing Liuru Pavilion and Chaoyun tomb, it forms a scenic spot with the theme of Chaoyun in Dongpo garden, which is quiet but not publicized. The stone statues show the state of "what is ice and jade in the back hall, and the meaning of bees is irrelevant" in Dongpo's poems to Chaoyun.

Suitable scenic spot

Xiangyiju scenic spot is a typical Lingnan residential courtyard. Xu qiongtong, deputy director of the West Lake Scenic Area Management Office, who accompanied the visitors, said that the theme of xiangyiju was tea and wine culture exhibition in Dongpo era, Huizhou Folk Custom exhibition, as well as tourist souvenirs, calligraphy and painting exhibition. "Xiangyiju" comes from the famous sentence "if the West Lake is better than the West Lake, it is always suitable for thick shape and light wipe". It is located in the north of Gushan, and the current land use is relatively flat. The planning of Xiangju scenic spot is a typical Lingnan form. The architectural layout of street, courtyard and square is interspersed with rich spatial levels.

Lakeside leisure scenic spot

The lakeside leisure view scenic spot is located on the side of the main road along the lake. It is a waterfront leisure area. It reflects the deep friendship between Su Dongpo and Huizhou people with simple design and sketches. Huizhou pinli, a bronze sculpture standing beside the lake, is especially popular among tourists.

Main attractions

There are Chaoyun tomb, Liuru Pavilion, Dongpo memorial hall, Jingxian temple, guizui Pavilion, Jue Pavilion, Shili Pavilion, Xiaopu wuweixuan, xiangyiju and other new attractions and buildings.

Chaoyun tomb

This is a Fang tomb with a history of more than 900 years. On the tombstone, there are two words "Su Wenzhong's concubine Wang's Tomb of Chaoyun" and "Concubine", indicating that the name of the owner of the tomb is still very low until he dies. This is the characteristic of the times.

Coincidentally, the three women who accompanied Su Dongpo's life were all surnamed Wang. Wang Fu, who was originally married to her, died before she was 30 years old. Because Su Dongpo wrote a song "jiangchengzi" for her, which said "life and death are two boundless in ten years, I don't think about it, and I will never forget it". Wang Runzhi, who is her stepmother, is Wang Fu's cousin, who has been with Dongpo for 25 years, and is Dongpo's good wife. Wang Chaoyun, Zixia, born in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, is a smart and handsome singer. At the age of 12, Su Dongpo, who served as a general judge in Hangzhou, was taken as a maid. At the age of 19, he was taken as a concubine in Huangzhou. Chao Yun is a concubine to his death, but he has no regrets. When Su Dongpo's officials moved to Mizhou, Xuzhou and Huzhou, he was demoted to Huangzhou Deputy envoy after the "Wutai poetry case", and then to Huizhou in his later years. In this ups and downs of life, Wang Chaoyun always accompanied Su Dongpo and lived a wandering life with him, which became the greatest spiritual comfort in his difficulties. As Su Dongpo wrote in his book recommending Chaoyun Shu, Chaoyun had "worked hard all his life and followed Dongpo for thousands of miles". After the death of Chaoyun, Su Dongpo buried her in the pine forest under qichan temple, facing the great holy tower. "Looking forward to the great holy tower, hearing about Zhong fan" (Su). In memory of Chaoyun, Dongpo completed the new residence of baihefeng, and continued to plant plum trees and build bridges in the West Lake to express his sorrow for Chaoyun. Dongpo himself wrote the epitaph of Chaoyun and the poem of mourning for Chaoyun. The full text of Chaoyun's epitaph is as follows: "Mr. Dongpo's concubine is Chaoyun, with the word Zixia, surnamed Wang, from Qiantang. Mr. Shi has been loyal and respectful for three years. In July of the third year of Shaosheng, Renchen died in Huizhou at the age of 34. In August, Gengshen was buried on the Fenghu Lake in the southeast of Chanshan temple. He gave birth to tun and died before his time. Gai tried to learn Buddhism from bhiksuni. And death, recite the four verses of the Vajra Sutra. Ming said: futu is forward, Jialan is in accordance with. Such as your old intention, only Buddha's return. " On the seventh day after Chaoyun was buried, Dongpo made a sacrifice to Chaoyun and wrote a memorial to Huizhou recommending Chaoyun. He prayed that the Buddha who led Chaoyun to the pure land of heaven early, expressing Dongpo's piety to Buddha and deep love for Chaoyun. Chaoyun's death has dealt a heavy blow to Dongpo. He wrote a poem and said, "this year, I'm very tired and stiff. Although I am healthy in this meeting, the strong wind rolls the morning glow. Make me like frost moon, lonely light hanging on the horizon. The West Lake doesn't want to go. The dusk tree calls jackdaw. He felt that he had brought Chaoyun to the wild land of Lingnan, which caused Chaoyun to die in a foreign land. "I should bear you, tears in front of my pillow, thousands of lines." (Su) shortly after Chaoyun was buried, the monks of gushanqi temple built a memorial Pavilion in front of his tomb. Because Chaoyun studied Buddhism before he died, he recited the Sutra of Vajra: "everything is like Dharma, like a dream, like a bubble, like dew, like electricity ”。 It means that everything in the world is predestined. Life is like a dream bubble, like dew and lightning. It's fleeting. Don't care too much. She hoped that Dongpo could also understand the world in this way, which was not only the Zen way she realized after learning Buddhism, but also his endless concern and concern for Su Dongpo, both in life and in death.

Liuru Pavilion

The memorial Pavilion in front of Chaoyun's tomb is named "Liuru Pavilion", which comes from the Sutra of Vajra Sutra: "everything is like Dharma, like a dream, like a bubble, like dew, like electricity, so we should observe it like this.". In the early years of Daoguang reign of the Qing Dynasty, Lin Zhaolong, a famous scholar, wrote a couplet and engraved it on the pavilion column, "like a dream, like a bubble, like a shadow, like dew, like electricity, without birth or death, without dirt, without purification, without increase or decrease.". "Liuru" is more clearly expressed here. Chaoyun tomb and Liuru pavilion have been repaired in the past dynasties, with four columns and four corners

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