Yuyinshanfang

Yuyin mountain house, also known as Yuyin garden, is a private garden of Wu Bin in Qing Dynasty. It has a history of more than 130 years. The park is famous for its small and exquisite artistic features, with pavilions, halls, pavilions, bridges, embankments, mountains and waters in a radius of 300 steps. The four sculptures in the garden, brick, wood, gray and stone, are rich and colorful, showing the elegant style of the famous garden. Moreover, the ancient trees are towering, the exotic flowers are dazzling, and the garden is full of brilliance. The four wonders in the garden, such as "bamboo green on the wall", "moon on the Hongqiao bridge", "treasure hidden in the deep willows" and "spring greeting with double emeralds", make visitors forget to return.

Yuyinshanfang

Yuyinshanfang, also known as "yuyinyuan", was built in the sixth year of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty. It has a history of more than 140 years. Together with Qinghui garden in Shunde, Liangyuan garden in Foshan and Keyuan garden in Dongguan, it is known as the four famous gardens in Guangdong

. Covering a total area of 1598 square meters, the garden is famous for its small and exquisite layout, which fully demonstrates the unique style and superb gardening art of ancient Lingnan Garden Architecture. Together with Shunde Qinghui garden, Dongguan Keyuan garden and Foshan Liangyuan garden, Yuyin Shanfang is known as the four major Lingnan gardens, and has been approved by the State Council to be listed in the fifth batch of national key cultural relics protection units.

The layout of Yuyin mountain house is very ingenious. The pavilions, halls, pavilions, bridges, embankments, mountains and waters in the garden are all contained in a radius of 300 steps, which fully reflects the cultural characteristics of the unity of man and nature, and shows a kind of cosmology of harmonious unity between man and nature. On the sandalwood carving screen of shenliutang in yuyinshan house are the verses of Liang Shanzhou, Zhang Chuanshan and Weng Fanggang, the three great talents of the late Qing Dynasty, and the handwriting of Liu Yong, the great scholar of Qianlong. In the garden are couplets written by Chen Yungong, a famous scholar of the Qing Dynasty.

Introduction to landscape architecture

Yuyin Mountain House garden is rich in brick carving, wood carving, gray carving and stone carving. Its exquisite carving skills and immortal artistic value fully reflect the outstanding ability and artistic creativity of the ancient working people, and fully show the elegant style of the famous garden. Moreover, the ancient trees are towering, the exotic flowers are dazzling, and the garden is full of brilliance. The four wonders in the garden, such as "bamboo green on the wall", "moon on the Hongqiao bridge", "treasure hidden in the deep willows" and "spring greeting with double emeralds", make visitors forget to return. There are two ancestral halls passing through the Yuyin Mountain House scenic area. They are the ancestral halls of Wu Bin's grandfather and father. They are Wu Gong temple and Shanyan Wu Gong temple. The private garden where Wu Bin lived in seclusion was close to the ancestral hall, and the Yu garden built by Wu Bin's descendants.

Together with Qinghui garden in Shunde, Keyuan garden in Dongguan and Liangyuan garden in Foshan, Yuyin Shanfang is known as the four major Lingnan gardens in Qing Dynasty. Yuyin Shanfang is the best preserved classical garden among the four famous gardens, and is a typical Lingnan Garden Architecture. In June 1989, the people's Government of Guangdong Province announced it as a cultural relic protection unit. In 1990, the Ministry of construction, the State Administration of cultural relics and the Chinese Architectural Society approved and announced it as an excellent modern architectural unit in China. It was listed in the fifth batch of national key cultural relics protection units in 2001.

The building area of the whole garden is only about 2000 square meters, which is the smallest of the four famous gardens. It is famous for its small and exquisite architectural style and is known as one of the four famous gardens in Guangdong.

The whole garden layout of Yuyin mountain house is smart and exquisite. By means of "hiding but not revealing" and "shrinking the Dragon into an inch", shenliu hall, Lanhe hall, linchi bieguan, Linglong waterside pavilion, Laixun Pavilion, peacock Pavilion and corridor bridge are built respectively in the limited space. In the small mountain forest, the main facilities and scenery of the garden are concentrated, and the limited space is infused with deep and broad infinite space Jiajing. Yuyinshan House garden is small, but pavilions, bridges, pavilions, winding paths, lotus pond, stone mountain, famous flowers, etc.

Yuyin mountain house has pavilions, platforms, buildings, pavilions, halls, pavilions, bridges, gallery dykes, stone mountains and clear water. All the elements needed for the garden are available, and the building is very characteristic. Shenliutang is the main building of the whole garden. The beauty of afforestation of Yuyin mountain house lies in the ingenious borrowing of scenery through corridors, flower windows and shadow walls, which creates a wonderful effect of having a garden in the garden and a scenery outside the garden, making the scenery in the small garden more profound. Moreover, many western architectural elements are integrated into the Chinese classical garden which is characterized by imitating the natural landscape. The combination of China and the West creates the unique Lingnan scenery, among which the "bamboo green on the wall", "Hongqiao Yinyue" and "deep willow Cangzhen" are known as the three wonders of Yuyin Shanfang.

Garden Background

Yuyin mountain house was built in Ming and Qing Dynasty, the late peak period of Chinese classical garden. The great achievement of Chinese gardening art began in Ming Dynasty, and its theoretical representative work was Yuanye written by Ji Cheng, while in Qing Dynasty, its theoretical representative work was yijiayan written by Li Yu. In the Qing Dynasty, private gardens sprang up all over the country, especially in the south. The four famous gardens in Guangdong were all built in the Qing Dynasty.

Yuyinshanfang was built in 1867, which lasted five years and was completed in 1871. Wu Bin, the former owner of Shanfang, whose name is Yantian, was a Juren in the Qing Dynasty. He served as the head of the Ministry of punishment. In 1855, he was granted the title of Tongfeng doctor by Emperor Xianfeng because of "Kexiang Wang Shi". His two sons are also Juren, so there is a saying that "three Juren in one school, the father and the son are the same".

In the eighth year of Xianfeng (1858), Wu Bin resigned his official post on the ground of his mother's old age and went back to his hometown. On the one hand, he devotes himself to cooking and on the other hand, he studies hard. In the sixth year of tongzhi (1867), Wu Bin was awarded three mu of land left over from the construction of Wugong temple and Shanyan Wugong temple. Wu Bin referred to the landscape drawings drawn by the painter and a gouache painting presented by Lord Baylor when he was in Beijing. He also referred to the gardening techniques of Guangzhou "haishanxianguan" to build yuyinshan house according to local conditions. After five years, it cost 30000 taels of silver and was completed in 1871. To commemorate the blessing of ancestors, the word "Yu Yin" is used as the name of the garden. The building close to Yuyin mountain house is Shanyan Wu Gong temple, the ancestral temple of Wu family.

Cultural history

Chinese culture has a long history. Yuyin Shanfang, which has a history of more than 130 years, is a good place for cultural roots. Together with Foshan Liangyuan, Dongguan Keyuan and Shunde Qinghui garden, it is known as the four famous gardens. The former owner of the famous garden, Wu Bin, whose name is Yantian, was a Juren in the Qing Dynasty. He was an official to the head of the Ministry of punishment. Later, he was granted the title of Tongfeng doctor by Emperor Xianfeng. What is more rare is that his two sons are also Juren, so there is a saying that "three Juren in one school, father and son will be admitted to the same school". Later, the owner of the garden saw through the world and went back to his hometown to build the garden. In order to commemorate the good fortune of our ancestors, we take the word "Yu Yin" as the name of the garden, and hope that future generations can always enrich the good fortune of our ancestors. When you enter the garden, the first thing you see is a couplet on the door. It and the word "Yu Yin" are the first words of the couplet. The first couplet is "three bows of leeway, red rain feet"; the ancients used a stone's throw to describe the distance of a hundred steps. "Bow" is the arrow, three bows is the distance of three hundred steps, which means that the garden area is very small; "red rain" means that the whole garden is full of flowers and fruits in four seasons. The second couplet "a corner of the shady sky is covered with green clouds", which vividly displays the shady environment in the garden. The words "foot" and "deep" in the couplets deeply show the owner's intention of leaving home.

Su Dongpo once said that he would rather eat without meat than live without bamboo. But how can bamboo be planted in less than three mu? Finally, the owner of the garden came up with a way to plant green bamboo between the walls. First of all, it can not only occupy the garden area, but also control its growth and spread, and can block the dust outside the garden. It's killing three birds with one stone. After crossing the Hongqiao bridge, walking forward is the "deep willow hall". The layout of the hall is really out of the ordinary, and there are a variety of wood carvings. On the precious wood carving screen, there is the calligraphy handwriting of Liu Yong, a bachelor.

Opposite the "deep willow hall" is the master's impromptu study. The master of the garden named the study "linchi bieguan". It is said that the literati in ancient times, facing the beautiful scenery of linchi in front of the bieguan, took ink and inkstone as "pool" and dipped inkstone as "linchi". Therefore, they named the library after "linchi". There is a cottage on the left side of "shenliu hall". It is the third building in the garden. It is called "wopiaolu". The "Manchuria pane" in the cottage can enjoy the scenery all year round through the colored glass engraved on the lattice. People can realize their dreams here.

Twenty years after the completion of Yuyin mountain house, Wu Zhongyu, the nephew of the owner of the garden, built a "Yuyuan" to entertain friends and relatives from afar. However, it is said that his eldest daughter and second daughter lived on the eve of their wedding, so it is also known as "Miss building". Walking to the depth of the corridor is the famous "Linglong waterside pavilion". It is the fourth building in the garden, commonly known as "octagonal pavilion". The waterside pavilion is octagonal, with windows on all eight sides, with elegant structure. In this way, it can not only ventilate from eight sides, but also view the scenery from eight sides. For the eight sceneries of the octagonal pavilion, there is a poem with five rhythms, which is: "osmanthus welcome the rising sun, willow tower is green; Chimonanthus blossom, stone forest is very close; Hongqiao is clear and shining, lying on the ladle to listen to the sound of Qin; guotan orchid path, peacocks are all open.". The artistic style of Chinese garden architecture is unique, emphasizing poetic and picturesque. The reason why Linglong waterside pavilion is famous is that it has both poetic and picturesque features.

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