Yuntai Garden

Yuntai Garden

Yuntai garden is located at the entrance of Baiyun Mountain in Guangzhou. It is located in santailing tourist area in the south of Baiyun Mountain scenic spot. It is adjacent to Guangyuan Road in the South and Baiyun cableway in the East. It was completed and opened in September 1995. It is one of the new scenic spots in Baiyun Mountain scenic area. It is also a large garden style garden with various ornamental flowers and trees in China. It enjoys the reputation of "Pearl of flower city".

Garden features

Yuntai garden is one of the largest garden style gardens in China with high style, focusing on appreciating the precious flowers and trees in four seasons. It is located in santailing of Baiyun Mountain, covering an area of 120000 square meters. It is based on the world-famous garden Buchart garden in Canada. It is designed by Guangzhou landscape architecture design institute and invested by Guangzhou municipal government for more than 50 million. It was built in 1993. It is the largest Chinese Western Garden in China. Here, the essence of East and west garden architecture is integrated, and the flowers and plants at home and abroad at four hours are in one garden and international friendship in one garden, becoming one of the tourist windows of Guangzhou.

Basic structure

The structure of Yuntai garden has artistic characteristics, integrating the eastern and Western architectural art, and integrating the ancient and modern culture

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It shows a unique garden style. There are more than 10 new and elegant scenic spots in the park, including friendship garden, glass greenhouse, zuihua garden, rock garden, Sun Square, waterfall, rose garden, open-air ballroom and so on. European style and Oriental garden landscape are integrated.

Overall layout

The overall layout of the garden is centered on the wide steps facing the gate. The steps are divided into three parts, with symmetrical marble steps on the left and right sides and special glass paving in the middle. All kinds of color lights are installed under the glass, and on the top of the glass steps are

Yipo small lake, named Pei lake, has circular lighting at the bottom of the lake. At night, the colorful water in the lake flows slowly down the glass steps, and is replaced by a colorful River by the light.

In order to highlight this source, landscape designers and builders built a Roman colonnade on the Bank of the lake, which not only highlights the role of the scenic spots on the axis in Yuntai garden, but also corresponds to the garden gate with the characteristics of East-West combination. What's more interesting is that the builders borrowed the effect of flower walls in Suzhou gardens and placed a group of totem stone pillars behind the Roman colonnade. On both sides of the axis line, different functional areas are arranged in Yuntai garden. More than 200 kinds of Chinese and foreign rare flowers are cleverly planted in different functional areas. On the east side, while planting all kinds of flowers, a large area of lawn is cultivated according to the undulating terrain. From a distance, it looks like a green waterfall. On the west side are Yiyuan and teahouse. The Yiyuan center is a huge earth stone carving, with the earth stone carving as the center. In a huge circle, there are the city flowers that have become friendly cities with Guangzhou and the national flowers of the countries where the friendly cities are located.

Famous tourists

Since its opening up, it has received many party and state leaders such as premier and his wife, Li Tieying, Wu Yi, Li Ruihuan, Wei Jianxing, Zeng Qinghong, Huang Ju, Li Changchun, Jiang Chunyun, hu Qili and mayors of major foreign friendly cities in Guangzhou.

Olympic Landscape

Baiyunshan Yuntai garden, one of the Olympic torch relay sites, is warming up for the relay activities in advance. The well-designed Olympic theme landscape in the garden was officially completed yesterday. In addition to launching three groups of 28 Olympic lighting, the garden is also planted with thousands of square meters of rare flowers to spell out a variety of Olympic patterns. In addition, a series of interactive game programs and Olympic culture exhibitions are also launched to let the public know You can feel the warm Olympic atmosphere in advance during the May Day.

According to reports, the theme landscape was officially on in the evening of May 1, and the exhibition of the whole theme landscape will last until the closing of the Beijing Olympic Games.

Ticket Price

Admission: 10 yuan for free, 5 yuan for half. 15 yuan for holidays.

Traffic information

You can take bus No.24, 285, B16, tourism line 1 to Yuntai garden terminus. Yuntai garden is just opposite.

Tourism information

Baiyun Mountain is a famous scenic spot in Guangzhou since ancient times. For example, "Pujian Lianquan", "Baiyun wanwang" and "Jingtai Seng GUI" were all listed in the ancient "Eight Sights of Yangcheng". In the 1960s and 1980s, Baiyun Mountain was rated as one of the "new eight sights of Yangcheng" twice for its "Baiyun Songtao" and "Yunshan Jinxiu". In the late Qing Dynasty, there were baiyun temple, Shuangxi temple, Nengren temple, Maitreya Temple and other ancient temples, as well as Baishan fairy hall, pearl, baihuazhong and other places of interest. During the Double Ninth Festival, the people of Yangcheng enjoy climbing Baiyun Mountain. At that time, the busy scene of supporting the old and carrying the young, and the bustling flow of people will form a unique style painting of Yangcheng.

For thousands of years, although there are many places of interest in Baiyun Mountain, there are few relics that have been revived and abandoned. Especially in the past hundred years, they have been destroyed frequently. By the time of liberation, only the memorial archway of "the first peak in the south of heaven" and the ruins of some temples were left. After liberation, Baiyun Mountain was reborn. The Guangzhou municipal government organized the masses to plant trees, built 10 reservoirs, opened up roads to connect the north and the south, built Shanbei and peak parks, mountain villa and Shuangxi hostels, and reproduced the lush and vibrant landscape of Baiyun Mountain.

Baiyun Mountain is rich in natural resources. Baiyun Mountain is located in the south of China and belongs to the subtropical climate zone. There are 876 kinds of plants, among which there are 5 rare and endangered plants under the state protection: e'zhang, Tu Zhi Xiang, Dalbergia odorifera, Keteleeria oleifera, bamboo cypress, etc. Among 657 species of wild plants, many species have potential economic value, such as 86 species of timber species, 343 species of medicinal plants and 97 species of wild ornamental plants. According to statistics, Baiyun Mountain has a total green area of 42000 mu, which can absorb 2800 tons of carbon dioxide and release 2100 tons of oxygen every day, which can be used for the normal breathing of nearly 3 million people. It is known as the "City Lung" of Guangzhou. Yuntai garden is a large-scale garden with high style, which focuses on appreciating the precious flowers and trees in four seasons. It is the largest garden style garden in China. It covers an area of about 120000 square meters with 14 new and elegant scenic spots. Since its completion and opening up on September 28, 1995, Guangzhou has received millions of tourists every year, becoming an important window for the whole country and even the world. Waterfall color is a group of water folding light fountains, the main axis of the park attractions. The flowing water falls from the glass steps. At night, the flowing water is replaced by the colorful lights at the bottom of the water. The flower troughs on both sides of the stone scale plant different seasonal flowers according to different seasons, which are wrapped in red and plain, yellow flowers and green leaves, and make the main axis particularly clear and bright.

Located in the center of the garden, the lake covers an area of 8000 square meters. The lake is in the shape of a butterfly and is close to the central axis. At the end of Hubei Province, there is a round fountain with a diameter of 30 meters and a height of 10 meters. Under the sunlight, there is a rainbow across the fountain.

The North Bank of Fuhu is a Roman colonnade with a typical Western European classical style. The half moon shaped colonnade is carved with more than 200 pieces of granite, and the 28 meter high stone column is carved with a piece of rock. Its craft and scale attract many tourists to take photos, especially those new people taking wedding photos, forming a unique and beautiful landscape.

Glass greenhouse is a unique building with orchid shape as plane design, covering an area of 1200 square meters, the highest point is 24 meters above the ground, it is a pocket tropical botanical garden. The greenhouse is divided into three areas: high, medium and low, which are cactus and succulent plant area, Palmaceae area and orchid area. In the cactus and succulent plant area, in addition to enjoying all kinds of rare cactus and colorful cactus, you can also enjoy all kinds of succulent plants, such as heizai tree, qilinle, green coral, sisal in Phnom Penh, Agave, etc.; in the Palmaceae area, there are various kinds of succulent plants, such as Alsophila spinulosa, plantain plantain, bottle coconut, triangle coconut, old sunflower, Emperor coconut, fox tail coconut, red thorn Lintou, etc It is a unique palm plant. In the orchid area, there are Phalaenopsis, Oncidium, Cymbidium grandiflorum, cattleya, Dendrobium, wandailan and various national orchids, forming a multi variety and multi color orchid world.

Located on the hillside behind the glass greenhouse, Gusao tomb is a rebuilt ancient tomb of the Song Dynasty, which is one of the key cultural relics protection units in Guangzhou. It is said that in the Song Dynasty, he Chensheng, a native of Shawan, Panyu, had a son and a daughter who married Shi. Chen Sheng was old and ill. He was a judge of the court officials. His sister-in-law served his sick father in the morning and dusk. My sister-in-law is filial by nature. In order to repay her sister-in-law's virtue, she withdraws the ring and vows to be faithful. She combs herself and does not marry. They are dependent on each other. Chen Sheng happily forgot his old age and died several years later. My sister-in-law died one after another due to excessive sorrow. At that time, my sister-in-law was all right, but she fainted in pain and died on the same day as her sister-in-law. Renjian presided over justice and pity, but his younger sister-in-law buried them together in the side of the ancestors' tomb, so it was called aunt's grave, which broke the feudal tradition that women could not be buried in their own homes.

Rock Park, also known as Weipu, has weathered plastic stone area, Sun Square and totem pole area. There are many different shapes of plastic stone, just like abstract works of art

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