Mengxi Garden

Mengxiyuan is the place where Shen Kuo lived in his later years. Here he wrote the great scientific work "MengXiBiTan". Dr. Joseph Needham, a British scientist who studies the history of Chinese science and technology, praised MengXiBiTan as the scientific coordinate of the 11th century. Qian Weichang, a contemporary scientist in China, said: "this coordinate stands in Zhenjiang." The book has been translated and published in Britain, France, Germany, the United States, Japan and other countries.

The present Mengxi garden is restored on the original site. The front building is a hard roofed flat tile house built in the Qing Dynasty. It faces east and West. The main entrance is set in the middle of the building. The marble banner of "Mengxi garden" inscribed by Mao Yisheng is embedded above the door. The back building is a Qing style hall, facing south from the north, with Shen Kuo's whole body portrait, text, pictures, models and objects, showing Shen Kuo's scientific research achievements in astronomy, geography, mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology, geology and medicine.

Mengxi Garden

Mengxiyuan is located at No.21, mengxiyuan lane, Zhenjiang city. It is the place where Shen Kuo, a famous scientist in the Northern Song Dynasty, lived in his later years and wrote the great scientific work MengXiBiTan. Mengxi garden in history is a famous scholar's house garden in Song Dynasty. Its original appearance has disappeared, but its situation and layout can be seen in Shen Kuo's Zizhi.

brief introduction

In the east of the city, Mengxi garden is the residence of Shen Kuo, a scientist of the Northern Song Dynasty. Here he completed his immortal work Mengxi Bi tan. Mengxi garden covers an area of more than 10 mu. The buildings in the garden include huadui Pavilion, anlao hall, Xiaoxiao hall, kexuan, shenzhai, Yuanting, cangxia Pavilion, etc. Shell Pavilion is the room where Shen Kuo wrote books. In the hall, there are statues of Shen Kuo, displaying Shen Kuo's works, tools and objects.

Mengxiyuan is located at No.21, mengxiyuan lane, Zhenjiang city. It is the place where Shen Kuo, a famous scientist in the Northern Song Dynasty, lived in his later years and wrote the great scientific work MengXiBiTan. Mengxi garden in history is a famous scholar's house garden in Song Dynasty. Its original appearance has disappeared, but its situation and layout can be seen in Shen Kuo's Zizhi. At that time, there were some buildings in the garden, such as an Lao Tang, Xiao Xiao Tang, Ke Xuan, Shen Zhai, Yuan Ting, Cang Xia Ting, and so on. Built on a pile of flowers, an old hall is the house of the whole family. Xiao Xiao hall is the place for reception. Ke Xuan is Shen Kuo's bedroom and the place for reading and writing. There are statues of Shen Kuo in the hall, displaying Shen Kuo's works, tools and objects. It covers an area of 10 mu.

geographical position

Mengxi garden is located in the middle of the East River on the east side of the city. It is the residence of Shen Kuo, a famous scientist and statesman of the Northern Song Dynasty, who settled down in Zhenjiang in his later years. Shen Kuo has completed the immortal and famous "Mengxi Bi Tan" here. Shen Kuo (1030-1094) was born in Hangzhou. He was eager to learn from his childhood. He was a scholar of Jiahu. He actively promoted and supported Wang Anshi's reform in shenzongshi. He was a progressive politician. He is an official to Hanlin bachelor. He is erudite and good at writing. He devoted his whole life to scientific research and worked very hard. He had profound attainments in astronomy, geography, mathematics, calendar, geology, biology, chemistry, medicine, etc. and made great contributions. He became a rare first-class scientist in the world at that time. Mengxi Bi Tan, written in Mengxi garden in his later years, is a valuable scientific work, and his achievements in natural science have reached the advanced level in the world at that time. Dr. Joseph Needham, the British authority on the history of Chinese science and technology, called Shen Kuo the most unique person in the history of Chinese science and technology, and praised MengXiBiTan as the most important milestone in the history of Chinese science and technology. The book has been translated into English, French, German, Italian, American and Japanese. Shen Kuo has become a famous historical figure in the world.

source

When Shen Kuo was 30 years old, he often dreamed of a place with beautiful scenery, beautiful mountains and rivers, climbing hills, flowers and trees covered with brocade; there was water under the mountains, clear and pleasing to the eyes, happy in the heart, because he wanted to live. Later, he asked someone to buy a garden in Zhenjiang. A few years later, Shen Kuo passed by Zhenjiang, and when he saw the place, he could not help but be surprised and happy. He felt that it was like a dream place. So his family moved here, built a cottage and a small pavilion, and named the stream in front of the gate "Mengxi" and the courtyard "Mengxi garden". Here, he devoted himself to writing and completed the immortal work "MengXiBiTan", which includes the crystallization of his life-long scientific research. Mengxi garden covers an area of more than ten mu. Yuanxi is built by mountains, with quiet environment and pleasant scenery. There are huadui Pavilion, anlao hall, Xiaoxiao hall, kexuan, shenzhai, Yuanting, Huaxia Pavilion and other buildings in the garden. Shen Kuo, who lived here for eight years (57-65 years old), was buried in Hangzhou after his death. His family still lived in Zhenjiang, while Mengxi garden was gradually deserted. During the reign of ningzong in Southern Song Dynasty, Xin Qiji repaired it when he was the magistrate of Zhenjiang. The original appearance of houmengxi garden has long been lost.

present situation

In 1985, Mengxi garden was initially restored near the original site. At the top of the garden gate, there is a stone plaque inscribed by Mao Yisheng, a famous scientist from Zhenjiang, with three big characters of "Mengxi garden". The first step into the memorial room is the front portrait of Shen Kuo in the middle, which is elegant and magnanimous. It is his appearance when he presided over the third division of the central financial organ of the Northern Song Dynasty. On the left and right sides are the reception room and exhibition room, in which there are sand table models of the original appearance of the ancient Mengxi garden. At the same time, two years of extremely valuable and eye-catching cultural relics are displayed. One is the rubbings of Shen Kuo's cliff inscriptions, and the other is the old thing in the garden - "Mengxi" ancient stone tablet. This rectangular reddish brown stele is engraved with the word "Mengxi", which is simple and vigorous. From the top and bottom of the stele, it can be determined that the date when Shen Kuo built the garden and named it is July 15, the eighth year of Yuanfeng (1085) of Shenzong of Song Dynasty. Around the room, there is a brief price of Shen Kuo's life and a chronology of major events. The first entrance is a small garden, a few rockeries, a stream, ancient well, bamboo and stone path, flower wall, the word "stream into a dream" makes people feel like they have seen a corner of the scene in the dream stream garden. The second entrance is the exhibition room of Shen Kuo's scientific research achievements. The first thing that comes into view at the entrance is a sitting statue of Shen Kuo, which is 1.4 meters high in the middle of the room: green clothes in a bun, calm and calm, holding the meteorite with his left hand and covering the book with his right hand. On both sides of the statue are displayed the records of geomagnetic declination in Western Europe as early as 400 years. Around the exhibition are copies of "Mengxi Bi Tan" published in Chinese by Japan's Jiangqi times Lezhen hall, a book "history of science and technology in China" written by Joseph Needham, a British expert in the history of science, as well as objects and pictures reflecting Shen Kuo's scientific achievements all his life.

Transportation and accommodation

aviation

There is no airport in Zhenjiang. You can fly by Nanjing Lukou International Airport or Changzhou Benniu airport.

Railway

Almost all trains on Shanghai Nanjing line stop at Zhenjiang. In addition, there are trains from Shanghai, Tianjin and Wenzhou in Zhenjiang.

highway

Zhenjiang Branch of Shanghai Nanjing Expressway goes directly to Guantang bridge in the south of the city. There are express passengers going to Nanjing (87), Shanghai (11), Suzhou (15), Wuxi (17) and Changzhou (18) every day. Zhenyang ferry is the busiest ferry in the whole province. Every 10 minutes, there is a bus from Zhenjiang railway station to Yangzhou. Runyang Yangtze River Bridge has been opened to traffic. In addition, Zhenjiang also has long-distance buses to Danyang (class 48), Yangzhong, Jurong (class 28), Liyang (class 10), Taizhou, Nantong, Gaoyou, Jintan (Class 6), Yancheng, Huai'an, Hefei, Jiangyin and Zhangjiagang (Class 4) every day.

bus

Buses are well-developed in the city. Buses arrive at every tourist spot. Most of them are sold by no one. The single ticket price is 1 yuan.

taxi

The starting price of a taxi is 8 yuan. You can bargain for a taxi. For example, when you get to Jinshan, it only costs 10 yuan from the railway station.

Zhenjiang accommodation

Zhenjiang hotels are mainly concentrated in the area from the railway station to dashikou, mainly medium and low-grade hotels. If you want to be luxurious, the international hotel and Zhenjiang hotel are both four-star hotels, with a standard room of about 400-500 yuan; Jingkou Hotel and Zhenjiang hotel are both three-star hotels, with a standard room of about 300-350 yuan; the three-star guangyulan hotel is recommended, with a discount of 160 yuan in off-season. There are many hotels such as post and Telecommunications Hotel and Jingjiang Hotel, with a standard room of 80-120 yuan. In short, you don't have to worry about accommodation when you come to Zhenjiang. You can always find a suitable hotel for you.

delicious food

Zhenjiang cuisine belongs to Huaiyang cuisine. Its main characteristics are as follows: rotten in the heat, good at stewing, stewing, burning and baking in cooking; reuse the original flavor in style, and pay attention to the taste of soup; moderate saltiness in seasoning, and great adaptability; outstanding in the selection and production of main ingredients, fine in the selection of ingredients, and exquisite in cooking. The main representative dishes are crystal food hoof, stewed crab lion head, and steamed shad The main ingredients are as follows: Stewed silver carp head, stewed meat with Baihua wine, fish in white sauce, crab dumpling, noodle in white soup, etc. In addition, there are soy sauce noodles, which are most common on roadside stalls. Nowadays, there are no such dishes in restaurants, only shredded meat noodles, that is, some shredded meat is put on soy sauce noodles for 4 yuan a bowl. In Zhenjiang, it's no more than 30-40 yuan / day, and you can eat very well (except restaurants). The most famous food street in Zhenjiang is dashikou Jingkou food street.

shopping

When it comes to Zhenjiang's specialty, I'm afraid many people will immediately think of Zhenjiang vinegar. Hengshun brand Zhenjiang vinegar, which is famous at home and abroad, has a history of more than one hundred and thirty years. It has the characteristics of color, fragrance, acid, mellow and strong. It is sour but not astringent, fragrant but slightly sweet, with strong color and fresh taste. It has won many awards at home and abroad, and it can be said that it is well known far and near. Zhenjiang

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