Guilin Park

Guilin Park

Guilin Park, located at 128 Guilin road, Xuhui District, Shanghai, covers an area of 3.55 hectares. It was first built in 1929 with a capital contribution of 3.5 million silver yuan and completed in 1932. Covering an area of 35500 square meters, it was built in 1929. It was originally a private villa of Shanghai underworld tycoon Huang Jinrong, also known as Huang's garden. It invested 3.5 million silver yuan and was completed in 1932. It was originally the "eight year plan" in 1937. After the "13" incident, Shanghai was occupied by the Japanese. The buildings such as Guandi temple, Neizhai and jingguanlu in the garden were destroyed by the Japanese army, and a large number of trees were damaged. After the victory of the Anti Japanese War, Huang Zeng made repairs, but on the eve of liberation, he was seriously damaged by the Kuomintang army. In 1957, he was managed by the Shanghai Landscape Management Office, and made a comprehensive repair. Because the garden is full of osmanthus trees, it is renamed Guilin park. It was opened to the outside world in 1958, expanded to the East in 1985 and opened to the outside world in October 1988.

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Guilin park is located at 128 Guilin road, Xuhui District, southwest of Shanghai. The original site is Huang Jinrong's ancestral hall, which was expanded into a garden in 1933. Because more than 20 kinds of osmanthus trees were planted in the garden, it was renamed Guilin park. The garden covers an area of 60 mu. The garden art of the whole park adopts the Jiangnan traditional layout, The art of gardening adopts the traditional layout in the south of the Yangtze River. The layout is exquisite and unique. The garden is surrounded by dragon walls, flower walls, small bridges and flowing water. The whole layout is harmonious, and the architectural style is bright. Ha ha Pavilion, Ling Yun Pavilion, song Yue Pavilion, eight immortals terrace, boat boat boat, Hushi, Li Feng, Shigong and Shipo from Mudu Yanjia garden in Suzhou. The garden is surrounded by dragon walls and flower walls, small bridges and flowing water, mountains and peaks, pavilions and pavilions, and winding paths.

Guilin Park covers an area of 35500 square meters. It was built in 1929, also known as Huangjia garden. It was expanded to the East in 1985 and opened to the outside world in October 1988.

There is a "four side hall" in the garden, covering an area of 250 square meters. It has 88 windows and wide doors on all sides. The doors, windows, purlins, columns and beams are decorated with Sui and Tang opera reliefs. The structure is rigorous and the shape is unique, which is rare in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. The Jiuqu corridor, more than 60 meters long in the northwest of the hall, is connected by three pavilions. The top of the pavilion is shaped with a dragon head, which is called "multi angle dragon head Pavilion".

The park is characterized by Osmanthus fragrans. There are more than 20 varieties, such as golden osmanthus, silver osmanthus, purple osmanthus, seed osmanthus, four seasons osmanthus, and 1030 plants, which are distributed in the main scenic spots. In addition, there are peony, Michelia, pine, cypress, wintersweet, Magnolia, cinnamon, Ligustrum lucidum and so on. There is a hundred year old five needle pine in the southeast corner of the fourth Education Hall, and two hundred year old melon seed Euonymus japonicus in front of the eight immortals terrace. In 1990, 3512 trees were planted in the garden. The ratio of arbor to shrub was 1 ∶ 0.59, and that of evergreen to deciduous was 1 ∶ 0.51.

Development history

Guilin Park was built in 1929 with a capital contribution of 3.5 million silver yuan and completed in 1932. The park was originally the private villa of Huang Jinrong, the leader of the old Shanghai Gang, also known as Huang's garden. The original shape of the garden is concave, and the concave part is zhangjialaofen mountain. After the victory of the Anti Japanese War, Huang Zeng made repairs and was seriously damaged by the Kuomintang troops on the eve of liberation.

After the August 13 incident in 1937, Shanghai was occupied by the Japanese. The Guandi temple, inner house, jingguanlu and other buildings in the garden were destroyed by the Japanese army, and a large number of trees were damaged.

After the victory of the Anti Japanese War, Huang Zeng made repairs and was seriously damaged by the Kuomintang troops on the eve of liberation.

On may 291957, according to the approval of Shanghai urban planning and construction administration, the land was turned into a park by Shanghai Landscape Management Office. After a comprehensive renovation with government funding,

It opened on August 1, 1958. More than 20 kinds of osmanthus trees are planted in the park, so it is named "Guilin Park". Hundreds of Osmanthus fragrans, Cinnamomum fragrans and Osmanthus fragrans have been planted in succession, known as the "forest of osmanthus trees". More than 1000 Osmanthus fragrans of 23 varieties, such as golden osmanthus, silver osmanthus, red osmanthus, four seasons osmanthus and Shishan osmanthus, are planted in the garden. During the Mid Autumn Festival, Osmanthus fragrans are in full bloom, the garden is fragrant, and the scenery is pleasant. It is one of the tourist attractions in the urban area. In the same year, Huang's cemetery was transformed into a small garden. In 1978, a welcome hall was built on the abandoned site of jingguanlu.

In 1978, a welcome hall was built on the abandoned site of jingguanlu.

In 1980, the 5100 square meter zhangjialaofen mountain outside the garden was transformed into a garden inside the garden.

In 1981, Zhangjia cemetery was expanded into a garden in garden.

In 1985, it was expanded to the East.

In 1986, 13700 square meters of land in the northeast of the park was expropriated. The expansion project was planned and designed by Liu LvHua of Shanghai Landscape Design Institute and constructed by Shanghai landscape engineering company. It was completed in August 1988. After two times of expansion, the park is rectangular and has become an important tourist spot in the southwest of Shanghai.

Main attractions

Gatehouse and passageway

The gate tower faces south, with unique shape, double eaves, Xieshan Dougong, dragon and Phoenix decorations on both ends above the gate, and side doors on both sides of the gate. There is a north-south passage into the gate, 83 meters long and 5 meters wide, which leads to two gates in the garden. The Dragon walls on both sides of the passage are winding. There are 46 flower windows with different patterns on the walls, which can see the shade of flowers in the garden.

Half Pavilion, deer Pavilion

There is an east-west Garden Road in erdaomen. To the north of the road, it is close to the half Pavilion of the East chamber, named Tianxiang Pavilion. It is of wood structure and glazed tile top. There are two exquisite Taihu stones about 10 meters high in the west of the pavilion. One looks like an old man, and the other looks like an old woman, so it is called "Shigong Shipo". To the north is a stone platform carved with double dragons playing with pearls. To the northeast of the platform, a pavilion with pottery deer on the top is built, which is called deer Pavilion. There are stone pavilions, waterfalls and flowing water in the northeast corner of the pavilion, which make up a beautiful picture.

Fourth Education Hall

Located in the center of the garden, it is the architectural style of four side hall, so it is also called four side hall, with an area of about 250 square meters. Hall face south, five bay, brick and wood structure, a cross. The doors, windows, beams, columns and eaves around the hall are engraved with historical stories of "Wen, Xing, Zhong and Xin" in relief. The knife technique is superb and the design is exquisite. There are three big copper lamps hanging in the middle of the hall. The hall is surrounded by a corridor more than 2 meters wide. The whole building is magnificent. In front of the hall was the original stone platform, on which the white marble statues of "Eight Immortals crossing the sea" were destroyed in the "Cultural Revolution", and then a group of Taihu stones of "Fu, Lu and Shou" were stacked.

The Long Corridor

It is located in the northwest of the fourth church hall, with a wooden structure and a zigzag shape. It is more than 60 meters long and is flanked by fuwangkao, so it is called "zigzag corridor". There are three pavilions at the north and south ends and in the middle of the corridor. The structure of the pavilion at both ends is the same. It is about 5 meters high and has six corners. The corners of the pavilion are arched out. The top of the pavilion is a stone lotus seat with a gourd shaped exposed plate. The waist Pavilion in the middle of the corridor is octagonal, about 10 meters high. There are four dragon heads carved on the top of the pavilion, which is called "multi angle dragon head Pavilion". The pavilion is open on all sides, the north and South doors are connected with the corridor, and the East and West doors are connected with the passageway in the garden. It is one of the best architectural works in Shanghai.

Stone boat, Shuangqiao, Guanyin Pavilion

There is a stone boat in the east of the corridor. The boat is 18 meters long, 2.2 meters wide at the end and 2.5 meters wide in the middle. There are two layers of double eaves, Xieshan awning top, lotus pond in the South and East and road in the north. There are two small stone bridges connecting the East and the West in the middle of the lotus pond, also known as "double rainbow lying wave". The stone in the east of the pool is the mountain, on which the Jiege is built, originally for Guanyin, which is called Guanyin Pavilion. Flowers and trees are planted all around the boat, bridge and pavilion.

Yiting

To the north of the corridor lies the Yiting Pavilion, which is built in the middle of a rectangular pool of about 300 square meters. The pavilion is connected by a concrete flat bridge on the South and North banks of the pool, so it is also called the pavilion in the center of the lake. The pavilion is a two-story building with reinforced concrete structure. The ridge top is a roll shed type, with an area of about 60 square meters. On the north side of the bottom floor of the pavilion, there is a long carved door. The wall is made of firebrick. On the clean wall, there are white inlaid lines, red and white, with distinct layers. On the three sides of the upper floor, there are balconies, and iron railings beside the platform.

Rockery, double crane Pavilion, yuanbaochi

It covers an area of 60.9 square meters, 10 meters high and 15 meters wide. The cave under the rockery is zigzag, which can lead directly to the top platform. There are two wooden pavilions at each end of the west side of Shandong Province. The roofs of the two pavilions are made of tinplate, and there is a crane on the top, so they are collectively called double crane pavilions. There is a small pool in the south of the mountain, which is called Yuanbao pool. In the middle of the pool, there is a small curved concrete flat bridge, with a small garden lawn in the South and a large rockery in the north.

Fei Xiang hall, Fei Xiang waterside pavilion, Lotus Pond

It is located in the East and middle of the garden. Feixiang hall is a wooden structure with double eaves. Hall of the south wing fly fragrance Pavilion, a platform to pick up the Lotus Pond. There are square pavilions on the southeast side of Lotus Pond.

Xinquan hall, Lingzhu

There is Xinquan hall outside the moon cave in the Northeast flower wall of the park, and there is Lingzhu in the north, separated by Yangshan. The water flows out from the creek near the stone boat across the wall and from the water cave to the northeast, leading to the cave and stone bridge. Gezhu hilly area is full of towering rocks and red maple and Osmanthus fragrans.

architectural style

The gate is shaped with a dragon head, and the Dragon walls on both sides are winding, up to 83 meters long. On the walls, 46 flower windows like Liuyuan are made, showing originality. In the garden, there are small bridges and flowing water, mountains and peaks, buildings, pavilions and pavilions, winding paths and sparse flowers and trees.

The architectural style is bright and the layout is harmonious. Rockeries, pavilions, waterfalls and flowing water are suitable for motion and stillness. On the hexagonal pavilion on the right side of the "four Education Hall" in the garden is engraved with the four words "Wen Xing Zhong Xin" specially written by Chiang Kai Shek for Huang.

The garden art of the park adopts Jiangnan classical style

Chinese PinYin : Gui Lin Gong Yuan