Oral description: Shen Lansheng
Finishing: Sun Haoming
Suzhou Garden Jia Tianxia, located outside the Gusu Gate of the Lingering Garden, is one of the large classical gardens in Suzhou, with a rigorous structure, properly dense and exquisite architecture. The central part is dominated by water, with lake and mountain scenery. The eastern part is dominated by hall buildings, which are exquisite and gorgeous. The western part is dominated by rockeries and is full of wild interest. The Lingering Garden is a masterpiece of Suzhou Ming Dynasty gardens and a representative work of ancient gardens.
Lingering Garden Guanyunfeng Photographed by Shen Lansheng
The Lingering Garden was built during the Jiaqing period of the Ming Dynasty as the East Garden of the Taibu Temple Secretary Xu Taishi. Xu Taishi went to the Gongbu Camp Langzhong, and after being deposed and returned to his hometown, he purchased two gardens in the east and west (the west garden became a temple after the west garden). On the basis of the East Garden, Xu asked the gardener Zhou Bingzhong to design, which was constructed by the Xiangshan craftsmen, the mountains were straightened out, the ponds were chiseled, the pavilions were built, and the bamboo flowers were planted. The main buildings are: Wufeng Xianguan, Hanbi Mountain House, Mingse Building, Guanyun Building, etc. After the completion of the garden, the garden is like a heavenly opening because of the scenery, step by step, step by step, although it is made by people. It is a fine product of Suzhou Ming Dynasty gardens.
Lingering Garden Quqiao Photo by Shen Lansheng
Soon after the completion of this garden, Xu Taishi's family fell in the middle of the road, the garden also changed owners, and then changed its owner several times, once as a kick cloth workshop, the author also saw the bluestone kick cloth stone used in the north of the garden in the half of the street separated by a wall, in the shape of a yuan treasure.
In the last years of the Qianlong Dynasty, this garden was acquired by the bureaucrat Liu Shu and repaired and expanded.
In the twelfth year of Qing Tongzhi (1873), Sheng Kang, an envoy of Hubei Province, purchased this garden. At that time, Hanbi Mountain Villa was already a ruined garden, and he paid a lot of money to build it in an all-round way. Sheng Kang, Zi Xu ren, Jiangsu Wujin people. At that time, hubei province envoy, the abandoned garden was built by him and rebuilt. According to the Qing Dynasty classics master Yu Fan << The Book of the Lingering Garden>> Yun: the jiashu in the garden is glorious and jiahui, the strange stones are now clear and circulating, the wind pavilion and the moon are high and low, and the flowers belong to each other.
Han Bilou Shen Lansheng photo
After the construction of Shengkang, Hanbi Mountain Villa was renamed as lingering garden, and Shengkang built the Sheng family ancestral hall on the west side of the embroidery lane in the West Garden, and the project continued for more than ten years as three roads and five advances, and after liberation, it was once operated as an office building for suzhou medicinal materials station.
After the construction of the Lingering Garden due to the reasonable layout, the landscape of the big point, the small place to start, a grass and a tree are sentient, the collection of Supai garden architecture is the masterpiece, for the Jiangnan famous garden. ShengKang holds an orchid party every year, inviting celebrities from all walks of life in Sioux City to gather in this garden for guests to visit and enjoy the tasting. "Fragrant cars and BMWs come out of the golden shot, orchids will go crazy, and the heads of people inside the lingering garden gate will move, shoulder to shoulder like a wall." The poem describes the pomp and circumstance of the time.
Ming Ser Lou Shen Lansheng photo
After Sheng Kang's death, the garden was inherited by his son Sheng Xuanhuai, who was promoted to the Qing Dynasty Post Department Shangshu. In the Wuchang Uprising in 1911, Sheng Xuanhuai was removed from his post, and the Lingering Garden was confiscated by the revolutionary army, after which Sheng Xuanhuai entrusted people to find a way to ask for the return of the Lingering Garden, and after his many entrustment operations, he contacted the relevant departments, and in December 1912, yuan Shikai, the president of the Beiyang government, ordered the Liuyuan to be returned to Sheng Xuanhuai, and the Lingering Garden finally returned to the hands of the Sheng family.
In 1916, three years after the Lingering Garden returned to the Sheng family, Sheng Xuanhuai died, and the owner of the garden at that time, Sheng Xingsun, held a funeral for Sheng Xuanhuai, held a big funeral, in order to commemorate the merits of his father, but also to facilitate the people to walk, the Sheng family widened the muddy path from the lingering garden to the stone road, paved with stones and planted large trees on both sides, from its garden gate to Guangji Road, originally known as Wufu Road.
The Buddha building in the lotus pond of the Lingering Garden was photographed by Shen Lansheng
At the beginning of 1936, General Zhang Zhizhong served as the commander of the Ninghu garrison, actively prepared for the anti-Japanese work, and moved the senior instructor's office to the Lingering Garden, and took cover in the name of the "Central Military Academy Camp Office" to engage in anti-Japanese military activities. Until eight. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Lingering Garden became the secret headquarters of Zhang Zhizhong's preparations for the anti-Japanese war.
The small door of the large garden of the Lingering Garden embodies the Su-style culture - hidden Shen Lansheng photography
Today, after the changes of the times and witnessing the rise and fall of the family, the ancient lingering garden, under the careful repair of Suzhou people, the ancient garden is still full of purple and red, exquisite and exquisite, it is one of the four famous gardens in China, attracting tourists from home and abroad.