Master-of-Nets Garden is very small, covering an area of only 6,500 square meters, only one-eighth of the Humble Administrator's Garden; Master-of-Nets Garden is small in building, and does not have a tall hall like the Wufeng Immortal Pavilion in the Lingering Garden; Master-of-Nets Garden rockery is low, the trees are not dense, and there is no mountain forest scene like the Humble Administrator's Garden and the Lingering Garden; the indoor furnishings of the Master-of-Nets Garden are simple, not as dazzling as the Lingering Garden, exquisite and gorgeous, but the Master-of-Nets Garden is famous in the classical gardens of Suzhou, and it was included in the World Heritage List in 1997 together with the Humble Administrator's Garden and the Lingering Garden, becoming the representative of the classical gardens of Suzhou. Why did it become a famous garden, and what are its characteristics? Let's take a look.
The netter, the fisherman's meaning. Master-of-Nets Garden, i.e. Fisherman's Garden, the hermit's residence. The "fishermen" in the Master of Nets Garden naturally choose water to live and live in the mountains and rivers. Master-of-Nets Garden is centered on Caixia Pond, the houses are built around the pond, and the residential gardens are connected, from the southeast entrance to the north, and then around the west to the south, which can be roughly divided into five scenes.
Caixia Pond
Navigation map
The first scene: entering the door. Enter the foyer from the southeast gate of the pool, like entering the mountain gate; the sedan chair falls in the second entrance - the sedan hall, and then enter the third entry - Wanjuan Hall. Manjuan Hall is the main building of the Master-of-Nets Garden, a living room for receiving guests, and its name is taken from the name of the early building. Here you can see the hospitality of the owner.
Car hall
Manjuando
The second scenario: living with the clouds. The owner of the garden leads you north through the fourth entrance to the Xiu Building, where there is a courtyard, and there are four houses around the courtyard, forming a space for daily life and reading. The east side of the courtyard is called "Cloud Cave", and the purple gas comes from the east. Why are there so many clouds here? Because in the mountains, there are two stacked mountains in the courtyard, one standing on the back wall of the living building on the south side, the "Zhuxiu Building", and the other on the west side, which is connected to the five peaks, the "Five Peaks Study House". There are many clouds in the mountains, but also near the sky, if you want to go to the sky, there are cloud ladders in the "ladder cloud room" used for living in the north, and you can go up to the sky and the moon with the cloud ladder. Along the west side of the courtyard stone mountain, you can enter the second floor of Wufeng Library, which is a library room. Here, you can not only see the clouds rolling in the mountains, but also the smoke clouds in the book. The "fisherman" family lives in the cloud mountain and is accompanied by the clouds.
The south garden of the Tikunon Room
Cloud Cave to the East
Rockery to the south
Rockery to the west
North Ladder Cloud Room
The third scene: watching the pine and admiring the moon. In the north of the pond, there are three study-style resting places outside the bamboo, a branch of Xuan, a collection of Xuzhai, and a pine reading and painting Xuan. The owner of the garden reads at this time, and sometimes watches the pine and reads the scenery and admires the moon. The ancient pine by the pond has been weathered for a long time without grinding, and the owner of the garden never gets tired of looking at it, yearning for its spirit. Stop at the "Moon to the Wind Pavilion" on the west side of the pond bank, the breeze comes slowly, the moon is in the sky, the clear light is full of gardens, the heaven and the earth are clean and quiet, and it is fascinating. The moon is full and missing, and the week and the day are circulating; people have life and death, where is the reincarnation? Look at the water, the bright moon is beside you, the water is in the hand, and the moon is in the hand, it seems to be there but not there.
Look at the foreground of the Song Reading Painting Pavilion
Pond south view
The northwest view of the pond has the highest tree of ancient pine
Northeast view of the pool
Night view of the northeast of the pond
Scene 4: Dialogue with the Book Stone. There are individual courtyards next to the west of the pond, it was originally a peony garden, because the peony flowers bloom in late spring, in the late spring, "there is still a spring breeze in the peony medicine hall", so the north hut is called "the spring breeze of the palace". Tuan, the pavilion side hut also, mostly for the study. There are Hanbi springs, cold spring pavilions, peaks and rocks in the courtyard, the trees are sparse, beautiful and elegant. In this place, you can draw the spring to smell the fragrance, but now you can draw the spring to taste the tea, and talk to the book stone.
Tonchun Pavilion
Hanbi Spring and Cold Spring Pavilion
Tonchun-hsien
Scene 5: Wuthering Mountains. In the south of the pond, the Huangshi stacked mountains in Linchi, like Yungang, are planted with plum, cinnamon, magnolia and so on. The small hill Cong Guixuan is in the south of Yungang, which is a place for feasting and drinking. There is a courtyard in the south of Xuan, and the mountains and stones in the courtyard are lined up with scenery. Xuanxi Qulang leads to the museum, the piano room, and the water pavilion. Here, the "fisherman" is happy and at ease, or watching the fish and enjoying the scenery in the water pavilion, enjoying himself; or going to the hall to meet friends and play the piano, and becoming bosom friends; or singing and singing harmony in the fragrance of osmanthus flowers; or standing at the head of the bridge, listening to the flowing water, and following the distance; or climbing the cloud gang, looking up at the sun and the moon, and chanting freely.
Yungang and Huiyingshui Pavilion of Huangshi stacked in the south of China
小山丛桂轩
小山丛桂轩前庭院
Southwest view of the pool
The bridge on the stream
Master-of-Nets Garden is a garden of the first house, and the owners of the garden are mostly retired eunuchs and literati, who not only pursue habitability, but also pursue feasibility, travel, and hope, and pursue the harmony between man and nature. They may not be in the temple, but they are still in the middle of the city, they want to enjoy a prosperous life, but also want to be comfortable, and they are not willing to leave the city to live in the natural landscape. Created by the literati, with freehand as the artistic feature and landscape as the main body, the living environment is the first house garden, which can meet their needs to enjoy a rich life in the downtown area, and can also obtain the interest of landscape and the joy of forest and spring in the real water of the rockery. Master-of-Nets Garden is such a representative. It is centered on a mountain pond and creates a mountain stream with natural interest. Here, the Huangshi rockery reminds you of the interest in the mountains, the ancient trees beside the pond lead you to imagine the scenery of the mountains and forests, and the pond on the side of the mountain makes you imagine the scenery of the rivers and lakes. Or wander among the corridors, or rest in the pavilion, or look down at the sparkling light, or look up at the starry sky and the moon, the scenery here can make people happy and drunk.
Pond east view
The layout of the park is distinct, dense and orderly, and has a strong sense of depth of field. The southeast building is compact, the northwest building is wide and scattered, the middle pond scenery is sparse and wide; the multi-faceted houses around the water retreat from the pond edge, in addition to the water pavilion on the pond bank, the pavilion, the ring corridor, the rockery, the stone bridge, etc. are all small buildings, and then with tall trees, flowers and plants, which not only highlight the main scenery of the mountain pool but also increase the scenery level. There are many courtyards in front of the house and behind the house, the peaks and stones stand in a forest, each of them makes a landscape, there is a garden in the garden, and there is a scene everywhere. Such a layout is not only convenient for life, but also convenient for enjoyment, adding to the natural interest of living in the mountains, visiting by the water, and accompanying the clouds.
The north courtyard of the ladder room
The courtyard in front of the Five Peaks Book House
A small view in the corner
The Master-of-Nets Garden not only has an exquisite layout and natural mountain pools, but also has distinctive architecture, a long history and a profound culture.
The buildings in the park are known for their beautiful shapes, delicate and small, and are known as the extreme rules of Suzhou's small gardens, and are a model of Chinese gardens "winning more with less". The two brick carved gatehouses in the southeast are very exquisite. In the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, there is a Chinese-style garden "Ming Xuan" made by Chinese, which is well known. It is modeled after the "temple spring tuan" in the garden.
The gatehouse in front of Manjuan Hall
The gatehouse in front of the Xiu Building
Tonchun-hsien
The Master of Nets Garden has a long history, the earliest for the Southern Song Dynasty Chunxi period of the official Shi Zhengzhi built the former site of the "Ten Thousand Scrolls Hall", at that time also called "Yuyin", after the abandonment. Qing Dynasty Qianlong Guanglu Temple Shaoqing Song Zongyuan purchased land to build another industry, with the net master self-name, and took the original "fishing hidden" meaning, and with the "Wang Si Lane" where he lived, homophony, renamed "Master of Nets Garden". At the end of Qianlong, the garden was in decline again, and then returned to Quyuan Village, repaired into the current layout, and was called "Quyuan". After Qu's death, it was renamed "Yuyuan". Because the garden is in the east of the Song Dynasty Su Shun Qin Canglang Pavilion, it is also known as "Su Lin Xiaozhu". During the Republic of China, Zhang Zuolin purchased it for 300,000 silver dollars, gave it to Zhang Xiluan, and renamed it "Yiyuan". Ye Gongqiu, Zhang Shanzi, and Zhang Daqian once lived here, and the Zhang brothers also raised tigers in the garden to sketch and paint, called "Zhang's Garden". In 1940, the collector He Yanong bought it, renamed it "Master of Nets Garden", and donated it to the state in 1950. In the autumn of 1958, it was renovated by the Suzhou Municipal Government and opened to the public.
The Master-of-Nets Garden has a profound culture, not only in the layout of the garden, the stacking of mountains and ponds, and the construction of buildings, but also in the garden, building names, and interior layout. The name of the pavilion is taken from Shao Yong's poem in the Song Dynasty: "When the moon reaches the heart of heaven, when the wind comes to the surface of the water";
The moon arrives at the Wind Pavilion
Look at the pine reading painting shop