Suzhou Gardens has reached the peak of the world's insurmountable peak in the art of Chinese private classical gardening.
Most of the foreign tourists to Suzhou are running to the garden, in Suzhou Humble Administrator's Garden, Lingering Garden and other scenic spots, every day crowds are weaving, sometimes there is no reservation and can not enter the garden.
At No. 262 Jingde Road, Suzhou, there is a garden named Huanxiu Villa. This park is a national five-A scenic spot, a national key cultural relics protection unit, listed by UNESCO in the "World Heritage List", is a national treasure level of "big instrument", is the door to the sparrow.
Huanxiu Villa
I think the reason is that today is the era of advertising leading consumption, and the orientation of accepting fragmented culture has become a social phenomenon; another factor is that Huanxiu Villa covers an area of only three acres and has limited reception capacity, which deliberately avoids the world.
However, it is indeed a pity that foreign tourists, especially those who prefer classical private gardens, do not go to Suzhou to appreciate the ultimate beauty of Huanxiu Villa. As a native of Suzhou, I am not familiar with the beauty of my hometown, as absurd as not seeing my mother's face; it is a loss to go to such a beautiful garden at the doorstep.
Let me give you a brief introduction to Huanxiu Mountain Villa, and please see if what I said is reasonable.
Huanxiu Mountain Villa, since the Jin Dynasty, has been the elegant gathering place of Suzhou literati.
Huanxiu Mountain Villa, in the Jin Dynasty, was the private residence of Wang Xun and Wang Min, and the houshe mansion was Jingde Temple (from which the road name of Jingde Road was derived).
Wang Xun and Wang Min made great works
Wang Xun (350-401), Wang Min (351-388), brothers, from Linyi, Shandong. The grandson of the famous calligrapher Wang Dao of the Jin Dynasty, the son of Wang Qia, and the nephew of Wang Xizhi. Wang Xunguan to Shang Shu Ling, known for his calligraphy. Wang Minguan (王珉官) was a Zhongshu Ling (中書令), a book of good deeds, and was on a par with his cousin Wang Xianzhi in the dynasty.
Huanxiu Mountain Villa, during the Five Dynasties period, Qian Yuanxuan, the son of Qian Wei, the founding king of wuyue, built the "Jingu Garden" on the site of Jingde Temple.
Huanxiu Mountain Villa, during the Northern Song Dynasty, was the "music garden" of the calligraphy theorist Zhu Changwen.
Zhu Changwen (1039-1098) was a native of Suzhou. Jiayou four years into the soldier, with his father's worries to resign, returned to Suzhou, built a "music garden" on the old site of Suzhou's "Golden Valley Garden", closed doors to study, Suzhou literati all know that there is a great Confucian on Jingde Road, as a model for readers, so exaggerated that if anyone goes to Suzhou and does not have a "music garden", it is a shameful thing.
Su Dongpo admired Zhu Changwen's character and learning, and together with the imperial court ministers, he jointly asked the imperial court to use this Suzhou native. Zhu Changwen had no choice but to go to Beijing to become an official...
Huanxiu Mountain Villa, in the Ming Dynasty, was the residence of The Prime Minister Shen Shixing.
Shen Shixing (1535–1614), a native of Suzhou. Jiajing forty-one years. He was a member of the Imperial Household Bureau, a princely master, and a member of the Middle Pole Temple. After Shen Shixing resigned in his later years, he returned to his hometown in Suzhou to retire and rebuilt the "Happy Garden".
Since the Qianlong (1736-1795) of the Qing Dynasty, the three families of Jiang (楫), Bi (Yuan) and Sun (Shiyi) have successively lived here.
Sun Shiyi (1720-1796) was a Qianlong Jinshi (Qianlong Jinshi) who served as an envoy to Shandong province and the governor of Guangxi.
Sun Junya, a descendant of the Sun clan, invited the famous Dieshan master Ge Yuliang to reconstruct this garden in the twelfth year of Jiaqing. Since then, the park has been famous for its rockeries.
During the Daoguang years of the Qing Dynasty, the gentry of the Wang clan in Suzhou purchased this garden, built the Wang Clan Ancestral Hall, established the Yin Yizhuang, and rebuilt the northeast garden, renaming it "Huanxiu Mountain Villa", also known as the "Summer Garden".
Up to the fifty generations of the last century, after a hundred years of war, huanxiu mountain villa only has one mountain, one pool, and one "supplementary autumn boat". Later used by the Suzhou Embroidery Research Institute, it has received countless domestic and foreign dignitaries here.
In June 1984, the relevant units carried out a large-scale renovation of Huanxiu Villa. The four-sided hall of Huanxiu Mountain Villa, the Arigu Hall, the Qingquan Pavilion, and the Side Tower were restored. Later, it was unveiled with a complete garden.
Huanxiu Villa is a classic of China's private garden mountain garden.
Huanxiu Mountain Villa, which has only three acres of land, the rockery accounts for one-third, the main peak is only more than 7 meters high, but it stacks out the momentum of the mountains, dangerous paths, caves, valleys, stone cliffs, flying beams, cliffs... Although it is made by man, it is like the opening of the sky, and the wonder of creation can be called the best in China for the work of the lake stone rockery.
The rockery of Huanxiu Mountain Villa was written by Ge Yuliang, an outstanding garden builder in Jiangnan in the middle of the Qing Dynasty.
Yu Fan of the Qing Dynasty commented on the works of Zange Yuliang Huanxiu Mountain Villa: "The hills and ravines are in the chest, looking at the stacked stone flowing springs, there are natural painting books; the garden Jia Wuxia, willing to carry the piano with wine, as a person to travel outside the Qing." ”
Liu Dunzhen, an expert in modern gardens, said: "In terms of artistic level, Suzhou Hushi Rockery, when pushing this (Ring Xiu Villa) first. ”
Chen Congzhou, a well-known architectural garden expert, said: "The stacked stones in the garden (referring to the big rockery of the Ring Xiushan Villa) are the most outstanding people in Wuzhong Gardens, and are an important example of the study of ancient Stacked Mountain art in China. "The gardener does not see this mountain, just as the poet learner does not see Li and Du..."