Shunde Qinghui Garden, Foshan Liang Garden, Dongguan Keyuan, Panyu Yuyin Mountain House, and called the four famous gardens in Guangdong, are the representative works of Lingnan gardens.
Shunde · Qinghui Garden
The most beautiful classical garden in Guangdong
Among the four famous gardens in Guangdong, the park has the largest area, the most interesting points, the most ingenious layout, and the most exquisite garden is undoubtedly Shunde Qinghui Garden.
The biggest attraction of Qinghui Garden is the chromatic glass, the garden doors and windows of different shapes, and the exquisite pavilions.
The door is both a sight and a passage from one attraction to the next. There are no identical doors in Qinghui Garden, and each door has its own characteristics, which can be described as unique ingenuity.
There are couplets on the doors, which are both decorative and show the taste of the owner of the garden.
In addition to doors, of course there are windows. The windows of Qinghui Garden are more for lighting than decoration.
Adjacent to the century-old longan tree is a peach-shaped flower window with palm trees full of Lingnan characteristics.
The simple green brick windows, coupled with the mountain stones and green climbing plants at the top of the windows, are another flavor.
The chromatic glass doors and windows in the park are the biggest features and the most beautiful scenery of Qinghui Garden.
Etched chromatic glass products are a major feature of Lingnan gardens, which can be seen in other three famous gardens and some modern gardens, but the most abundant variety and the most beautiful appearance are none other than Qinghui Garden.
Most of the door and window glass in Qinghui Garden is a chromatic glass product imported from Europe by etching and processing in the Qing Dynasty, and there are various traditional Chinese calligraphy and paintings and stories on the glass, which are simple and exquisite, and the aftertaste is endless. Not much of these expensive and exquisite glasses have been preserved intact, and their presence adds a lot to Qinghui Garden.
Among them, the most unmissable is this set of "Eight Views of Yangcheng" evaluated during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, which is the only surviving glass treasure of the Eight Views of the Old Yangcheng of the Qing Dynasty, which has been identified as a national first-class protected cultural relic.
In addition to the chic doors and windows and exquisite chromatic glass, the pavilions of Qinghui Garden are also highlights, which are cleverly and casually scattered in the park, achieving many beautiful views.
These pavilions and pavilions may seem haphazard, but they are the key to changing scenery.
The whole park of Qinghui Garden is exquisitely constructed and compactly laid out, the building form is light and flexible, elegant and simple, and the garden space is clear in primary and secondary and clear in structure.
The whole garden shows the elegant and simple style of the Lingnan courtyard, and the flowing water and koi are the best props to reflect the quiet movement of the garden.
A half-moon pavilion nestled among the flowers is particularly beautiful. Such a pavilion does not seem to be for shade and rain at all, but purely reflects the delicacy and beauty of the garden.
Foshan · Liang Garden
There are more stones than books
Foshan Liangyuan is small and exquisite, but has a strong Cantonese style, and is a typical representative of the Lingnan literati garden in the Qing Dynasty.
Liang Garden was built by local poets and calligraphers Liang Qiru, Liang Jiuzhang, Liang Jiuhua and Liang Jiutu's uncles and nephews, and was built in the Qing Jiaqing and Daoguang years (1796-1850 AD), which lasted more than 40 years, and was on the verge of obliteration in the early years of the Republic of China. Although the existing Liang Garden is only one-fifth of the size built in the Qing Dynasty, it still allows people to glimpse its former prosperity among the tiles.
The ship hall is surrounded by large Manchurian windows on three sides, and the surrounding scenery can be seen from all sides, and the bucket room is a good place to relax and enjoy the scenery.
Willow branches and young shoots, sunny, in the downtown, outside the park traffic, but there is a different side of the park.
The old people played and sang themselves in the water pavilion, and elegant music surrounded the garden.
Walking past a small stone arch bridge with exquisite design, we came to the Fenjiang Caolu group in the Liang Garden. The lake stone with a peculiar shape and a height of about 3 meters is a representative of the stone culture of Liangyuan Mountain.
A beautifully shaped stone arcade bridge spans the lake.
Lotus perfume pavilion is located on the shore of the lake, the lintel and window are carved with lotus leaves, lotus flowers hollow carving, in full elegance at the same time, but also echo with the lake in the clear lotus.
Mountain stone art is a major feature of Liang Garden, according to legend, there are more than 400 strange stones in Liang Garden, which has the reputation of "more stones than books".
In the park, the strange stones of Taihu Lake, Lingbi, Yingde and other places are arranged, and the large ones are more than 100 meters tall and wide, and the small ones are not more than 100 pounds. The aesthetic standard of the ancients for Taihu stone is "wrinkled, leaky, thin, transparent", and this Taihu stone should be regarded as a beautiful stone.
Gardeners skillfully connect residences, ancestral halls, and gardens harmoniously. Brick by brick, I can't hide the affectionate echoes of the years.
Dongguan · Keyuan
Small and delicate, it is a patchwork
In the center of Dongguan, there is a small and exquisite Lingnan Garden of the Qing Dynasty, which is one of the four famous gardens in Guangdong, Dongguan Keyuan, with an area of only 2200 square meters, which can be regarded as small and exquisite. But although the garden is small, it is still exquisite, the park has the first floor, six pavilions, five pavilions, six platforms, five pools, three bridges, fifteen rooms, nineteen halls, rich in layers, staggered, small in the big, secretly clear, high and low, endless fun.
Dongguan Keyuan is a representative work of Lingnan garden, and a couplet in front of the door is "enviable blessed land on earth, the garden boasts the Heavenly Immortal Palace", which is an excellent praise for keyuan by predecessors.
Walking into Keyuan Garden, a small and exquisite Lingnan garden appears in front of you.
Although Keyuan belongs to lingnan gardens, it has all the commonalities of Chinese gardens, such as artificial fish ponds, cloister windows, twisting loops, and changing scenery.
The building of Keyuan is a pure water-milled green brick structure, and the 17.5-meter-high Invitation Mountain Pavilion is the tallest building in Keyuan and was once the tallest building in Dongguan.
There are first floors, six pavilions, five pavilions, six terraces, five pools, three bridges, nineteen halls, fifteen rooms in the park, and their names are mostly named after the word "ke", such as Ke Lou, Ke Xuan, Ke Tang, Ke Zhou and so on.
A couplet of "the garden is small and infinite, and there is a sky in the pot" is a good summary of the characteristics of the small and exquisite garden and the staggered scenery.
The four-character poem inscription through the window was etched in red chromatic glass in the late Qing Dynasty, and the original 35 characters are only 19 characters left.
Oyster shell windows. In addition to building walls in the Lingnan area, oyster shells can also be used as windows, which look not only beautiful, but also beautiful and transparent, and have a certain degree of privacy. Oyster shell windows, like oyster shell walls, are typical Lingnan elements.
In the middle of the city, there is such a Chinese garden with pavilions, pavilions, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and strolling through it makes people forget the noise of the city at once, as if they have strayed into lingnan a hundred years ago, and their hearts have also quieted down.
Guangzhou Panyu · Yuyin Mountain House
Representative of Lingnan Ancestral Hall culture and College culture
Yuyin Mountain House, also known as Yuyin Garden, is located in the southeast corner of Panyu Nancun Town, Guangzhou, and was built in the third year of Qing Tongzhi (1864 AD) and completed in the tenth year of Tongzhi (1871 AD). Since the original Yuyin Mountain House was only 1598 square meters, the whole garden structure is exquisite, changing scenery step by step, shrinking into inches, and is famous for its small and exquisite unique style, which is a representative work of Lingnan gardens.
Every garden has a story, and every Chinese garden is an expression of emotion. The Yuyin Mountain House is a private garden built after Wu Yanshan, a qing dynasty, returned to the village.
Among the four famous gardens in Lingnan, Yuyin Mountain House should be a relatively remote Lingnan famous garden.
Although the Yuyin Mountain House is not large, it is very exquisite in brick and stone, flowers and grass, and has a strong classical temperament and Lingnan characteristics.
The Chinese garden is a beautiful Chinese painting, but also the embodiment of the cultivation and pursuit of Chinese literati, opening the window to see the bamboo, is the taste of the garden owner.
Although the garden is small, the scenery is exquisite, and the north wall is inlaid with an elaborate "Lai Smoke Pavilion" (half-sided pavilion), which echoes the octagonal pavilion. Incompleteness is another beauty.
Bamboo in the garden can be seen everywhere. Qingzhu Ning does not bend, free and straight, high wind and bright knots, has always been the favorite of Chinese scholars.
The most like chinese garden open window to see the scenery, although the window is actually the outer wall, itself is very cramped, but still do not forget that there is water, bridges and fish, there are wall sculptures, there are green plants. The exquisite flower windows themselves are also a garden scene.
In the late Qing Dynasty, Western civilization had infiltrated the land of Lingnan, so it was not surprising that some Western-style flower windows in Chinese gardens were not surprising.
Due to the small area of the Yuyin Mountain House, everywhere must be carefully calculated, so it can be seen that although the garden is full of green bamboo, it is planted against the wall, which does not waste space and can play the role of a barrier, and the wall does not need solid bricks, and the wall is inlaid with green glass bamboo knots and pottery pipe railings, which are in contrast with the bamboo forest.
There are four ancient wells in the Yuyin Mountain House. Ancient wells are often the most authentic remains of historical buildings, and each ancient well is hundreds of years old.
Although the bridge is short and the corridor is not long, it is not sloppy at all, and every step and scene is exquisite and meticulous.
"Sitting alone is always pure, and the words are not empty", although the life of the ancients was not as colorful as it is now, it was more leisurely and relaxed, and it was not impetuous.
The staircase in the attic is the shape of two dragons, and the lantern at the bottom of the building is exactly the two dragon play beads.