Foshan, located in the hinterland of the Pearl River Delta, is the third largest city in Guangdong and a famous historical and cultural city with a long history and outstanding people. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, zhuxian, Hankou and Jingde were the four famous towns of Shenzhou. Here the humanities are gathered, the city is prosperous, there are more green water gardens, and the famous gardens are green.
Liang Garden, which was founded in the Qing Jiaqing period, is the representative of Foshan's gardens, where the mansions, ancestral halls and gardens are integrated, unique and famous, ranking first among the four famous gardens in Guangdong. The owners of Liang Garden are four famous Buddhist poets and calligraphers Liang Qiru, Liang Jiuzhang, Liang Jiuhua and Liang Jiutu's uncle and nephew, who raised funds to build this mansion in the Qing Jiaqing and Daoguang years, which lasted more than 40 years.
By the beginning of the People's Republic, LiangYuan was on the verge of annihilation. In view of its historical, artistic and ornamental value, the local government has rescued and protected it since 1982, recreating the essence of the famous garden in accordance with the principle of "repairing the old as old" in the restoration of cultural relics. After the reform and opening up, the descendants of the Liang family dedicated the remaining sites of the old garden to the state, and the local government invested in the protection of cultural relics to restore the former glory of the old garden.
Liang Garden is the general name of Liang's residential garden, which is mainly composed of "Twelve Stone Zhai", "Qunxing Caotang", "Fenjiang Caolu", "Hanxiangguan" and other elite residential gardens, with a grand scale, and the main body is located on the Pioneer Ancient Road of Songfeng Road. The reason why Liang Garden is famous is that the courtyard is staggered, the curved water loop, the stone fun forest is quiet, the poetry is picturesque, it is not only a masterpiece of ridge gardening, but also has a local pastoral charm.
Liang Garden is one of the typical representatives of the Lingnan literati garden in the Qing Dynasty, the Lingnan-style "garden" space changes one after another, the style is elegant, the gardening group scenery is eclectic, and the pursuit of elegant and natural, picturesque pastoral charm. The garden is lined with fruit trees and flowers, and the curved water loop and the pine causeway willow bank form a unique Lingnan water town charm. In particular, the large and small stones in the garden are varied, creating a clever and unworldly artistic conception.
The garden layout is integrated with residences, ancestral halls and gardens, and the group scenery highlights the characteristics of the Water Town Garden in the Pearl River Delta with a large area of lakes and ponds. The architectural group consists of a grass hall, a guest hall, an autumn shuangxuan, a boat hall and a cloister. The architecture is exquisite and chic and fascinating. Although it is not large, it is small and delicate.
In the park, the elaborate "Caolu Spring", "Pillow Lake Summer", "Autumn Colors of the Stars", "Cold Fragrance Proud Snow" and other four scenes of spring, summer, autumn and winter are all complete, with different interests. The four scenes of "Shi Zhai Zhi Zhi", "Yan Mo Yan Zhi", "Secluded Xianglan", and "Zhuang Zhai Relics", which show the characteristics of the literati garden, vividly express the various cultural conceptions of the ancient gardens in Lingnan, such as Yaji singing, reading and writing, family school teaching, secluded living and leisure, and other literary cultural life pursuits.
Coupled with the various wood carving decorations in the interior of each building, such as partitions, screens, Manchurian windows, hanging falls, flower teeth, floor coverings, and a variety of exquisite Qing Dynasty Cantonese furniture, they all have high ornamental value, and are a garden that can display the characteristics of the ancient literati garden of Lingnan from multiple angles, aspects and levels.
Liang Garden is a rare example of studying the local characteristics, conceptual layout, gardening group scenery, cultural connotation and other issues of the ancient literati garden in Lingnan, and the pursuit of the ancient Foshan literati in the metropolis far away from the hustle and bustle and the joy of forests and springs also reflects the yearning for garden-style mansions and natural spatial environments in the "Cantonese culture".
In addition to more than ten ancient trees in the garden, there are also triangular plums, jade tang spring, eagle claw orchids, and frangipani flowers with Lingnan charm. It can be said that "both gardens are painted, and the garden is full of orchids and jades."
The courtyard is a little deeper, strolling through it, feeling the former style of this house, the building is spacious and transparent, the surrounding cloister is guided, and the method of changing the scenery is fascinating, which makes people feel like people going to the building and crossing time and space.
Today's Liang Garden is a popular attraction in Foshan, Saturday is also free for tourists to visit, not only attract many tourists to visit, but also a good place for many photography enthusiasts to take pictures, every day there are many models taking pictures here, see this group of photography "old mages" around to take a blonde beauty, I also rushed over to rub a few photos.