Hello, everyone! My name is Suzhou Hangzhou, and I'm the guide of yourHumble Administrator's garden.
Now I'll take you to visit the Humble Administrator's garden, a worldcultural heritage, which is a private garden of a large family. It is the onlyscenic spot in China with four titles at the same time: national key culturalrelics protection units, national 5A scenic spots, national special touristspots, and UNESCO listed as world cultural heritage. Why does a former privategarden have such honor? Let's go to the end?
Above the main door of this high fair faced brick wall door, there arethree words "Humble Administrator's garden". Wang Xianchen, the founder of theHumble Administrator's garden, was an executive of the Ming Dynasty. He returnedto his hometown due to official frustration and started to build the HumbleAdministrator's garden on the basis of the site of a temple. In order to makethe garden more cultural, he invited Wen Zhengming, a representative of theWumen School of painting, as the chief designer, to participate in the blueprintdesign, and left the painting of the Humble Administrator's garden. WenZhengming, one of the four great talents in the south of the Yangtze River,outlined the overall layout of the whole garden with the aesthetic taste of apainter. After more than ten years, he finally completed the construction ofthis later famous masterpiece in the south of the Yangtze River. Wen Zhengming'sdesign, based on water, is a natural garden style, which strongly shows theaesthetic mood of Chinese landscape painting. So far, taking the real naturallandscape as the blueprint and integrating the artistic representation ofChinese painting has become a major purpose of Suzhou classical garden layout.The garden is named Zhuozheng garden, which is borrowed from the Western Jindynasty literati Pan Yue's "leisurely residence Fu" in which "build a room,plant trees, be at ease Irrigate the garden with vegetables for daily meals Itis also a humble person who is in charge of politics. It is implied that hetakes watering the garden and planting vegetables as his "political" affairs.Soon after the garden was built, Wang Xianchen died, and his son lost the wholegarden to Xu in a gamble. Over the past 500 years, the Humble Administrator'sgarden has changed its owner many times. In history, it was divided into twoparts and three parts, and then combined into one. The name of the garden variedfrom private garden to government garden, or scattered into folk houses. It wasnot until the 1950s that the garden was completely integrated and its originalname was restored. Among the numerous historical figures in the HumbleAdministrator's garden, Wen Zhengming, Cao Xueqin and Li Xiucheng areparticularly attractive. We will introduce them one by one when we visit thescenic spots.
Lanxue hall is the main hall in the east of China. The name of the hallcomes from Li Bai's poem "independent between heaven and earth, the breezesprinkles Lanxue". The hall has three rooms facing south, with a secludedenvironment. There is a screen door in the middle of the hall. To the south ofthe screen door, we will take a look at the painting "panorama of HumbleAdministrator's garden", which is made with Suzhou traditional lacquer carvingtechnology.
Zhuozheng garden was built in Zhengde period of Ming Dynasty in the 15thcentury. It is the largest existing classical garden in Suzhou, covering an areaof 78 mu. It is mainly built by water. Most of the buildings are built near thewater. The water corridor in the mountains is undulating and smooth. This grandview of the classical luxury garden, with its layout of the mountain island,bamboo dock, Songgang, Qushui of interest, is known as the "world gardenmodel.". The whole garden is divided into four parts: East, middle, West andresidence. Residence is a typical Suzhou residence. Most of the existingbuildings in the Humble Administrator's garden were rebuilt in 1850 when theHumble Administrator's garden became the garden of zhongwangfu in the TaipingHeavenly Kingdom.
The eastern part covers an area of about 31 mu. It was originally called"guitianyuanju" because in 1631 ad, the eastern part of the garden was namedafter Wang Xinyi, the Shilang. It presents an idyllic landscape, with buildingsdotted among the riverbanks and trees, and streams passing at the foot of therockery, creating an open space full of wild mountains and forests.
The central part covers an area of about 18 mu, with luxuriant flowers andtrees, beautiful scenery and elegant pavilions. It is the essence of HumbleAdministrator's Garden. The overall layout takes water as the center, and allkinds of buildings are placed near the water. The modeling is simple andelegant. The pavilions and pavilions are built near the water, and somepavilions and pavilions are straight out of the water, which has thecharacteristics of Jiangnan Water Town. The rockery is surrounded by pools andwater, and the top of the rockery is like an island in a lake. The whole spaceis full of natural charm, and the atmosphere is quiet and secluded. It shows thegardening pattern of the Ming Dynasty in the 16th century, and basicallymaintains the artistic style of the Ming Dynasty garden designer Wen Zhengming -thick, simple, and sparse.
In the west, it used to be a "Buyuan" with an area of about 12.5 mu. Itswater surface is circuitous and its layout is compact. Pavilions are built nearmountains and rivers. Because of the large-scale reconstruction, the style ofcrafty and artificial art formed after the Qianlong reign gained the upper hand,but the water stone part is still close to the central scenic area, and theundulating, tortuous and undulating water corridors and streams are excellentworks of Suzhou garden art. The present pattern maintains the style and featuresof the late Qing Dynasty's rich businessman Zhang Luqian.
"Zhuiyun peak" is a famous peak left over from Ming Dynasty. It was stackedby Chen Siyun, a master of Dieshan. It stands on the rockery behind the Lan XueTang, just like a cloud landing on the earth, dotted with the landscape, butalso like a barrier, hiding the garden and infinite painting behind. This"straight to the point" gardening method of "zhuoyun peak" blocking the sight ofthe guests is called "barrier scenery" and plays a fascinating role.
As soon as we enter the garden, what we see is not a panoramic pond, butthis huge lake stone. It's just like the girl who wants to meet and be ashamed,"still holding the Pipa and half covering her face". Here is the unique charm ofOriental women, leaving a mystery and a prospect for people to explore.
According to Wang Xinyi's guiyuantianjuji, there is a pool in front oflanxuetang, "there are peaks in the south of the pool, and the trees aredecorated with clouds, which is called zhuiyun peak. The two peaks on the leftside of the pool stand side by side, like palms and sails, which is calledLianbi peak. " What we see now are zhuiyun peak and Lianbi peak. The two lakestones stand at the intersection like patrons, just like the situation at thegate of Daguan garden described in the book. They are like beasts and ghosts.The strange stone on the right side is distributed like a vine. It has ears andnose. It has both shape and spirit. The two peaks are the works of Chen Siyun, afamous stone folding artist in the late Ming Dynasty. The lake stones used areexquisite and delicate, taking Zhao Songxue's landscape paintings in the lateYuan Dynasty as the model. On the summer night of 1943, zhuiyun peak suddenlycollapsed. Later, under the guidance of Wang Xingbo, a landscape expert, thisexquisite peak was built again. Today, the peak is mottled with moss and coveredwith vines.