What are the characteristics of typical Yangzhou gardens?

Yangzhou gardens are very famous. "Yangzhou Original Boat Record" has the sentence "Hangzhou wins with lakes and mountains, Suzhou wins with shops, Yangzhou wins with gardens, and the three are evenly matched". Later, after many accidents, many Yangzhou gardens were abandoned. However, until now, there are still some very distinctive and beautiful gardens. Some people think that Yangzhou garden is the intermediary between the northern royal garden and the southern private garden. One of the reasons is that the Qing emperor's southern tour was mixed with four businessmen and the traffic was smooth; The second is the result of technical exchange between North and South landscape architects. Yangzhou gardens not only have the resplendent features of royal gardens, but also have a large number of architectural sketches of Jiangnan gardens, forming a school of its own.

The characteristics of Geyuan-Four Seasons Rockery Geyuan was built in the middle of Qing Dynasty. Because the owner loves bamboo, bamboo is planted all over the garden, and because the shape of bamboo leaves is like the word "Ge", it is named "Ge Garden". Bamboo is the theme that ancient literati in China like to praise and express. They think bamboo is sublime and a symbol of solar terms. Su Dongpo once said: "Eating without meat is better than living without bamboo, which makes people thin and vulgar."

The park covers an area of about 30 mu, but because of its ingenious layout, it looks tortuous and charming. Yangzhou gardens always win with stacked stones. Geyuan is a garden famous for its exquisite rockery. Gardening craftsmen choose brown Yellowstone, Taihu stone, snow stone and stalagmites shaped like bamboo shoots to form four groups of rockeries, which show the scenery of spring, summer, autumn and winter, and are called four-season rockeries.

In spring, stalagmites are inserted in the bamboo bushes, which means springing up like mushrooms after rain. The scenery in summer is a lotus pond surrounded by tree shade, with lake stones piled on it, which makes people feel the breath of midsummer. People praised this group of rockeries for being well stacked, saying that "the summer hills are green and dripping". Autumn scenery is represented by Huangshan Stone, which runs from east to west. This rockery is the best stacked and the highest, with a length of 50 meters, undulating peaks, majestic and hot mountains, which makes people feel refreshed in autumn. The winter scenery consists of white snow stones, which symbolizes the snow in the middle of winter. A week in the garden is like experiencing four seasons: spring, summer, autumn and winter.