Why is Yangzhou Garden called a Garden?

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 the spring scenery, stalagmites are inserted in the bamboo bushes, which means that they have sprung up. 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 four seasons: spring, summer, autumn and winter. In addition, the pavilions in the central tower of the garden also have their own characteristics. The front of the garden is a "Rain Garden", and all sides are virtual windows, which can give you a panoramic view of the garden. Behind the park is Baoshan Building, with seven pagodas, Summer Mountain in the west, Autumn Mountain in the east, and a corridor leading to Huangshi rockery in the east. The south wall of the corridor downstairs is embedded with the stone carving of "Bamboo Garden" inscribed by Liu Fenghao.