What are the famous classical gardens in China?

China has a long history and has left many historical sites with beautiful gardens. So what are the top 10 famous classical gardens in China? Does everyone go there? See below for details. Take a look first, collect first, then go for a walk!

1, Chengde Summer Resort

Chengde Summer Resort, also known as Chengde Palace or Hot River Palace, is located in Chengde City, Hebei Province. It was the place where the Qing Dynasty emperors spent their summer vacation and dealt with political affairs. It was built during the Kangxi period and covers an area of 5.64 million square meters, making it the largest surviving classical garden in China.

With the help of natural terrain, the Summer Resort is divided into a palace area and a garden area, blending the best of the gardening arts of the north and south. Although man-made, it looks natural.

The palace area is where the emperor dealt with state affairs, held celebrations and daily life. The halls and walls are mostly green bricks and gray tiles, elegant and solemn, simple and modest. The scenic area consists of three parts: the lake area, the plain area and the mountain area. There are 72 scenic spots.

One of them is the recommended Smoke and Rain Building Scenic Spot, which was built after the Smoke and Rain Building in the South Lake of Jiaxing, one of the filming places of the TV series "Returning the Pearl". In the lake area, you can also take a pedal boat and relax with friends by rafting on the lake.

Outside the Summer Resort, a magnificent cluster of temples, commonly known as the "Eight Outer Temples," surrounds the lodge with stars and moons. Seen from a distance, it is red and white, a diverse and uniform style of temple architecture in China.

2, Beijing Summer Palace

Beijing Summer Palace, located in Haidian District of Beijing, is the best-preserved royal garden in China. It was formerly known as the Garden of Clear Ripples, which was built by Emperor Qianlong to celebrate his mother's 60th birthday. Later, when Emperor Guangxu and Empress Dowager Cixi restored the garden, it was renamed Summer Palace, which means "to keep peace".

The Summer Palace is characterized by high art of gardening, skillful use of natural landscapes, reflecting the interest of nature, and highly demonstrating the majestic grandeur of Chinese royal gardens.

The park is divided into three areas, the political activity area centered on Renshou Hall; the living area dominated by Leshou Hall and Yulan Hall; it consists of Kunming Lake and Wanshoushan.

The scenic area is the most worthwhile to visit, which is the core of the Summer Palace. If you go in the spring, you can enjoy the magnificence of the architecture, take a boat ride in the scenic area, and canoe on Kunming Lake, which is a breezy lake with a bright, sparkling spring. You can take in some of the best scenery this spring, with blooming flowers nearby. The scent of spring is soothing.

Among them are the Promenade, Stone Boat, Buddha Pavilion and Grand Theater. They are the treasures of the world's architectural culture and have a high status in the history of Chinese and foreign garden art.

Specifically, the stone boat by the lake at the west end of the promenade, which means "the sea and the blue river", is the only building in the Summer Palace with a Western style. The two-story boat building, the bottom of the boat paved with ceramic tiles, the windows are stained glass, ornate and beautiful decorations.

3, Suzhou Humble Administrator's Garden

Jiangnan garden is the first in the world, Suzhou garden is the first in the south of the Yangtze River, the Humble Administrator's Garden is a masterpiece of the Suzhou garden, located in the northeast corner of Suzhou, Suzhou's largest existing classical garden, one of the four major gardens in China, included in the list of the World Cultural Heritage.

The whole garden is centered on water, surrounded by pavilions, full of poetry and picturesque. Every step has a strong Jiangnan water town characteristics, the style is fresh, beautiful and elegant, simple and natural.

The garden orchid school hall, Hanqing Pavilion, Yuanxiang Hall, Xiangzhou, thirty-six Yuanyang Pavilion and other buildings are simple and elegant, full of flavor. South China also has Suzhou Garden Museum, which is the only garden museum in China. You can enjoy it carefully.

4, Suzhou Liyuan

Liuyuan, located in Suzhou Gusu District, like a gentle and generous Jiangnan Gusu woman. Only slowly get along, to appreciate her unique beauty.

Liuyuan Garden is the east garden of Xu Qing Taishi Hall during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, and is one of the four famous gardens in China. It is famous for its exquisite architectural layout and many strange stones. Especially the Cloud Top Peak, which is known as one of the three best things in the Liouyuan, it

5, Suzhou Netshi Garden

Suzhou Netshi Garden is located in the southeast corner of the old city. It was founded in the Southern Song Dynasty. In the Qianlong period of the Qing dynasty, the Guanglu Temple Shao Qing Song Zongyuan bought this garden to rebuild, named "net garden".

The teacher was a fisherman, a fisherman, endorsed the "fishing hidden", meaning living in seclusion. The landscape layout of the garden and the names of the attractions all imply a strong sense of seclusion.

The Teacher's Garden is not large, but there are small and large, the layout is rigorous, the main and secondary, rich in change. There are gardens within gardens and scenes outside gardens, which are exquisite and profound. Although there are many buildings, but not congested. Although the pond is small, it is not confined.

6, Yangzhou individual garden

Located in the old town of Yangzhou, it was built in the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty. It is a private garden built by Huang Zhijun, a general of the salt merchants of the two Huai River in the Ming Dynasty, on the basis of the former site of Shouzhi Garden. The garden is especially fond of bamboo, and the garden has emerald green bamboo. Therefore, it was named after Yuan Mei of the Qing Dynasty, who said, "The bright moon shines on the bamboo, making it into a withered character".

The garden is small and exquisite, famous for its exquisite rockery. It adopts the method of stacking stones by peaks, and uses bamboo shoots, lake stones, yellow stones and Xuan stones to express the scenery of spring, summer, fall and winter. It is known as the "Four Seasons Wigwam".

Being in the garden, you can see different scenery throughout the year, maple leaves in autumn, snowy bamboos in winter, and the combination of the law of gardening and landscape painting is beautiful.

7, Shanghai Yu Garden

Yu Garden is located in Shanghai's old street north of Chenghuang Temple, downtown commercial center. It was built by Pan Yunduan, a political envoy from Sichuan in the Ming Dynasty, during the Jiajing period. The name Yuyuan Garden means "pleasant old relatives" and "Yu" means "peace" and "peaceful".

The whole garden is grand in scale, beautiful scenery, with the architectural style of the southern gardens of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, known as the "beautiful water, the southeast of the dry land".

The five dragon walls divide the garden's more than 40 pavilions, terraces, buildings and pavilions into six distinctive attractions, showing the infinite universe in a limited space, reflecting the familiarity with the ancient Chinese star garden, "Heaven and Earth in a pot".

The staggered pavilions, lofty mountains and rocks, verdant trees, has the characteristics of a small, reflecting the artistic style of the Ming and Qing Dynasty Jiangnan garden architecture, the garden has a sense of literati elegance.

Today, Yuyuan Garden still preserves the historical relics such as the Library Building, the birthplace of "Shanghai Painting and Calligraphy", and the Dot Spring Hall, the seat of the commanding headquarters of the Shanghai Filial Piety Society Uprising. The Taihu Lake stone "Jade Linglong" in front of Yuhua Hall is also regarded as the crown of the "three best things in Jiangnan".

8, Wuxi, Wuxi Send Chang Yuan

Located in the western suburbs of Wuxi City, east of Mount Huishan, by the early years of the Ming Jiajing Nanjing military history of Qin Jin built. Qin Jin was named Fengshan, so the name "Gufeng Mountain". During the reign of Emperor Wanli, it was named after Wang Xizhi, who wrote the words "Send Standing" in his poem "To be benevolent and wise, and to send Standing to the mountains and waters".

Changyuan Garden is a representative of Chinese villa gardens at the foot of the mountains. Although the garden is small, but it can make use of the landscape, clever use of borrowed scenery, Huishan, Xishan color into the courtyard, with limited space to create an infinite mood.

The garden is centered on a rockery pond, surrounded by buildings such as Pan Yu Pavilion Gallery, Zhi Yu Gate, Seven Star Bridge, Han Bi Pavilion and Qing Yu Gallery. Artificial buildings and natural mountains and springs into one, the "unity of man and nature" without the realm of self interpretation to the extreme, can be described as the spirit of the mountains and rivers, in the south of the Yangtze River in the garden is unique.

The Kangxi Emperor and the Qianlong Emperor of the Qing Dynasty visited this place many times and wrote poems again and again. Even the Funny Garden in the Summer Palace in Beijing and the Double Crane Zai Garden in the Yuanmingyuan were modeled after the Huishan Chicken Farm Garden in Wuxi.

9, Shunde Qinghuiyuan

The Qingyuan is located in Shunde District, Foshan City, Guangdong Province. It was originally built by Huang, a scholar at the end of the Ming Dynasty. Later, it was purchased by the Qianlong scholar Long, listed as

Yuyin Shanfang has "hidden, but not exposed, shrunk to an inch" said. Among them, in the square pool between Shenliudang and Linchi Beiguan, there is an exquisite corridor bridge called "Ring Rainbow Over Green", which is the finishing touch of the whole mountain house building.

Yinshanfu is full of ancient trees and flowers. The four wonders of the garden, "full wall of bamboo", "rainbow bridge over the moon", "deep willow hiding treasure" and "double green flowers welcoming spring", are an eye-opening sight to behold. It is an eye-opening place with an elegant and cozy environment. It is suitable for taking photos and makes people forget to come back.