Which are the top ten gardens in ancient China

The Summer Palace, in the Haidian District of northwestern Beijing, is China's best-preserved and largest royal garden, and one of the world's most famous tourist attractions, belonging to the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units. The Summer Palace was originally the imperial palace and garden. In 1750 A.D., Qianlong converted it into the Garden of Clear Ripples, which was burned down by the British and French forces in 1860, and rebuilt in 1888 by Empress Dowager Cixi, who diverted 30 million taels of silver from the navy to rebuild it, renaming it by its present name.

Second Humble Administrator's Garden

The Humble Administrator's Garden is one of the gardens in Suzhou and the most famous. Covering an area of 5 hectares, there are Yuanxiang Hall, Xiangzhou, eighteen mandarins and state six mandarin ducks Hall , stay listening to the pavilion . The Humble Administrator's Garden was built in the Ming Dynasty during the reign of Zhengde, the Humble Administrator's Garden is both landscape and water, with the water surface accounting for three-fifths of the garden, and the overall layout is centered on the pond, with all kinds of buildings standing in front of the water, and pavilions reflected in the water, mirroring each other. The Humble Administrator's Garden is divided into three parts: east, west and center, with the center being the main part.

Third Net Shi Garden

Net Shi Garden is located in the south of the city of suzhou ten full street, covers an area of only 0.54 hectares, was built in the southern song dynasty, the old for the song dynasty bibliophile, official to the minister of yangzhou literati shi zhengzhi's "ten thousand scrolls of the hall" site, the garden is called "fishermen's hidden". The garden was called "Fisherman's Retreat". To the Qianlong period, the retired young secretary of the Guanglu Temple Song Zongyuan garden, because facing the Wang four alleys (i.e., today's Broad Street Lane), will take the harmonization of the garden is named "net master garden". Net master is a fisherman, fisherman meaning, and "fishing hidden" agreed, contains the meaning of living in seclusion.

Fourth Send Chang Yuan

Send Chang Yuan is located in Huishan Hengjie, adjacent to Mount Xishan and Huishan Temple, with an area of 15 acres. Ming Zhengde in 1506-1520 years, Qin * to Huishan Temple monastery converted into a separate business, Wanli, the garden again to Qin Yao, the barren weeds, change the mausoleum valley, the list of twelve scenes, borrowed from Wang Xizhi's poetic meaning, renamed Send Chang Yuan. The end of the Ming and early Qing dynasties, the garden was divided. Shunzhi Qing dynasty at the end of the Kangxi early, Qin Yao great-grandson will be merged, and added to the reconstruction, extended the garden master Zhang Qin picking up the mountains and water, sparse springs and stones, the garden is better than the landscape.

The fifth garden

The garden is a national key cultural relics protection units. During the Qing Dynasty, Huang Zhijun, the salt chief of the two Huaihuai provinces, rebuilt the old site of Shouzhi Garden in the Ming Dynasty. Garden owner "sex love bamboo", Qing Yuan Mei has "the moon reflected bamboo into a thousand words", so the name. The garden is characterized by bamboo and stone as the main body and by the use of stone in the peaks. The most prestigious is the four seasons of the rockery: spring mountain bamboo shoots and stones, bamboo shadow; summer mountain hollow outside the odd, muddy pools of fresh and cold; autumn mountain yellow stone maple, precipitous clouds; winter mountain XuanShi seems to be the snow has not disappeared.

Sixth Yuyuan

Yuyuan Garden is located in the south of Shanghai city, covers an area of more than 20,000 square meters, is the famous Jiangnan classical garden, the national key cultural relics protection units. Yuyuan Garden was built in the Ming Jiajing period, from 1559 to 1577 construction was completed, so far there are more than four hundred years of history, because it was Pan Yunduan, who had been the Sichuan Buzheng Minister of filial piety to his parents and build, meaning "pleasure parents, take care of the days of age", so it is named "Yuyuan Garden! "1

Seventh, Qiyuan Garden

Qiyuan Garden is located in Garden Lane, Wuhuan Town, Haiyan County, Zhejiang Province. Qiyuan was originally known as "Feng's Garden", a typical private garden style in Jiangnan. Qing Dynasty Tongzhi nine years (1871 AD), the owner of the garden Feng Zengzai in this building three houses, the following year Feng Zengzai synthesized his father-in-law Huang Xieqing management of the Ming Dynasty Garden Humble Garden, inkstone garden of the essence of the two abandoned gardens in their own homes "Feng Sanlei Hall" after the construction of gardens, built the current Qiyuan. Become a pearl in the Zhejiang garden.

Eighth Qinghui Garden

Qinghui Garden, located in Shunde City, Daliang Town, Qinghui Road, and Foshan Liang Garden, Panyu, Dongguan Yuyin Mountain House, Dongguan can be known as the four great gardens of Guangdong, the Department of Provincial Cultural Heritage Protection Unit. The garden was originally built by Huang Shijun, a scholar at the end of the Ming Dynasty. In the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, it was purchased by Long Yingshi, a scholar. Subsequently, by the Long's generations of careful construction, to the early years of the Republic of China, the pattern has been finalized.

Ninth ancient Lotus Pond

Gu Lotus Pond is located in the center of Baoding, is a water to build a pavilion as a distinctive feature, both north and south of China's gardens of the beauty of classical gardens. A total area of 24,000 square meters, the pool area of more than 7,900 square meters, full of lotus flowers in the summer season, so the name Lotus Pond. The ancient Lotus Pond is a national cultural relics protection unit and one of the ten most famous gardens in China. In the garden, there are Shuidong Building, Zaoying Hall, Junzi Changsheng Hall, Rangqin Pavilion and Gaofen Xuan, Cold Green Xuan and Linyi Pavilion, Guanlan Pavilion and other buildings.

Tenth Yuanmingyuan

Historically, Yuanmingyuan consists of three gardens, Yuanming, Changchun and Qichun, covering an area of more than 5,200 acres (350 hectares), with hundreds of famous scenic groups. Since the Qing Dynasty Kangxi forty-six years (1707), was originally the Kangxi Emperor gave the fourth son of the Emperor Yinzhen (Yongzheng) "give garden". 1722 Yongzheng became the throne, according to the pattern of the Forbidden City, large-scale construction. To the Qianlong years, the Qing Dynasty, the national strength, is the climax of the construction of the Yuanmingyuan, with the efforts of the country, the unprecedented scale of the expansion of the Yuanmingyuan.