Lingnan garden when the restoration?

The private gardens of the Qing Dynasty experienced the initial Kangxi and Qianlong, Jia Dao of the extreme prosperity, Xian Tong Guangxuan of the flourishing and declining three stages. To the Guangxu, Xuantong period, the entire Qing government in crisis, the creation of traditional gardens also by the decline, most of the country's famous gardens in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the second Opium War, Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War, the Eight-Power Allied Forces invasion of the internal and external wars and other wars have been ravaged. But after the Tongzhi, the feudal landlord class by suppressing the peasant revolution gained the power to plunder land and money, once again set off the construction of private gardens of the climax. In this private gardening activities, Lingnan garden rose to prominence, thus in the history of Chinese classical gardens in the formation of the north, south of the Yangtze River, Lingnan three major styles of the situation.

The two GuangZhou (that is, guangdong, guangxi) is located in the southern border of China, because people's living customs, cultural and linguistic common, coupled with geographic proximity, and thus in the political, economic, cultural and other aspects of the influence on each other, the relationship is close. The Qing Dynasty government divided Guangdong and Guangxi into one administrative region and set up the post of "Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi". After the Republic of China, the Beiyang government set up the "two GuangZhou inspector", inherited the old Qing Dynasty. In the economic aspect, Guangdong, Guangxi relationship is closer. In the construction of gardens, Guangxi Guilin's Yanshan Garden and Wuming's Mingxiu Garden and Guangdong's four famous gardens have the same Lingnan garden lineage.

Originally for the late Ming scholar Huang Shijun residence garden, Qianlong years scholar Long Yingshi get, remodeling dialysis property to his son Long Tingzi and Long Tinghuai, about 1846 Long Tinghuai returned to the Ningxia in return for his mother's kindness and reconstruction of the proceeds of part, the name Qinghui Garden, the Republican War a few destroyed in 1959, repair, and then again in the 1990s, by the original 5 acres of the expansion to 30 acres.

Hamfeng, Tongzhi, Guangxu, Xuantong are unable to save the situation, Chinese gardens in the internal and external wars have been destroyed again and again, most of the famous garden was destroyed, especially in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom uprising, the second Opium War and the invasion of the Eight Allied Forces of the three wars on the destruction of China's gardens is the most serious.

This period, Lingnan part of the garden because of its location in the southern border, escaped the destruction of large-scale wars, but can not be completely spared, such as most of the famous gardens in Fujian and Taiwan in the late Qing Dynasty several wars and the war of resistance against Japan was destroyed.

At the same time, with the war and the influx of foreign culture also affected the Chinese classical gardens, some European gardening elements, such as columnar corridors, Baroque decorative patterns, Roman-style alabaster carvings, windows of colorful glass and so on are integrated into the Chinese classical gardens. In coastal cities such as Tianjin, Shanghai, and Guangzhou, gardens combining Chinese and Western styles appeared. After the Opium War, the Lingnan region became a window of communication with the outside world, Lingnan garden craftsmen synthesized the multicultural categories, flexible absorption, free, comprehensive use of folk crafts, such as wood carving, brick carving, stone carving, ceramics, gray plastic, etc., and Western landscape techniques, such as arched windows and doors, vases, columns, the rules of geometric shapes, etc., after a long period of time, the formation of a unique and eclectic style of Lingnan garden art.