The meaning of the name of the Humble Administrator's Garden (拙政园)

The symbolism of the Humble Administrator's Garden named Humble Administrator has the ingenious meaning of a simple man administering his own garden.

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The Humble Administrator's Garden is located at No. 178, Northeast Street, Gusu District, Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province. Ming Zhengde eight years (1513), the dismissal of the official returned to his hometown of the royal historian Wang Xianchen, Dahong Temple based on the construction of residential parks, taking the Western Jin Pan Yue "Idle Habitat Fugue" "building rooms and planting trees this is also a clumsy for the government also" the meaning of the name of the Humble Administrations Garden. The garden has changed its owner repeatedly, and has been in the government for several times, and it has been divided by the rise and fall of the government. 1860 to 1863, it was once belonged to the Chungwang Palace of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

The Humble Administrator's Garden covers an area of 78 acres (52,000 square meters) and is divided into three parts: east, middle and west. Another residential part is now the exhibition hall of the Garden Museum. The eastern part of the garden is bright and cheerful, dominated by the distant mountains of Pinggang, the pine forests and lawns, and the curving waters of the bamboo dock.

The whole garden is centered on water, with lingering mountains and water, exquisite halls and pavilions, and luxuriant flowers and trees, with strong characteristics of the Jiangnan water town. The garden is divided into three parts: east, center and west, and the east garden is open and spacious. The middle garden is the essence of the whole garden, the west garden architecture is exquisite, each with its own characteristics. The south of the garden is a residential area, reflecting the pattern of typical traditional residential houses in the south of the Yangtze River. South of the garden is also built Suzhou Garden Museum, is a domestic garden museum.

The central part of the garden is the essence of the Humble Administrator's Garden, the pool water area accounts for 1/3, mainly water, pool wide trees, the scenery is natural, the water is arranged in different shapes and heights of buildings, the main and secondary clear.

The western pool was curved shape, characterized by the pavilion standoff, undulating corridors, water reflection, interesting, ornate and exquisite decoration, the main building near the residential side of the thirty-six mandarin ducks Hall.

The whole environment of the Humble Administrator's Garden is made by people, but the natural ecology of the wild is very prominent, and it still retains the style of the beginning of the Ming Dynasty when the garden was built, and it is regarded as a masterpiece of the Jiangnan Classical Garden and a precious heritage of Chinese garden art.

The whole garden is centered on water, with lingering mountains and water, exquisite halls and pavilions, luxuriant flowers and trees, and has strong characteristics of the Jiangnan water town. The garden is divided into three parts: east, center and west, and the east garden is open and sparse.

The middle garden is the essence of the whole garden, the west garden architecture is exquisite, each with its own characteristics. The south of the garden is a residential area, reflecting the pattern of the typical Jiangnan region of traditional residential multi-entry. South of the garden is also built Suzhou Garden Museum, is a domestic garden museum.

In 1961, the Humble Administrator's Garden was announced by the State Council of the People's Republic of China as one of the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units.

In December 1997, as a typical example of Suzhou's classical gardens, the Humble Administrator's Garden was approved by the UNESCO to be included in the World Heritage List, along with the Liouyuan Garden, the Garden of the Nets, and the Huanxiu Resort and Villa***.