What are the Four Great Gardens of China

The Four Famous Gardens of China are the outstanding representatives of ancient Chinese garden art, which are the Humble Administrator's Garden, the Liouyuan Garden, the Summer Resort in Chengde and the Summer Palace in Beijing.

1, the Humble Administrator's Garden

The Humble Administrator's Garden is located in Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province, covers an area of 5.6 hectares, and has become an outstanding representative of the south of the Yangtze River gardens. The Humble Administrator's Garden is characterized by "clumsiness" and "nature", with lakes, rocks and plants as the main landscapes, combined with the buildings, forming an ingenious layout and exquisite natural landscape. It is regarded as "the first garden in the south of the Yangtze River".

2, Liouyuan

Liouyuan is located in the ancient city of Suzhou, is one of the earliest private gardens in China's history, but also a representative of Suzhou gardens. The garden was built in the Southern Song Dynasty in the first year of YuanTong, so far has a history of more than 800 years, the garden landscape attractions are more, which is most famous for the Ripple Garden. Ripple Garden for its hall view, the garden to stay, the district corner, rhyme, colorful carvings as a garden design boutique. The Garden of Reunion is an outstanding representative of the creation of traditional Chinese garden art, which is a perfect combination of exquisite garden landscape and ancient culture and art.

3, Chengde Summer Resort

Chengde Summer Resort is a representative work of the Qing Dynasty Royal Garden, "the world's landscape hunting resort" reputation. It carries the ancient Chinese emperor's appreciation of natural scenery, vacation and entertainment habits, but also one of the masterpieces of Chinese imperial gardens. Summer Resort has a series of smoke island, Zhan Yuan, Pine Forest Tuo, Yunmeng Mountain, meditation courtyard and other attractions and buildings, of which Zhan Yuan, also known as "Zhan embracing the world scenery", is the largest area of the Resort, the most complete preservation of a garden, Zhan Yuan within the Zhan Yun building is enjoying the reputation of the "Northeast Nine Scenic Spots" one of. The Zhan Yun Lou in the garden is one of the "Northeast Nine Scenic Spots".

4, Summer Palace

Summer Palace is a royal garden of the Qing Dynasty, located in the western suburbs of Beijing, covering an area of 293 hectares. The main body of the Summer Palace is the Beijing city of Yongle Emperor's old garden bedding Shengshan, up and down the collocation under the building is very well planned, the surrounding suburbs of natural landscapes, and the Forbidden City adjacent to the Chinese garden is one of the jewels of the art of Chinese gardens.

Liuyuan covers an area of:

Liuyuan covers an area of more than 30 acres, a set of residential, ancestral halls, home nunneries, gardens, the garden synthesizes the art of gardening in the south of the Yangtze River, and the architectural structure of the strengths of the use of the size of the good, straight and curved, dark and light, high and low, and put in the changes, drawing on the surrounding scenery to form a group of richly layered, staggered and connected, with rhythm, color, and contrast. There is a rhythm, color and contrast of space system.

The whole garden with the building to divide the space, can be divided into four scenic spots in the middle, east, west and north: the middle to the landscape, the pool is clear and secluded, the peaks surrounded by ancient trees; the east of the building is mainly, heavy eaves and buildings, curved corridors, sparsely and densely populated, strange peaks and rocks, fascinating; the western environment is secluded, with the mountains and forests, wild; the north of the bamboo hut, quite a countryside flavor.

Liuyuan buildings in Suzhou Gardens, not only the number of distribution is also relatively dense, the layout of the rational, spatial treatment of the clever, all for the garden. By the Liouyuan entrance to the "Liouyuan panorama", each building in its own distinctive personality, from the overall view, there is no sense of chaos, giving people a continuous, holistic concept.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-The Four Great Gardens of China