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Brief introduction of scenic spots in Xu Yuan (West Park);

Xu Yuan gardens are small and exquisite, with water as the main part, Shi Hang in the south and pavilions in the north, which makes the waterscape divided into seven parts, which are interrelated and independent, making people feel that there are big and small, small and big, and the virtual and the real set each other off, with distinct levels.

Xu Yuan Garden was built in Daoguang period of Qing Dynasty, with a history of 150 years. The whole park area is only more than 20 acres. The garden is dotted with flowers and trees, pavilions, mountains, lakes and stones, which is small and exquisite, beautiful and quiet. It is a garden with Jiangnan characteristics.

When you enter the park, the first thing you see is a large rockery group, which is made of stones of the zodiac. Rockery is one of the cultural elements in ancient garden buildings in China. Royal gardens in the north of China reflect true mountains and waters, while private gardens in the south often use rockeries and waters to reflect the natural charm of gardens. This big rockery, in the landscape construction, has played a role in restraining the landscape and created a better and better interest for tourists.

The landscape construction in Xu Yuan takes water as the main body. The water body shows a north-south trend. In gardening techniques, in order to break through a single narrow water body, the water surface is naturally divided into three independent and interrelated parts by painting boats and pavilions. The plane is like a long vase, which makes the middle part form a relatively open water surface. The North Pavilion of China Southern Airlines echoes from a distance, and the West Building faces each other across the bank in the east. Although separated and gathered, the scenery is natural and harmonious.

Pavilions and pavilions in Xu Yuan gardens are also very cleverly arranged. The "bottle mouth" stands in the water with Yilan Pavilion, a small bridge on the left and right, and Zhou Shi on the south. The golden pavilion on this mountain is called the hexagonal pavilion. This pavilion with cornices is double-topped. From a distance, it stands side by side like two pavilions, but from a close distance, it is a mixed whole. There are rocks under the pavilion, which are unique and inseparable, so it is called "Yuanyang Pavilion".

The building on the platform on the right is the largest building in Xu Yuan, Tongyin Pavilion, and its building materials are all paulownia. Tongyin Pavilion was the place where Hong Xiuquan and his subordinates discussed state affairs, which means to speak with one voice from top to bottom. In a group of rockeries in the north of Tongyin Pavilion, there is a stone tablet inscribed by Daoguang with four characters of "Mamu Stone House". It is said that Qin Shu, the governor of the two rivers, was poor when he was young, but he sat on a big rock in the stream all day and concentrated on his studies. Later, he finally became famous. Daoguang was moved by his hard-working spirit and wrote "Enlightenment Stone Room" to encourage future generations.

There is also a very famous stone tablet in the East Corridor of Xiyuan, which is Yu Yue's a night-mooring near maple bridge Poetry Tablet. It is said that it was moved from Hanshan Temple in Suzhou. Yu Yue, a famous scholar in the late Qing Dynasty, was called Ziqu Garden. In Poem Monument, Yu Yue told us that Jiang Feng in the poem Jiang Feng in a night-mooring near maple bridge, written by Tang Dynasty poet Zhang Ji, was actually "Jiang Chun" and later generations mistook it for "Jiang Feng". Of course, Yu Yue is only telling people this fact here, instead of emphasizing the transformation from Jiangfeng to Jiang Chun. It can be seen that Yu Yue's rigorous academic attitude. The pool is dug manually, and the circumference of the whole pool is about 1866 meters, accounting for more than half of the whole park area. The water in the pool is very clear, and the banks around the pool are made of Ming dynasty city bricks, which looks very old. There is a wooden boat-shaped stone fertilizer at the southern end of the pool, which is 14.5 meters long. According to legend, this stone boat was built by Yin Jishan, governor of the two rivers in the 11th year of Qing Qianlong. The plaque on the stone boat "Don't tie the boat" was inscribed by Emperor Qianlong during his southern tour. There is an old saying in China: "Water can carry a boat, but it can also overturn it." The pool is shaped like a horizontal vase, which is a metaphor for ordinary people in the world. Emperor Qianlong wrote the words "don't tie the boat" because he hoped that the people would live and work in peace, the world would be at peace, and the Qing Dynasty would never waver. The stone ship is divided into two cabins, front and rear, with a rolled top, exquisite shape and vivid image. There is a stone springboard for boarding. There is a rudder at the stern of the stone ship, the hull is bluestone, the bow is paved with blue bricks, the top of the cabin is yellow glazed tiles, and the two sides are inlaid with blue brick carved fences with colorful patterns such as peony, evergreen, curly grass, monkey, deer and bat. Sculpture is extremely rough and beautiful, full of traditional national characteristics. There are two lifelike carved lions at the top of the stone ship's doorpost, which were works during the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. The word on the lion's forehead looks like the word "Wang". In fact, it is the co-writing of the word "Heavenly King", because in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, "Wang Naitian Ye" was publicized, so in the handicrafts of this period, the word "Heavenly King" was engraved on the foreheads of all lions, tigers and dragons. This reflects people's admiration for the peasant leader Hong Xiuquan at that time. On the right side of the pool, the exquisite pavilion with upturned cornices is called "Forget Flying Pavilion". There is a plum blossom in the corner of the eaves, and a magpie stops on it. The magpie looked at its beautiful reflection in the water and forgot to fly.