Jichang Garden is located at the eastern foot of Huishan on the east side of the western suburbs of Wuxi, in Xi Hui Park of Huishan Street, adjacent to Huishan Temple. The garden site was originally the residence of Huishan Temple and two other monks. It was acquired by Qin Jin. In the early years of Jiajing in Ming Dynasty (about AD 1527), it was transformed into a garden and named "Gu Feng Villa". Qin Jinxi, the nephew of Yuan nobles, made Qin Liang, the father and son of Qin and Han Dynasties in Jiangxi. In the thirty-ninth year of Jiajing (A.D. 1560), gardens and houses were built in Qin and Han Dynasties, and ponds and mountains were cut, also known as "Gu Feng Villa". After Qin Liang's death, the park was changed to Qin Yan, the right deputy of Duchayuan and nephew of Qin Liang, governor of Huguang. In the 19th year of Wanli (A.D. 159 1), Zhang, a teacher, was chased and dismissed from office. After returning to Wuxi, I sent my love to the mountains and rivers, dredged ponds, built gardens and houses, and built twenty gardens, each with a poem. Take Wang Xizhi's poem "Answering Xu Xun" as an example: "Take benevolence as fun and send happiness to mountains and rivers". 1952, Qin Lianggong, a descendant of the Qin family, presented a garden for the country, and the Wuxi Municipal People's Government repaired and protected it, gradually restoring the style of the ancient garden. Jichang Garden is a famous classical garden in southern China. It was declared as a national key cultural relics protection unit in the State Council on June1988+1October 13. 1999 in 2000, with the approval of National Cultural Heritage Administration, the southeast of Jichang Garden destroyed in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom War was restored by Xi Hui Scenic Area. Xu Lingting, Xianyue Pavilion, Woyuntang and other buildings have been restored successively, and the garden landscape in its heyday has been restored, making the whole ancient garden full of elegance.

Jichang Garden belongs to the mountain villa type. Now Jichang Garden covers an area of 14.85 mu, which is long from north to south and narrow from east to west. The landscape layout takes the mountain pond as the center, skillfully borrowing and mixing nature. The rockery depends on the eastern foot of Huishan Mountain, and it looks like a remnant vein. It also forms a winding stream, in which the Er Quan flows with gurgling sound, known as Bayin Creek in the world, which is far opposite to Jinhuiyi in the front Quchi. Pan Yuting Gallery, Zhiyu Threshold, Qixing Bridge, Hanbi Pavilion and Qingyu Gallery are built by water, which are in harmony with rockery. The trees in the garden are towering, the bamboo shadows are swaying, and they are desolate and graceful. With ingenious borrowing scenery, superb stacked stones, exquisite water management and building washing, it is unique in Jiangnan gardens.

Generally speaking, the success of Jichang Garden lies in its "natural mountains, exquisite water, simple gardens, Gu Zhuo trees and ingenious scenery". It is no wonder that Emperor Kangxi and Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty visited here many times, reciting poems again and again, which shows their love and appreciation. The humorous garden in the Summer Palace in Beijing and the grand duke of Kuanran in the Yuanmingyuan (later also called Shuanghezhai) were both built after the Jichang Garden in Huishan, Wuxi.

[Edit this paragraph] Historical evolution

Jichang Garden, also known as Qinyuan Garden, was once two monasteries in Yuan Dynasty, named Nanyin and Lu Yu. During Zheng De's reign in Ming Dynasty (A.D. 1506- 152 1), Qin Jin, a descendant of Qin Guan, a famous poet in Northern Song Dynasty, was a scholar in Hongzhi for six years. He used to be the minister of Nanjing Ministry of War, bought the "Lu Yu House" in Huishan Temple, and expanded it on the basis of the original monk house, dug a pool on the mountain and moved it away. There are many ancient trees in the garden, leaning against a pier. This pier was built by Zhou Chen, the governor of Jiangnan, in the tenth year of orthodoxy (AD 1445) to improve the geomantic omen of Huishan Temple. When building the garden, Qin Jin wrote a poem: "Famous mountains are built for the elderly, and there are nests to build. There are hidden rocks in the meandering stream, long pine and ruby. The peak is high to see the bird crossing, but the path is quiet and few people pass. How can it be heard in the Voice of Mooncherry? " After Qin Jin's death, the garden was inherited by his nephew Qin Han and his son Qin Liang (the messenger of Jiangxi). In the summer of the thirty-ninth year of Jiajing (A.D. 1506), a garden pool was built at the foot of Huishan Mountain in Qin and Han Dynasties, also known as Gu Feng Villa.

After Qin Liang's death, this garden was changed to Qin Yao, right deputy of Duchayuan and governor of Huguang. Qin Yao is a member of Lindong Party. In the 19th year of Wanli (A.D. 159 1), Zhang, a teacher, was dismissed and returned to his hometown. After returning to Wuxi, he was depressed because of political failure, so he sent his feelings of depression to the mountains and rivers, and borrowed Wang Xizhi's poem of "sending the shadows of mountains and rivers" to change the name of the garden to "Jichang Garden". Twenty scenes in Wanli, and Qin Yao wrote poems one by one.

At the end of Qing Shunzhi and the beginning of Kangxi, Qin Yao's great-grandson Qin Dezao rebuilt it. At that time, Zhang Lian, a famous gardener, and Zhang Shi, his nephew, were invited to decorate carefully, and the landscape was managed, with scattered springs and stones, and the landscape was beneficial. Emperor Kangxi and Emperor Qianlong visited the garden six times each, which was the heyday of the garden. Meanwhile, in the early years of Yongzheng, Qin Daoran, the eldest grandson of Qin Dezao, was imprisoned because of the court struggle, and the southwest corner of the garden was cut out to build a chastity hall in Wuxi County. In the first year of Qianlong, Daoran's third son Qin explored flowers in palace examination and entered Zhinan's study. The next year, he suffered from Chen Qingbiao, but he was released and the garden was returned. Qin Ruixi, the grandson of Germany's Fannie and Freddie, the richest man in the Qin family, invested 3,200 yuan in silver, innovated independently and preserved the ancient garden, and made great achievements.

In the 11th year of Qianlong reign, the clan discussed that "only the garden pavilion belongs to the sightseeing place, and a family temple must be built before it can become an immortal". Jiashutang in the garden was changed to "Double Filial Piety Temple", and Jichang Garden was the ancestral hall public property, so it was also called "Filial Piety Garden". At the end of the New Dynasty (A.D. 175 1), Qianlong made his first southern tour, decided Jichang Garden as a place to visit, rejoiced in its secluded place, and took a group photo with him to return to China. He imitated Huishan Garden at the northeast foot of Wanshou Mountain in Qingyi Garden, Beijing, which is now the "humorous garden" in the Summer Palace. During the reign of Xianfeng and Tongzhi, most of the buildings in Jichang Garden were destroyed by fire, and then they were slightly repaired. 1952, descendants of Qin handed over private gardens to the state for protective restoration. The original chastity hall was also incorporated into the garden, which is a small courtyard of today's "Military Auditorium". Later, Jiushi Tusi City was rebuilt one after another, so were Jiashutang, Mei Ting and the neighboring Brahma Pavilion.