Located in the northeast corner of Guangling District, Yangzhou City, Jiangsu Province, No. 10, East Yanfu Road, the Garden has been honored as one of the third batch of "National Key Cultural Relics Protection Units" and the "First Batch of National Key Parks". This private garden of Yangzhou salt merchant's residence in the Qing Dynasty is famous for planting green bamboos all over the place, and winning by the seasonal rockery in spring, summer, fall and winter. By the two Huai salt merchants Huang Zhijun in the Qing Dynasty Jiaqing 23 years (AD 1818) in the original Ming Dynasty "Shouzhi Garden" on the basis of the expansion of residential gardens.

The garden is famous for the art of stacking stones, bamboo shoots, lake stones, yellow stones, Yishi stacked into the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter wigwams, the law of gardening and landscape painting in one, by Mr. Chen Congzhou, a leading gardener, known as "the only example of the domestic".

In 2005, the Garden was hailed as a national AAAA-level tourist attraction and one of the twenty key parks in China, and in 2016, the Garden became one of the first national key flower culture bases.

Basic introduction Chinese name ：个园 Foreign name ：Geyuan Garden Geographic location ：No.10 YANFU EAST ROAD, GUANGLING DISTRICT, YANGZHOU, YANGZHOU, JIANGSU PROVINCE Climate type ：Subtropical monsoon climate Covered area ：24000 square meters Open time ：8:00-16:30 Attractions level ：National AAAA tourist attractions Admission price ：No.45.00 yuan in peak season Off-season：30.00 Yuan Famous attractions ：Seasonal Wigwam? Southern Residence Variety of bamboo ornamental area? Suggested Playing Time ：1-2 hours Suggested Playing Season ：All Seasons Must read before you go,Scenic Spot,Scenic Spot Introduction,Key Information,Scenic Spot Beautiful Picture,History,Architectural Layout,Main Attractions,Characteristic Wigwam,Spring Mountain,Summer Mountain,Autumn Mountain,Winter Mountain,Architectural Characteristics,Cultural Activity,Salt Supply Ceremony,Salt Merchant's Wedding,Thousands of Autumn and Powder,Tourism Guidelines,Traffic Route,Ticket Prices, Historical Development Qing Jiaqing In the 23rd year of the Qing Jiaqing period (1818), Huang Zhi Yun, the general manager of the salt industry in the two Huaihuai provinces, created a garden on the site of the old Shouzhi Garden in the Ming Dynasty. Liu Fengjuan compiled a record of the garden: "The garden pool hall is quiet, water and trees, and planted bamboo ten thousand rods, so it is called a garden." Tongzhi years, the garden was sold to the Zhenjiang Dantu salt merchants Li Wenan, after the Li family negative official debt, the warlord Xu Baoshan forced the Li family to use the garden to offset the debt. Between the Qing Xianfeng, the garden was once burned by soldiers, although not much damage, but also gradually to the depression. After the construction of 囯, it was restored several times and saw its prosperity again. In 1913, Xu Baoshan was blown up by the revolutionaries, and in 1926, the Li family gave up their garden, and then the garden changed its owner several times, which belonged to the Li family and the Zhu family successively. In 1988, the garden was awarded the third batch of "National Key Cultural Relics Protection Units" by the State Council. In 2005, the garden is known as the national AAAA level tourist attractions. Garden of the Garden In 2013, one of the construction projects of Yangzhou Cultural Expo City, the "History Museum of the Garden" was officially completed and opened, located in the southern residential area of the Garden. In 2013, the television art film "Yangzhou Garden" won the 46th Houston International Film and Television Festival in the United States, the highest level of this category "worldfest Remy Award". On September 24, 2015, the six-month restoration model of the Garden was completed, completely reproducing the Five Roads Residence and the Four Seasons Wigwam in the Garden, presenting the compound corridors running through the Five Roads Residence and the Four Seasons Wigwam, and restoring a number of elements of the Garden that had already been deserted. In April 2016, the Garden became one of the first national key flower culture bases. On July 15, 2016, among the 14 Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal Fine Tourism Routes released at the 2016 China Canal Culture and Tourism Integration Summit Forum, four routes included Yangzhou as one of the important stops, and Yangzhou Ziayuan was also included in them. Architectural Layout The Garden is a typical private residential garden, which is divided into a central garden, a residential area in the south, and a bamboo ornamental area in the north. Entering the garden from the residence, the first thing you see is the moonhole-shaped garden gate, on which the word "Zi Yuan" is written in stone. Behind the gate is the spring view, the summer view is located in the northwest of the garden, the autumn view is in the northeast of the garden, and the winter view is in the east of the spring view. Style Garden Architecture Main Attractions Hugging Mountain Building Hugging Mountain Building is a seven-pillar long building, burgundy spanning a summer and autumn between the two mountains, the two mountains east and west according to the building and pick up a number of trails through the upper floors, hugging the mountain building in the space of the two mountains in front of the building corridor around the two mountains in front of the chest, which is hugging the mountain building the name of the origin of the building. Holding the mountain building corridor can **** enjoy the summer and fall scenery, so it is now jokingly referred to as "time and space tunnel". Downstairs corridor of the south wall, inlaid with the Qing Dynasty Liu Feng Hao wrote the "bamboo stone record" carved stone. Clear Ripple Pavilion Clear Ripple Pavilion is a small hexagonal pavilion, upright and dignified, which can take in the scenery of the whole garden. Around the Qingyi Pavilion, there are many Taihu Lake stones, and the outside of the Taihu Lake stones is surrounded by a curve of green water, the Qingyi Pavilion will be under heavy guard to emphasize the beauty of the pavilion. Zhang Shuo and Qin Saijiu wrote about the Qingyi Pavilion in the Garden of Yangzhou: "The weather contains bamboo air; the mountain light is full of lake light. Series of books Garden opposite, Dongguan Street South, is another major salt merchant in Yangzhou Ma Ri ò, Ma Rilu brothers of the small Linglong Hill Museum of the former site of the small Linglong Hill Museum of the series of books building, book collection has "A large rivers and the north and the south" of the name. Later, the Ma family with Yangzhou salt decadence is becoming increasingly depressed, small Linglong Hill Museum changed hands several times, and finally was bought by Huang Zhi Yun, as a separate house, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was destroyed in the fire. live in the autumn pavilion live in the autumn peak of the pavilion, sitting east to west, built on the wall, three sides for the window, is the largest building on the garden rockery, the courtyard of the easternmost stone steps can be on the south peak of the autumn mountain. Pavilion in front of the "autumn from the sound of summer rain into the spring in the plum blossoms on the pistil to find" couplet for Zheng Xie (Zheng Banqiao) inscribed. Yiyu Xuan The Four Seasons Garden in the middle of the garden is "Yiyu Xuan", with three pillars in the east, and four windows on all sides, providing a panoramic view of the garden. The roof of the Xuan with Yangzhou common tile, corners slightly upward, east and west walls retained a few pieces of flower glass imported from France at the time of the construction of the garden. Yiyu Xuan is a place for the owner of the garden to receive guests, and there is a couplet in front of the Xuan: "It's good to play the piano in the morning and to play the drums in the evening, and it's good to have the old rain to the present day, when the rain first comes. For sentence gallery For sentence gallery has a curved corridor and a small pavilion several rooms, is the master of the search for poetry place, hanging a couplet "the moon reflected bamboo into a thousand words, frost high plum pregnant with a flower". It is connected to the west building and leads to the summer mountain to the northwest, to the main building of the "Four Seasons Holiday Mountain", Yiyu Xuan, to the north, and to the spring mountain and winter mountain to the east. The featured wigwam, Spring Hill, and Spring View are near the entrance to the south of the Guihua Hall. The two sides of the word garden door outside the bamboo high above the wall, bamboo bushes planted with stalagmites, to "inches of stone," the state of the shape of the "spring after the rain," the meaning. The bamboo and stones break the theme of "Spring Mountain", conveying the concept of "cherish spring" in traditional culture. When you enter the garden, you will find the same spring mountain, the same bamboo and stone paintings, the twelve Chinese zodiac signs embellished with hieroglyphic stones, and peonies and peonies planted in the flower beds. Outside the gate is an early spring scene, while inside the gate is a late spring scene. Summer Mountain Summer Scenery Stacked Stones with green-gray Taihu Lake stone is the main, stacked stones like clouds over the state of the fog rolled, the gardeners use the Taihu Lake stone unevenness and thin, penetrating, leakage, wrinkled characteristics, stacked stones more than not chaotic, from a distance Shu scroll smooth, tricky, such as clouds, such as the peaks of the strange; close-up view is exquisite, like the peaks, like the caves. Cave room can walk through, pick up the stairs and climb the mountain, a number of turns and reach the top of the mountain. The top of the mountain to build a pavilion, alongside the old pine. The stone path on the mountain, east of the long building, and Huangshi Mountain connected. Autumn Hill Autumn is a yellow stone rockery, in the northeast corner of the garden, with rough yellow stone stacked. At the top of the mountain, a four-sided pavilion is built, with ancient cypresses stretching diagonally across the gap, leaning against the jagged rocks. There are three stone paths on the mountain, one after two folds still return to the original place, a feasible two turns, meet the wall and return. Only the middle of the way, you can go deep between the peaks or down to the belly of the mountain chamber. Climbing in the cave left and right, the realm of different, there are stone rooms, stone benches, stone tables, roof holes, a line of heaven, and stone bridges flying beams, deep valleys and streams, there are flat meandering, there are three-dimensional winding, mountain and mountain, and connected to the pavilion. Autumn Hill Pavilion at the top of the hill, forming the highest attraction of the whole garden. Winter Mountain Winter wigwam in the southeast small courtyard, leaning against the wall stacked color white, body rounded Xuan Shi (snow stone), Xuan Shi wigwam containing quartz, welcome light is shining, backlighting is flare put white. And in the south wall open four rows of round holes, the use of narrow alleys and high walls of the airflow changes produced by the effect of the north wind whistling, become the atmosphere of the winter blizzard. Snow stone mountain, but also intentionally piled up a group of large and small snow lions, or jumping or lying, or sitting or standing. Architectural Features The biggest feature of the garden is the conception and construction of the "four seasons of rockery". In the garden with an area of less than fifty acres, there are four rockery areas with realistic shapes, which are respectively called spring, summer, autumn and winter. The whole garden to Yi Yu Xuan as the center, visitors along the direction of the trend, you can see the four seasons. From the point of view of using stone extremely strange, a garden using different texture of stone, reflecting different seasons, bamboo stone as the main body, to split the peak with stone as a characteristic. Twelve zodiac stone symbolizes spring, Taihu Lake stone symbolizes the scenery of Jiangnan in summer, yellow stone accentuates the uprightness of the mountains in autumn, and white snow stone highlights the cold feeling of winter snow, each with its own characteristics, which expresses the poetic meaning of "the spring scenery is bright and beautiful, like a smile, the summer mountains are verdant and verdant, the autumn mountains are bright and clean, like makeup, and the winter scenery is bleak and sleepy". The garden is a unique example of Chinese gardens with a novel purpose and strict structure. Cultural Activities Salt Supply Ceremony The Salt Supply Ceremony is an integral part of the Salt Merchants' Spring Festival Experience Tour in the Garden, and the staff of the Management Office of the Garden expressed the hope that the event would enable more citizens and tourists to experience the bustling atmosphere of the Spring Festival of the Salt Merchants, and to understand how the salt merchants worshipped the Salt God three hundred years ago, so as to understand more about the culture of the Salt Merchants. Salt merchant wedding On November 11, 2018, Yangzhou's century-old salt merchant's residence "Garden" reproduced the salt merchant's "wedding ceremony" of 300 years ago, with eight pairs of "newlyweds" traveling through time and space. "Wedding Ceremony". This is the fifth consecutive year Yangzhou organized the salt merchant experience wedding. At 8:30 that morning, the grooms dressed in traditional Chinese wedding clothes, from the south gate of the Garden, to Fuyuan to meet the bride. At the scene, the groom rode a high horse, the bridegroom team blowing suona, sedan chair, parade in Dongguan Ancient Street, along the way stopped to watch the public and tourists are for the newlyweds to send their blessings. Subsequently, eight pairs of "newcomers" in accordance with ancient wedding traditions, the newcomers across the fire bowl, over the saddle, collective worship, picking up the red cover ...... reproduced 300 years ago the salt merchants married the scene, experience the wedding ceremony of the ancient Yangzhou salt merchants. 8 pairs of "newcomers" step into the ancient Yangzhou. When the "new couple" stepped into the main stage of the wedding, two guqin teachers on-site for the newlyweds to send the qin xiao ensemble performance, wishing each pair of couples a full circle, a hundred years of goodwill. The "Thousand Autumn Zendai" is in line with the spirit of promoting Yangzhou's history and culture, highlighting the charm of Yangzhou beauty and entertaining tourists with elegant style intention, carefully choreographed a collection of songs, dances and musical performances in one of the literary and artistic programs. The content of "A Thousand Autumns of Pink Dye" involves the protection of the ancient city of Yangzhou and the culture of Yangzhou beauty, folk culture, salt merchant culture, restaurant culture, as well as Yangzhou School of Painting, Yangzhou poetry, Yangzhou flowers and bonsai, Yangzhou arts and crafts, Yangzhou theater and opera, Yangzhou folk songs and so on. From a small theater to a big stage, the Garden "Thousand Autumns Powder" in the exploration of innovation, innovation in the development, not only inherited Yangzhou's intangible cultural heritage, Yangzhou traditional culture, but also a blend of some modern performing arts, so that the whole performance of the ancient and modern flavor of the blend. Not only to show visitors the original flavor of the salt merchant's mansion amateur life, but also for visitors to Yangzhou can better understand Yangzhou culture, intangible cultural heritage provides a new platform. Tourist Guide Transportation Route Western Bus Terminal (West Bus Station), Yangzhou Railway Station, take the Tourist Line (28 stops) to the "Garden" station, or take No. 88 (13 stops) / No. 26 (18 stops) / No. 1 (20 stops) / No. 18 (24 stops) to the "Stone Pagoda Temple". "Take No. 25 (10 stops)/No. 58 (14 stops)/No. 52 (18 stops) to "Dongguan Gudu" and transfer to Tourist Line (2 stops) to "Lianyuan". "The former Chengbei Bus Terminal (Bus Company No. 3) take No. 25 (12 stops) to "Daming Temple" and transfer to the special tourism line (9 stops) to "Garden" station. Ticket prices Sightseeing tickets: peak season 45 yuan (March, April, May, June, September, October, November, December), half-price tickets 22 yuan, off-season 30 yuan (January, February, July, August) Opening hours: 7:15-17:30