The Five Seasons Sui Garden, 186 miles away from Nanjing South Railway Station, is located in a Republic of China building at Hanzhong Gate. It has 7078 garden-style elegance and tranquility, and is also full of Qing Dynasty-style Zen.
There are 9974 flavors of various refreshments.
It is more suitable for business negotiations.
"Five Seasons" is taken from the five seasons of spring, summer, long summer, autumn and winter; while "Suiyuan" is taken from Suiyuan on Xiaocang Mountain in Nanjing where Yuan Mei retired to her post as an official.
Wuji Suiyuan roots the space of tea in the architecture of the Republic of China, which is rich in cultural heritage, and is obsessed with the ultimate experience. Every step of drinking tea has a sense of pious ritual.
Plants and trees in the world are full of joys and sorrows, people and tea are in the cup. Nanjing people have a long history of drinking tea. Since ancient times, there has been a saying that "ten miles of the Qinhuai River, half the city has tea smoke".
During the Ming and Qing dynasties, there were many tea shops in Nanjing and a collection of famous teas.
There is a saying in "A Dream of Red Mansions" that "Jia Musu likes to drink and feast".
Literati highly praised tea drinking. Liu Yuxi, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, once said in a poem: "Walking up the mountain valley is like swimming in a mirror." Su Shi of the Song Dynasty once said, "You are not a true man until you reach the Great Wall. He can only travel twenty thousand miles." Wang Shouren of the Ming Dynasty once said, "Drink one cup a day."
A pot of tea can be worth three years of food."
According to historical records, Nanjing already had teahouses, tea houses, tea sheds, tea shops and other private tea drinking places in the Tang Dynasty.
The Ming Dynasty's "Jinling Chronicles" said: "The land of Qinhuai is planted with tea trees. Between spring and summer, wisps of tea smoke rise around the house." There is also a record in "Qing Bailei Chao": "Jinling people like to drink.
Tea... At the turn of spring and summer, we sit and drink on the floor in teahouses.