The top ten famous garden houses in Shanghai, Lilac Garden, located at No.849 Huashan Road at the intersection of Wu Kang, made Huashan Road a noble place a hundred years ago. Nowadays, this courtyard with wisteria winding and dragons entrenched, this all loves and fragrant cloves are still telling the ancient and romantic legend. This garden is rumored to be the private garden of Li Hongzhang, the minister of Beiyang in the late Qing Dynasty, and was later passed on to his young son, Li Jingmai. Another rumor is that Lilac Garden was originally the residence of Lin Crawford, a senior class of Taixing Foreign Firm in England, and was later sold to Li Jingmai, the youngest son of Li Hongzhang. But no matter which rumor. It's all about Li Jingmai. Let's deduce the first statement for the time being. From/kloc-0 to the late 1960s, Li Hongzhang, as the leader of the Westernization School, started modern military industry, textile industry and shipping industry in Shanghai, such as Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, Machine Weaving Layout, Ship Merchants Bureau, etc., and often lived in Shanghai, and then he was his concubine Lilac. Li Hongzhang entrusted Sheng Xuanhuai to buy her a real estate in Shanghai. Sheng got the message, so he bought 2.67 hectares of land on Haige Road (now Huashan Road) and invited Isaiah Rogers, an American architect, to design in Shanghai. Rogers is one of the pioneers of modern architecture, and he is good at combining new equipment such as sanitation, fire fighting and heating with architectural art. He built a novel villa and a big American garden, in which many lilac bushes were planted, which people called Lilac Garden.