Auther：2022-05-26
Zhan Garden,located in the core area of Qinhuai Scenic Area in Fuzimiao, Qinhuai District, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, Zhan Garden Garden is the oldest surviving classical garden of the Ming Dynasty in Nanjing and one of the Four Famous Gardens of Jiangnan. Its history can be traced back to the Ming Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang's Wu Wang Mansion before he became the emperor, and then given to the Zhongshan King Xu Da's residence garden, known for its rockery, named after Ouyang Xiu's poem Looking at the Jade Hall, like in the sky, known as the first garden in the southern capital in the Ming Dynasty.
Zhan Garden is the most well-preserved classical garden complex of the Ming Dynasty in Nanjing, and the only open Ming Dynasty royal residence, which was once part of the residence of Xu Da, a founding minister of the Ming Dynasty, and was the office of various Jiangnan ambassadors of the Qing Dynasty, as well as the royal residence of Yang Xiuqing, the Eastern King during the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Zhan Garden was built through the Ming, Qing, Taiping, Republican and contemporary times, and like most gardens in Jiangnan, its history is complex and its appearance has changed over time.
Zhan Garden is a mountain-oriented, water-supported landscape garden water body to gather mainly, so that in the smaller space can show the water surface wide, open, and for the mountains, pavilions, pavilions and pavilions to unfold the wonderful scenery; and then supplemented by points, so that the water body tears zigzag like intermittent increase the level and depth of the landscape. Zhan Garden area of about 20,000 square meters, a total of more than 20 large and small attractions, elegant and exquisite layout, there are magnificent ancient buildings of the Ming and Qing dynasties, steep and steep rockery, the famous Northern Song Dynasty Taihu Lake stone, quiet and elegant pavilions and pavilions, strange peaks and rocks.
