Yangzhou | He Garden - The Premier Garden of the Late Qing Dynasty, Jixiao Mountain Villa
| He Garden - The Premier Garden of the Late Qing Dynasty, Jixiao Mountain Villa. Yangzhou | He Garden - The Premier Garden of the Late Qing Dynasty, Jixiao Mountain Villa
The Premier Garden of the Late Qing Dynasty
Jixiao - Leaning against the south window to express pride, ascending to the eastern heights to release a hearty sigh
🚩 Important Information
🔸Ticket Price💰: Adults 30, Students half-price (varies by peak/off-peak season, see image 3⃣ for details)
🔸Opening Hours: 7:30-17:30 (varies by season, see image 3⃣ for details)
🔸Suggested Visiting Time: 1.5h
🔸Address: 66 Xuningmen Street, Guangling District, Yangzhou City
🚩 Number One in the World
🔸The Number One Gallery in the World - The Fudao Back Gallery
The garden is divided into four parts: the East Garden, West Garden, Residential Courtyard, and Pianshi Mountain House. The Pianshi Mountain House is located to the south of the East Garden, while the Residential Courtyard is surrounded by the East Garden, West Garden, and Pianshi Mountain House. The two-story connected buildings and the complex gallery within the garden are integrated with the residential buildings in front.
🔸The Number One Window in the World - The Assorted Flower Window
Shaped like plum blossoms, crabapples, folding fans, and vases. Walking through them, one can enjoy the scenery along the gallery, with an extended view that is full of ancient charm
🔸The Number One Pavilion in the World - The Water Heart Pavilion
The Water Heart Pavilion is one of the few water theatres in China. Over a hundred films and TV dramas, including 'Dream of the Red Chamber' and 'My Fair Princess', have been shot here. The Water Heart Pavilion's 'Spring and Autumn on the Pot' uses the myth of the celestial mountain Fanghu to enjoy the scenery, play with immortals, watch plays, and listen to music, which is wonderfully delightful
🔸The Number One Mountain in the World - The Rockery
The Pianshi Mountain House is a unique masterpiece of rock stacking by Shi Tao, a great painter from the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, with a stone house hidden within its belly; the attached rockery is a group of rockeries over sixty meters long, stacked against the firewall behind the boat hall, with mountain paths above and a valley meeting below
🚩 Highlights
🔸Architecture: Unlike the symmetrical axis concept in foreign gardens, it adopts a natural approach, with pavilions, towers, and buildings irregularly scattered among the man-made or natural landscapes, aiming for the unity of heaven and man
🔸East Meets West: The main building of the Yuxiu Tower is two brick-and-wood structures, both traditional Chinese connected buildings and incorporating Western architectural techniques, see image 8⃣
🔸Scenes of the Four Seasons: Spring for tender buds, summer for ripe greenery, autumn for red maples, winter for frost on branches. The scenes of the four seasons are different, and the joy is endless
🚩 The visitor center at the entrance has free stamps for visitors to use
🚩 Classical gardens are super photogenic for photography, it is recommended to wear modern Chinese-style clothing/Qipao
‼️ It is recommended to avoid weekends and holidays. I went on a Friday and there were not many people. Friends say that the experience is not good on Saturdays and Sundays because it can get very crowded, and sometimes you encounter noisy senior groups (no disrespect to the elderly intended)
Some people ask how to choose between He Garden and Ge Garden
My suggestion is: If you can only choose one, go to Ge Garden. He Garden is a bit small, and perhaps because of the late Qing residence + chaotic times + change of owners, the interior layout is a bit messy. Although East and West are combined, the integration is not very good, a bit abrupt
🔸He Garden to view the flower windows, corridors
🔸Ge Garden to see the rockery (the four-season rockery of spring, summer, autumn, and winter is not to be missed), and the architectural clusters of Ge Garden are very clear, with the residential area, rockery area, and Wanzhu Garden being well-planned (for individual notes on Ge Garden, please go to the homepage~)
🍬 Of course, it's better if you can visit both gardens
The first time I came to Yangzhou Heyuan to play, the lotus flowers have been blooming one after another, and the photo with 🪷 is very popular. The biggest feature of Heyuan is the thousand-li corridor, the only one of the Jiangnan gardens. Walking on the second floor corridor is very cool. Hejia is also a talent, contributing to the country and the nation. It also makes the garden more valuable!
Very happy to play, the tickets are not expensive, the scenery is beautiful, the air is fresh and pleasant, people feel very comfortable and happy, refreshing, there are many people traveling, there are beautiful flowers and grass
Came on April 24, 2024. Heyuan is in the southeast corner of Yangzhou City, named "Ji Wuthering Villa", which was built by the late Qing minister He Yu after returning to Yangzhou, known as the "first garden in the evening Qing." Heyuan is not as big as a garden, but the scenery in the garden has its own characteristics. The evening Qingqing is the period of social change of the wind and clouds. Heyuan has different historical periods of scenery, such as: the stone mountain house "the first mountain in the world", is the painting world giant stone Tao monk stacked stone "the lonely book"; The 1500-meter re-route corridor known as the "first corridor in the world" is called the prototype of the Chinese overpass by industry experts; the Yuxiu Building and European-style corner building with the style of the early years of the Republic of China, etc.... It is recommended that you can follow the guide and patiently take a good look at every detail of Heyuan. Heyuan is not far from Pishi Street. It is recommended to arrange a half-day time to play together; there is also a well-known local restaurant in Yangzhou at the entrance of Heyuan, which can be used as a place for lunch or dinner.
Experience the essence of the beautiful scenery, feel the gardener's careful layout, clever corridors, exquisite flower windows, the combination of Chinese and Western aesthetics, all reflect the design of the Chinese garden masters and the craftsmen's skilled craftsmen, it is a highly recommended classic
As a famous garden in the late Qing Dynasty, Heyuan really reflects the combination of Chinese and Western. There are foreign buildings and gardens, and the promenade connects all the spaces together. It is very thoughtful and creative. I imagine that people living in it at that time must be very comfortable. No matter how rainy or snowy, they can shuttle freely in the promenade. This time I met the bloom of magnolia, and I couldn't help but take a photo of the magnolia with only ten days of flowering. There are also Shi Tao's stacked stones, and the moon in the water. This poetic space is very intoxicating.
The scenery is really beautiful, although the garden is not big, but there are many eyes, close to feel the prosperity and development of a family. It is very suitable for taking pictures in the ancient style. The gardening is in the Republic of China style, Hanfu, and everything to wear. There is even wedding photography here. I feel that there is no off-season here. There are many thieves on weekends. It is really difficult to want others to not be in the mirror.