Yu Garden
31°13′45″N 121°29′15″E / 31.22917°N 121.48750°E
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Location | Shanghai, China |
Created | 1577 |
Yu Garden
This garden is accessible from the Shanghai Metro's Line 10 and Line 14 Yuyuan Garden station.[5]
A centerpiece is the Exquisite Jade Rock (
History
Yu Garden was first built in 1559 during the
In its original form, Yu Garden has many manufactured waterways, paths, rockeries, plants and buildings. The grounds were designed to be a complex of different gardens within one centre, Leshou Tang.[9] From Pan's own records, the garden served as hub for many social activities when he lived there, and those events influenced the texture of Shanghai society.[9] In particular, of Pan Yuduan's journal entries from 1586 through 1601, nearly three quarters of them are related to various public performances that were held in the garden, with the Leshou Tang being the main venue for these events[9].The garden was the largest and most prestigious of its era in Shanghai, but eventually its expense helped ruin the Pans.[10]
The garden was later inherited by
The gardens suffered damage numerous times during the 19th century. During the
Design
Today, Yu Garden occupies an area of 2 hectares (5 acres).The approach to the garden is across a Nine-turn bridge crossing a small pond with a teahouse. The entrance is off the forecourt at the end of the bridge.[12] Yu Garden reflects the garden style of Jiangnan garden architecture in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.[13] It perfectly blends decorative halls, elaborate pavilions, glittering ponds, zigzag bridges, archways, and exquisite rockeries.
Yu Garden is divided into six general areas laid out in the
- Sansui Hall (Ming Dynasty.
- Wanhua Chamber (万花楼, Wàn Huā Lóu, lit. "Chamber of the Ten Thousand Flowers") – includes Wanhua Chamber, Yule Pavilion, Double Lane Corridor and Ginkgo Tree of 400 years old staking out the front courtyard.[13]
- Dianchun Hall (点春堂, Diǎn Chūn Táng, lit. "Heralding Spring Hall") – built in 1820, the first year of the Daoguang Emperor; served as the base of the Small Swords Society from September 1853 to February 1855.
- Huijing Hall (会景楼, Huì Jǐng Lóu) – includes Jade Water Corridor, Three-Turn Bridge, Nine Lion Study.[13]
- Yuhua Hall (.
- Inner Garden (内园, Nèi Yuán) – rockeries, ponds, pavilions, and towers; first laid out in 1709 and more recently recreated in 1956 by combining its east and west gardens.[3]
Each area is separated from the others by "dragon walls" with undulating gray tiled ridges, with the gateways and zigzag corridors connecting each other.
What's more, each subgarden represents a unique subtopic and corresponding storylines, which indicates the designer's deep feeling and personal stories through the arrangement of different elements inside each subgarden.[14] In the most original form of Yu Garden, Sansui Hall represents the subtopic of harvest and long-living; Wanhua Chamber represents the subtopic of flowers and stones; Dianchun Hall represents the subtopic of spring and sunlight, and it was used for musical performances; Yuhua Hall represents the subtopic of wealth, and it was designed as Pan Yunduan's studio; Huijing Hall represents the subtopic of joy and glory, and it was designed for enjoying the waterscape and the whole scene. These sub-topics are derived from the main theme of the garden----'peace and pleasure'; meanwhile, they develop their own stories, and they together manifest the main theme of the garden.[14]
Features
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Surroundings and remark
The garden is surrounded by city god temple and Yuyuan Bazaar.[12] Yuyuan Bazaar is located right next to Yu Garden, with beautiful Chinese architecture and design coupled with hundreds of shops selling pieces of jewelry, silk, antiques, arts, crafts, souvenirs, and local snacks.[13] Throughout the years, Yu Garden has maintained a delicate balance between scholarly elegance and gaudy consumerism from its earliest days, and it has served as the stage on which the drama of the Pan family and the drama of the people of Shanghai have been performed.[9]
Gallery
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Built in 1855, the Huxinting Teahouse at the Yu Garden pond remains in use in 2018
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A vendor at the Yuyuan Bazaar near Yu Garden, 2018
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Crooked bridge & rounded gate
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Koi in the large pond
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One of the dragon wall end-pieces
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The Exquisite Jade Rock
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One of the rockeries
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The door of the dragon wall
See also
References
- ^ Yuyuan Tourist Mart. Official Website. "Yu Garden." Accessed 12 Mar 2012.
- Shanghai Municipal Government. Official Website. "Garden Celebrations Set to Light up City". 6 Feb 2012. Accessed 12 Mar 2012.
- ^ a b c d 上海豫园介绍. 欣欣旅游. Retrieved 31 October 2013.
- ^ "Huxinting Teahouse in Shanghai China".
- ^ Shanghai Metro. Official Website. "Yuyuan Garden Station Map". Accessed 12 Mar 2012.
- ^ "7 Things You Didn't Know About the Yu Garden of Shanghai". 15 November 2017.
- ISBN 1741792835. Accessed 12 Mar 2012.
- ^ a b Liau, Monica (2017-11-15). "7 Things You Didn't Know About the Yu Garden of Shanghai". Culture Trip. Retrieved 2023-02-26.
- ^ ISBN 9789888313983.
- ISBN 978-0-470-64377-8.
- ^ 山石韩,Rockery Han, http://www.rockeryhan.com
- ^ ISBN 9780812207255.
- ^ a b c d "Yu Garden, Yuyuan Garden & Bazaar - Things to Do in Shanghai". www.chinadiscovery.com. Retrieved 2023-02-26.
- ^ a b Lu, Shao Ming (2009). "From Syntax to Plot the spatial language of a Chinese garden" (PDF). Proceedings of the 7th International Space Syntax Symposium.
- ^ Shanghai Cultural International Exchange Base, 2010
External links
- "Yu Yuan map". Shanghai Cultural International Exchange Base.
- "Yu Yuan Area". Shanghai Travel Guide.
- Geographic data related to Yu Garden at OpenStreetMap