Shanghai Yu Garden

 

 

Yu Garden locates at the northeast corner of the old city in south Shanghai. It was first built in 1559(Ming Dynasty), has a history about 400 years. The famous Yuyuan Market near it. Renowned traditional landscape garden in Jiangnan, it is also a historical site and tourist attraction famous at home and abroad. In 1982, it was listed as an important relic protection unit.

 

There are six main tourist sections in Yu Garden. Each section has its own special sights. After entering the garden, for a while, you may see a big rockery with springs and small waterfalls. It has a reputation that it is the best rockery in Jiangnan district. The building"Cui Xiu Tang" is the main sight in this section.

From the building"Yu He Xie" to"Wan Hua Lou", there are full of exquisite corridors, rivers, rockeries, courtyards. The stone hill – Jade Exquisite (Yu Ling Long in Chinese) is the treasure of the Yu Garden. It is praised as the No.1 of the famous three stones in Jiangnan district. Facing the Jade Exquisite is the building"Yu Hua Tang". Inside it, it is a traditional sanctum in Ming Dynasty. All the desks and chairs are made of precious rosewood.

The Inner Garden is also called the East Garden. It was alone in the past. But now, it belongs to the Yu Garden. It was first built in 1709(in Qing Dynasty). There are a lot of rockeries, halls, pavilions, corridors, etc. All of the buildings strew at random. The main building is this garden is Qing Xue Tang. It is so exquisite and elegant and has the feature of Chinese traditional landscape garden. Outside of the garden, there are many famous sights like water lily pool.

A lot of brick carvings, stone carvings, mud sculptures, and wood sculptures intersperse among the Yu Garden. They not only have a long history but also have extremely exquisite designs. Among them, The Eight Immortals Going across the Sea, Guanghan Palace, etc, has high value of viewing and culture relic.

As the carrier of traditional Chinese culture, the Yu Garden becomes attached to painting and calligraphy. A lot of famous artists in Ming Dynasty wrote poems and painted here. For hundreds of years' accumulation, there are thousands of precious paintings, furniture, porcelains, etc. All of them are culture relics of high value.

The garden was spectacular! It was built by a man named Pan during the Ming Dynasty. It was changed and rebuilt for hundreds of years by different descendents of the original builder. The garden is a virtual maze of caves, gardens, rockeries, paths, bridges, and buildings. Even though many people have had a hand in rebuilding the garden over the centuries, it is seamlessly blended. Every corner you turn has a new surprise, and a total different view. It is often the situation that a person has come across a single area from three different places, and don't realize he kept coming to the same place. It was ingeniously built and shows the amazing architectural style of Ming and Qing Dynasty.

In 1999, it is Yu Garden's 440-year-old birthday. Chairman Jiang Zemin wrote an epigraph"Famous Garden in the Sea" for the Yu Garden. It is a special sight in the Yu Garden. It is really an amazing place to go and relax.

 

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Shanghai the bund    Nanjing road     Three Tower in Shanghai   Shanghai Urban Exhibition Planning Hall

 

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