Qin Dezao invited Zhang Lian, a famous landscape architect at that time, and Zhang Shi, the nephew of Zhang Lian, to decorate the landscape carefully, manage the mountains and water, relieve the springs and pile up rocks, and create a scenic garden.
In Qing Dynasty, Emperor Kangxi and Emperor Qianlong visited the Garden six times, and both of them must come to the Garden, which was the heyday of Jichang Garden.
1746, the Qin family discussed that "only the garden pavilion belongs to the sightseeing place, and a family temple must be built to become immortal", so the family book hall in the garden was changed to "double filial piety temple" and Jichang Garden was changed to ancestral temple public property, so Jichang Garden was also called "filial piety garden".
175 1 year, Qianlong made his first southern tour and designated Jichang Garden as a tourist destination. Qianlong thought that "Huishan Qinyuan is the oldest scenic spot in the south of the Yangtze River" and "loves its seclusion", so he returned to Beijing with drawings and built a garden at the east foot of Wanshou Mountain in Qingyi Garden (the Summer Palace), named Huishan Garden.
18 1 1 years later, it was renamed as "humorous garden", and he thought that the best five Jiangnan gardens were imitated in other parts of Beijing. The other four places have already been destroyed, and only Huishan Garden in the Summer Palace is still well preserved.
In the Imperial Monument Pavilion in front of the Beauty Stone in Jichang Garden, the Qianlong Imperial Pen is still preserved. It is said that when Qianlong visited here, he thought this beautiful stone held his head high and had manly courage, so he renamed it "XieFeng Ru".
The owner specially carved the inscription and poem of Qianlong into a stone tablet and stood in front of the mirror pool. In the south corner of the stone, there is an unremarkable stone, like a toad, drooling over the beauty stone, just like a toad wants to eat swan meat.
During the whole 100 year from 1684 to 1784, the two emperors visited Jiangnan 12 times, and they must visit here every time, leaving many poems, plaques and couplets. There are still two stone tablets in Jichang Garden, namely "Mountain Lights" by Kangxi and "Imperial Jin Jia Sect" by Qianlong.
Cao Yin, the grandfather of Cao Xueqin, the author of A Dream of Red Mansions in the Qing Dynasty, also wrote poems in Woyuntang, saying, "Huishan Tibi":
Holding Fengxiang's old cassia twig and lying in Yuntang's old poem. After a long separation, I can admire the Qin family.
Later, the descendants of the Qin family dedicated their private garden to the country, and brought the original chastity hall into the garden, making it the A Bing Auditorium, which has been preserved to this day. The Ice Auditorium is simple and generous, decorated with wooden lattice French windows and 18 fans. It is said that this hall was named in memory of Guan Gong.
After Cao Cao put Guan Yu under house arrest, he only gave him a room to test him. Guan Yu gave his room to his sister-in-law, and stood outside the door, reading by moonlight until dawn. Cao Cao admired this very much. The owner of the garden admires Guan Gong even more. The title is "Li Bing", which means holding candles and observing etiquette.
Later, in Jichang Garden, Nine Lions and Stones were rebuilt one after another, and Jiashutang, Mei Ting and the neighboring Brahma Pavilion were also rebuilt.
Through the osmanthus forest, you can see the "Nine Lions Terrace". Jiushitai is a large rockery. The whole rockery looks like nine giant lions made of Taihu stone.
It is said that this is based on the painting Nine Lions by Ni Zan, a great painter in Yuan Dynasty. Climbing the lion's head is the highest point of the whole garden, and the whole garden can be seen at a glance.
The existing Jiashutang is the northernmost building in Jichang Garden. Standing in front of the main hall, the beautiful western hills in the south, the Longguang Tower at the top of the mountain, the fish-knowing sill and the Yujin Pavilion in the garden are integrated into one, forming a wonderful scene of "the shadow of the mountain tower". This is the embodiment of the gardening style of Jichang Garden.
Mei Ting is located at the top of Bayinjian rockery, standing at the commanding height of Mei Ting, pitching all beings. Going forward, what is even more strange is that where there is no doubt that there is no road, a path suddenly turns out, which is narrower, more curved and more secluded. Walking out of the cave-like hole, it suddenly became clear, and there was another village in front of Jiashutang and Jinhui. Looking from a distance, the Xishan Longguang Tower, "seeing high standards in the shadow of idle towers", came into view, which broadened the landscape.
This is another ingenious application of the gardening technique of "restraining before promoting". Experts call it "Tibetan scenery", and the so-called "the deeper the Tibetan scenery, the greater the realm." Moreover, this combination of Tibetan scenery and borrowing scenery can create unexpected artistic effects.
Bayinjian exit is also the transformation hub of Jichang Garden landscape. From here, it turns right, creating a new scene and stepping into Buhe Beach.
The adjacent Van Gogh Pavilion is located in the south of the garden. The Vatican is a Buddhist community, and the pavilion is built on a rockery. Because it is close to Huishan Temple, it is named "adjacent to Van Gogh". The original building was destroyed, but what survived was later rebuilt according to the records of the "Jichang Garden" of the Ming Dynasty King. Looking at the neighboring Van Gogh, you can see the scenery of the Western Hills.