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Bridge of Double Beauty, connecting the Chinese Garden to the Japanese Garden. The 13-arch White Rainbow Bridge [b] at the garden follows the style of the Seventeen-Arch Bridge at the Summer Palace in Peking. [11] In 1989 a second bridge, the Bridge of Double Beauty, was built, to connect the Chinese Garden with the Japanese Garden. [12]
The Chinese garden is a landscape garden style which has evolved over three thousand years. It includes both the vast gardens of the Chinese emperors and members of the imperial family, built for pleasure and to impress, and the more intimate gardens created by scholars, poets, former government officials, soldiers and merchants, made for reflection and escape from the outside world.
Japanese Garden (Japanese: 星和園, romanized: Seiwa-en, Chinese: 星和园) is a park and garden located in Jurong East, Singapore. Built in 1974 by JTC Corporation , it covers 13.5 hectares (135,000 m 2 ) of land.
The Waibaidu Bridge (Chinese: 外白渡桥; pinyin: Wàibáidù Qiáo; Shanghainese: Ngabahdu Jio), called the Garden Bridge in English, is the first all-steel bridge, [3] and the only surviving example of a camelback truss bridge, in China.
Yu Garden [1] or Yuyuan Garden [2] (traditional Chinese: 豫 園; simplified Chinese: 豫 园; pinyin: Yù Yuán, Shanghainese Yuyoe Wu Chinese pronunciation: [ɦy²².ɦɥø⁵⁵], lit. Garden of Happiness [ 3 ] ) is an extensive Chinese garden located beside the City God Temple in the northeast of the Old City of Shanghai at Huangpu District ...
The Nine-turn bridge (Chinese: 九曲桥) or Zigzag bridge is one of the features of Chinese Gardens, where the bridge is designed to turn several times, so one can enjoy viewing different scenes. The bridge is usually made of stones or concrete with decorated guard rails , and the angles of the turns can be at right angles, at any other angle ...
A zig-zag bridge is often seen in the Chinese garden, [1] Japanese garden, [2] and Zen rock garden. It may be made of stone slabs or planks as part of a pond design and is frequently seen in rustic gardens. It is also used in high art modern fountain gardens, often in public urban park and botanic garden landscapes.
Walls - Walls are strategically placed in the garden for design purposes. Walkways - The curvature of the walkways offer many views and angles. Bridges - Bridges and paths frequently zigzag, providing visitors with ever-changing vantages to experience the garden. Chinese philosophers also believed that zigzagging paths would throw off evil spirits.