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This picture of the Yuyuan Garden in Shanghai (created in 1559) shows all the elements of a classical Chinese garden – water, architecture, vegetation, and rocks. This is a list of Chinese-style gardens both within China and elsewhere in the world.
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.
Xu Garden, also known by its Chinese name of Xuyuan, Xu Yuan, [1] or Xuyuan Garden, [2] is a Chinese garden in Slender West Lake National Park in Hanjiang District, Yangzhou, China. It is particularly noted for its views and for the interior woodwork of its pavilions.
"Beihai" is the pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of the garden's Chinese name, 北海, meaning "Northern Sea". The name corresponds to the "Central Sea" (中 海, Zhōnghǎi) and "Southern Sea" (南 海, Nánhǎi) immediately to the park's south, still used—under the combined name Zhongnanhai—as the restricted headquarters of China's paramount leaders.
The Classical Gardens of Suzhou (Chinese: 苏州园林; pinyin: Sūzhōu yuánlín; Suzhounese (): sou 1-tseu 1 yoe 2-lin 2) are a group of gardens in the city of Suzhou, in Jiangsu, China, which have been added to the UNESCO World Heritage List.
Just like ancient Chinese gardens, it is densely decorated and planted with a vast variety of trees, including more than 1000 osmanthus trees. [7] This is one of the few parks in Shanghai that kept most of the aspects of traditional Chinese garden design, featuring gates, lakes, grottoes, rocks, curved paths, animal-shaped stones, stele and pavilions.
Geyuan, Ge Yuan, or Ge Garden is located on Dongguan Street in Yangzhou, a city renowned for traditional private gardens, in Jiangsu Province, southeast China. [3] Geyuan is open to the public, with different sections representing each of the four seasons. Spring is demonstrated with a picture of bamboo and rock.
The Canglang Pavilion (traditional Chinese: 滄浪亭; simplified Chinese: 沧浪亭; pinyin: Cāng Làng Tíng; Suzhou Wu: Tshaon laon din, Wu Chinese pronunciation: [tsʰɑ̃ lɑ̃ din]), variously translated as the Great Wave Pavilion, Surging Wave Pavilion, or Blue Wave Pavilion, is one of the Classical Gardens of Suzhou that are jointly recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.