If you come to Shanghai, you must come to Yu Garden to have a look, as a famous garden in Shanghai, although it lives in the downtown, the area is only more than 20,000 square meters, but because of the clever design, the layout twists and turns, the quiet, so it has become a tourist destination that tourists at home and abroad have been yearning for. The reporter can not remember how many times has been to Shanghai, but to Yu Garden is a deep memory, remember the last century on November 13, 1992, reporters to participate in the "fourth Shanghai TV Festival" during the first visit here. In the blink of an eye 13 years later, May 18, 2005, when the reporter came to Yu Garden for the second time, he should write a travel story to be worth the idea of this trip, so, after viewing the tour, he readily made the following records.

Old Town God Temple (Photo by Feng Ganyong)

 The Yu Garden in Shanghai is attached to the old City God's Temple. The old City God Temple, full of rich ethnic customs, is another famous tourist attraction in Shanghai, where there are buildings with the style of Ming and Qing dynasties, a variety of small goods are dizzying, and the sound of enthusiasm can be heard. The old Town God Temple snacks have a long history and a long reputation. By noon dinner time, the snack square in the Hefeng building was almost full, and there were as many as 500 kinds of special snacks such as Cantonese steamed points, crab powder pan-fried, three fresh bean skin, gluten noodle, spicy crab, and barbecued, all of which were sold in the form of self-service, which was very convenient.

Old Town God Temple Commercial Street (Photo by Feng Ganyong)

 So speaking of Yu Garden, first of all, you have to go through a few lively commercial streets, and then you will have the discovery of a village. The elegant and unique nine-winding bridge in front of Yuyuan Garden and the pavilion in the middle of the lake become one of the symbols of Shanghai. Visitors walk on the bridge to bend and turn, fighting snakes, moving to change the scenery.

Pavilion in the heart of the Lake and the Nine-Ququ Bridge (Photo by Feng Ganyong)

Why are winding Bridges numbered with "nine"? It is understood that according to the traditional customs of the Chinese people, nine is the highest number of Yang, with auspicious meaning, so the name "nine Qu Bridge", actually take its auspicious meaning. Folk is spread "children walk nine songs, lucky for a long time; The students walk nine songs and score ninety-nine; Lovers walk nine songs, long and everlasting; The old man walks nine songs, lives to ninety-nine "ballad.

Foreign tourists, lakeside (Photo by Feng Ganyong)

 Entering Yu Garden, visitors will be delighted by the unique beauty of the gardens in the south of the Yangtze River. Information records: the Ming Dynasty Yu Garden is an important traditional tourist resort in Shanghai, enjoying the reputation of "a strange show in the southeast". The garden was founded in 1559 (38 years of Ming Jiajing) by Pan Yunduan, a former scholar of the Ming Dynasty and a Shanghai native who had served as a history of Sichuan Province. Initially covering an area of more than 70 mu, once flourishing, after several wars, there are still more than 30 mu.

Reporter took two photos in Yu Garden (Photo: You Yong, Wu Changmin)

The layout of the garden is exquisite and the scenery is pleasant. Pavilions and pavilions are scattered and scattered, curved corridor each other, pools linger and rockeries embrace, precious flowers and trees and stones struggle to shine, showing the style of "Jiangnan famous garden", and left the ruins of the famous "Xiaodao Hui" uprising in Shanghai in the Qing Dynasty.

Listen to Tao Pavilion, rockery (Photo by Feng Ganyong)

There is a famous rockery in Yu Garden, about 10 meters high, with about 2000 tons of Zhejiang Wukang Huangshi team. This is the creation of Zhang Nanyang, a master gardener in the Ming Dynasty. Blocks of stone heaps of nature, layers of peaks, deep caves, so that visitors like into the deep mountains. It can look far and close.

Long Corridor, Liucui Gate Cave (Photo by Feng Ganyong)

 The wall in the garden is winding and undulating. It is decorated with a dragon head on the top and is formed by tiles in the shape of a dragon, symbolizing the dragon body. A pile of walls is called the dragon wall. In ancient China, the dragon was the symbol of the feudal emperor and could not be casually used as decoration on buildings. The dragon wall in Yu Garden was built in the late Qing Dynasty, and the "dragon" only had three or four claws, in order to avoid the suspicion of "five-clawed golden dragon".

Splash Wall, Rain Tower (Photo by Feng Ganyong)

 The "Jade Linglong" in front of Yuhua Hall is one of the three famous stones in Jiangnan and the treasure of Yu Garden. The ancients evaluated stone, there are "wrinkle, leak, transparent, thin" four standards, jade Linglong is the four best, and "transparent, leak" on it, it is the crown cover the country, reputation at home and abroad. There are many brick carvings and clay sculptures in Yu Garden, which not only have a long history, but also are very exquisite.

Landscape selection of Yu Garden (Photo by Feng Ganyong)

 There are also a large number of famous and ancient trees in Yu Garden, more than 30 of which are over a hundred years old. The oldest tree in the garden is the ginkgo tree in front of Wanhua Lou, which is more than 400 years old. When the great contemporary poet Guo Moruo visited Yu Garden in 1961, he wrote "exquisite jade fortress thousand Jun heavy, zigzagging tower ten thousand surname you." Sit so that the lake and mountains increase color, Yu Garden has a history of thousands of years "poem.

Yu Garden Pavilion (Photo by Feng Ganyong)

As a national key cultural relic protection unit, the Shanghai Yuyuan Garden Management Office has always paid great attention to the restoration and protection of this classical garden. The reporter saw in Yu Garden like "ancient stage" and other scenic spots are still under renovation. Time flies, fifteen years have passed, the reporter believes that if you come back now, you will see a more perfect Yu Garden. (Photo: Feng Ganyong)