In the previous article, it was mentioned that the third batch of national key cultural relics protection units includes Geyuan and Heyuan in Yangzhou. After visiting Geyuan, you should also visit Heyuan. They will always have different places, right? As soon as I said I would go, I arrived at the entrance of He Yuan. Unfortunately, it was pitch black and dark, so it's worth watching. If you don't look, you won't see.

Geyuan is known as one of the "Four Great Gardens in China", while Heyuan boasts of being the "number one in the late Qing Dynasty" and is also a red slogan written by Luo Zhewen, a student of Liang Sicheng and an expert in ancient architecture. The gate of He Yuan faces east instead of south. Its courtyard walls are not as tall as a garden, but its entrance is the appearance that a well behaved wealthy family should have. The gate hall of He Yuan is a single opening building style gate, with a coupon added at the back. There are two steps in front of the door, and on both sides of the goalpost, there are bell shaped stone pillars, which are of Huizhou style. What is Baogu? Baogu is the ancient news drum in front of the gate of the yamen. When people encounter injustice, they are not allowed to stop the carriage and complain, but are allowed to beat the drum to file a complaint. Only households with official positions are allowed to have door piers, which are divided into drum shaped and square box shaped. Military officials use drum shaped newspapers for their homes, while civil officials use square box shaped ones. There are also fierce beasts such as lions on the doorsteps of senior officials' homes. The pair of stone drums at the entrance of Heyuan are probably not doorposts, but decorations. The part of the door pier inside the door frame has a circular hole called the sea nest, which is used to install the door pivot, also known as the "door pivot without damage". The width of the stone drum at the entrance of Heyuan is not enough, and the door shaft cannot be installed inside the door.

The scope of He Yuan has gradually expanded over time in history, and the current He Yuan is a private residence built by He Zhizhen in the late Qing Dynasty. During the reign of Emperor Guangxu, He Zhizhen served as the governor of Hubei Province and concurrently as the director of Jianghan Pass, holding the position of Dao Tai in the Han Huangde Road. Ren Guanglu, a doctor, held the rank of first-class official. In the ninth year of the Guangxu reign of the Qing Dynasty (1883 AD), He Zhizhen became unhappy with his official duties. Not to mention the decline of the Qing Dynasty, Qing officials were still constantly influenced by foreigners. He retired to Yangzhou with a golden seal and bought a piece of homestead in Yangzhou to build this He Garden. He Zhizhen worked as an official in Hankou and was greatly influenced by the westward trend, but deep down, it was still rooted in traditional Chinese culture. The He Garden he built retains the traditional Chinese aesthetic of gardens, but is not limited to the layout of traditional private residences, and also borrows some Western architectural elements. So, this He Garden is completely different from traditional private houses. It is not a front house and a back garden, and the garden is not on the side of the house, but the house and garden are integrated. This kind of private garden is truly unique, rare in the world and extraordinary in the human world. So, it is not false to say that it was the first in the late Qing Dynasty.

In the ninth year of the Guangxu reign, He Zhizhen purchased an existing stone mountain house and a large adjacent piece of land in Yangzhou. There may have been some buildings on this large piece of land, but Lao He transformed it into his own residence, and the old garden no longer exists. This large area was called Shuanghuai Garden before Lao He came, and its original owner is unknown.

The usual house with one hall and one voucher has a screen inside the voucher, which is called a screen door. There is no screen inside the He Yuan gate ticket, it is open. But its ticket is like a traditional one that takes half a circle of hand picking corridors.

The other half of the circle is not a corridor, but a side hall, which is now a tourist center.

This space cannot be described as a traditional courtyard, it is just a small garden without a main house. In front of it is a undulating courtyard wall, with a moon lit door on the wall. The door plaque reads "Ji Xiao Shan Zhuang", which is the name of He Zhizhen's garden when he built He Yuan.

Emily, one of the three sisters of Bronte, had a novel Wuthering Heights, which was published in 1847. Wuthering Heights was not translated into Chinese until 1930, so He Zhizhen's visit to Wuthering Heights was definitely not inspired by Wuthering Heights. They say that the meaning of 'Ji Xiao Shan Zhuang' comes from two lines in Tao Yuanming's' Returning to the West ':' Relying on the southern window to express pride 'and' Ascending to the east to comfort oneself with a whistle '. The borrowing of meaning from Tao Yuanming's resignation from official duties and returning to the fields is in line with He Zhizhen's behavior of sealing gold seals, both of which are meant to express her inner turmoil, so' Xiao 'is necessary.

Entering the gate of the villa, there is a hall, which is the Peony Hall. Because the gate of Heyuan faces east, what I saw when I entered the villa gate was the east wall of Mudan Hall.

On the top of the Peony Hall is the single eaved grey tile ound ridge roof Xieshan. Look at its vertical ridge and ridge, which are hollow ridges made of grey bricks. Yangzhou big houses are mostly built of such brick ridges. There are mosaic brick carvings on the mountain flowers at the top of Xieshan Mountain, which are messy and cannot be seen. It is said that this is called "Wind Blows Peony". As Bai Juyi said, 'When the Ming Dynasty winds up, they should be blown away.'. There is already a garden in the house here, and there is a house in the garden. Strange stones and flowers were arranged around the Peony Hall.

There is another hall behind the Peony Hall.

This is the ship hall, with a width of three bays and a depth of two bays, and an open pavilion surrounded by eaves and corridors. Glass partition doors and windows are installed on all four sides. The stones laid on the ground around the boat hall have a wave like meaning, so they say this hall is a boat. They also hung a couplet on the eaves and pillars of the Ming room, which reads "The moon is the master, the plum blossom is the guest, and the flowers are the four walls of the boat, the home", very cool and beautiful.

The glass partitions in the ship hall are very beautiful, and the eaves and corridors are also exposed.

There are short arched beams on the inner and outer columns of the eaves corridor. In the north, these short beams are mostly straight, while in the south, the Huizhou style often has such arched beams, called "moon beams". Isn't it very vivid?

There are rockeries around every building in Heyuan. There is also a the Taihu Lake Lake rockery in the northeast corner of the Boat Hall. There is also a six column pavilion on the rockery.

Why don't I call it the Hexagonal Pavilion? That's because its roof really doesn't have six corners. I want to say that it is round and sharp, but it has six ridges. The plaque reads' Near Month '. During the Song Dynasty, Fan Gong became the captain of Qiantang and promoted many people of all sizes. His trusted confidant, Su Xunjian, saw that he was not promoting himself in his old age, so he presented a poem to Fan Gong, which included the phrase "When you are near the water tower, you will first receive the moon; when you are facing the sun, flowers and trees will easily find spring. After reading it, Fan Gong felt ashamed and covered his face with one hand while signing an order to immediately promote Su, the inspector. Since the Moon Pavilion stands on the mountaintop, it is far away from the water. How can we get close to the moon? Ah, he said 'the moon leaves the mountain top', so this pavilion is close to the moon.

To the west of the ship hall, there is a two-story corridor.

This is a major feature of He Yuan, called the compound corridor, which extends in all directions. Walking down the corridor, I saw many poetry steles pasted on the wall.

This is Su Shi's' Dengzhou Haishi '. In the eighth year of the Yuanfeng reign of the Northern Song Dynasty (1085 AD), Su Shi served as the governor of Dengzhou for four months, with the prefectural office located in Penglai. He heard that there was a mirage to admire in Penglai, so he went to the seaside cliff to explore. Fellow villagers say that spring and autumn are common, but you came a little late. Su Shi went to the Temple of the Sea to worship the gods and make a wish. The next day, he went back and indeed saw the wonderful mirage. After returning from sightseeing, I wrote this song 'Dengzhou Haishi' and even went to the Haishen Temple to fulfill my wish. The sea god saw that Su Shi was talented and trustworthy, so he recommended him to the current emperor, Emperor Zhezong Zhao Xu. With a transfer order from the emperor, Su Shi returned to the capital and became a scholar in the Ministry of Rites. Soon, he was promoted to the position of Hanlin Bachelor by rocket.

There are not only poetry tablets on the wall, but also leaky windows. When the probe looked, it turned out that there was scenery on the partition wall.

Take a look at the winding corridor.

There is also a calligraphy tablet at the corner of the corridor, this time it is Yan Zhenqing's "Three Table Stickers". Yan Gong has three tables, one is the "Table of Gratitude to Ancestral Officials"; One is the "List of the Minister of Constitutional Affairs"; This is posted as the 'Xie Jianyu Dafu Table'.

This is the starting point of the compound corridor, which takes a "concave" shape to form a horseshoe shaped courtyard. There is a pool of water in the middle of the yard, and a pavilion has been built on it.

This pavilion sits on a white stone pedestal in the water, facing east and west, with rockeries decorating the back half circle. The pavilion is a square pavilion with four corners and a sharp roof. There is a circle of ice cracks between the pillars, under which is a bat grass hollowed out wooden door cover. Under the pillars is a circle of hollowed out wooden back benches, and the door opens to the west. There is a circle of Ruyi stone carved railings outside the pavilion, and a white stone platform outside the west door.

When observing the completion of a home, it is necessary to conduct a thorough inspection and name and inscribe couplets for each building, which is a tradition in Chinese garden construction. In the 17th chapter of A Dream of Red Mansions, "The Grand View Garden was just tested and the Rongguo Mansion returned to the province to celebrate the Yuanxiao (Filled round balls made of glutinous rice-flour for Lantern Festival)". The Grand View Garden built for Princess Yuan's relatives was completed and accepted. Jia Yuanchun's father Jia Zheng took her brother Jia Baoyu into the garden to name each building with a couplet. Tang Dynasty poet Wang Wei had a poem that goes, 'When I reach the water's edge, I sit and watch the clouds rise.' However, when I reached this water pavilion, I realized that it was already 'when I reach the water's edge, I scratch my ears and cheeks.' His brain was momentarily short circuited and speechless, so he had to name the pavilion 'Water Heart Pavilion'. This name is not artistic at all, but the He family still wants to do artistic things in this pavilion. He hires people to sing opera here during festivals and holidays. What play is being sung? Don't be fooled by the fact that Yangzhou is close to Suzhou and Anqing, but at that time, what was popular in Yangzhou was not Pingtan or Huangmei, but Huagu. He Zhixuan has worked as an official in Wuhan and can listen to Huagu opera without any problem; But he is from Anhui and seems to prefer Huangmei opera. So, no one knows what play was sung in this pavilion back then.

There is a building on the north bank of this water called Huisheng Building. Its downstairs is called the 'Butterfly Hall', which is the banquet hall of the He family.

I estimate that there must be a theater troupe at the Shuixin Pavilion, whether it's foreign guests or relatives gathering together, to cheer them up. Cao Cao once passionately sang, 'When it comes to wine, it's like singing a song about life. For example, when it comes to morning dew, there are many hardships in the days to come. When it comes to emotions, it's like being passionate, and worries are unforgettable. How can we relieve our worries? Only Du Kang can do it.'. He observed that even with the act of sealing gold and hanging seals, if he were to write a composition with a pen, he would definitely have a strong sense of Jian'an style.

Across from Huisheng Tower is a winding corridor, and after turning along the corridor, there is an independent courtyard.

There are mountains, flowers, and a building in the courtyard, which is called the Moon Appreciation Building. Who is admiring the moon upstairs? It's Mrs. He, this is Mrs. He's Peach Garden.

This is a formal building facing north and south. The old lady lives in the main room, rests in the east room, and worships Buddha in the west room. The layout of this main room is not right. The yellow pear patterned table is very high-end, and the purple sandalwood inlaid marble grand chair is also very high-end, missing a square table. You can't let the old lady sit there holding her tea bowl, can you? Isn't she still shivering and sprinkling tea all over her body? I have to shout 'Someone, change my clothes' all day long. Mrs. He would stand upstairs in the corridor to admire the moon every evening when the fifteenth lunar month was full. If her children and grandchildren go out to watch a movie that day, she will raise her glass and invite the bright moon to join them in a threesome. Southern old ladies usually have Shaoxing wine in their cups. They stand outside the railing and rest after drinking it hot. There is a plate of salted bamboo shoots or anise beans on the railing.

After singing from the Moon Appreciation Tower courtyard, Lengyue turned east and passed through a lane.

It's just another courtyard, with buildings to the north and south, and connected by winding corridors to the east and west.

The tree in the middle of the yard is full of flowers ready to bloom, about to shine. Take a closer look.

You must know this flower, yes, it's Qiong flower, the city flower of Yangzhou. Why did Yangzhou choose Qionghua as its city flower? Because there is this ancient Qiong tree in He Garden. You must know from its shape that it also has a name called Woody Hydrangea. The two buildings in this courtyard are called Yuxiu Tower. Embroidery is the embroidered ball on top, and jade is the tall magnolia behind the embroidered ball.

This Yuxiu Building is the He family residence, which belongs to the mixed use of commercial and residential. It is both a place for sleeping and working. It is a combination of Chinese and Western styles, with a two-story Chinese style building as a whole. It is a common string building in the south and a tube shaped building in the north. The tube shaped buildings in the north have corridors in the middle and rooms on both sides; The southern buildings have corridors outside. You can see many Western architectural elements from the picture above. The semi-circular arch voucher is Western style, and there are Western style blinds on the doors and windows. The sparrow shaped pillar on its eaves has been transformed into a bow shaped reinforced support, although it has Chinese style carvings, it also has Baroque curls. The railing on the second floor seems to be a Chinese style cane railing, but you can see the column at the position of the railing board, which is typical of Western classicism.

Take a look at the silhouette doors of Chinese pavilions and Western style chandeliers in the hallway.

He Zhizhen also has a hobby of calligraphy and painting, and her appreciation skills are extraordinary. He Guan has a collection of many famous paintings. When Huang Binhong was young, she lived in He Garden to appreciate paintings and spar with Lao He. There are also many descendants of the He family who are good at painting, and their grandson He Zhengzhai is one of them. Take a look at the owner's studio.

The room is painted with white gray on the walls, with a Western style lamp pool and Western style chandelier. The Louis XV style writing desk is equipped with a Ming style armchair. The horizontal plaque on the wall reads' Zhihong Zhai ', with He Zhizhen, Huang Binhong, and He Zhengzhai working together. The line on the couplet goes, 'Smoke and clouds leave a stubborn collar to the ancient times.' In the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Xuan wrote, 'When I wear my collar, I still have a habit of smoke and clouds. When I stay on a boat, I search for the Water and Bamboo Lord.'; The next sentence is "Clouds and waters discuss the strange encounter and combination". In ancient times, it was used to describe meeting and merging as encounter, which can be encountered but not sought after. He Zhengzhai wrote this couplet, marveling at the three of them meeting and all having a smoking addiction, it's amazing. The most eye-catching feature of this Western style room with Chinese style decoration is the Louis XV writing desk.

Take a look at this room.

European style fireplace, Chinese style tables and chairs, with a yellow sandalwood carved marble round screen in the middle. This room should be the living room or living room. The circular screen should have been placed elsewhere, but because it is too beautiful, it is displayed here and cannot be approached by people.

Take a look at the lady's bedroom.

This arrangement is very impressive, not for anything else, just for that nylon bed tent. Nylon is the world's first synthetic fiber, introduced in 1939. According to the historical records of the He family, it was in 1901 that the He family left He Garden to establish an industry in Shanghai. How could this object exist here before that? Miss He must have lived here after 1939.

In addition to the scenery inside the courtyard, the space outside the Yuxiu Building is not vacant and has also been decorated with small views.

After passing the Jade Embroidery Tower, walk east along the winding corridor, and when you reach the south entrance, you can also walk to a building. Because there is a hallway in the middle of its first floor, it is called the Horse Riding Building.

This equestrian tower, like the Jade Embroidery Tower, is also a Chinese style tube tower with Western elements. The Equestrian Building is the guesthouse of the He family. As the saying goes, 'The host and guests come to be diligent.' The house observed by He is so wonderful that guests will inevitably come frequently. The main guest is also elegant, and Huang Binhong is the most frequent visitor in the old rain of the He family. We have seen the plaque "Zhihong Studio" in the master's studio of Yuxiu Building, and Huang Binhong's main destination for He's residence was that room. In fact, Huang Binhong can also be considered as Mr. He's in laws. Mr. He's wife calls Huang Binhong his uncle, and it is unknown who is older than his niece. Before reaching the age of thirty, Huang Binhong diligently studied calligraphy and painting. He heard that the father-in-law of a niece in the clan owned advanced ancient calligraphy and painting, so he asked the clan leader to introduce him to Mr. He. Although it often rains at Mr. He's house, there are many new and old rains that come and go, and few who really throw tantrums. So, seeing that Huang Jun truly loved calligraphy and painting and had great potential for creating them, Lao He gladly introduced them to Gaotang. Lao He not only brought out his collection of masterpieces from various dynasties for guests to admire and study, but also took him to the collection circle in Yangzhou for a new rain. During this period, Bin Hong would naturally sit and lie down at the He's Guesthouse, and even arranged a high room. Huang Binhong once visited He Yuan six times to explore painting, and later on, it was to have a deep exchange with Lao He. Lao He held an ancient calligraphy and painting seminar in the garden, where everyone expressed their artistic views, discussed techniques, and conducted some material research. Huang Binhong eventually became a master of calligraphy and painting, and there are also descendants of the He family who have followed Huang Binhong to learn how to paint.

The complex corridors in He Yuan connect the entire residential area, including Huisheng Tower, Moon Viewing Tower, Jade Embroidery Tower, and Horse Riding Tower. These buildings are all two-story and serve as daily activities for the elderly and young of the He family. They are connected by multiple pathways and corridors, which facilitates transportation and facilitates mutual interaction. Yangzhou is rainy, even in the misty rain, the elderly and young of the He family can go to the Butterfly Hall in Huisheng Tower for seven and eight meals without getting their robes wet or mud splattered on them. The idea of a compound corridor is not something that anyone can come up with. Like the Five Pavilions Bridge in Shouxi Lake, the compound corridor in Heyuan is the only one in the world. The Fudao Corridor and the buildings connected to it should have been built by He Zhizhen after purchasing Shuanghuai Garden in the ninth year of Guangxu, and belong to the new buildings in He Garden.

There are still some old houses in Heyuan, which should have been built before the He family came, such as the Xuchun Hall below the west side of the Horse Riding Building.

The Xuchun Hall faces north and south, with a width of seven bays and a depth of three bays, making it quite large in scale. There are three exits on the front and eaves corridors around. Lifting beam structure, with gray tiles and a single eave gable roof on top, and a single eave gable roof on the pavilion. There is a couplet hanging on the front eave pillar of the Baoxia Mingjian, which reads "Retired scholars spend their whole lives eating quinoa and amaranth, scattered people travel thousands of miles in the world of rivers and lakes". It comes from Lu You's "Gift to Tongdao Ren Gai and Yu Tongjia Zi". Take a closer look at the column foundation of this building, it is drum shaped; And the buildings we saw earlier were all built on overturned pillars. So I said that this Xuchun Hall and the buildings in front of it are not from the same period, and it is very likely that they are remnants of the original Shuanghuai Garden. After the He family arrived, they also tampered with this building. Look at the sparrows under its eaves, columns, and horizontal beams, which were replaced with arched supports like the Jade Embroidery Tower. From its roof, it should be from the mid Qing Dynasty, not earlier than the Qianlong period. The solid walls of the east and west are enclosed, and the front, back, and pavilion are all wooden threshold walls with glass partition windows. Go in and take a look.

The main hall, consisting of three rooms wide, is separated by wooden walls between the main room and the secondary rooms on the east and west sides. This is the living room. Transparent construction is beneficial for ventilation and corrosion prevention in the rainy and humid south. There are hollow wooden carved door covers between the rear pillars, forming the front and rear sections. He Guanyan retreated from behind the scenes, resigned from his official position, and the living room no longer needed to be decorated as an official room. There is no back screen on the front, nor is it the old three piece set in the hall, just a simple square table and two grand chairs. On both sides are the same grand chair and square chair, which should actually be replaced with a simple style armchair. The furniture is all Qing style with intricate carvings. It is amazing that there is a Tibetan style wool carpet in the center of the living room, which is rare in folk culture, especially in damp places like Yangzhou. Look up again at that chandelier, with a Western view.

The horizontal plaque "Xuchun Hall" under the golden pillar is taken from the poem "Xuchun Hall" by Chen Xuan, a poet of the same period as Su Shi in the Song Dynasty. The poem says, "The slanting sun on the upper floor seems to fly, and the autumn scenery in front of the building penetrates people's clothes. The horizontal blue smoke and mist are thick and can be swept away, and the half red frost and cold wood depend on each other. There are couplets on both sides of the pillars, with the inscription 'Do not let the good days of Spring and Autumn pass by' taken from Tao Yuanming's poem 'Spring and Autumn have many good days, climb high to compose new poems'; The couplet 'The most difficult time for old friends to come in the wind and rain' is probably taken from Du Fu's' Autumn Annals', indicating that it is rare for both old and new rains to come.

According to the introduction in front of the hall, this is another Nanmu Hall, which is said to be the best preserved and largest Nanmu Hall in Yangzhou. If he hadn't said it, I wouldn't have realized that this hall was made of nanmu because all the wooden components were painted. I don't know if it was for protection or for destruction.

To the west of the Horse Riding Building is the Xuchun Hall before He Lai, and to the east of the Horse Riding Building is also the old house before He Lai. That is an independent garden within a garden called Pianshi Mountain House.

This is a part of He Zhizhen's purchase of homestead land back then, which has been preserved without large-scale renovation. Even so, the stone mountain houses are not complete. What can be seen now is the back half of the courtyard towards the former residence. The front courtyard is basically gone, leaving only a section of corridor.

The last main room to enter the courtyard is also the front room of the backyard. Behind this house is the pond and rockery in the backyard.

The hall to the south of the pool is a brick structure, but all the wooden components on top of it are also made of nanmu. They also call it the nanmu hall, and the wooden structure here is not painted. The Nanmu Hall is connected to a water pavilion outside through a mountain gate.

This pavilion is called a non tied boat. When there are fish in the water, you can observe them here; When there are no fish in the water, you can observe the water here.

The most famous feature of Pianshi Mountain House is the stacked rockery on the north bank of the pond.

He is famous because this mountain was built by Shi Tao. Shi Tao is also quite tragic. His family is related to the person surnamed Zhu who lived in the Ming Dynasty palace. His ancestors were the Jingjiang King of Guilin, who was conferred the title of Yuanzhang brother. Shi Tao's father was the last Jingjiang King in the late Ming Chongzhen period, and was eventually killed by Ming officials who had to bow down for five dou of rice in the early Qing Dynasty's Shunzhi period. You Shitao has been in prison for several years. After he got out of prison, he changed his name to Shi Tao and became a monk in Mount Huangshan Mountain. He is a monk in Mount Huangshan Mountain, and his name is Yuanji. Zhu Da, a descendant of another feudal lord in the late Ming Dynasty, also became a monk and changed his name to Ba Da Shan Ren. The four person group consisting of Shi Tao, Zhu Da, and two other Ming dynasty monks is called the Four Monks of the Early Qing Dynasty. This four person group is famous not for their ability to recite scriptures, but for their mastery of calligraphy and painting, especially Shi Tao and the Eight Great Mountain People. Shi Tao is not like the Eight Mountain People who are good at painting weird flowers and birds. Shi Tao is visiting Mount Huangshan and painting Mount Huangshan, "searching all the strange mountains and making drafts", and has also created a Mount Huangshan painting school. Shi Tao is good at painting mountains and waters, with steep cliffs and strange rocks. After achieving pure green painting skills, Shi Tao left the mountains and entered the city of Nanjing, waiting for the emperor to come for inspection. During Kangxi's second southern tour, Shi Tao infiltrated the formation of local officials and stepped forward to pick him up, calling himself a "minister monk" who presented paintings and wrote poems. After Kangxi left, Shi Tao saw these paintings as silent as mud cows entering the sea, so he followed them into the capital city. He painted two paintings for several powerful officials, one for personal use and the other for tribute, with the message 'Here are the officials and monks, waiting respectfully for their heads to fall.'. To no avail, in fact, Kangxi had already sent someone to investigate him. After learning about his background, he feared that there might be a rebellion from the Zhu family in his mind, and instructed all officials not to deal with him. Shi Tao had no choice but to retreat to Yangzhou after failing to capture him in the officialdom. He was not defeated by this misfortune. He worked hard in Yangzhou, painting and selling paintings, stacking stones and selling mountains, and had a great time.

Is Pianshishan House Shi Tao's residence? There is no record, but at least there is a consensus that the rockery by the pool is the result of stone waves stacking stones. Strictly speaking, this rockery is built of the Taihu Lake Lake stones, not pieces of stones. Is it true that before Shi Tao, there were mountains stacked with stones here? This is also not recorded. Take a look at a typical stacked mountain of rocks.

At sunrise, a "moon in the water" appears in the pool of Pianshi Mountain House. It turns out that there is a hole in the rockery, and when the sun walks into the water from that hole, it naturally leaves a moon shadow, which amazed both ancient and modern people. Today is pitch black, without a tour guide's description, no one can enjoy it on their own.

The west wall and west corridor of the mountain house should also be left by the previous landlord of the He family.

There is a window on the back wall of the pavilion, which shows the view of a rockery next door. I came to this mountain house from that courtyard, and I don't remember there were mountains and waters to admire in that courtyard. When I approached to take a closer look, I saw a mirror. This mirror should be from a certain industry, as there were no Western style mirrors of this size in the era of Shi Tao.

Standing under the west corridor, looking towards the through door of the Nanmu Hall on the opposite side, which is bottle shaped.

Standing under the corridor, I took out a collection of poems from my pocket and read, 'Smoke and rain pour out in the desert, the north gate of the west corridor of the Water Hall. Even though I am dressed alone, I still forbid fire. Under the crabapple flowers, I fear the dusk.'. This stone mountain house has mountains, water, nanmu, and a mirror with flowers and a moon in the water. When it rains, water sprays out of the mountain and falls into the pool, just like a waterfall spraying into a rainbow.

In 2019, Beijing hosted the World Horticultural Expo. Prior to this, Beijing also held the China International Horticultural Expo in 2013. The former focuses on floral design, while the latter focuses on garden art. The 2013 Beijing Garden Expo included a Chinese Garden Museum, which replicated several classic Chinese garden pieces. This includes the northern style Beijing Half Acre Pavilion, the exquisite Suzhou Changyuan, the Lingnan style Guangzhou Yuyin Mountain House, and this rocky mountain house in Yangzhou. The ancients commented in the "Yangzhou Painting Boat Record" that "Hangzhou is victorious with its lakes and mountains, Suzhou is victorious with its four markets, and Yangzhou is victorious with its gardens and pavilions. The three stand in a balance, without distinction. The China Garden Museum has selected a Suzhou garden and a Yangzhou garden reconstruction exhibition, which are also outstanding representatives of ancient Chinese gardens. Take a look at the replica of Pianshi Mountain House in the Garden Museum.

In ancient times, the literary and artistic tycoons Ouyang Xiu and Su Shi in Yangzhou had a memorial hall in Pingshan Hall. This Shi Tao was also built by modern Yangzhou people in a small memorial hall next to the Pianshi Mountain house, without the meaning of a temple, just to introduce Shi Tao's artistic career. Take a look at the exhibition paintings inside.

The Painting of Silence in Mountains and Rivers, written in the 24th year of Kangxi (1685 AD), is a work of Mount Huangshan School, which was written by Shi Tao during his waiting period in Nanjing. The original work is still in the Shanghai Museum, this is a replica.

In 1901, Mrs. He passed away unexpectedly. After finishing his mother's funeral, He Zhizhen left Yangzhou with his family and went to Shanghai for development. He himself passed away in 1908. The descendants of the He family established industries, finance, and education in Shanghai, and also produced some celebrities. Among the descendants of the He family, I know the fourth generation descendant of the "Zuo" generation, Academician He Zuoxiu, who is a nuclear physicist.

After admiring the stone mountain house, I suddenly felt hungry and discouraged in my stomach. Although material wealth has greatly increased today, as Lin Meimei said, 'In times of prosperity, there is no need to be hungry or discouraged, so there is no need to be busy with farming and weaving.' However, searching for wine everywhere still requires personal effort. Winding out of the garden, what a beautiful scenery! Suddenly looking back, there is a big mansion gate, ah ah! Surprised? Shocked!

(To be continued)