CHINA SHANGHAI YU YUAN (GARDEN OF HAPPINESS) - CITY GOD TEMPLE
YU GARDEN or YUYUAN GARDEN (Simplified Chinese: 豫园; pinyin) literally Garden of Happiness is an extensive Chinese garden located beside the City God Temple in the northeast of the Old City of Shanghai at Huangpu District, Shanghai. It abuts the Yuyuan Tourist Mart, the Huxinting Teahouse and the Yu Garden Bazaar
Boasting over 40 scenic spots, including pavilions, rock formations, and ponds, it is now a key site under state-level protection
A centerpiece is the Exquisite Jade Rock (玉玲珑) a porous 3.3-m, 5-ton boulder
Yu Garden was first built in 1559 during the Ming Dynasty by Pan Yunduan as a comfort for his father, the minister Pan En, in his old age. In its original form, Yu Garden has many manufactured waterways, paths, rockeries, plants and buildings. The grounds were designed to be a complex of different gardens within one centre
YU YUAN : DESIGN
Today, Yu Garden occupies an area of 2 hectares (5 acres).The approach to the garden is across a Nine-turn bridge crossing a small pond with a teahouse.
The entrance is off the forecourt at the end of the bridge. Yu Garden reflects the garden style of Jiangnan garden architecture in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. It perfectly blends decorative halls, elaborate pavilions, glittering ponds, zigzag bridges, archways, and exquisite rockeries
YU YUAN : GENERAL AREAS
Yu Garden is divided into six general areas laid out in the Suzhou style :
Each area is separated from the others by "dragon walls" with undulating gray tiled ridges, with the gateways and zigzag corridors connecting each other
Each subgarden represents a unique subtopic and corresponding storylines, which indicates the designer's deep feeling and personal stories through the arrangement of different elements inside each subgarden. These sub-topics are derived from the main theme of the garden----'peace and pleasure'; meanwhile, they develop their own stories, and they together manifest the main theme of the garden
SANSUI HALL (三穗堂, Sān Suì Táng, lit. "Three Tassel Hall") - includes the Grand Rockery (大假山, Dà Jiǎshān ), a 12-meter-high rockery made of huangshi stone, featuring peaks, cliffs, winding caves, and gorges
This scenery was possibly created by Zhang Nanyang during the Ming Dynasty. Sansui Hall represents the subtopic of harvest and long-living
WANHUA CHAMBER (万花楼, Wàn Huā Lóu, lit. "Chamber of the Ten Thousand Flowers") - includes Wanhua Chamber, Yule Pavilion, Double Lane Corridor and Ginkgo Tree of 400 years old staking out the front courtyard. Wanhua Chamber represents the subtopic of flowers and stones
DIANCHUN HALL (点春堂, Diǎn Chūn Táng, lit. "Heralding Spring Hall") - built in 1820, the first year of the Daoguang Emperor; served as the base of the Small Swords Society from September 1853 to February 1855. Dianchun Hall represents the subtopic of spring and sunlight, and it was used for musical performances
HUIJING HALL (会景楼, Huì Jǐng Lóu) - includes Jade Water Corridor, Three-Turn Bridge, Nine Lion Study. Huijing Hall represents the subtopic of joy and glory, and it was designed for enjoying the waterscape and the whole scene
YUHUA HALL (玉华堂, Yù Huá Táng, lit. "Jade Magnificence Hall") - furnished with rosewood pieces from the Ming Dynasty, shares its name with a mountain near Xinye in Zhejiang. Yuhua Hall represents the subtopic of wealth,
INNER GARDEN (内园, Nèi Yuán) - rockeries, ponds, pavilions, and towers; first laid out in 1709 and more recently recreated in 1956 by combining its east and west gardens
YUYUAN : SORROUNDINGS
The garden is surrounded by city god temple and Yuyuan Bazaar
Yuyuan Bazaar is located right next to Yu Garden, with beautiful Chinese architecture and design coupled with hundreds of shops selling pieces of jewelry, silk, antiques, arts, crafts, souvenirs, and local snacks
Throughout the years, Yu Garden has maintained a delicate balance between scholarly elegance and gaudy consumerism from its earliest days, and it has served as the stage on which the drama of the Pan family and the drama of the people of Shanghai have been performed
YU YUAN : FEATURES
Sansui Hall
Yangshan Hall
Huge Rockery
Cuixui Hall
Relaxation Stone Boat
Yule Pavilion
Double Lane Corridor
Wanhua Chamber
Ginkgo Tree
Nine Lion Study
Ancient Well Pavilion
Relic Hall
Dianchun Hall
Acting and Singing Stage
Kuailou Pavilion
Hexu Hall
Huijing Tower
Toasting Pavilion
Yuhua Hall
Deyue Chamber
Jade
Exquisite Jade Rock
Huanlong Bridge
Inner Garden
Jingguan Tower
Guantao Tower
Dress Circle
Keyl Hal
Stone Boat
Big Stage
Mid-Lake Pavilion
Nine Zigzag Bridge
Master Lao Hall
Ting Tao Tower Exhibit Hall
Hanbi Tower
This garden is accessible from the Shanghai Metro's Line 10 and Line 14 Yuyuan Garden station
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