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Cultural China Tour | Spring Flowers and Ancient Architecture are Perfect for Each Other · When the magnolia flowers bloom in He Yuan, Yangzhou becomes the "True Jiangnan"

2025-03-28   

This spring, the magnolia flowers from He Garden in Yangzhou once again became the top stream on the internet as promised. The pure white flowers sway in the wind, and the refreshing fragrance wafts through the air. Tourists wear various ancient costumes to take photos and check in... The hollow flower windows introduce light and shadow into the interior, and the winding corridors incorporate spring scenery into the frame. The spring flowers and ancient buildings are suitable for both, and the Chinese aesthetic of changing scenery is intoxicating. After the vernal equinox, the reporter strolled through He Garden and saw the elegant and dignified magnolia, blooming with a hundred flowers of crabapple and camellia. The pink and white petals were adorned with blue bricks and black tiles, and the upturned eaves and corners were faintly visible in the shadows of the flowers, creating a moving spring scenery. The designer of He Garden is well versed in the traditional Chinese garden art of 'borrowing scenery', and through careful plant arrangement, makes spring flowers the best decoration Cao Lu, a staff member of Heyuan Scenic Area, led the reporter up the stairs and strolled along the light and shadow between the winding corridors. The two layers of winding corridors, with a total length of over 1500 meters, connected the buildings in the park, creating a beauty of circular changes. Cao Lu introduced, "Heyuan holds various flower events in accordance with the Flower Time and Flower Order, bringing new vitality to ancient buildings." Heyuan is the last large-scale private garden in Yangzhou during the Qing Dynasty, originally named "Ji Xiao Shan Zhuang", taken from the poem "Returning to Xi Ci" by the great poet Tao Yuanming of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, which reads "leaning against the south window to express pride, climbing to Donggao to express relief", expressing the life attitude of the garden owner He Zhizhen who is devoted to the mountains and waters. The He Garden has been built for more than 100 years, and the restoration method of "repairing the old as old" is like "regular maintenance" for ancient buildings, which still maintains the ancient and elegant style of He Garden. We use traditional techniques and authentic materials in the restoration process, "Cao Lu said. For example, in the repair of the Reading Building and the Multi Channel Corridor, we adopted the method of removing tiles without removing frames to focus on eradicating tile leakage. At the same time, we repaired the wooden frame and structure, reinforced the load-bearing wall at the largest flower window on the first floor, and paid special attention to repairing the exquisite carved railings to preserve the historical style of the building to the greatest extent possible. Seeking sustainable development of traditional architecture, digital technology has provided a new path for heritage preservation. In 2020, the "Digital Landscape Heritage Atlas: Yangzhou He Garden" published by Tongji University Press was released, which was the first time in China that traditional gardens were "accurately recorded" using digitalization. Gu Weidong, Secretary and Director of the Party Branch of Heyuan Management Office, introduced: "This project uses digital point cloud technology to conduct high-precision surveying and mapping of the surrounding environment, garden layout, and other contents of Heyuan, better expressing the characteristics and details of Heyuan's ancient architecture, and further assisting in heritage protection." The courtyard is deep and the scenery is constantly new, and the Heyuan genealogy is full of talented people. Queen Chengshu, a great grandson of the He family, is a Chinese nuclear physicist and the developer of China's first atomic bomb core fuel - highly enriched uranium. She has been anonymous for more than 30 years and devoted her life to the nuclear cause. Among the descendants of the He family, the most famous is undoubtedly the renowned physicist He Zuoxiu. In the genealogy, there are also He Shizhai and He Zuoxin, father and daughter painters, both of whom were disciples of Huang Binhong. In 2019, a total of 9 descendants of He Yuan were awarded the "Commemorative Medal for Celebrating the 70th Anniversary of the Founding of the People's Republic of China". As the sun sets, many tourists still feel unsatisfied and take a group photo in front of He Yuan Gate. Ms. Li, a tourist from Guangdong, and her best friend exclaimed, 'The blooming He Garden is the true Jiangnan.'. If you want to visit the beauty of Chinese garden art, you cannot do without visiting Yangzhou; if you want to discover the true essence of the natural and cultural beauty of famous gardens in the late Qing Dynasty, you cannot do without visiting He Garden, "Gu Weidong introduced." Spring flowers bloom year after year, and we will also develop and innovate in protection and inheritance, making architectural heritage the cultural cornerstone of sustainable urban development

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