Jiangsu Nanjing Mustard Seed Garden | Chinese Architecture

As the ancient capital of Six Dynasties, the "Laomendong Historical District" to the east of Zhonghua Gate of the ancient city wall is a gathering place for traditional folk houses. It was built in the Ming Dynasty and has undergone more than 500 years of vicissitudes. It is still the best place to experience the historical style of Jinling. The famous Jinling garden "Jiezi Garden" in history was located in Laomendong, but it gradually disappeared with the departure of Li Yu, a famous scholar in the Qing Dynasty. Today, the Summer Palace team has restored a famous garden on the site of Japan, recreating the architectural essence of the "Heaven and Earth in a Pot", with pavilions, towers, upturned corners and flying eaves, and different scenery at every step. As you walk through the garden, every brick, tile, flower and tree gives you a sense of time travel. Climbing up the rockery in the garden, you can also overlook the Da Baoen Temple Pagoda outside the city wall. Relying on the Mustard Seed Garden, the Summer Palace Group has brought its "Nanjing Summer Palace Mustard Seed Garden Hotel", where the guest rooms are only separated from the garden by a wall. The garden is open to tourists during the day, while it is private for guests in the early morning and evening. The hotel's architecture and guest rooms are antique. If you stay in the Jieziyuan Suite, you can enjoy the garden view from the balcony, which is very pleasant. The interior is in an elegant neo-Chinese style, inheriting the usual sophistication of the Yihe series. The room is meticulously detailed with rustic solid wood furniture and a complete set of four treasures of the study, including custom-made rice paper letterheads using the woodcut watermark technique. There are comfortable traditional Chinese style pajamas, exclusive embroidered slippers for ladies, framed artworks of the late Qing Dynasty lithographed version of "The Mustard Seed Garden Atlas", and Li Yu's "Random Thoughts" which can be easily read. The encounter between "Yihe" and "Jieziyuan" reveals the whole hotel The traditional Chinese way of hospitality and the scholarly temperament of literati. Located in Laomendong, it belongs to the Confucius Temple Qinhuai River Scenic Belt and is also close to the Da Baoen Temple. It is very convenient to stay here when traveling to Nanjing.