Ge Garden in Yangzhou

Ge Garden is located in the northeast corner of Guangling District, Yangzhou City, Jiangsu Province, at No. 10 Yanfu East Road. It has been honored as the third batch of 'National Key Cultural Relics Protection Units' and the 'First Batch of National Key Parks'. This Qing Dynasty salt merchant's residence and private garden in Yangzhou, named for its bamboo plants, is famous for its four-season rockeries. It was expanded into a residential garden by Huang Zhiyun, the general merchant of the two Huai salt industries, in the 23rd year of the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty (1818 AD) on the basis of the Ming Dynasty's 'Shouzhi Garden'. Ge Garden is famous for its stacked stone art. The four-season rockeries made of bamboo stone, lake stone, yellow stone, and Xuan stone integrate the rules of garden making and landscape painting, and are praised by the garden master Mr. Chen Congzhou as a 'unique example in the country'. In 2005, Ge Garden was rated as a national AAAA level tourist attraction.