The grand event of Jiangnan, the 14th Chrysanthemum Exhibition and the Four Gentlemen of Plum, Orchid, Bamboo, and Chrysanthemum are here
This autumn, the most eye-catching event in Jiangnan is undoubtedly the 14th China Chrysanthemum Exhibition held in Huishan Ancient Town, Wuxi. With its winding mountains, water features, pavilions, and towers, it is the perfect place for the exhibition. When the chrysanthemum exhibition meets the ancient town, one can appreciate the flowers and also pursue the historical and cultural values. 14th China Chrysanthemum Exhibition
Although Huishan Ancient Town holds a chrysanthemum exhibition every year, this year it is a national exhibition with a very large scale. More than forty cities have participated, each with its own city characteristics. After touring the exhibition, it feels like having traveled through most of China.
Huishan Ancient Town is known as an open-air history museum. The long history here flows gently, leaving behind many traces worth pursuing.
In the Ming Dynasty garden, Jichang Garden, with its whitewashed walls, black tiles, small bridges, and flowing water, it is a natural masterpiece of Jiangnan landscape, 'A garden cleverly borrows from two mountains, and two mountains reflect the beauty of the garden.' The ingenious design of the garden is astonishing.
The ancient temple Huishan Temple from the Southern Dynasties has been around for 1600 years, among the 480 temples of the Southern Dynasties, many pagodas are shrouded in mist and rain. The ancient ginkgo trees are just turning yellow, and it will be another month before they are fully yellow.
🍵 Wuxi has Huishan, the number one mountain in Jiangnan, and at the foot of Huishan, there is the second best spring in the world. This is the source of tea culture, a place of elegance for literati through the ages. Lu Yu, the Tea Sage of the Tang Dynasty, rated it as the second best in the world. The Tang Dynasty poet Li Shen, who read by the Huishan spring in his youth, wrote the well-known poem about the farmer's toil: 'At noon, hoeing in the fields, sweat drips onto the soil beneath.'
🤗 Huishan Ancient Town also has a rich culture of ancestral halls, with famous ancestral gardens such as the Huaxiaozi Ancestral Hall from the Southern and Northern Dynasties, Tang Lu Zhi Ancestral Hall, Lu Yu Lu Zi Ancestral Hall, Song Fan Zhongyan Ancestral Hall, etc. Strolling through them, one can trace their roots and experience the culture of surnames. is Wuxi, this is Huishan Ancient Town grand land shines throughout China
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⏰ About the time: The 14th National Chrysanthemum Exhibition October 26th - November 26th
Food recommendations: Huishan crispy cakes, Wuxi spareribs, Taihu Three Whites, brown sugar taro, Huishan fried gluten, silver thread noodles, scallion oil eel lake.
🎫 About the ticket price: During the National Chrysanthemum Exhibition from October 26th to November 26th, 2023 (8:00-21:00), the Xi-Hui scenic and cultural relics area will adopt a one-ticket system, with a ticket price of 70 yuan per person.
About the address: No. 18 Baoshan Street, Liangxi District, Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province
Huishan Ancient Town is generally very good. There are already many free ancient buildings, and there are also charged Jichang Garden. There is a reason for charging. This is a place where the Qianlong Emperor of the Qing Dynasty often came down to the south of the Yangtze River. The architectural environment is really good.
Jianchang Garden is the only Ming Dynasty classical garden in Wuxi, mountain villa-style classical garden in Jiangnan area, and Zhanyuan, Lingering Garden, Humble Administrator's Garden and called the four famous gardens in Jiangnan.
It seems that the first time in winter to come to Jichang Garden, especially after the snow, the air is very clean and transparent, a little fallen leaves show winter, the snow on the green leaves is more beautiful, as for the beauty of the garden is not to mention
20220908 afternoon: 1. "Jichang Garden" is one of the four major gardens in Jiangnan, located in the "Xihui Park" area in the "Huishan Ancient Town" in the 5A scenic spot. Huishan Ancient Town is composed of two parts: "Huishan Old Street" and "Xihui Park". After visiting the free Huishan Old Street in the morning, enter Xihui Park in the afternoon. The ticket is 70 yuan and Ctrip buys 45 yuan. 2. After passing through the yellow gate of the "Jiangnan First Mountain" (Qianlong Qinding) and "Xihui Shengjing", enter the park. On the right hand side is "Jianchang Garden", built in Mingzhengde (1520), flourishing in the Ming Wanli to Qing Kangxi years, is Jiangnan Mountain Villa-style classical garden, Wuxi City's only Ming Dynasty garden, is one of the four gardens in the south of the Yangtze River (the other three gardens are "Zhanyuan", "Lingering Garden", "Humble Administrator's Garden"), Qing Qianlong emperors must come to this garden every time, and in Beijing Wanshou Mountain northeast - imitation "Huishan Garden", that is, the "harmony garden" in the current Summer Palace. After entering the park, visit counterclockwise, passing through the "Bing Auditorium" (entering the first building of Jichang Garden, formerly Huishan Temple Yufang and other monk houses, the forehead is "Fenggu Xingwo"), "Wo Yuntang" (the Qingxianfeng year was destroyed in the war, rebuilt in the modern era, there are Ming Dynasty floor tile cultural relics in the corner of the ground), "Lingyun Pavilion" (rebuilt in a modern two-story loft, is the commanding height of Jichang Garden, the first floor can be passed through, the second floor is not open), "Jiru Peak" (the tablet pavilion set up next to "Jiru Peak", Jieru Peak original name "Beauty Peak", Qianlong cruise for its name change, Jichang Park was built at the beginning, The orange flowers hanging on the stone are very beautiful), "Jinhuixuan" (the small lake in Jichang Garden is the finishing touch. There are "bei corridor", "first moon", "know fish threshold", "hebutan" and other pavilions and flowers and plants around the lake. It is a great place to take wedding photos and write real), "Jiashutang" (formerly the north side hall of Jichangyuan, the Qing Dynasty changed to Qin's hall, rebuilt in modern times), "Meiting Pavilion" (ordinary rest pavilion, there are stacked stone landscape "eight music" under the pavilion), "containing Zhenzhai" (rebuilt in the Republic of China, the gate is facing the outdoor rockery, and the elderly are sketched here). The rockery maze in the courtyard is stacked and scattered. When passing, you must stare at your feet and be careful to meet, carefully and reeling, setting off the mood of the willow and the flowers when you walk out of the rockery, which is very meaningful.
Jichangyuan was also loved by the two emperors of the Qing Dynasty Kangxi Qianlong The Harmony Garden in Beijing Summer Palace and the Kuran Dagong in the Yuanmingyuan (later also known as Shuanghezhai), which was built in the Jichang Garden of Wuxi Huishan and Nanjing Zhanyuan, Suzhou Humble Administrator's Garden and Lingering Garden and called "Jiangnan Four Mingyuan"
Jichangyuan is also known as Qinyuan. The Qianlong Emperor of the Qing Dynasty stayed here six times. The century-old Jichangyuan has witnessed the changes of history. Although the station of Jichangyuan is not large, the spring, summer, autumn and winter have different scenery in each season, which is very beautiful.