Garden in the Garden: What is a humorous garden like?

The prototype of Humor Garden is Jichang Garden at the foot of Huishan Mountain in Wuxi, Jiangnan. Emperor Kangxi, Emperor Yongzheng, Emperor Qianlong and Emperor Jiaqing of the Qing Dynasty visited this park many times. Among them, Gan Long went to Jichang Garden almost every time he made his southern tour. "Xin Wei visited the south in the spring of 175 1 and he was very satisfied with this hidden destination. He came back with a painting. Xiaoqiyi is at the east foot of Wanshou Mountain, named Huishan Garden. " 18 1 1 year, when Jiaqing rebuilt Huishan Garden, he renamed Huishan Garden as Humor Garden, which means "external things are quiet and interesting, while internal things are harmonious".

Funny Garden is a small garden in the Summer Palace. On the one hand, its architectural style is exquisite and rich according to the rules of the Qing palace, and it maintains the unity with other architectural forms of the Summer Palace. On the other hand, it tries to combine with the natural landscape, showing simplicity and elegance everywhere, and pursuing the realm of truth, seclusion and elegance expressed by private gardens. Its small blue tile roof, water shovel method, and many natural landscapes in the garden, such as Quchi, rockery and flowers and trees, are small and exquisite, friendly and pleasant.

Humorous landscape layout pays more attention to the effect that private gardens in the south of the Yangtze River are good at creating a large space in a small area, and refines and concentrates the beauty of natural landscape into a limited space of five acres. First of all, it adopts the common "edge occupation" technique in Jiangnan gardens. There are eight small pavilions and six pavilions in the park, all of which are arranged along the edge, releasing the central part and arranging the main scenery of the mountain pool. Then on the periphery of the space with water as the main body, some small and distinctive spaces are surrounded by curved corridors, walls and rocks. These small spaces are connected by curved corridors and small bridges, with three steps, five steps and one fold, so that the individual landscape and the main space are interspersed and matched with each other, and they are connected in an orderly and rhythmic way. In the changes and twists and turns, tourists have the illusion, so as to achieve the effect of seeing the big from the small, small area and long journey. Secondly, the gardener successfully used the means of borrowing scenery. Climbing the height of Jiqingxuan and Bafangting, you can see the farmland buildings outside the park and the peaks of Xishan Mountain, and the Yuanmingyuan adjacent to the Summer Palace is not far to the east. This undoubtedly increases the scope of small gardens, breaks through the limitations of garden space, and reproduces the "joy of mountains and rivers and nymphs" in the "forest near mountains".

The humorous garden also fully embodies the characteristics of private gardens in the south of the Yangtze River in setting mountains and managing water. The rockeries in the humorous garden are concentrated in the northern hills. Connected with the remaining veins of Wanshou Mountain, the direction and charm of the rocks are consistent with those of the main mountain, with both form and spirit, avoiding the feeling of rockery. The whole rock is cut with an axe, and the slope is steep and looks rugged. In the stone carving canyon, a mountain spring descends layer by layer along the stone path, forming waterfalls, suspended streams, meanders and other water features. The water keeps flowing all the year round, dripping like the sound of a jade harp, hence the name "Qinyu Gorge", which has become a very distinctive landscape in the humorous garden.

However, the Humor Garden belongs to the royal garden after all, and this small garden adopts a form that is obviously different from ordinary houses. Buildings such as gates and new buildings washed in autumn all adopt the form of rolling shed to rest the mountain. The whole garden is richly decorated with carved beams and painted buildings, accompanied by a large number of Soviet-style colored paintings, especially the bright copper nails on the red painted doors, and the rafters are covered with gold powder, which fully shows the luxurious style of the royal garden.