Who knows the origin of Rugao Water Painting Garden?

The place name of Rugao means "to the highland" in the old saying. See the historical records of Chunqiu Zuozhuan. The general idea of this allusion is that during the Spring and Autumn Period, Dr. Jia was ugly, but his wife was a beautiful woman as beautiful as flowers and pure as jade. She saw her husband's ugly appearance and kept silent and smiling all day for three years. Once, Jia's husband took her out to play and came to the unknown highland by the sea. A pheasant flew out of the reeds. He pulled the bow and arrow, and with a whoosh, the pheasant fell to the ground. The wife couldn't help laughing and said, "You are a good marksman!" " . As the old saying goes, high is highland, if it means reaching. This is the origin of Rugao.

Come to the water to draw a picture, which not only dashed Dong Xiaowan's reputation, but also four talented people ventured across the border in the late Ming Dynasty and eight geisha in Qinhuai. But since I'm here, I'll follow Jia Pingwa's trajectory. A talented person and a beautiful woman know themselves, leaving an infinite story. Dong Xiaowan's beauty died at the age of twenty-eight, and she lived to the age of eighty-three.

The explanation is given by curator Xu, a place where people hide dragons and crouch tigers, and there are many talents. He made a clear statement. I inquired about Shi Naian and Mao Zhizhong, and he led Naian's friend Liu Liang to "take all the books at home, carry a few giant ships, and go downstream to Chen Dong to manage Lindong". The Genealogy of Mao Shi written by the ancestors of Brush River didn't mention the place where the officials were in Zhang Shicheng. Zhang Shicheng was a giant family of Liu Liang and Wu Zhong. He left Zhang Shicheng to live in seclusion in Maozhi before the demise of Zhang Zhengquan. When we study Shi's genealogy, we find that anonymity is certain, because Zhu Yuanzhang pursued Zhang Shicheng's official family after reunification.

According to relevant data, among many famous gardens in China, there is an outstanding individual, that is, Rugao Ink Garden, where talented people from the south of the Yangtze River ventured across the border in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties and Dong Xiaowan lived in seclusion in Qinhuai Kerry. Shuihui Garden is a bright pearl on the plain of northern Jiangsu. It is a beautiful and elegant garden with water as the most precious and reflection as the best; And its garden expresses ambition, takes the garden as memory, and integrates poetry, writing, piano, chess, books, paintings and Bo Gu. Quyi is equal to the characteristics of a garden, which shows that it was originally a "literati garden" full of books.

Shuihui Garden, located in the northeast corner of Rugao County, was built in Wanli period of Ming Dynasty. It turns out that the Yi people have always followed the manufacturing industry, and it was not perfected until the fourth generation. Mao Bijiang rearranged the old garden, endowed it with ideological connotation and decorated it carefully. In the garden, there are Miao Yin Xiang Lin, Yi Mo Zhai, Pillow Smoke Pavilion, White marble Dangting Pavilion, Dishwashing Pool, Fish Creek, Crane Island, Little Third Lady, Bo Yan Jade Pavilion and Xiangzhong Pavilion. Chen Weisong, a famous scholar in the early Qing Dynasty, wrote in "Water Painting Garden", "Painters will also paint water in it, and the trees are full of flowers, if they paint."

Mao Bijiang was one of the four famous sons in the late Ming Dynasty. At that time, state affairs were chaotic at the upper level, and discussions were provoked at the lower level. Mao Bijiang, Hou Chaozong, Fang Mizhi and Chen Zhenhui are also called the four great grandchildren, and they are all the backbone of the establishment of the complex society. They have to shoulder the heavy responsibility of the rise and fall of the world, and Wu Ziwei drafted "Stay in Beijing to prevent exposure" in Nanjing. Counting the crimes of Ruan Dacheng, the eunuch remnant, scared the officials not to go out. Later, Ruan Dacheng's followers revived, their reunion was frustrated, and they risked persecution to cross the border. Then the Qing army went south, and the Ming dynasty was teetering. Big waves wash sand. Wu Ciwei fought against Qing martyrdom, Mi Fang hid in the countryside, and Hou Chaozong was Xiaguan. The weather-beaten Mao Bijiang, as a literati, has an empty heart to serve the country, so he believes that Ruan Ji, Tao Yuanming, born in troubled times, retired to Gaoyi and became a temple and a proud garden.

The ink garden built by Maobijiang River is surrounded by clear water and has no walls. With the water flowing on the ground, the garden naturally formed a beautiful painting. There are mirrors painted on both sides of the dike, graceful scenery of Fuxi, seclusion of Xianglin, Mao Pavilion floating like a mirror, emptiness of basin-washing pool and unruly island. Water reflects the "blue sky" in winter, the "cold blue" in early spring, the "hanging dew" in summer and the "throwing smoke and jade" in cool autumn, which is even more hesitant. The garden is centered on the washbasin and the water in the pool is divided into several pieces. Coupled with Shuizhongzhou, there are two pavilions and three pavilions scattered on its circular waterway, and the rest are all waterscapes, which just points out the gardening characteristics of the Yangtze River Delta water network plain.

Mao Bijiang has a great talent for gardening and is good at learning. As described in Mao Youguo's Ink Painting Gallery, Mao Bijiang's father once served as Wu Chu. "When he broke the edge, he visited famous mountains and rivers from time to time, often following the map, but he was reluctant to leave. Therefore, Hunan is full of victory, well-read and salty. " He also collected them in Lanting, Yanyulou and West Lake in Zhejiang. The Ming Dynasty lost his "hometown of building houses", and those who recalled the past to him built a stone mountain, because Sichuan is a pool, and almost realized that the beauty of a Dong He is the best!

Professor Chen Congzhou of Tongji University named it "an orphan of Huizhou School at home and abroad" and listed it as "a famous garden in China".