The thick shade of green trees renders the meaning of ink and wash on the water surface and rocks. The reflections of rocks and trees change in the ripples of the pool water, like clouds gathering and dispersing in the air under the water.

Walking on the curved bridge, you can enjoy the beautiful scenery of Xiashan. You can see the strange rocks on both sides, some of which are like jade cranes, and some are like rhinoceroses looking at the moon, which are very cute. Looking up, the flying rocks at the mouth of the valley are like magpies climbing on plum trees, smiling to welcome guests; looking into the distance, a group of monkeys on the top of the mountain are playing and having fun. It is really a beautiful scene with beautiful rocks, which makes people dazzled.

Yunluo and Yan Chenyu entered the cave and felt it was a bit eerie at first, but then they got used to the light coming through the cracks in the rocks above and felt the cave was spacious. The water in the pool also flowed into the cave, and the lake rocks were blue-gray, so it was even cooler to enjoy the scenery in the cave in the summer.

You can walk through the cave, climb up the stairs, and after a few turns, you will reach the top of the mountain. There is a pavilion isolated on the rockery. In front of the pavilion, there is an ancient pine tree, which stretches out from the cliff, adding to the lush atmosphere of the summer mountain.

Yunluo and Yan Chenyu stood in the pavilion, looking back at the rockery. In the cracks of the cave, the magnolias were intertwined, and on both sides of the stone steps, the banana trees were standing tall and graceful. Walking among them, you can see thick shades and clusters of green shadows, which really makes you feel relaxed and happy.

In order to better reflect the softness of the clouds, Xia Shan carefully selected top-grade Taihu stones with thin, transparent, porous and wrinkled shapes to stack. Thin, transparent, porous and wrinkled are the traditional standards for appreciating stones in my country. Thin refers to the charming and varied lines; transparent and porous refer to the porousness and exquisiteness of the stone; wrinkled describes its vicissitudes of texture.

Xiashan not only pays attention to the use of stones, but also makes full use of the principle of landscape painting when stacking them: "stones are piled up to form a mountain, each stone has its own vein, even if there are thousands of stones, they also form a vein." Therefore, although Xiashan has many changes, its aura is smooth.

The whole mountain is gentle and soft, divided into two peaks, east and west. There are ancient cypresses on the top of the mountain, and a pavilion with wings. There are stone houses built by the water at the foot of the mountain. Looking across the water, it is extremely deep. Xiashan mainly uses the stone stacking technique based on the mountain, and expresses the graceful beauty of the Jiangnan landscape with the exquisite lake stones and superb stone stacking techniques. It is also a perfect combination of stone stacking technology and art.

In the summer of Jiangnan, "every family has rain during the plum rain season. Frogs are everywhere in the green grass pond. Therefore, a "frog stone" is placed on the west bank of the pond, and the bank is surrounded by lake stones, twisting and uneven. There are water lilies in the pond, whether they are light red or light purple, embellishing the green of summer with the lightest posture. It is commonly known as "frog croaking in the lotus pond".

A curved bridge is built over the water, with a bluestone deck that bends three times to reach the cave entrance and then extends into the belly of the mountain, hiding the end of the water. It gives people a feeling of infinite depth.

There is a lake stone standing beside the curved bridge. This stone is slender and elegant, with three nearly circular holes from bottom to top. It looks like a clean fish bone. This slender and elegant lake stone covers the holes below, and its upper part looks very much like the Chinese character "丑".

Although Su Dongpo of the Song Dynasty served as the prefect of Yangzhou and abolished the "Wanhua Festival" that disturbed the people as soon as he took office, he certainly had never seen this "ugly stone" that appeared in Yangzhou hundreds of years later.

However, his words "The stone is ugly, but the word ugly means that the stone has thousands of shapes and forms" seem to be specifically for this stone. The most charming thing about a stone is that it cannot speak, or perhaps this stone feels that it has found a soulmate, and it stands silently in this city forest to prove this saying.

Jia Pingwa also once said about the "ugliness" of the stone: "Stone is beautiful because of its ugliness. When it is extremely ugly, it is also extremely beautiful." This fine stone is hard to come by. It is not an exaggeration to call it "the treasure of the town garden."

Yunluo and Yanchenyu look like the Chinese character "月" when you look closely, which indicates that Yangzhou is a city of moon - the lower third is a bright moon night. The lower third is Yangzhou.

Behind the ugly stone is a stone fish, with its mouth open and tail wagging, and a lively expression, which contrasts with the goldfish in the pond. To the upper right of the stone fish, there is a Yunnan yellow jasmine tree on the lake stone mountain, with its branches hanging down close to the water surface. When the breeze passes by, it sways gracefully, as if a green waterfall hangs in front of the mountain, which increases a lot of business.

The summer landscape is mainly made of blue-grey Taihu stones, which look like clouds and mist. The garden designer took advantage of the unevenness, thinness, transparency, leakiness and wrinkles of Taihu stones. The stones are numerous but not disorderly. From a distance, they are smooth and graceful, like clouds and strange peaks; from a close distance, they are exquisite and transparent, like peaks and caves.

Fishes in the pond play among the stone caves, which is very interesting. On the right side of the pond, there is a curved bridge leading directly to the cave of Xiashan Mountain. The cave is deep and cold. A crane pavilion is built on the top of the mountain, next to the old pine trees, which seem to be soaring into the sky.

Crossing the Qu Bridge and entering the Xiashan Stone House, you will feel dim and uncomfortable at first. After a while, you will find that there is a trace of light penetrating from the cracks in the rocks, and the facade inside the rockery will gradually become clear in front of your eyes. The cave walls are varied and layered, and there are many holes along the mountain near the water. Looking from the inside to the outside, each hole is like a picture frame for us to choose the scenery outside the cave.

The pool water, rocks, flowers and trees in the summer scenery change as you move. This is the technique of "framing the scenery" and "changing the scenery with every step" in garden design. This technique is more commonly used in private gardens in the south of the Yangtze River due to limited space.

It uses the principle of aesthetic division to extend and expand the space, so there is a rule in gardening that "the more you divide, the bigger it gets". Every summer, the ancient trees are blown by the wind and the water is refreshing.

There is a four-cornered pavilion on the top of Xiashan Mountain, named "Heting". This is where the owner raises cranes, implying "cranes dancing in the sky, a blessed place for immortals". The couplet "standing like snow on the bank, flying like towards the pond" describes the cranes. Pine and cypress are evergreen, and cranes are long-lived, implying that pine and cranes prolong life.

The summer mountains are like clouds, and if there are cranes dancing in them, it would be a paradise for gods. In the southeast corner of the Crane Pavilion is a stone gap through which the light shines into the Summer Mountain Stone Chamber. The corner of the pavilion just protects the stone chamber from wind and rain, and the details are handled so thoughtfully. In front of the pavilion is an ancient cypress with twisted branches that stretch out to the edge, adding to the lush atmosphere of the Summer Mountain.

Standing on the top of the mountain and looking around, you can see the "railings" made of lake stones, which not only ensure the safety of tourists, but also increase the height of the mountain. It is truly ingenious.

There is a wisteria to the east of Heting, standing beside the rocks at the exit of Xiashan Mountain Road. Its branches and leaves are intertwined like a canopy, and the vines are intertwined. The roots have merged into one, as if it has experienced vicissitudes of life. In late spring, it will bloom with clusters of pale purple butterfly-shaped flower spikes, about a foot long, gently drooping, exuding bursts of fragrance. In the early summer sunshine, it flutters in the wind, which is particularly charming.

Xiashan is beautiful and graceful, with green trees and blue waves, and a Jiangnan style. From Xiashan to the east, you can turn to an extraordinary corridor, which is known as the longest corridor in the world. The reason for this is that walking to the end of the corridor is equivalent to walking from summer to autumn.

This is the Baoshan Tower, which connects the summer and autumn scenes in the garden. The long corridor in front of the tower is like a long arm holding the autumn and summer mountains in front of the chest, hence the name Baoshan Tower. Baoshan Tower is a seven-bay building with a plaque "Hu Zichun" on it.

Hu Zichun is taken from the quote "Ge Garden Notes" which says "With the help of one's eyes and mind, one can enjoy Hu Zichun without leaving the house, and all dust and horses will stop." It means that although the space of Ge Garden is not as good as famous mountains and rivers, its scenery is like a paradise on earth, a fairyland on earth.

The foot of the two mountains of Qiushan and Xiashan are connected by compressing the volume to coordinate the transition. The lake stones of Xiashan are extended to form the embankment of the flower bed, like diffused clouds, while the yellow stones of Qiushan are selected as much as possible with round and thick vertical patterns to surround the flower bed to minimize the difference.

The corridor of Baoshan Tower is a double-story corridor. Visitors can stroll along the corridor whether they are on the upper or lower floors. They can walk from summer to autumn without realizing it, so this corridor is also jokingly called the "time and space tunnel".

Standing in the long corridor upstairs, you can see a hexagonal pavilion on the east side of the pool in front of the building. The Qingyi Pavilion has flying eaves and pointed corners, which is elegant and upright, forming a sharp contrast with the grandeur of Baoshan Tower. "Pavilion means to stop. It is a place for people to stop and gather." In ancient times, pavilions were places for pedestrians to rest, so there were many pavilions on the roadside.

The pavilion is free in space and flexible in layout. In terms of architectural art, the pavilion concentrates the essence of the most national forms of ancient Chinese architecture. The pavilion in the garden can provide shade and shelter from the rain, rest and view, and also make the scenery in the garden more beautiful.

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The surroundings of Qingyi Pavilion seem to be randomly dotted with lake rocks, but because of the surrounding pool water, these lake rocks become the bow of a boat breaking through the waves. A plaque with the words "Qingyi" hangs to the west of the pavilion, and there is a couplet in front of the pavilion: Where is the sound of the flute? I am drunk in the spring breeze and play with the bright moon; a few traces of light shadows, leaning against the old tree to protect the secluded pavilion.

If you stand in the pavilion on a moonlit night, with the breeze blowing gently and the clear water rippling, and calm your mood in the faint sound of the flute, you will not let down the bright moon, spring breeze, old trees and secluded pavilion.

If Spring Mountain is the opening and Summer Mountain is the spreading, then Autumn Mountain is the climax. Walking east along the corridor and crossing the overhead corridor, you can directly reach the majestic Huangshi rockery with autumn scenery.

Autumn Mountain is made up of yellow stones, which are bold and majestic. The plant configuration is mainly maple trees, with pines and cypresses interspersed. The main surface of Autumn Mountain faces west. Whenever the sun sets, the emerald green of the pines, the fiery red of the maples and the brown and yellow of the rocks are as bright as makeup in the twilight, which is very picturesque.

But the most exquisite thing is the design of the internal mountain roads, which wind up and down, crisscross. Stone houses, stone bridges, stone beams, stone caves, and mountain buildings are integrated together, sometimes ravines, sometimes valleys, sometimes walls, sometimes edges, and the changes are unpredictable.

Before visiting the autumn mountains, you should know the following motto in advance: "If the obvious is not accessible, the dark is; if the big is not accessible, the straight is accessible; if the crooked is not accessible, it is accessible", which will definitely add a lot of fun to your trip.

According to legend, the Huangshi rockery was built by Shitao, a famous painter in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. In the poem written by Wang Quantai of the Qing Dynasty to Huang Shi, the second son of the garden owner, there is the words "When I was young, I missed my hometown and complained a lot. I said that I lived at home in a high stone house in Dadi." (Dadizi is another name for Shitao).

The autumn scenery is also called Huangshan Mountain. It is steep and rugged, stretching endlessly. It is divided into three peaks: West, Middle and South. The middle peak is the main peak, and the west and south peaks are auxiliary. The three peaks complement each other, forming an undulating and stretching mountain.

The center is the most precipitous and abrupt. The top of the peak seems to be unfinished, which is even more intriguing. This is the effect of the stone stackers using a lot of "piao" techniques. "Piao" means that a block of stone extends horizontally from the mountain, and "piao" means that a stone is erected on the top of the extended block. To be continued. .

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