Geyuan

Geyuan, Ge Yuan, or Ge Garden is located on Dongguan Street in Yangzhou, a city renowned for traditional private gardens, in Jiangsu Province, southeast China.^[3]

Geyuan is open to the public, with different sections representing each of the four seasons. Spring is demonstrated with a picture of bamboo and rock. Summer is represented by the steel-grey Taihu stone. Autumn is depicted by Huangshan stone, and winter by Xuan stone.^[4]

Geyuan was known as the Garden of the Long-Lived Zhi(t壽芝園,s寿芝园,Shòuzhīyuán) during the Ming Dynasty. In 1818 (the 22nd year of the reign of the Jiaqing Emperor), the salt commissioner Huang Zhiyun bought the land and rebuilt the garden as a private retreat. Huang Zhiyun loved bamboo, believing that they were as persistent, modest, straightforward, and loyal as a good man. A cluster of three bamboo leaves resembles the Chinese character 个 (pronounced gè in Mandarin). This was also noted by Yuan Mei, a writer during the Qing Dynasty: "The moonlight made the bamboo shadows hundreds of gè characters". The owner also chose the name "Geyuan" for his garden to correspond to his given nameZhiyun (至筠), which also means "bamboo".^[4][5]

Geyuan is known for its seasonal rock gardens, which paint a colorful landscape: "the rockery in spring is flamboyant like a bright smile, in summer is verdant like sparkling dewdrops, in autumn is clean like a light makeup, and in winter, it is pale like a sleeping beauty". The "spring hill is for visit, summer hill is for sight, the autumn hill is for climbing, and winter hill is for residence".

تمتد الحديقة على مساحة 2.5 هكتار (6.2 فدان) . وهي حديقة جبلية حضرية صغيرة وأنيقة، تتكون أساسًا من الخيزران والصخور. تُستخدم الصخور بألوان وأشكال مختلفة لتمثيل مشاهد من الفصول الأربعة؛ ومن هنا جاء اسم حديقة الصخور "الجبل الاصطناعي للفصول الأربعة". يتميز هذا الجبل الاصطناعي بمفهوم فني صيني نموذجي، كما هو موضح في القصيدة أدناه: ^{[ 4 ]}

تبدو الجبال في الربيع كفتيات صغيرات بابتسامة خفيفة ومكياج خفيف . أما في الصيف، فتبدو كاليشم الأخضر الداكن، صافية كقطرات الماء . وفي الخريف، تبدو كسيدات فاتنات بمكياج أنيق، مشرقات ونضرات . أما في الشتاء، فتبدو كشيوخ نائمين في ظلمة وبرد.

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