Explore Guangdong with National Geographic: The Charm of Qinghui, an Ancient Garden in Lingnan
✅Introduction
What comes to mind when you think of Lingnan gardens?
Is it the colorful window carvings under the sun;
Is it the layout of the mansions and courtyards with pavilions over the water.
Perhaps, you have seen the grandeur of the gardens in the north;
Seen the tranquil elegance of the gardens in the south;
Yet, the winding paths leading to secluded corners of Lingnan gardens.
You have yet to meet. Today.
Step into Qinghui Garden, a recommended spot by 'National Geographic Discover Guangdong'.
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✅About Qinghui Garden
Qinghui Garden is located in Daliang Subdistrict, Shunde District, one of China's top ten famous gardens, and the foremost of the four famous gardens in Guangdong. It was once the residence of a top scholar, originally built in the Ming dynasty, and expanded several times during the Qing dynasty to form the Qinghui Garden we see today.
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The distinctive features of Qinghui Garden include flower window lattices, colored glass, and lush banana trees. The garden is exquisite and compact, with clever spatial connections, creating the characteristic garden-within-a-garden.
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The garden has numerous attractions and characteristic buildings, such as Bixi Thatched Cottage, Zhuangyuan Hall, and Chengyi Pavilion, each corner exuding a strong historical atmosphere.
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✅About Tickets
❶Adult ticket: 15 yuan/person, free for Shunde residents.
❷Group ticket: 12 yuan/person, for groups of more than 15 people.
❸Discounted ticket: 7 yuan/person, for the elderly, minors, and students.
❹Free: Journalists, tour guides, the elderly, martyrs, etc., specifics depend on the park.
❺Opening hours: 9:00-17:30, no entry after 17:00.
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✅About Transportation
🚘Self-driving: I drove there myself, just navigate to Qinghui Garden.
🅿️Parking: Huagaili Straight Street parking lot, 6 yuan/hour.
🚇Subway: Foshan Metro Line 3, Daliang Clock Tower E exit, about 600 meters walk.
🚌Bus: Routes 301, 303, 305, etc. all reach the destination.
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✅Nearby Attractions Recommendations
❶Jinbang Shangjie: A characteristic food street, Huagaili Straight Street is also a snack street when you come out of the scenic area. There are double-layer milk custard, ginger milk, fish skin cakes, etc.
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❷Shunfeng Mountain Park: One of the 'New Ten Scenic Spots' in Shunde, it's a good choice for daily walks with children, cycling, camping, picnicking, and photo shooting.
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❸Shunde Happy Coast: A large amusement park, free to enter, but attractions inside charge a fee. Free ride on the Ferris wheel on your birthday.
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❹Fisherman's Wharf: A popular check-in spot with celebrity graffiti walls, colorful houses nearby, suitable for Japanese-style photography.
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❺Fengjian Water Town: A typical Lingnan water town, where you can take a boat tour, eat special food. The TVB drama 'The Defenders' was filmed here.
Qinghui Garden is one of the ten famous gardens in China and four famous gardens in Guangdong. It is also a base for Chinese culture inheritance. It is one of the eight new scenery in Foshan and one of the ten new scenery in Shunde. It is exquisitely built, compactly laid out, high architectural art, light and flexible building forms, and simple reading.
Qinghui Garden (4A), a representative work of Lingnan classical gardens, one of the four famous gardens in Guangdong (the other three are Keyuan in Dongguan, Liangyuan in Foshan and Yuyinshan House in Panyu), is also one of the top ten famous gardens in China. In Lingnan, the reputation of Qinghui Garden is as famous as the Humble Administrator's Garden in the south of the Yangtze River. It is a must-visit point to Shunde, Foshan. Today is not a weekend, and the small garden itself is a bit crowded. Qinghui Garden has been used as a state guesthouse in history, receiving many party and state leaders. The "Qinghui" of Qinghui Garden takes the grace of parents like daylight and the meaning of the dragonfly. The typical Lingnan garden style, the area is not large, and the garden is mainly exquisite. In comparison, Qinghui Garden does not have the beautiful gardens of Jiangnan, nor is it as the atmosphere of the northern gardens. Lingnan gardens are a school of their own. There are a lot of decorative and admirable ceramics, gray plastics, wood carvings, glass. Among them, brick carvings and stained glass are particularly beautiful. A group of green, red, yellow and blue combinations of "full wind" glass windows attracted us. Looking out through this different color glass, the scenery in the park has the feeling of spring, summer, autumn and winter, and is actually the effect of "filter".
Qinghui Garden, located at No. 23 Qinghui Road, Daliang Street, Shunde District, Foshan City, Guangdong Province, is a Lingnan garden building built in the Ming Dynasty, covering an area of 2.2 10,000 square meters, and Foshan Liangyuan, Panyu Yuyin Mountain House, Dongguan Keyuan and called Lingnan Four Gardens. The main building of Qinghui Garden includes boat hall, Bixi Caotang, Chengxi Pavilion, Xiyin Bookstore, Zhenxuzhai, Zhuangyuantang and so on. There are more than 200 plants in the park, and there are many centuries-old trees and famous trees in China and abroad. Qinghui Garden was once the Zhuangyuan Mansion, but also the home of Daliang Long's family, these families living in Qinghui Garden have come out of many historical celebrities. Qinghui Garden is one of the ten famous gardens in China and four famous gardens in Guangdong. It is also the base of Chinese culture inheritance. It is one of the eight new scenery in Foshan and one of Shunde's ten new scenery. It is exquisitely built, compactly laid out, high architectural art, light and flexible building form, elegant reading and simple, and the main and secondary garden space is clear. The structure is clear. Use the intermingling of clear water, green trees, ancient walls, leaky windows, stone mountains, small bridges, qulangs and pavilions to integrate the art of ancient Chinese architecture, gardens, carvings, poetry books, gray carvings and other art. The cultural relics of Qinghui Garden have Li Zhaoluo, Li Wentian, He Shaoji and other calligraphy.
This is a private garden I highly recommend in Shunde. At first I thought it was an ordinary building. The name was very atmospheric: Qinghui Garden, but after entering, it really made me appreciate Lingnan culture. Through understanding, the place was originally just a private property of a large family. After the family grew and developed in the middle of the Qing Dynasty, it gradually fell down in the later Qing Dynasty, and then moved to the Anti-Japanese War. Finally, it was reborn after the founding of New China. This is really the best performance of this family in the history of hundreds of years. Change. The whole garden is different from Su's garden, probably because of the climate and financial problems, not as exquisite as Su's garden, but it can still reflect the family's status in Guangdong Province at that time. After all, in the Taiping Tianguo period, the patriarch of the family was a local group practice in Foshan, which can be seen. The manor has its own private garden and various landscapes, lingering. And it is very suitable for old-age leisure. It is really too beautiful to have a pot of hot tea in the garden and chat with friends. Overall, this is an extremely recommended private garden, the price is not expensive, the mood is comfortable, and Comrade Xiaoping has also visited.
Although the garden is not as neat as the Suzhou garden, it is worth seeing as the first of the four major gardens in Guangdong. There are 100-year-old lychee trees, Chinese and Western combinations, etc. The address is on Huagai Street. It is very convenient to go out to eat food. The tour guide sister of the day explained very meticulously, the service was warm, and the fun was very happy.
The tour guide has a wealth of professional knowledge, the explanation is in place, the garden environment is elegant, there is a historical heritage, so beautiful!