Must-visit Shuzhuang Garden and Piano Museum in Gulangyu

When traveling to Gulangyu, there is a garden that you must visit, which is the only private garden in the world that combines mountains, sea, and lake - Shuzhuang Garden. If you only feel that this garden is not particularly large, you just walk around and want to go out after seeing the pianos in the Piano Museum inside, it would be a pity, because the more you look at this garden, the more exquisite it feels. What impressed me the most is that Shuzhuang Garden flexibly uses the three techniques of 'hiding', 'borrowing', and 'trickery', making use of the natural terrain and scenery of Gulangyu, combined with artificial construction, to make up for the deficiencies of the mountain and sea scenery, and hide the sea by the mountain. Therefore, when you turn out of the moon gate and bypass the bamboo forest, you can see its true face, which can be described as a vast sea and sky in an instant. What is particularly shocking is that going forward is the winding Forty-four Bridge. It is not to say that there are really forty-four bridges, but it refers to the age of Lin Erjia when this bridge was built, which was forty-four years old. There is a sluice gate under the stone bridge, which introduces seawater into the garden, forming three spaces of the sea, the outer pool, and the inner pool. The bridge body twists and turns, lying on the sea like a swimming dragon. What you must not miss here is the Piano Museum in Shuzhuang Garden, which displays more than a hundred world-famous ancient pianos collected by Gulangyu's patriotic overseas Chinese Hu Youyi. Children and adults who play the piano must not miss it. 💕Tour guide: Location: No. 7 Ganghou Road, Gulangyu Duration: About 2 hours (it is recommended to wear flat shoes) Recommended route: Renqiuge-Meishou Ancient Interest-Hai Kuo Tian Kong-Zhenliu Shushi-Changqiao Canghai-Qianbo Duyue-Yin Xin Tingtao-Shiping Zhao Liang-Shuzhuang's most beautiful corner-Piano Museum One-Piano Gallery-Piano Museum Two-Zhen Shu Qingyi-Banqiao Lianying-Twelve Dongtian