Yangzhou | Ge Garden, this is a garden with personality

🚗 Ge Garden is located at No. 10 Yanfu East Road, Guangling District, Yangzhou City, Jiangsu Province, in the northeast corner. It has been honored with the title of the third batch of 'National Key Cultural Relics Protection Units' and the 'First Batch of National Key Parks'. This Qing Dynasty private garden of Yangzhou salt merchants, named for its bamboo planting, is famous for its artificial mountains representing the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn, and winter. It was expanded by the salt merchant Huang Zhiyun of the two Huai salt industries in the 23rd year of the Jiaqing era of the Qing Dynasty (1818 AD) on the basis of the original Ming Dynasty 'Shouzhi Garden'. 🚗 Ge Garden is famous for its rockery art, with spring, summer, autumn, and winter artificial mountains made of bamboo shoots, lake stones, yellow stones, and Xuan stones, integrating garden design principles and landscape painting theories. Mr. Chen Congzhou, a master of garden art, praised it as a 'unique example in China'. In 2005, Ge Garden was honored as a national AAAA-level tourist attraction, one of the twenty key parks in the country. In 2016, Ge Garden became one of the first batch of national key flower culture bases. 🚗 Famous attractions Four Seasons Artificial Mountain, Southern Residence, Bamboo Variety Viewing Area, Flower Arrangement Area 🚗 Suggested visiting duration 1-2 hours, suitable for all seasons 🚗 Jiangnan style gardens, those who know how to appreciate may find each garden has its own unique charm (of course, each owner has different preferences), like me who doesn't know much about it may think they all look similar, haha. However, when you walk into the large courtyards several times, you can indeed feel the former prosperity of the owners. Yangzhou was once a place where wealthy merchants emerged, and those who are interested can spend more time to explore.