In all ages, the reputation of “Jiangnan Garden is peerless in the world” enjoys popular support.

As the representative of Chinese classic garden, Jiangnan Garden features that to create infinite possibilities in limited space. Jiangnan Yard, locating the scenic spot in regions south of Yangtze River Delta and beside Gucheng Lake, shows the oriental aesthetics that is deep in Chinese blood by authentic garden.

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ONE History of Jiangnan Garden

Traveling in Jiangnan Yard, rockery, waters, tiles … everything is like the echo of history to tell the trace, humanity and originality of Jiangnan garden.

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Jiangnan garden can be traced back to Spring and Autumn Period. At that time, most palatial gardens of King of Wu were in Taihu Lake landscape, including Hualin Garden and Wutong Garden. They were regarded as the beginning of Jiangnan classic gardens. In Jin and Tang Dynasties, they kept development and boomed in Northern Song Dynasty and Southern Song Dynasty, and entered into the period of full bloom in Ming Dynasty and Qing Dynasty.

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In Ming and Qing Dynasties, regions south of Yangtze River Delta was prosperous and key towns of economy and culture. It became the ideal place for scholars and officials for retirement. The integration of house and yard is a form suitable for living and traveling. They could enjoy the joy of the wild at a limited space with landscape while they did not need go out of the town. Therefore, it became popular to create gardens. Social celebrities, senior officials and business men regarded gardens as the highest living standard.

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During this period, painters of the Wumen Painting School actively participated in garden creation. The concept of “making gardens picturesque and creating landscape like pictures” was adopted in the execution of garden design and construction. Many great works on garden creation were complied, pushing Jiangnan garden art into great prosperity.

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Continuous of Xiangshan Group’s Skills

As the increase of garden demands and the improvement of aesthetics, craftsmen, represented by Xiangshan Group made a debut in the stage of history. As early as 2500 years ago, King of Wu organized skillful craftsmen living at Xiangshan to construct Suzhou City and Li Palace. These craftsmen formed the trend of Xianghan Group. During Yongle period of Ming Dynasty, Forbidden City was built up which made Xiangshan Group rose to fame.

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In hundreds of years, the garden creation skills of Xiangshan Group are coherent. As nationally leading professional construction team of ancient architecture in gardens, they are the experts in the fields of classic garden creation and culture relic and ancient architecture fix, and still active in the first line now.

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Eastern Living Aesthetics Renaissance

As the nation rises sharply, the awareness to reconnect Chinese own living style continues to wake up. In Modern Chinese style architecture creation team, experts gather. Therefore, many famous living works were created.

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Jiangnan Yard is designed by the industrial leading architects GOA. They has designed Peach Garden in Hangzhou hailed as “the epitome of China’s villa development history”

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The garden landscape is designed by Mr. Song Shuhua of GTS and created by Xiangshan Group craftsman. Their efforts made Jiangnan Yard an artistic work hard to duplicate today.

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TWO Creation of Landscape Artistic Conception

The charm of Jiangnan Garden features the layout of mountain and waters. It follows the mission of “reappearance of natural hills” to reproduce the universe in limited space and display the artistic conception of infinite natural landscape.

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Water system planning comes first in the planning of gardens. Around the water, the water system runs through the park ups and downs. In Jiangnan Yard, the central water yard is located in the middle of the cluster and lays in irregular shapes with rockeries and pavilions, making the whole area vivid and interesting.

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At the same time, bridges are used to divide water into small bays. Compared with dynamic waters, they form more arrangements. Close to the end of water system, one-step bridge is used to create deep, quiet and remote artistic sense. Sit here to feed fish and enjoy the landscape, comfortable and pleased.

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Water is the soul and mountain are the bone. Besides rockeries, Dry Hill and Water Yard in Jiangnan Yard displays a different expression of landscape. See big things through small ones. Represent water by sand stones and represent mountain by stones. Tranquil elements deliver timeless aesthetics.

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THREE Floras Art Landscape Creation

During the building of Jiangnan gardens, it is used to applying the seasonality of flora to form landscape changing in four seasons. Rain hits on Chinese banana leaves. Enjoy flowers beside water. Find wintersweet in snow days. These experience in gardens is full of elegance.

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Jiangnan Yard follows these features and chooses representative Pinus thunbergii Pari, cuckoo, crape myrthle, Chinese trumpet creeper, Malus spectabillis and other flora, delivering good wishes. For example, papaya trees guarantee the safety and health of homes. Pinus thunbergii Pari meas health and longevity. Pomegranate means “the more sons, the more blessings.”

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There are plants along lanes and at corners, such as Pinus thunbergii Pari, bamboos and flowers. Green shadows create poetic landscape. Arbor trees are planted in bigger yards, bringing green and vigors.

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FOUR Ancient Architecture Aesthetics Meaning

Architectures in Jiangnan garden are dignified and elegant. They have both practical functions and are part of the landscape. Diversified classic architectural elements bring soul and sense to buildings and integrate the aesthetics image and cultural taste.

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Gate is the first image of a building. In Jiangnan Yard, there are gate wall-style gate, general gate and etc. General gate was used as the yard gate by officials before, bring the sense of honor and etiquette. Wall-style gate was used by business men, meaning low profile and hiding wealth.

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Drum-shaped bearing stone in front of gate is the substitute of war drum. In the past, illustrious generals would put war drum in front of gate. Drum-shaped bearing stone became the signal of the people who are “either rich or expensive”, a symbol of social status.

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Looking above, ancient architectures have the aesthetics in form and soul, creating the ridge sky line the Eeat features.

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Classic forms are the expression of architecture, delivering good wishes of residents.

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The projecting tile along the eave is called drip tile. It is the triangle-shaped edge on one end. On it, there are flower patterns representing wealth. Raindrop running on tiles means profits pouring in from all sides.

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Beauty Chair got the name for in ancient time ladies lounged on it to enjoy the landscape out of window.

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Classic matting creates multi-layered space. Delicate hangings is designed into the form of gammadia, representing fortune and luck.

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FIVE Elaborated Private Courtyard

There is a garden out of your garden. There is a yard in the garden. Jiangnan Yard shows the quintessence of Jiangnan Garden thoroughly. A single house has its own entrance and courtyard with unique design. Every house will be delivered with high-standard fine decoration that can be called as art work.

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3.6-5.4 meters high walls enclose your own world. Tea pavilion, rockery, koi fish pool, one-step bridge is among flora, making a unique garden of your own.

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In the villa, residents could enjoy the travel in landscape. In the Yard, residents could enjoy pavilions. During spared time, taste a cup of tea in a pavilion, feeling the fly of time; feed koi fish beside the water, enjoying the joyful time.

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The combination of house and yard and picturesque landscape deliver the aesthetics, lifestyle and humanity value. In the history, they integrated into our blood and spirit. It became timelessly classic.

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Jiangnan Yard inherits the quintessence of Jiangnan garden to create a Chinese-style yard that can be handed down. That is the wealth and enjoyment that could be left to later generations.

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