Li Garden, located in Kaiping City, Guangdong Province town Tangkou town justice, sitting west to east, covering an area of approximately 11,014.99 square meters, is a national 4A level scenic spots. It is Mr. Xie Weili Tong Town of Overseas Chinese in the twentieth century, built 20 years back, which lasted ten years, 25 years Republic of China (1936) initially built.
Li Garden Chinese garden charm both, but also absorb the Western European and American architectural ambience, with its clever blend of the overseas Chinese private garden built by a first class, is also found in China is a more complete integration of Chinese and WesternThe name of the park.
Li Garden layout, can be roughly divided into three parts: the villa, large garden area, flower park. Three zones separated by artificial river or wall, but also cleverly used Qiaoting or sky corridor will facilitate the integration of three areas, people feel there is Park Park, King of the King, pavilions, elegant layout, originality, There is a sense of talent.
Li Park main entrance, the villa by the southern tip of the door (south) is the "Legislative Park Canal." The top middle of the door, "Li Garden," the word soft but just as handsome smooth, melt in the Republic of China WU Dao is a calligrapher and twenty-three years (1934) writing.
From the main entrance into the inner, westbound along the canal corridor about 100 meters, will enter the villa. Six villas villas, ancient towers one, which "Li Pan," "Pan Man" two most gorgeous spectacular villa, and its roof by the ancient Chinese "eaves" architecture, built of green glazed tiles, cleverly elevated become practical insulation. Interior color shop floor and the stairs are stone, Italy, and now sixty years, still glamorous, which was the culmination of craftsmen skills, it is amazing. Interior walls are decorated with ancient Chinese characters to the theme of the story large color murals, reliefs, and large wood painted gold; Cai Nai relief is the "Liu Bei threeGu Cao Lu, "wood painted gold for the" big six closed phase ", shape the characters realistic, lifelike and exquisite carving, composition ingenuity. Layers of the wall are Western-style fireplace equipment; all windows fitted with mosquito screens; hanging under the ceiling antique hanging lamp; each furnished with fine wood craft furniture, seems simple and elegant and expensive, antique. water and toilet facilities, such as pumps, tub, toilet bowls, tanks, etc are purchased from abroad. entrance door is heavy Lock, people feel more at home mysterious anti-theft devices, is obvious.
If a higher level who visit, board floor, to see Mr. Xie Weili"Ancestral tablets" settings, not only build a process monoid, unique, and that the shrine couplet inscribed: "cases Gongwei Dexing nation, Zude Feng Long protect country." So park owner that loves people, the spirit of love of country, is indeed admirable admirable!
Villa west is a large garden, its layout for the north-south (that is, ride north to south), mainly in the "Legislative Garden" big arch, and "the legislature Dao" big arch axis layout.
Li Garden arch, south across the canal, a distance of "Tiger Mountain", the Church is about a 20-meter-high iron, 30 cm diameter, round two of "playing the penises" toThe Shan towering, as if to quell "Tiger" despotic power, feng shui beliefs play when people rationalize the prayer, but also set off a more solemn and magnificent arch. Into the arch, you can see both sides of the symmetry of the fine granite sculpture of a squatting lions, right male left the female, showing that the dominating spirit of the town of Tiger. Goldfish pond along the cement road on both sides reach "self legislation" arch, arch the back is a large "well"-shaped flower accessories. Archway to the east of a construction group, is a steel plate in front of a cement-meter Roman architecture, craft unique, Dubbed the "Bird';s Nest"; later in a beige concrete buildings all through the flower, craft special shaped like a cage, the bottomAlso has a gold fish pond, one that is "bird cage", one that is "flower vine Pavilion."
The southwest corner of the garden there is a large tower house, known as "Yu Pei." Small and exquisite villas, building a first class technology. There are four buildings, is the ingenious idea of the main garden, there follow the example of ancient China, Japan, sleep style, Tibetan Italian, Roman-style palace. Each ground carefully selected patterns, cleverly using the four "red" together to form a circular pattern unique charity and inlaid with colored stone in each of Italy hall, housing the middle, presumably it is the park owner Lady of the four affiliated feelings. Villa Park, this building is the LordMemorial concubine built, can be described as imaginative.
Large Garden, is the use of reinforced concrete building in the basement, there are illegal channels inside and outside the similarities. Large garden surrounded by a winding path corridor, tied up the whole garden building, outside the meantime, people feel more natural and comfortable.
"Little Garden" in the "garden" and the villas of the south, in the middle and away from the canal. Villas built between and small garden "Hongqiao" connection, the bridge was built, "Late pavilion," a, visitors watch the landscape into the pavilion CASTLE, do not have some fun. Unique composition of small gardens for the "River" shape. Park to "Wu" shaped canal separated the east building "dabble" bridge connection, Bridge building, "Changchun" pavilion; west of the building, "Mission Hills" bridge connections, bridge building "were leting." Mainly by the small garden, "Yi Cui", "Changchun", "Total Music" composed of three pavilions. And "Yi Cui," Ting Ding, paint a few frames of ancient "Eight Immortals" of the characters carved murals gray, colorful, vivid characters, entrenched at the top of a dragon, hanging lamp, as it spits out the pearl, lifelike, It is full of praise. The three kiosks are built with style, too, delicate beauty.
"Changchun Ting" side of the five little white tower, the workmanship is very fine, exquisitely carved, small and exquisite, lovingly. Allegedly Zhenshe South "CD Vulcan "Vulcan to exclude smoke intrusions, protect peace garden.
In sum, the whole composition in the building stand alone garden not only different, but the idea of planting flowers and trees are unique, innovative, to adapt to the times, a Planning and clever arrangements, over the planting of various flowers Yi Cao, landscape trees, timber trees , and fruit trees, everything, dazzling. Now ancient trees, trees, Tsui pour pavilion, Fan Hua Manyuan, Huaxiangniaoyu, exposure to the garden delightful, who travel away. Unfortunately, Sino-Japanese War broke out, the main Victoria Park, established his family to the United States, and therefore planned to establish park also had to stop the construction of the project, people lament the sorry. <BR> Before the liberation, established garden repeated bad luck, since the foreign devils by the cruel ravages of the East, violence hit song column bars 30 mm thick, within the group of bandits looted property then gradually into the desert. After liberation, the county government has repeatedly maintenance funds, can only save the picture.
In 1957, the first secretary of the Central Bureau of Tao Zhu visited the park so had to stand and instructed the legislature to protect the park';s plants and trees. Park has established a "Central Bureau of veteran nursing homes."
March 23, 1983, Kaiping county government to establish the first county park as a cultural unit. October 10, 1999, park owner over his wife XieMs. Qiong Yao (Xie Weili widow), in the United States is pleased with each other, Kaiping City People';s Government contracts, sincerity, Municipal Government commissioned hosted for 25 years, and then will host a further 25 years, hosting a total period of 50 years. From now on, Kaiping municipal government decided against a massive park full repair, expansion, the aim is to protect the overseas Chinese painstakingly built by Mr. Xie Weili, "Li Garden" integrate the essence of Western architectural style unique legacy, as far as possible preserve their original appearance and make it intact; promote Mr. Xie Weili purpose built park, and hometown to share the same spirit of fun travel further to turn them into the national-class scenic spots overseasFor people to visit and tour, the development of tourism in Kaiping.