Liang's Garden (, also known as Liang Yuan), is located in
Foshan
Foshan (, ; Chinese: 佛山) is a prefecture-level city in central Guangdong Province, China. The entire prefecture covers and had a population of 9,498,863 as of the 2020 census. The city is part of the western side of the Pearl River Delta m ...
,
China
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, and is one of four famous gardens in
Guangdong Province
) means "wide" or "vast", and has been associated with the region since the creation of Guang Prefecture in AD 226. The name "''Guang''" ultimately came from Guangxin ( zh, labels=no, first=t, t= , s=广信), an outpost established in Han dynasty ...
. (The other three famous gardens are:
Yuyin Garden,
Keyuan and
Qinghui Garden
Qinghui Garden (), located in Daliang, Shunde District, Foshan City, is one of the Four Great Gardens of Guangdong in China.
See also
* List of Chinese gardens
This is a list of Chinese garden, Chinese-style gardens both within China and el ...
.)
Liang's Garden contains residencies, pagodas, sculptures lakes with fine gardens of trees, shrubs and flowers. It includes the ''Twelve-Stone House''(), ''Qunxing Thatched Cottage'' (), ''Fenjiang Thatched Cottage'' () and the ''Hanxiang House'' (), among others.
It is a traditional private garden that belongs to Liang's family. The builders are uncles and nephews of the family: Liang Airu, Liang Jiuzhang, Liang Jiuhua and Liang Jiutu.
They built in the
Qing empire
The Qing dynasty ( ), officially the Great Qing, was a Manchu-led Dynasties of China, imperial dynasty of China and an early modern empire in East Asia. The last imperial dynasty in Chinese history, the Qing dynasty was preceded by the ...
1796, carefully built over 40 years. In the early Republic period (about 1912), the garden was nearly destroyed.
In 1982, Foshan government saved and protected ''Qunxing Thatched Cottage''. In 1990, Liang's Garden was given cultural relic protection status by the Guangdong provincial government. In 1994, large-scale total repair began, which covered a land of 21.260 square meter.
References
Gardens in Guangdong
Tourist attractions in Foshan
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