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Bonsai Garden
Posted by act2009 in Tourist Attractions on June 29th, 2009
Bonsai Garden
The Bonsai Garden in Jiangling of Jingzhou is a recreational park that has bonsai scenery and gardening artistry with easy access. The 25,000-square-meter bonsai garden is built by imitating the traditional Chinese style, which is combined the artistic layout of the China’s classical gardens in the south and the grand architecture of the royal courtyards in the north. The watery area of the garden occupies around 80 percent. Walking inside, you will see the excellent juxtaposition of large houses, small kiosks, tranquil corridors and rustic rockworks has made the scenes of the park related to one another. Crossing slowly the tiny stone bridge, listening to the flowing sound of the brooks and seeing the ancient architecture will make you feel you’re living in ancient China.
The delicate tree root carvings and the rough-looking stone bonsais are as if they are made by the Nature. They demonstrate the power of human artistry. The bonsai competition of Hubei Province and in the state’s contests have awarded the bonsai making masters.
Transportation
Take bus No. 18 in downtown Jingzhou as far as the Bonsai Garden directly.
Food
Nine-yellow Cake (九黄饼) is a traditional famous snack in Jiangling having over a thousand years’ history. In the past, people liked to bring this kind of dry cake for hiking and traveling far. The Nine-yellow Cake gets its name from Chinese saying, “the chrysanthemums are in pretty yellow in the Ninth Month of Lunar Calendar”. The ingredients for making the cake are choicest and demanding in technique. The outer layer is made of quality wheat flour with sesames and sugar. It should be quite crispy. The stuffing includes rose, sugar-preserved gourd, walnut pieces and some sweet fruits. Bake in medium fire and make it dry. The Nine-yellow Cake is so sweet with heavy stuffing, long storing period and easy to carry.
Shopping
Jiangling lacquerworks
Jiangling lacquerwork has been well developed in history. Today’s lacquerworks are made according to the excavated relics in tombs from Chu State over 2,500 years ago. Hanging Drums by Dragon and Phoenix, A Giant Bird Standing on the Back of a Small Tiger, The Lying Deer and Fast Galloping Horse and so on are of great cultural value.
Feather fan and paper fan are Chinese traditional handicrafts made from feathers of wild bird and paper respectively. There are feather fans of vividly colored, in different shapes and some have scenery painted on. Paper fans are also painted with animal images and natural landscape. In addition to their aesthetic value, the fans can be used for cooling yourself during hot weather.
The Stele Garden
Posted by act2009 in Tourist Attractions on June 26th, 2009
The Jiangling Stele Garden (江陵碑苑, Jiang Ling Bei Yuan) was found in 1992, located in Jingzhou, Hubei Province. It was built under the financial support of the Taiwanese Jiangling Citizens’ Association. The whole garden maintained the traditional architecture of China’s stele parks that is combined the imposing verve and elegant simplicity. The Stele Garden consists of 18 buildings, the Front Hall, the Stele Hall and the Stele Pavilion, to name a few.
The garden collects about 300 steles by past masters and modern artists in China, Japan, Singapore and the US. The most eminent ones are elegant writings by the founding father of modern China, Dr. Sun Yat-sen and the Chairman Mao Zedong. There are also many calligraphic steles of different styles in Chinese characters by some notable historical figures and men of letters. The Stele Garden has almost all the existing styles and fonts in Chinese calligraphy, it is an ideal venue for calligraphy lovers to see, learn and cultivate your soul.
Longevity Garden
Posted by act2009 in Tourist Attractions on June 26th, 2009
The Longevity Pagoda in Longevity Garden
Longevity Garden is located at the Kwan-yin Water Rock from the Southern Song Dynasty in Jingjiang River Levee, Shashi, Jingzhou in Hubei Province. It is the state’s key protected cultural unit, combining the functions of cultural heritage sightseeing and Yangtze River’s flood prevention. The Longevity Pagoda inside the garden was built in 1552 during the Ming Dynasty for honoring and celebrating the birthday of Ming’s Jiajing Emperor. It is height about 40 meters with seven levels, 20 meters higher than the Jingjiang River Levee. During its 450 years’ history, the riverbed of the Jingjiang River has been elevating by 7 meters, the bank was also heightened, and therefore, the pagoda was immersed under the bank. The whole pagoda looks like a giant coming from the earth crust. By the side of the pagoda, it still has 87 Han jade Buddhist statues and 102 stone tablets. There are about 2,300 pieces of brick carved with bas-relief of animal and flower images, as well as characters in Han Chinese, Manchu, Tibetan, Mongolian and Hui languages.
Longevity Garden covers more than 16,000 square meters, and the overall architectural style is following that of Ming Dynasty. It consists of Reception Hall, Nine Dragons Wall, Long Corridor, Pavilion for Watching the River and Kwan-yin Kiosk and so on, with about 10,000 trees, including gingko, winter sweet, pomegranate and osmanthus etc.
Magnificent architecture from the Ming Dynasty
The Kwan-yin Water Rock is like a river dam in Jingjiang River. It prevent the flood water comes to the plain area in Jianghan (Hubei Province). Today, it left the historical height scores of Yangtze River’s water level in 1998 and the all time high in Jingjiang River in 1954. In memory of the serious flood of Yangtze River in 1998 and the braveness of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army in rescuing the masses, the Fighting Flood 1998 Pavilion is built near to The Kwan-yin Water Rock.
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