Jiangnan Style Garden

Jiangnan Style Garden

The Jiangnan Style Garden is located in the Liaodong Bay New Area of Panjin City, Liaoning Province. The garden integrates the most representative features of eight classic gardens from China’s Jiangnan region, including Suzhou’s Humble Administrator’s Garden, Lingering Garden, Canglang Pavilion, and Huanxiu Villa, Yangzhou’s Four Bridges amid Misty Rain, Hangzhou’s Long Bridge at Six Parks, and the Central Pavilion on the Lake in Linhai’s East Lake, Zhejiang. The project boldly innovates by integrating the garden and Cuixia Lake in design concept, complementing and highlighting each other. The garden brings together ancient architectural arts such as mortise-and-tenon joinery, painting, Huizhou carving and relief work, plaques, couplets, inscribed stone strips, and sculptures, enhanced with ornamental plants and flowers that carry deep meaning. The artful arrangement of rocks conveys emotion, reflecting the architectural styles and craftsmanship of the Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties. The exquisite garden design that reveals new scenes at every turn showcases the profound cultural essence of Jiangnan, reaching the pinnacle of ancient architectural artistry. It is the largest private garden built in China in the past three hundred years, aside from the Old Summer Palace, and fills a two-thousand-year void of gardens in the Northeast region.

The garden also features the Meiyuan International Grand Hotel, built around ancient architectural elements. The hotel is designed in a garden style, with small bridges, flowing water, and greenery surrounding the buildings, blending landscape and architecture to allow guests to experience ancient architectural culture and artistic beauty.

In addition, the Jiangnan Style Garden includes a commercial complex with an ancient architectural aesthetic. Covering a land area of 65,000 square meters, with a construction area of 60,000 square meters and a street length of 1.2 kilometers, the district features distinctive buildings that are harmonious and unified. A wide range of China’s five-thousand-year cultural heritage—including various operas, calligraphy and paintings, regional snacks from across the country, tea ceremonies, and nationally renowned tourist products—will be showcased here.

The construction techniques of the Jiangnan Style Garden not only preserve classical garden-building methods but also boldly innovate. By integrating the garden and lake as one, the design employs key garden elements and landscaping techniques such as architecture, water, stones, plants, pathways, borrowed scenery, framed views, focal points, and perspective views. This creates a seamless fusion between gardens, landscapes, buildings, and the lake surface, achieving a naturally integrated whole. At the same time, it cultivates a rich cultural atmosphere, making the garden a model among classical private gardens due to its natural beauty, profound artistic conception, exquisite construction, refined artistry, and rich cultural content. It will become the largest private garden in China that combines cultural tourism with a private garden setting.

The garden centers on themes of ancient architectural culture, Confucian culture, folk culture, and modern culture, with a core message of patriotism, love for the nation, and national prosperity. It blends classical Chinese culture, traditional culture, and northern and southern cultural elements, while also tapping into the cultural resources of the Northeast and Panjin to develop distinctive, multi-layered cultural tourism projects. These initiatives aim to meet people’s cultural tourism needs and breathe new life into traditional culture.