Yangzhou Liuzhuang

Yangzhou Liuzhuang

Yangzhou Liuzhuang is a Yangzhou municipal cultural relics protection unit.

Liuzhuang

It is now a municipal-level cultural relics protection unit, located at No. 272 Guangling Road in the city center. Originally named “Longxi Houpu,” it was built during the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty. In the 11th year of the Republic of China (1922), it was acquired by the salt merchant Liu family, who renovated it and gave it its current name. The site covers an area of 6,160 square meters. The main gate faces south, with the garden situated to the north of the residence and separated by courtyards. The garden entrance has a moon gate inscribed with the plaque “Yu Garden Half Mu.” There are three south-facing halls, behind which lies a courtyard, and a corridor to the west leads to a half pavilion in the western section of the courtyard. At the base of the southwest wall, there is a flower stand made of Taihu rocks, planted with trees such as the white-barked pine. In the eastern courtyard, there is a pavilion building to the north abutting a rockery built against the wall, and a water pool to the south featuring a set of Taihu rock artificial hills. The rear courtyard is overgrown and abandoned, but several stone engravings of the “Po Mo Zhai Fa Tie” (Ink Splashing Studio Calligraphy Collection) by Ming Dynasty’s Wang Bing still remain on the courtyard walls. The residential buildings in the southern part of the garden are arranged along three east-west axes, each with four courtyards front and back, and preserve a nanmu (phoebe nanmu) hall.

Further Reading:

· The First to Third Batches of Yangzhou Municipal Cultural Relics Protection Units