Yuyin Hill House

This is the second stop of Yi Lan's visit to the four famous gardens in Lingnan in December, Yu Yin Shan Fang. Yu Yin Shan Fang is located in Nan Village, Panyu, also known as "Yu Yin Garden", which was built in the sixth year of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty (186 years) and has a history of more than 130 years. It can be called one of the four famous gardens in Lingnan, naturally there are unique and brilliant places. Yu Yin Garden has two prominent features: The first is "shrinking the dragon into inches", the whole garden covers an area of only 1500 square meters, which is not even half the size of a football field. But the architectural layout of the garden is very ingenious, hiding the dragon and the tiger without revealing it. From the outside, it looks like an ordinary residential mansion, but when you are in it, you can't help but marvel. In a small space, all the pavilions, terraces, buildings, rooms, halls, pavilions, verandas, bridges, embankments, stone mountains and green water in Chinese garden architecture are included. It can be said that there are scenes at every step, the scenes are interlocked, and the scenery is endless. The corridors, flower windows, and shadow walls cleverly borrow the scenery, making the small garden appear to have a garden in the garden, a scene outside the scene, and deep and wide. The second is "book fragrance and elegance", Yu Yin Shan Fang starts from the entrance, the design of each landscape is ingenious and meaningful. And the living room is inseparable from culture, full of poetry and literature, colorful and rich in book fragrance. Therefore, Yu Yin Shan Fang can be called a masterpiece of Lingnan garden architecture, and it is an outstanding representative of garden architecture that is suitable for local conditions and ingeniously designed. Yu Yin Shan Fang is divided into two major scenic spots, east and west, with the "Washing Red and Green" corridor as the boundary. The corridor is one of the most distinctive buildings in the garden. There are five stone steps before and after, and there is a stone arch under the bridge. The bridge is a roll-top rest mountain top. The front and back are titled "Washing Red" and "Crossing Green", so it is called Washing Red and Green Bridge. There are railings on the bridge, hanging under the pavilion, wind and rain corridors connected at both ends, and long benches on both sides of the corridor. The west area is mainly based on Shenliu Tang, supplemented by Linchi Bieguan. The wood carving of Shenliu Tang is a fine product in the garden, and the east side has wood carvings inscribed by famous people such as Weng Fanggang and Liu Yong. The east area is larger, the main building is Linglong Shuixie, built in the middle of the pool, there is Yangliu Lou Tai in the southeast corner, and there are ancient buildings such as Peacock Pavilion, Lai Xun Pavilion, and Olive Branch Hall in the northeast corner. However, what Yi Lan has to complain about is that Yu Yin Shan Fang is also the most commercialized one in these four gardens, and the tickets are the most expensive. After checking the ticket and entering the door, the pond is surrounded by shops, operating all kinds of similar tourist souvenirs and changing clothes for travel shooting, so there are all kinds of little sisters in the garden, and wedding photography, even if it is a working day, it is impossible to take a picture of no one. Empty mirror, if you want to take good photos, you have to get up early. Ticket price: 18 yuan/person Opening hours: 08:00-18:00 Scenic address: North Street, Nan Village, Panyu District, Guangzhou Traffic guide: Metro Line 7 to Yuangang Station Exit B, transfer to Fan 30 Road (get off at Yu Yin Shan Fang Terminal), there is a parking lot in front of the self-driving door. I am Yi Lan, a photographer who loves to travel, follow me to explore fun and beautiful new ❤ places~

Weekend leisure trips can be made to Yu Meng Mountain House and Si Hai Equestrian! One is great for strolling around and the other is perfect for taking photos and checking in! The previously popular white pine flowers are out of season, but there are still other beautiful flowers to see~ ⛰【Travel Tips】 📍Detailed address: Yu Meng Mountain House, Si Hai Equestrian 🚗Transportation tips: It is recommended to drive. It takes about 15 minutes to drive from Yu Meng Mountain House to Si Hai Equestrian, allowing you to visit both attractions in one day 🕙Opening hours: Yu Meng Mountain House starts clearing the area at 5:30 pm, and entry is not allowed after 6 pm 💰Ticket price: Yu Meng Mountain House: 18 RMB per person, Si Hai Equestrian: Free 📌Little Tips: The weather wasn't perfect during the visit, but it didn't affect taking great photos~ It's still worth a visit, especially for a relaxing weekend and some photography!

Attracted by the white Bauhinia Variegata tree in the garden, I visited the Yuyin Mountain House on a rainy day, only to encounter the Lingnan spring of a century ago. - 🎋The first impression of the Yuyin Mountain House is its exquisite delicacy. 'In a land of three bows, the red rain is enough; under a corner of the sky, the green clouds are deep.' The Yuyin Mountain House is the best-preserved garden among the four famous gardens of Lingnan. Although it spans less than 'three hundred steps', it encompasses pavilions, terraces, halls, bridges, embankments, and a variety of garden sceneries. - 🌸The garden is full of vibrant colors even on cloudy days. The white Bauhinia Variegata, Cercis chinensis, Camellia, and Bougainvillea in the garden bloom brightly, and appreciating the landscape requires no threshold. Even without a deep understanding of garden architectural aesthetics or the garden owner's story, one can still sense the unique spring vitality of the Lingnan garden. It's amazing that there is even a Peacock Pavilion 🦚 suspended over the water, housing a pair of peacocks, one male and one female. - 🏞️The magic of garden creation is to 'shrink the dragon to inches.' 'Although made by man, it seems as if opened by heaven' is the highest realm of garden creation. The Yuyin Mountain House achieves a wonderful effect of dynamic and static transitions through corridors, doors, windows, and carved murals, creating a garden within a garden and scenes beyond scenes. The main buildings such as the Red Bridge, Deep Willow Hall, and the Octagonal Water Pavilion all reflect the charm of Lingnan gardens—combining the elegance of Jiangnan gardens with the practical grandeur of Lingnan. - 📖The scent of books lingers. The temperament of a private garden is largely determined by its owner. The owner of the Yuyin Mountain House was Wu Bin, a Qing Dynasty scholar. The origin of the name reflects the family tradition: 'Yuyin' to commemorate the blessings of the ancestors, and 'Mountain House' as a humble reference to its secluded location. The garden also reflects the owner's philosophy of life, full of literary temperament yet not blindly following tradition. ✍️Nearly a hundred couplets, inscriptions, plaques, and poems can be found in the garden, including the handwriting of Liu Yong, a Grand Scholar of the Qianlong era. The octagonal pavilion, with a view in each window, is an elegant place for poetry and literary gatherings. 🪟The Manchu windows of the Deep Willow Hall ingeniously combine Eastern and Western elements, using the color changes of blue and white glass to artificially create rare Lingnan scenes of autumn leaves and snow-covered branches, revealing the owner's ingenious ideas. - 📷Yuyin Mountain House 📍Loading 25% of the Four Great Gardens of Lingnan series, with Qinghui Garden, Keyuan, and Liang Garden to be unlocked~

Yu Yin Shan Fang, also known as Yu Yin Garden, was the private garden of Wu Bin, a Qing dynasty imperial scholar, located on Beida Street in Nancun Town, Panyu District, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province. Yu Yin Shan Fang was started in the sixth year of the Tongzhi era and completed in the tenth year. It is a representative of Lingnan gardens and is known as one of the four great gardens of Lingnan, along with Qinghui Garden, Keyuan, and Liangyuan. Wu Bin was an imperial scholar during the Qing dynasty, who rose to the position of a principal in the Ministry of Punishments. Later, he was honored by Emperor Xianfeng with the title of Tongfeng Dafu, and his official rank reached that of a second-grade official. Both of his sons were also imperial scholars, hence the saying, 'A family with three imperial scholars, father and sons all succeeded in the imperial examinations.' The name 'Yu Yin' was chosen for the garden to commemorate the blessings of the ancestors. Yu Yin Shan Fang's garden section has four main buildings, including the Wo Piao Lu, Lin Chi Bie Guan, Shen Liu Tang, and Ling Long Shui Xie, with a small rainbow bridge lying horizontally in the middle, dividing the garden into eastern and western parts. Within the cultural relics area of Yu Yin Shan Fang, there are themed gray sculptures that can be identified on ridge decorations, screen walls, door wall lintels, couplets, flower boxes, flower bases, and downspouts.

Yuexiu Park was the private garden of Wubin, a scholar in the Qing Dynasty, which is more than 150 years old and is known for its exquisite and delicate artistic features. There are three major landscapes in the garden: 'Washing Red Across Green', 'Deep Willow Hidden Treasure', and 'Red Rain Green Cloud'. . Yuexiu Park has garden layouts such as Deep Willow Hall, Linchi Pavilion, Linglong Waterside Pavilion, Lai Xun Pavilion, Peacock Pavilion, and Washing Red Across Green Bridge. Although the garden is small, it has pavilions, bridges, towers, winding paths, lotus ponds, rock mountains, famous flowers and different plants, everything is available. . Different from the exquisite luxury and grand scale of the Guangzhou houses recorded in the Chen Clan Ancestral Hall, today's protagonist is small and exquisite, beautiful to the pore level. Every house, every tile, every courtyard, every flower, every grass, every cup and every cup is a careful consideration, beautiful to suffocation. Take advantage of the weekend to escape from the city and fully experience the architectural aesthetics of more than a hundred years ago. . The Linglong Waterside Pavilion, one of the main buildings in the garden, is where the garden owner recites poetry, drinks wine, and plays with the moon. The waterside pavilion is octagonal, supported by eight eaves and four golden pillars, surrounded by water on all sides, and all eight sides are bright and fine flower lattice windows, making the entire building appear delicate and transparent. Through the windows of the waterside pavilion, you can enjoy the eight-sided scenery: the osmanthus welcomes the rising sun, the willow green tower, the winter plum blossoms, the stone forest is close at hand, the rainbow bridge reflects the clear light, lying on the gourd to listen to the sound of the piano, the fruit altar orchid secluded path, the peacock opens the screen. During the day, open the doors and windows, the scenic rocks scattered around the outside and the flowers under the eaves, in various poses; on moonlit nights, the inside is dark and the outside is bright, the long shadows of the bamboo, beautiful. The golden pillar couplets in the pavilion: 'Every time I think of the famous mountains I have passed, I still see the strange rocks and clouds in my eyes, and I talk about the past sea, and I still see the bright moonlight in the quiet garden, which is enough to refresh my mind.' It was written by the garden owner himself, expressing the garden owner's exquisite thoughts on building the waterside pavilion, reviewing his own travels through famous mountains and rivers, the beautiful scenery of the gardens in Beijing and Suzhou is still in sight, and now after all the vicissitudes, quietly facing the garden scenery, it is enough to refresh the mind. The south pillar couplet of the Linglong Waterside Pavilion: 'The rain knocks on the flowers and the breeze passes the willows, the sunny walk turns the trees and the morning air divides the forest.' It tells the landscape and interest of the garden. The west pillar couplet: 'Chrysanthemum dregs are brewed into wine, and the guests are urged to drink unlimited wine, and the fragrance of the flowers is smelled to the machine man who has not forgotten the flowers.' The garden owner imitates the 'Scent of Osmanthus Fragrans' in the Liu Garden in Suzhou. The north pillar couplet: 'Walking in the clouds and calling for lights to listen to the rain, singing along the moon and calling for wine to prolong the autumn.' It describes various dynamics of people in the garden. Shooting Secrets: 1. The windows of the Linglong Waterside Pavilion with eight sides and dense patterns are excellent light and shadow messengers; 2. There are guqin, ink and brush, and illustrations in the waterside pavilion, which can add a bit of ancient charm; 3. There are many flowers and trees around the waterside pavilion, and the drooping willow branches are natural props for shooting portraits; 4. Good photos can be taken on rainy or sunny days. Tour Guide: Address: North Street, Nancun, Panyu District, Guangzhou Transportation🚄: Exit D of Banqiao Station on Metro Line 7, come by Didi; Ticket🎫: Full ticket 18 yuan, half ticket for students; Opening hours: 8:00-18:00 every day, stop selling tickets at 17:00

Whether it's a sunny day or a rainy day, there's a unique artistic conception. The combination of Lingnan garden and Suzhou-style garden makes this place both characteristic of Lingnan and the delicate beauty of Jiangnan. Waterside pavilions, rockeries, streams, and small bridges complement each other. It's quite poetic and picturesque~ This place is not big, there are almost no tourists on weekdays, it's very suitable for taking pictures here. Every step is a scene, everywhere is a painting.

In Guangzhou, apart from the well-known Beijing Road, Chen Clan Ancestral Hall, Canton Tower... There is actually one of the four great Lingnan gardens of Guangdong hidden away - the Yuexiu Shanfang Garden. Before you leave Guangzhou, you'll regret it if you don't visit. Yuexiu Shanfang Garden has a history of 150 years. It is famous for its one-step-at-a-time scenery, exquisite and delicate Lingnan-style garden design. And it is known as one of the four great Lingnan gardens along with Liang's Garden in Foshan, Qinghui Garden in Shunde, and Keyuan Garden in Dongguan. Some people say that here you can experience the garden features of Suzhou and Hangzhou. But I think here you can truly experience the unique Lingnan-style garden. 🌟Recommended visiting route: North Gate ➡️ Qianju Wugong Temple ➡️ Wenchang Yuan ➡️ Guifu Building ➡️ Jun'an Hall ➡️ Shanyan Wugong Temple ➡️ Shenliu Hall ➡️ Yu Garden ➡️ Nanyuan ➡️ Back Garden 🌈Photography and touring tips: 1⃣️Qianju Wugong Temple and Wenchang Yuan are new buildings built in 2006, and the old buildings are located from Shanyan Wugong Temple to Shenliu Hall, Yu Garden, Nanyuan, and Back Garden. The old building area is also a more photogenic area. 2⃣️The entire Yuexiu Shanfang Garden is suitable for wearing Hanfu and Cheongsam for photography. 3⃣️You can choose to take an overhead shot of the entire Back Garden from the second floor. 🚇Take a taxi from Banqiao Station on Metro Line 7 or transfer from Yuangang Station on Metro Line 7 to Fan 30 Line to the terminal station. 🅿️There is a parking lot at the entrance, 4 yuan/hour. 🎫18 yuan/person, half price for children and the elderly. 🍃A major feature of Lingnan architecture is the connection of various buildings through corridors, so no matter the weather - sunny, rainy, or overcast - it is suitable for visiting. Take advantage of the upcoming holiday to see this unforgettable Lingnan garden. ✨Hey, I'm Ya Zi. ✨A daughter, a mother, and more importantly, myself. ✨Sharing lesser-known and interesting places with you.