Qinghui Garden

As one of the four major gardens in the Qing Dynasty of Guangdong, Qinghui Garden has been listed as cultural relics of provincial importance. Situated in Daliang Town, Shunde District of Foshan City, the spectacular Qinghui Garden ranked among the top ten gardens of China. It was first constructed under the direction of a most successful landscape advisor to the late Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) and has undergone regular elaborate enhancements over the past hundreds of years.

Qinghui Garden used to be the mansion house of Huang Shijun, a Zhuangyuan (No. 1 Scholar in the highest imperial examination) in the Ming Dynasty, and was later purchased by Long Yingshi, a Jinshi (a successful candidate in the highest imperial examination) in the Qing Dynasty. It is with the detailed and careful construction of generations of the Long family that the Qinghui Garden assumed, roughly though, its present layout. Recent years have witnessed extensive renovations and expansion to the Garden, the area of which has been extended to cover over 22,000 sqare meters.

Qinghui Garden enjoys exquisite architectural design. With gardens, pavilions, verandas and natural landscape densely and harmoniously arranged together, each step through the garden reveals new sceneries. The artistic arrangement of the natural landscape includes garden rockery, zigzag streams, flora like gingko and Longan trees. Besides natural landscape, the Garden is also adorned with refined works of arts like pieces of pottery and porcelain, wood carvings, glass etching, and time-honored Chinese couplets. Whether you are wandering on the zigzag bridges and watching fish swim playfully, or walking through the corridors and enjoying the fragrance of trees and flowers, you can indulge yourself in this peaceful and relaxing atmosphere.

Absorbing the cultures of both the Ming and Qing Dynasties, incorporating the architectural characteristics of ancient garden design in both Lingnan (area covering Guangdong and Guangxi provinces) and Jiangnan (area south of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River) areas, plus a touch of the Pearl River Delta flavor, the Qinghui Garden has now developed into a picturesque garden of great attraction.

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