Best Fengshui Mountain Villa in Guangxi

Mango Travel Diary: When it comes to garden architecture, Suzhou is the best. However, when Mango was traveling in Guangxi last month, he heard from the tour guide that there was a general's private residence in Yulin, covering an area of 400 mu, which was little known a hundred years ago. Its exquisite architecture is amazing and is the essence of Lingnan architecture.

The general's private residence, named Xielu Villa, is located in Xielu Village, Wushi Town, Luchuan County, Yulin City, Guangxi. It was built in 192 1 year and lasted for seven years (in short, 20 years). It has a history of nearly a hundred years and covers an area of 400 mu. Built on the mountain, step by step, elegant environment, unique shape, one step at a time, winding path leading to a secluded place.

From the outside, the Xielu Mountain Villa is unremarkable, but when you walk inside, you shine at the moment. Pavilions and pavilions, flowers and trees, bridges and flowing water complement each other. According to the tour guide, the whole mountain villa can be summarized as a mountain spring, double fences, three floors, four garden gates, five rockeries, six houses, seven ponds, eight pavilions and twelve crossings. Known as one of the four private manors in China, it combines the architectural style of Suzhou Garden and Lingnan.

The original owner of Xielu Villa is Lu, who was born in Xielu Village, Wushi Town, Luchuan County, Yulin City, Guangxi. He used to be the Major General of the Lu Rongting Department of the Old Guangxi Department and the first commander of the infantry in the Central District of Guangxi Army. Shu Ren Bookstore (Xielu Villa) was built in192/kloc-0.

It is said that Lu, the owner of the manor, gave the manor a clear purpose of establishing school books and cultivating talents at the beginning of its establishment, because he was born and attached great importance to reading. From many couplets in the villa, we can see that "colorful flowers are charming, and the sound of books is often accompanied by the third night of the month" and "An De Miao Shu surrendered three thousand cars and planted another 100 thousand flowers to compose this green hill". It is said that the villa originally had tens of thousands of books, but it was burned down in the sixties and seventies.

It is said that this villa was designed by. He referred to the characteristics of Suzhou and Hangzhou gardens and combined with the local mountain layout. He was built on the mountain, from low to high, with layers of overlapping, with a "one to nine" landscape: a small door, double fences, three floors, four doors in the garden, five rockeries, six houses, seven pools, eight pavilions, nine winding paths, and birds singing in the garden.

It is said that Li Zongren has also been to Xielu Villa, and he is full of praise. There are gardens in the garden, small bridges and flowing water, climbing high and looking far. "There are mountains and mountains here. Looking up, the sky is clear." Temple, Lake Hidden Pavilion, Leaning against Clouds Pavilion and Listening to Songtao, Lu gave each building an elegant name.

Xielu Villa is a typical combination of Suzhou gardens and Hakka architecture. Its large scale and exquisite layout are breathtaking. It is an important material evidence to study the landscape architecture, Hakka culture and local celebrities in southern China, and it has high historical research value.

Speaking of the owner of the villa, Lu, in the words of the tour guide, is "a very good person". He is 1.57 meters tall, but he has three families and eight wives. On the second door of Xielu Villa, there is a pumpkin painting, which according to the tour guide is a portrayal: a main vine represents Lu; The three pumpkins tied to the vine indicate that he has three homes (the word "home" is the same as "melon" in Hakka dialect) and owns real estate in Luchuan, Liuzhou Luocheng and xuwen county, Zhanjiang City, Guangdong Province. Eight melon leaves represent eight wives and five flowers represent five sons. The lush leaves symbolize a prosperous family.

After the founding of New China, Lu was shot. After his death, the manor was confiscated and renamed Xielu Villa, which has now become a national key cultural relics protection unit. There is a semi-mountain pavilion in the middle of the villa, on which is written a couplet: "If you ask about the past, halfway through this mountain, the messenger looks forward to repairing people for a hundred years." Villa has a history of nearly a hundred years, but it is little known, although it is one of the four private manors in China. Let's leave the merits and demerits of Lu's life to future generations.