Classification of Lingnan Gardens

In terms of types, there are watchtowers, ship halls and covered bridges. Diaolou originated from Diaolou, such as Keyuan Invitation Mountain Pavilion, Qinghui Garden Liu Fenting, Liyuan Yu Pei Building, etc. In addition to Zhou Shi in Jiangnan Garden, there are boats in Lingnan, such as the Purple Cave Boat in Baomo Garden, and a unique boat hall, which integrates the living room with the building and has a slight sense of boat. It is often used for good girls, so it is commonly known as Miss House, such as Qinghuiyuan and Yuyin Mountain House. Pavilion practices are very irregular and varied, or surrounded by cloisters and walls, or interspersed with corner beams and beams, or ethnic, Russian or Western European styles. In classical gardens, bridges are often combined with corridors, forming stone arch bridges at the top of corridors, such as yuyin mountain houses, wind and rain buildings of ethnic minorities and cable bridges in mountainous areas.

As far as the combination mode is concerned, the courtyard of the building is combined with multiple courtyards through "high walls and cold alleys", or the building and courtyard are integrated through "joint houses"; As far as a single form is concerned, most of them are high column foundation, wide eaves gallery, thick wall, blue tile roof, pressed tile, upturned roof ridge, stained glass window, brick carving window and gray plastic door; As far as decoration is concerned, the most typical ones are "three carvings and three sculptures": wood carving, brick carving, stone carving, pottery sculpture, clay sculpture and gray sculpture. In classical gardens, there are three carvings all over the garden, such as doorways, door couplets, window lintels, pedestals, desks, cornices, cornices, moon beams, melon pillars, sparrows, seats, railings and roofs. Among them, the gray carving and brick carving have the most Lingnan flavor, such as the "Suwu Shepherd" gray carving in Qinghui Garden and the melon and fruit brick carving in Banqiao Garden. Summarized by the words "there are flowers in four seasons and rain belts in the scenery", the characteristic trees are palm-shaped king coconut, fake betel nut, king coconut and bottle coconut; There are rattan fireworks, cordate telosma, wisteria, rhododendron and green radish; There are shade-tolerant orchids, bananas, taro, ferns and sunflowers; And banyan and litchi.