Yu Garden is a famous classical garden in the south of the Yangtze River. Yu Garden was built in the Jiajing period of Ming Dynasty. It was built by Pan Yunduan, a cloth governor in Sichuan in the Ming Dynasty. It has a history of more than 400 years. When the Shanghai knives Association uprising was held in 1853, the Yu Garden spring hall was used as the North command of the rebel army. It displayed the weapons of the year's knives, coins that had been made by itself, and the cultural relics issued. After the liberation, the government carried out a large-scale renovation of Yu Garden, and officially opened to the public in 1961.
The Jingguan hall, also known as "Qingxue hall", is the main hall of the inner garden. It is carved and painted with beams. The hall is 5 rooms wide and 3 rooms deep. There are two stone lions in front of the hall, and two gilded plaques of "Jingguan" and "lingmarshi" in the hall. The name of "Jing Guan" refers to the old saying "Jing Guan everything is contented" and "moving Guan Shui, Jing Guan Shan". On the opposite side of the hall, there are many peaks, such as three officials offering their birthday, white deer watching the moon, bats flying, and nine lions dribbling. It is said that when you watch it quietly, you can distinguish more than 100 animal images. There are many hundred year old trees between the stone peaks. There is a small courtyard in the East, with a pool of water, winding corridors on both sides, shady trees blocking the sun, tall and straight bamboo, and deep environment.
Guantao tower is located in the southwest of Jingguan hall, also known as "xiaolingtai". It is a three story wooden structure with a height of more than 10 Zhang. It was the highest building in the east of the city in the Qing Dynasty. Once upon a time, one of the "Eight Sights of Shanghai city" was "autumn waves in Huangpu".
Huanyun building and Yanqing building face the Jingguan hall. They are connected from east to West in the form of a series of buildings, and can lead to Guantao building and chuanting hall. The plaque "Huanyun" in Huanyun building is inscribed by Yao Wen, a famous gentry in Shanghai in the late Qing Dynasty. Also Yun Lou was originally the Shanghai money industry public housing industry, Yu Garden and inner garden were repeatedly destroyed by war, but this building was not robbed.
The pavilion stands on the rockery in the east of Guantao tower. It is a double-layer pavilion with stone tables and benches at the bottom. The surrounding trees are green. Inside the pavilion, a plaque was inscribed with the name of "Ling Mu PI Fang".
Can be seen in Jingguan Hall East, small square hall, delicate quiet, especially cool summer. In front of the hall, there is a brick carving "the painting of Guo Ziyi's birthday", next to which is a clay dragon wall. In the north, there is the Phoenix Pavilion of "Dongtianfudi" and in the south, there is "bieyoutian". On the wall, there are stone tablets such as "records of rebuilding the inner garden", recording the history of the inner garden.