Liyuan is located in the southwest of Wuxi City, next to the inner lake “Wu Li Lake” of Taihu Lake. Wuli Lake, Wuxi people commonly call it “Lihu”. According to legend, during the Spring and Autumn Period and Warring States Period, the Yue Guo doctor Fan Li and Xi Shi once went boating together on Wuli Lake and lived in seclusion here, so it was named “Lihu”. “Wu Li Lake” is named after Fan Li, and Li Yuan is named after “Li Lake”. Whether Fan Li and Xi Shi have been to Wuxi is still controversial in history, but in Wuxi, there are many place names with the word “li”, such as Likou, Lihe, Xianlidun, and Shuligang. The first “Fish Farming Jing” in the history of our country is said to have been written by Fan Li when he was living in seclusion by the Lihu Lake. There is such a folk song in Wuxi: Raising fish and bamboo is a thousand times more profitable, Xie Xishi and Fan Li are required. Liyuan was built in 1928 when Wang Yuqing, a native of Qingqi Village by the Lihu Lake in Wuxi, began to build Liyuan by the lake. Wang Yuqing is an important member of Wuxi Rongshi Enterprise, and made a fortune by operating the flour industry in old Shanghai. In 1936, his son Wang Kangyuan expanded his father’s “Liyuan”. And to the west of Liyuan, a relative of the Wang family named Chen Meifang also built a private garden called “Fishing Village”. Chen Meifang became rich by operating woolen cloth in old Shanghai. The “fishing village” he built was taller than the Liyuan of the Wangs and his sons. In 1930, Chen Meifang specially invited Jiang Jiayuan, a famous stone stacker from Zhejiang. It took six or seven years to stack more than 20 rockeries with the famous “Taihu Stone”. The tallest rockery is Guiyun Peak with a height of 12 meters. The entire rockery cluster turns around the peaks, winding paths are quiet, and visitors entering it is like entering a maze. In 1952, the garden department of Wuxi City built a 200-meter-long “Hundred-foot Corridor”, which connected and merged the two private gardens, Liyuan and Yuzhuang, and continued to use the old name of Liyuan. After that, the “Four Season Pavilion” in Liyuan was built in 1954, the layered shadow area was built in the 1970s, the “Baihua Mountain House” was built in the mid-1990s, and Xishizhuang and Beibei were expanded in recent years. Scenic spots such as “Taohuawu” in the garden have formed the grand occasion of “lihu smoke and green” that people see today in Liyuan. The main entrance of Liyuan is a “Shikumen” building with local characteristics in the south of the Yangtze River. It was rebuilt from the gate of the old “fishing village”. It has a history of more than 90 years. On both sides of the gate are the longest couplets of all scenic spots in Wuxi, with a total of 128 characters. The Shanglian wrote: “A lake with spring breeze and autumn moon, so many things; specializes in all kinds of fish, Fan Li’s book, Qian Zaiyan talks about Xi Shi; also said that Zhang Bo opened the calf, Zhu Yifu Yu Jun’s loyal soul, the widow asked the cottage, Gaozi water residence; few It took seventy days to build a house, and the building lasted for seventy years, and the scale of the present day.” Xialian wrote: “Nine days of summer rain and winter snow, a few days of love; lotus leaves listening to the sound, sparse willows wrapped in silver, four seasons beautifully painted garden pavilions; Cui, Nandi reflects the sky and peach and dawn, there is a promenade and a range Rover, layers of waves and shadows, flowers and trees covering the high pavilion and low pavilions, spreading five miles, brightening the picture of tomorrow. “It is still a bit tired to read it in one breath. people. In the gardens of Wuxi, there are two famous “flower dikes”, one is the “Changchun Huayi” of Yuantouzhu Lake in Taihu Lake, which is famous for the cherry blossoms, commonly known as “Yingdi”; the other is the “Nandi Spring Dawn” near the lake in Liyuan. Because willow trees are widely planted on the embankment, it is commonly called “willow embankment”. In fact, there are many ornamental peach trees on the “Nandi Spring Dawn”. The outside world describes a willow tree and a peach tree on the thousand-meter long dike. Every spring, the willow tree is full of smoke and the peach blossoms are beautiful. It is so beautiful that it is very beautiful in the south of the Yangtze River. Typical beauty. Adjacent to the “Nandi Chunxiao” is the “Four Seasons Pavilion” area divided into a square pool. There are four pavilions in four directions: southeast, northwest and northwest. The wonder is that the appearance of the four pavilions is exactly the same, but the names of the pavilions are: Spring Pavilion, Summer Pavilion, Autumn Pavilion and Winter Pavilion. When the “Four Seasons Pavilion” was designed, it was distinguished by the most prominent plants in the four different seasons. The spring pavilion was planted with plum flowers, the summer pavilion was planted with oleander, the autumn pavilion was planted with osmanthus, and the winter pavilion was planted with waxberry. To distinguish the pavilion by the time of blooming shows the designer’s ingenuity. The “Thousand-Step Corridor” in Liyuan connects the “Nandi Chunxiao” and Lao Liyuan. After three expansions, this long corridor is only 300 meters long today. People need to take a thousand steps to walk. . One side of the promenade can overlook the misty Lihu Lake out of thin air, and one side is partitioned by hollow windows and walls. There are a total of 80 flower windows on this wall, and each flower window has a different shape and pattern. At the east end of the promenade wall, there are 36 celebrities inscriptions, among which are the handwritings of Su Dongpo, Mi Fu, Wang Yangming and others, which are quite precious. Mr. Guo Moruo, a modern writer, has also been to Liyuan. What is very strange is that when he wrote a poem for Liyuan for the first time, he had no good feelings for the scenery of Liyuan. “Yuantou” is a famous saying. Imagine people admiring the scenery in Liyuan, but the verse is admiring Yuantouzhu, is it a bit horrible scenery? Maybe later Guo Lao also felt a little wrong, so he helped Liyuan write the poem “Want to know the fun of Liyuan, ask the young man from the cliff”. Yatou asked the boy, vividly showing the vigorous scene of Liyuan in spring. The boy represents the vitality of spring. In the Wuxi garden world, there has always been a saying: Yuantouzhu Scenic Spot is characterized by “real mountains and real water”, Xihui Park is characterized by “real mountains and fake water”, and Liyuan is characterized by “false mountains and real water”. Because there is a rockery built with Taihu Lake in the Liyuan Garden, the whole garden does not rely on the mountain, and the close Lihu Lake gives Liyuan the natural conditions of “real water”. In fact, the most important thing is to go to Liyuan to play and appreciate the natural scenery of Lihu Lake. The spring in Liyuan is an ink painting from the south of the Yangtze River. The touch of green and red on the embankment is the finishing touch in this painting.