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Li Garden
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It is a private garden built for about 10 years by Mr. Xie Weili, a local overseas Chinese in United States in 1920th. The whole garden blends the traditional Chinese garden style, style of the western buildings and the style of water villages south of the Yangtze River together.
Li Garden
Liyuan Garden is located in Beiyi Village, Tangkou Town, Kaiping City. This village is known as the hometown of many overseas Chinese. Completed in 1936, it is a stately home with a canal, two gardens and many other things. Liyuan takes in and displays the elements from both Chinese and western garden designs.
Liyuan is divided into three areas: villa area, big garden area and small garden area. Its main constructions include a torii with the two Chinese characters "Li Yuan", a decorated archway with the four Chinese characters "Xiu Shen Li Ben", four kiosks on the bridges, and two ancient roman-style structures ("bird's nest" and "vine kiosk"). Couplets and calligraphy from famous people that we see here and there create traditional Chinese cultural milieu in Liyuan.
There are six villas and one Diaolou building in the garden, the most famous two are “Panwen” and “Panli”. Whose body is of the obvious western style while the top is like the Chinese palace, presenting a unique glamour. The uniqueness of the Liyuan Garden can not only see from the composition of the architectures, but also from the plants in the garden: flowers, grasses, potted plants and fruit trees of considerable kinds are everywhere in the garden. Towering old trees, blooming flowers, green pavilions and singing birds…you must linger here for a long time.
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