ladies and gentlemen, e to baotuquan spring park. my name is miao meng. i am very pleased to serve as your tour guide today.
in order to give you a general impression, let me make a brief introduction of the park. featured as a gushing spring garden, the park is located in the doent. it the south gate. ok, this underground baotuquan springs, they even thre beijing on their inspection to the south. it is said that springs further reinforces the taste of good tea and that one engfu, a daming lake." the handes in vie underground like a mirror. this is one of the 72 , gurgling different direction. it shines like gold thread on a sunny day. thus they got the names. since the shining threads require certain sunlight and ing floan poet of the song dynasty. this traditional chinese building has a quiet and unadorned courtyard , round corridors, standing rocks in bamboo shade. on the front tablet and tan poet daming lake to baotuquan springs one finds the former residence in the exhibited ments, essays, an poet by celebrities of different times and dynasties. s connected by corridors and surrounded on three sides by gurgling streams. this is the shangzhi college or shangzhi school for fostering scholars for imperial examinations, yuan dynasty until noe of its owners are yin shizhan, prime minister of the qing dynasty, wang ping, a poet of the qing dynasty and warlord zhang huaizhi during the civil war period. it was officially open to the public in 1984. the li kuchan memorial was set up here in 1986 to store and exhibit masterpieces of this great chinese painter. as the largest exhibition of chinese paintings and calligraphy works, there are over 200 paintings and cultural treasures in 18 exhibition halls. also put on show all year round in the garden are over 200 pieces of ancient furniture and cultural relics of the ming and qing dynasties. following the pattern of the traditional chinese northern residences of square courtyard with houses on four sides, this garden absorbs characteristics of classic gardens in south china. there are twisting corridors connecting all courtyards surrounded by dotted storied houses, halls, and pavilions. also boasting as three artistic extremes are the stone, wood and brick carvings in the garden, which is listed into an illustrated handbook of traditional chinese folk residence in 1993. wanzhu garden is no doubt a precious cultural relic whether in terms of gardening art or historic cultural treasure.