The Green Xixi is one of the ten sights in Huqiu. Originally, it was a family ancestral shrine of Lu Zhaoyu, built in 1787 for memorializing his ancestor Lu Guimeng, an honorable man in the Tang Dynasty (618?907). The basic structure is based on the original villa in Tang Dynasty, with the green attic, wind pavilion, bay tree house, duck pool, chrysanthemum plot, and bamboo bank. It was destroyed thoroughly by the war in 1862, and later became a flower house of the resort?and rebuilt in 2004. When rebuilding?there are some new sights added?they are?Cloud Mirror Stand?Bamboo Fence?Wind-hearing Pavilion?Flowers-hanging Door?Wild Stone Sight?and Waterscape. The Cloud Mirror Stand is an ancient drama stage, which is recorded in the Chronicle of Huqiu and the Some Historical of Tongqiao. Today the Stand offers a suitable stage for flower fair or folk custom performance. In the front of the stand is rockery made with thousand tons of stones?and comes down in one continuous line of the landscape of Huqiu, outlining a flora square which tells people the tale of the flora of Huqiu. At the west side, there is a bamboo grove that is made according to the original manner recorded in the historic book Wu Du Fa Cheng. Among the bamboo there dotted some thatched cottages?a recent found ancient well?the water of which is connected with the Green Attic?the Duck Playing Pool. All echo the Cloud Tea House landscape in distance, displaying the beauty in the history that is birds and flowers, winds and forest, green and brook exist together harmoniously. |