Here is the translation of the Geyuan Garden description:
6 Geyuan Garden, by Lei Ting
Gardens in the city of Yangzhou have been highly applauded. In the Qing Dynasty, Yangzhou gardens were praised as "best under the sun". In his "Anecdotes on Yangzhou", Li Dou mentioned that "Hangzhou excels in its lakes and mountains; Suzhou in its markets; and Yangzhou in its gardens. The three cities each have its own characteristics, no more and no less than the others." Among the Yangzhou gardens, the most historic, best preserved and most artistic one is the Geyuan Garden, located in the northwest part of this ancient city. The garden took its name from the line by the poet Yuan Mei: "Bamboo under the moon casts thousands of 个 (a Chinese character resembling the shape of bamboo leaves, pronounced as "ge" -translator) on the ground." The Geyuan Garden features bamboo and rockeries, creating various landscape with rocks. It has rockeries for four seasons: the Spring Rockery features rocks in the shape of bamboo shoots. The Summer Rockery is hollow inside, but uniquely shaped outside. The Fall Rockery is made of yellow rocks, surrounded by crimson maple trees. The Winter Rockery uses pale rocks (quartz - translator) from the Xuancheng area, to create snow-like landscape in winter. The South Wall next to the Winter Rockery has openings in it, for producing sounds mimicking howling wind in winter. In contrast, the circular windows on the West Wall reveal a tint of spring. How can this important link in the history of Chinese gardens be left out of our Classical Garden Series? After serious considerations, the leader of the Design and Engraving Group of Shanghai Mint, Xie Xingrui, was entrusted with the design job, and Lin Feng, the highly respected engraving in the industry, took up engraving. On the small surface of the medal, one can see slender bamboo casting its shadow, a clear pond enshrouded in serenity, rugged rockery standing tall and fish jumping out of water, sending ripples across.
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Pictures below in the order of
Summer Rockery
Fall Rockery
Winter Rockery
South Wall
West Wall
Pavilion on water
Spring Rockery
