Chinese Garden - (recommended 3 quarter to 1 hour)
Imagine it's 16th century China, and you're standing in the entry courtyard of the private home and garden of a wealthy family. The garden around you is their spiritual utopia, a peaceful and soothing place designed to help them escape the problems of everyday life, while also inspiring them through interplay of architecture, plants, poetry rocks, and water surrounding them.
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SEE PICTURE, Chinese Garden.
Our Classical Chinese Garden, (a substitution stop on request), encloses a full city block and is the largest, and most authentic of its kind, outside China.
Hundreds of years of symbolism, tradition and horticulture come together at the Garden of Awakening Orchids, which gained worldwide attention before it even opened here five years ago.
Built in Portland’s sister city, Suzhou, and assembled by 65 Chinese craftsmen, it is, in essence, a Ming Dynasty work of artistry, air dropped into Old Town.
Today it’s considered the most authentic outside of China, complete with inlaid pebbled walkways, carved porticos, serpentine walkways, a bridged lake, and open colonnades, set off meticulously arranged landscape of plants, water, stone, poetry and buildings, with impressive plant life, that includes rhododendrons, discovered only recently in Asia.
And who wouldn’t love a place with a tea-house known as the Tower of Cosmic Reflections.
The yin and yang of the Garden, take you to another place and time.
See the:
Tower of Cosmic Reflections
Hall of Brocade Clouds
Courtyard of Tranquility
Scholars Study & others
The mission of the Portland Classical Chinese Garden is to create an oasis of tranquil beauty and harmony to inspire, engage, and educate...
Imagine it's 16th century China, and you're standing in the entry courtyard of the private home and garden of a wealthy family. The garden around you is their spiritual utopia, a peaceful and soothing place designed to help them escape the problems of everyday life, while also inspiring them through interplay of architecture, plants, poetry rocks, and water surrounding them.
FOLLOW ALONG WITH PICTURES.
SEE PICTURE, Chinese Garden.
Our Classical Chinese Garden, (a substitution stop on request), encloses a full city block and is the largest, and most authentic of its kind, outside China.
Hundreds of years of symbolism, tradition and horticulture come together at the Garden of Awakening Orchids, which gained worldwide attention before it even opened here five years ago.
Built in Portland’s sister city, Suzhou, and assembled by 65 Chinese craftsmen, it is, in essence, a Ming Dynasty work of artistry, air dropped into Old Town.
Today it’s considered the most authentic outside of China, complete with inlaid pebbled walkways, carved porticos, serpentine walkways, a bridged lake, and open colonnades, set off meticulously arranged landscape of plants, water, stone, poetry and buildings, with impressive plant life, that includes rhododendrons, discovered only recently in Asia.
And who wouldn’t love a place with a tea-house known as the Tower of Cosmic Reflections.
The yin and yang of the Garden, take you to another place and time.
See the:
Tower of Cosmic Reflections
Hall of Brocade Clouds
Courtyard of Tranquility
Scholars Study & others
The mission of the Portland Classical Chinese Garden is to create an oasis of tranquil beauty and harmony to inspire, engage, and educate...
