[Landscape Garden of Lingnan Culture] Baomo Garden

Lingnan culture, landscape, and gardens

The beauty of Lingnan architecture

The 2023 Baomo Garden Han Culture and Ancient Charm Cherry Blossom Festival is coming soon! With lake and mountain scenery, brilliant cherry blossoms, garden architecture, and Hanfu beauties, the entire garden is filled with the reflection of cherry blossoms and classical architecture, allowing you to enjoy the garden's charm of appreciating cherry blossoms by a bridge and stream! In Baomo Garden, a corner of ancient buildings paired with a garden full of cherry blossoms makes for a Chinese-style cherry blossom blockbuster with every shot. This is the incomparable and unique advantage of the Baomo Garden Cherry Blossom Festival.

At the entrance of Baomo Garden, there are two exquisite folk brick carvings, namely the stories of Bao Zheng angrily beheading Chen Shimei and Bao Mian. There are also a large number of gray carvings, stone carvings, pottery sculptures, and sandalwood carvings, as well as traditional palace lanterns in the garden. In particular, the porcelain sculpture relief "Along the River During the Qingming Festival" and the huge brick carving "Blooming and Singing Wall"

The screen wall at the entrance is the "Blooming and Singing Wall", which means that hundreds of flowers are blooming and hundreds of birds are singing. The patterns on the picture include bananas, which are very characteristic of Lingnan, phoenixes flapping their wings, and various animals. The shapes are lifelike, the picture layout is harmonious, and the whole picture has a very strong three-dimensional effect. The large-scale colored painted relief porcelain mural "Along the River During the Qingming Festival" is the treasure of Baomo Garden and has been included in the Guinness World Records.

In addition, Baomo Garden is also a museum. The most eye-catching are the Zhao Tailai Art Palace and the Zhao Tailai Collection Hall. In the Art Palace, there are 1,600 collections donated by Mr. Zhao, including wood carvings, bronzes, ancient jade, etc. In the Collection Hall, there are various calligraphy and paintings.

As a park, there are many plants planted in the garden, and a large number of Lingnan bonsai are also planted. In addition to trees, flowers and architecture, there are also turtle ponds, release ponds, koi ponds, lotus ponds, etc. in the garden. There are a lot of koi in the koi pond, and lotus flowers will bloom in the lotus pond in summer. In the Flavor Food Street, you can taste Panyu specialties such as ginger milk curd and fish skin dumplings, which have a special flavor.

"Lotus Scenic Spot" is located on the east side of Baomo Garden and is closely connected to the Xiaoyao Island Scenic Area. The lotus pond covers an area of more than 1,000 square meters, and two crops of lotus flowers are planted every year. After the summer lotus, the unique autumn lotus will appear. A golden Guanyin statue stands in the center of the pond, and a corridor several hundred meters long with various flowers planted on top surrounds the Lotus Scenic Spot.