Keyuan
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Keyuan (simplified Chinese: 东莞可园; traditional Chinese: 東莞可園; pinyin: Dōngguǎn kěyuán; Jyutping: Dung1gun2 Ho2jyun2; lit. 'Dongguan Ke Garden'), located at Boxia (博厦), Guancheng District, West Dongguan city, is one of the Four Great Gardens of Guangdong in China. Ke Yuan represents the Lingnan garden architecture.
Keyuan was built during the Qing Dynasty by Zhang Jingxiu. Construction was completed in 1850. After that, Keyuan has been expanded and reconstructed a few times.
Zhang Jingxiu was first and second assigned as Anchashi (按察使) of the Guangxi and Jiangxi provinces by a Qing dynasty emperor. (A Qing officer rank which corresponds to a vice governor nowadays.) After he retired and returned to his home town Dongguan he lived in Keyuan.
Zhang was good at and fond of Chinese writing, painting, chess, poetry, antiquing, stone collecting, etc. He invited friends, poets, scholars and painters to gather in Keyuan.
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