介绍:
The first formal Chinese garden in the English city of Cambridge was officially open during the fourth annual Cambridge Xu Zhimo Poetry and Art Festival.
The China-UK Friendship Garden is also known as Xu Zhimo Garden. It was built mainly to be in honor of the late Chinese poet Xu Zhimo, who was once an associate member of King’s College in 1921~1922.
In 1928, after Xu’s third visit to the English city, he wrote the poem Second Farewell to Cambridge, which is so famous and popular not only in China but also all over the world. This poem is filled with his sincere and warm longing and passion for Cambridge, as well as his own thoughts and emotions about his first love.
The poem’s first and last lines have been carved into a granite stone. Since the garden opened, it has become one of the Cambridge’s most popular tourist attractions.
The idea to create the memorial garden was first developed by Steven Coghill, the senior gardener at King’s College. It took three years to plan and build the garden, which features many plants that grow naturally in Zhejiang Province. As the first person putting forward the idea of constructing such a garden to be in memory of Xu Zhimo, Steven Coghill really has deep passion and deep love for the Chinese culture and Xu’s poems.
