Jokul Meiyuan

The Snow Mountain Plum Garden is located in the scenic Snow Mountain Scenic Area in Yishui County, Shandong Province, covering an area of ​​more than 50 mu. The main attractions of the Plum Garden include: the "Hundred Plums" Gallery, the Plum Blossoms Poetry Gallery, the Plum Blossoms Couplets Screen Wall, the Plum Blossoms Seal Slope, the Five Blessings Pavilion, the Zhichun Pavilion, the Plum Blossoms Pavilion, the Snow-Stepping Bridge, the Cold Fragrance Bridge, the Anxiang Floating Pavilion, the Sitting Pavilion, the Yuzhao Hall (Plum Culture Exhibition Hall), the Plum Stone House, etc.

There are more than 1,000 plum trees of more than 80 varieties planted in the open field in the Plum Garden. Every early spring when the flowers bloom, the bright red petals, the green petals, the pure jade and the subtle fragrance attract many tourists to come for an outing and enjoy the plum blossoms.

Thousands of plum bonsai in the garden are derived from nature and are higher than nature. Their shapes include stone-attached, water-land-type, wind-blown, root-lifting, freehand, etc. These bonsais are either twisted branches and iron trunks, simple and vigorous, or small and exquisite, graceful, or sparse shadows and slanting, with a faint and fragrant fragrance. The "Hundred Plums" stone-carved corridor is more than 130 meters long. The corridor is inlaid with 100 exquisite plum paintings by 100 painters from various dynasties in my country (Song, Yuan, Ming, Qing and even modern and contemporary). These works are in various shapes and styles. For example, Jin Nong's uniqueness, Wang Mian's transcendence, Li Fangying's elegance, Bada Shanren's coldness, Yang Wujiu's clear and compelling, Chen Jiru's free and easy, Wu Changshuo's simple and vigorous, Wen Zhengming's elegant and ancient, etc. Carving so many exquisite plum blossom paintings on granite slabs is unprecedented in my country's major plum-viewing gardens, and it also occupies an important position in the history of world plum culture.