The "Thousand Things Pavilion" is shining again.
The Chinese garden has been (and is being) restored. Among other things, the “Thousand Things Pavilion” is already looking beautiful again. A good time to tell more about this building.
Those who step through the Moon Gate enter “The Garden of the Art of Tea Making. There you will also find the “Thousand Things Pavilion. It is clearly a simpler building than the other pavilions and seems inspired by the simple abode of a hermit living in the mountains. Such a pavilion was used by the garden owner for the tea ceremony.
In our type of Mingtuin, this was probably a senior official (Mandarin), who sat down in his hermitage to relax and reflect on his life. At the end of winter, while drinking tea and looking through windows covered with broken ice flowers, he sees the first signs of spring: the budding white blossoms of a Prunus Umineko.
