Nanshan Botanical Garden Library.
Meet the Nanshan Botanical Garden Library.
Interpret the stories of the buildings hidden in the botanical gardens......
If "architecture is an open book."
You can see the ambition of a city in it".
Then every city.
All have their own special architecture.
to carry the temperature of the times.
Record the traces of history.
The city has temperature, and the building is readable.
Step into the history of the city.
Touch the cultural imprint of Chongqing.
Today we're going to find out.
The story of the former site of the Indian Embassy in Namsan.
HistoryPass. Go.
Between 1937 and 1946, more than 30 countries established embassies or legations in Chongqing. The Yangtze River Bridge to Nanbin Road, through Shangxin Street to Huangjueya, and then to Nanshan Botanical Garden, more than 10 kilometers along the line of many embassies and foreign institutions in China are concentrated, and this area has become a refuge for Chongqing citizens during the Japanese bombing. The Indian Embassy is hidden in the Camellia Garden of the Nanshan Botanical Garden.
In 1940, the Indian Embassy in China funded the construction of this villa, a combination of Chinese and Western architectural style, the main building is a first floor and one bottom, and the walls are made of blue bricks. The front and left side of the house are surrounded by cylindrical columns, where people can sit and rest, with a bit of openness and warmth in India. Compared to other embassy sites, the Indian Embassy is more elegant, more like an official villa. The slightly flashy aura is not too much, because Jawaharlal Nehru, the chairman of the Indian National Congress Party, once lived here.
NowAs. Now.
In May 2013, the Indian High Commissioner was announced as the seventh batch of national cultural relics protection units in Chongqing. Nowadays, the former site of the Indian Embassy has been changed to the library of Chongqing Nanshan Botanical Garden, with a collection of more than 5,000 books, mainly garden plants, for professionals and popular science units, and has become an important place for professional knowledge inquiry and exchange, and plant knowledge popularization.
In your spare time, you may wish to step into the library of Nanshan Botanical Garden and explore the secrets of plants in this quiet and quiet environment. If you feel tired from reading, find a chair and sit down and feel the comfort of the breeze on your face. It's a great place to unwind.
The passage of time gives the building history.
The precipitation of the years adds to the architectural connotation.
Nowadays, they are even more fascinating.
A building, a piece of the past.
The imprint of old times on the masonry.
is being "reborn" in another way
And this beauty of Nanshan, which is full of cultural heritage.
It's worth savoring.