一九三四年至一九四○年,我先后在北平、贵阳、安顺、重庆的故宫博物院或办事处,担任古物保管工作。经常从前辈学者那时聆听明清宫廷掌故,写成札记若干则。听说京师西苑门迤南有一园地,明朝时称灰池,又名咬春园。挖有坑洞,种植瓜菜。冬季烘养新嫩菜蔬,以供宫廷需用。沿至清代,改名南花园。不仅在此培植花木,还浇灌培育苏州、杭州所进盆景,并建暖房栽植牡丹、芍 From 1934 to 1949, I successively held the custody of antiquities in the National Palace Museums or offices in Peiping, Guiyang, Anshun and Chongqing. Often from the older scholars to listen to the court of Ming and Qing dynasties, written into a number of notes. I heard that the capital Xiyuan door Taonan a garden, the Ming Dynasty, said gray pool, also known as bite Spring Garden. Dig a hole, planting vegetables. Winter tender new vegetables for the court need. Along the Qing Dynasty, renamed South Garden. Not only in this nurturing flowers and trees, but also cultivate watering Suzhou, Hangzhou into the bonsai, and build greenhouses planting peony, peony