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1. In the fourth year of Zhengde in the Ming Dynasty (1509), Wang Xianchen, the imperial historian who returned to his hometown due to official frustration, took the site of Dahong Temple as the garden, and took the meaning of "irrigating the garden and selling vegetables for daily meals is what a hunble administrator does" in Pan Yue's "Leisure Residence Fu" of the Jin Dynasty, which means "Humble Administrator's Garden".
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2. After Wang Xianchen's death, his son gambled overnight and lost the garden to the Xu family. The descendants of the Xu family also declined, and the gardens gradually became desolate. It is said that a scholar of the Xu family studied hard to obtain fame and honor, in order to revive the family and serve the court, and to rebuild the garden, but in the end, he was in a precarious state of anonymity.