The Jichang Garden lies in the Xihui Garden on Huishan Street at the east foot of Huishan Mountain in Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province.

Jichang Garden, also known as Qin Garden, was once the site of two monasteries during the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368). In 1506 and 1521 during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), Qin Jin, once the Shangshu of the Department of War (Shangshu was a high official in ancient China), built a garden at the site. Later, Qin Yao, Jin's nephew, inherited the garden. In 1591 Yao resigned from office due to political frustrations and returned home gloomily. To lift his spirits Yao changed the name of the garden to Jichang Garden (to leave the carefree feeling with the garden).

The present Jichang Garden covers an area of 14.85 mu (1 mu = 1/15 hectare) in a narrow shape stretching from south to north. The garden can be divided into the east and the west. In the east part the main scenery includes the water corridor; in the west, rockeries and forests. The Jinhui Ripple, lying in the east, is a narrow pond containing numerous ripples. A square pavilion was built in the pond with a roof of nine ridges and flying eaves. The pond is surround by jagged rockeries. Qixing Bridge and Lang Bridge divide the pond into two smaller ponds in the north. The rockery in the west is sculpted to imitate the nine peaks of Huishan Mountain and forms a picture of nine lions. The rockery is 3-5 meters high to match the pond. A gully runs through the rockery where water is channeled from the Huishan Spring. It is said the stream gurgles continuously, whispering the name, Hanging Gurgle Gully -- a unique landscape in the southern gardens.

The Jichang Garden belongs to a villa that sits at mountain's foot, full of natural landscapes. Looking from the garden, one can see Huishan Mountain and Xishan Mountain in the distance. It is a representative southern garden with overlapping rockeries, lakes and pagodas.

During the 100 years between the 23rd year (1684) of the reign of Emperor Kangxi and the 49th year (1784) of the reign of Emperor Qianlong, the emperors made 12 inspection tours to the area south of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River. They paid a visit to the garden every time without exception, leaving countless poems, articles, tablets and couplets there. Emperor Qianlong even built a similar garden at the eastern foot of Wanshou Mountain at the Summer Palace and named it Huishan Garden (renamed Xiequ Garden in 1811). Two stone tablets with imperial writings by the two emperors are kept at the Jichang Garden to this day.