There are the following tourist attractions in Suzhou:
1. Suzhou Gardens
Generally speaking, Suzhou Gardens have three characteristics. First, the landscape of gardens imitates nature: taking natural landscapes as the theme, imitating natural scenery artificially according to local conditions, building ponds along the hills and depressions, skillfully building pavilions, embellishing trees and stressing poetry and painting. Second, the garden pays attention to elegance and quietness: the landscape of the garden is small and large, and the scenery is borrowed from inside and outside, with pictures in the paintings, natural layout, beauty and solemnity. Third, the national style should be highlighted in the construction of the garden: the ancient buildings in the garden are integrated by painting, calligraphy, poetry and other artistic techniques. There are poems in the scenery and paintings in the poems, which are the crystallization of ancient Chinese culture and art.
2. zhouzhuang town
Zhouzhuang Town is located 38km southeast of Suzhou City. Wu Guanzhong, a famous ancient painter, wrote that "Huangshan Mountain gathers the beauty of mountains and rivers in China, and Zhouzhuang gathers the beauty of China water town", while overseas newspapers and periodicals call Zhouzhuang the first water town in China. Zhouzhuang has a history of nearly 911 years and is rich in cultural connotations. If you want to choose the most representative ancient water town in China, there is no doubt that she is Zhouzhuang, the first water town in China.
3. Lingering Garden
Lingering Garden is located at No.338, Lingering Garden Road, outside Changmen, Suzhou, an ancient city in the south of the Yangtze River. It is famous for its exquisite architectural layout and numerous strange stones. It is also known as the four famous gardens in China with the Humble Administrator's Garden in Suzhou, the Summer Palace in Beijing and chengde mountain resort. Lingering Garden is located outside Changmen, Suzhou. Lingering Garden was built by Xu Taishi, a servant in Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, and it was called the East Garden. During Jiaqing, Qing Dynasty, Liu Shu returned to observe it, named Hanbizhuang, commonly known as Liu Garden.