The Humble Administrator's Garden: is located in Lou Mennei Northeast Street, No. 178, is the largest of Suzhou's gardens, but also one of the most famous. The Humble Administrator's Garden was built in the Ming Dynasty, and Wang Xianchen was the first owner of the garden. He was the first owner of the garden. He was the official supervisor during the Jiajing and Zhengde years, but in his later years, when he was not satisfied with his career, he left his post and returned to Suzhou, where he bought land and built a garden, which he named Humble Administrator's Garden, borrowing the meaning of "The Humble Administrator's Government" from "The Idle Dwelling Fugue". The main attractions in the garden are: Lanxue Hall, Hibiscus Salt, Panicum Pavilion, Pavilion of Eyes, Yuanxiang Hall, Little Canglang, Staying Pavilion, Floating Cui Pavilion and so on.
Transportation: Tour 1, 2, 5 line, 2, 3 road under the Humble Administrator's Garden station, walk 100 meters to the east that is.
Admission: peak season (3.1-5.31; 9.1-11.30) 70 yuan; low season (6.1-8.31; 12.1-2.29) 50 yuan. The two peak seasons hold free azalea festivals and lotus festivals respectively.
Opening time: 8:15-17:30
Lion Grove: Located at No. 23, Garden Grove Road in the northeast of the city, Lion Grove was founded by Zen Master Tianru, a monk in the Yuan Dynasty, in honor of his teacher, the Divine Monk Zhongfeng. The Lion Grove has the largest group of ancient rockeries still existing in China. The lakes and rocks of the rockery are exquisite and fascinating, resembling a lion's dance, and it is known as the "Kingdom of Rockery", and has the reputation of "Eighteen Scenes of Taoyuan". The highest peak in the garden is "Lion Peak", and there are other famous peaks such as "Hing Hui" and "Spitting Moon", and there are buildings such as "Lixue Hall", "Crouching Hall", "Crouching Hall" and "Crouching Hall". The buildings include "Lixue Hall", "Crouching Cloud Room", "Pointing Cypress Xuan", "Plum Pavilion" and so on.
Reminder: You can visit with Suzhou Folk Museum and Coin Museum. The Humble Administrator's Garden is 100 meters north along the Garden Road.
Transportation: It can be reached by touring lines 1, 2, 5, 2, 3, 4, 40 and 701.
Admission: peak season (3.1-5.31; 9.1-11.30) 30 yuan; low season (6.1-8.31; 12.1-2.29) 20 yuan.
Huqiu: It is the iconic landscape of Suzhou city and is known as "the first famous scenic spot in Wuzhong". Suzhou was the capital of the state of Wu during the Spring and Autumn Period, and King Helu of Wu was buried in Huqiu after his death. When Bai Juyi, a great poet of the Tang Dynasty, was the assassin of Suzhou, he chiseled the mountain to draw water and built a seven-mile embankment, which made the scenery of Huqiu even more beautiful. Su Shi, a poet of the Song Dynasty, once said, "It is a pity not to visit Tiger Hill in Suzhou." When evaluating the characteristics of Huqiu, the ancients once put forward: "nine desirable", saying that Huqiu is desirable for the moon, snow, rain, smoke, spring dawn, summer, autumn, falling trees and sunset.
The main landscapes in the park are: the world-famous leaning tower--Huqiu Pagoda, "the third spring in the world", the Broken Beam Hall, the Bean Spring, the Sword Trial Stone, the Sword Pond, the Embracing Cuicui Villa, and the Wanking Villa, etc. The main attractions of the park include the "Tiger Hill" and the "Tiger Hill".
Transportation: Tour 1 and 2, bus 8 and 49 can reach.
Tickets: peak season (3.1-5.31; 9.1-11.30) 60 yuan; low season (6.1-8.31; 12.1-2.29) 40 yuan. Flower and temple fairs are held in the two peak seasons.
Liuyuan Garden: one of the four famous gardens in China, was built in the Jiajing period of Ming Dynasty. At the end of the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty was Liu Ju, expanded and renamed Cambridge Villa, then known as "Liu Garden". In the early years of Guangxu, the official Sheng Kang bought this garden, absorbing the strengths of Suzhou gardens, re-expanded and repaired, renamed Liouyuan.
Liuyuan*** is divided into four scenic spots in the middle, east, west and north, and the scenic spots are connected by a 700-meter-long curved corridor, with more than 300 calligraphic carvings of famous writers of all times embedded in both walls of the corridor, which is known as "Liuyuan Fa Tiao". Under the eaves of the corridor, there are pink and white flower wall with exquisite patterns. Looking from the flower wall, the mountains, ponds and pavilions are hidden in the flowers and trees, like a painting scroll, which is very interesting.
Transportation: You can reach it by No.1, No.2 and No.11.
Tickets: peak season (3.1-5.31; 9.1-11.30) 40 yuan; low season (6.1-8.31; 12.1-2.29) 30 yuan. The performance of "Wu Songs Orchid Kaoru" is free of charge during the high season.
Opening time: 7:30-17:00
Xiyuan Temple: Located in Xiandang Street outside the Golden Gate of Suzhou, not far from the west side of the Garden of Reunion, Xiyuan Temple is the general name of the Temple of the Precepts and the West Garden of the Pool of Life Release.
The temple was built in the Yuan to Yuan years (1264-1294), the original name of Guiyuan Temple, there are four big heavenly kings hall, Daxiongbao Hall, five hundred Lohan Hall, Guanyin Hall and Tibetan scripture building and other buildings. Among them, the Lohan Hall has outstanding features, in the center of which there is a 13-meter-high Thousand-Hand, Thousand-Eyes Guanyin carved out of the whole balsam fir wood, and not far from it, there is also a special statue of the Buddha, with four different faces on all four sides, which is said to represent the four great mountains of Buddhism and their main deities, i.e.: Manjushri Bodhisattva of Wutai Mountain, Earth Store Bodhisattva of Jiu Huashan Mountain, Pratyevastu Bodhisattva of Emei Mountain, and Goddess of Mercy Bodhisattva of Mt. Putuo Mountain. Inside the hall, there is also a pot-bellied Maitreya statue, Hanshan, Shide statue, Guan Gong, Weixiang statue, etc., which is the most famous is the "crazy monk", "Jigong" two statues, the God of the world and the wonderful and interesting is amazing, can be called a masterpiece.
The West Garden's Life Release Pond is equally fascinating, with many fish and turtles, mostly released by Buddhists. Among them, the five-colored carp is comparable to the Jade Spring in Hangzhou. There is also a big soft-shelled turtle over 300 years old in the pool, which only comes out of the water in hot weather.
Transportation: It can be reached by lines 1, 2 and 3 of the tour, and lines 6, 10, 11 and 17.
Tickets: 25 yuan
Hanshan Temple: Located by the Fengqiao Bridge outside Gusu, it was built in the Sixth Dynasty, more than 1,400 years ago. The name was changed to Cold Mountain Temple during the reign of Tang Zhenguan. The main buildings in the temple are: Daxiongbao Hall, hipped hall (side hall), the scripture building, monument gallery, bell tower, maple river building and so on. On the right side of the Daxiongboden, there is a bronze bell sent by a Japanese friend, which was cast by a group of craftsmen such as Kobayashi Seiyoshi in 1906. This bell a style *** cast two, one in Japan Tateyama Temple, the other is in the Cold Mountain Temple, so far well preserved.
Reminder: You can take a side trip to the nearby Fengqiao Bridge, Tieling Pass and other attractions.
Transportation: Take bus No. 3, 3, 6, 9, 17, 21, 31 or 301 and get off at Fengqiao Station.
Admission: 15 yuan/person, 5 yuan/person for the exhibition hall, the price of the joint ticket is 20 yuan/person, 5 yuan for climbing the bell tower to ring the bell (3 times).