Self-help Tour-Two-day Tour of Suzhou Gardens

Wonderful tourist route: Humble Administrator's Garden-Lion Forest-Tiger Hill-Lingering Garden-saionji-Hanshan Temple-Wangshi Garden-Canglang Pavilion-Yiyuan Garden-Panmen

Description of tourist attractions:

Humble Administrator's Garden: located at No.178 Northeast Street in Loumen, it is the largest in Suzhou Gardens. The Humble Administrator's Garden was built in the Ming Dynasty, and Wang Xianchen was the first owner of the Garden. During the years of Jiajing and Zhengde, he lived in the official residence to supervise the empire. In his later years, he was dissatisfied with his official career, dismissed from office and returned home. He bought land to build a garden, and named it Humble Administrator's Garden by borrowing the meaning of "My humble administrator's administration" in the "Idle Residence Fu". The main attractions in the park are: Lanxuetang, Furong Pavilion, Xiangxiang Pavilion, Kuangjian Pavilion, Yuanxiangtang, Xiaocanglang, Liutingge and Fucui Pavilion.

Transportation: Take the No.1, No.2 and No.5 lines, get off at No.2 and No.3 Humble Administrator's Garden Station, and walk for 111 meters to the east.

tickets: peak season (3.1-5.31; 9.1-11.31) 71 yuan; Low season (6.1-8.31; 12.1-2.29) 51 yuan. Free Rhododendron Festival and Lotus Festival are held in the two peak seasons respectively.

Opening hours: 8: 15-17: 31

Lion Grove: No.23 Garden Road, located in the northeast of the city, was founded by Zen Master Tianru, a monk in the Yuan Dynasty, in memory of his teacher, the Buddhist monk Zhongfeng. Lion Forest has the largest surviving ancient rockery group in China. There are many exquisite rockeries on the lake, which are superb and dance like lions. They are known as the "rockery kingdom" and the "eighteen scenic spots in Taoyuan". The highest peak in the garden is Lion Peak, and there are other famous peaks such as Hanhui and Tuyue. The buildings include Lixue Hall, Sleeping Cloud Room, Baixuan and Wenmei Pavilion.

Reminder: You can travel with Suzhou Folk Museum and Coin Museum. A hundred meters north along Garden Road is Humble Administrator's Garden.

transportation: take lines 1, 2 and 5, and take lines 2, 3, 4, 41 and 711.

tickets: peak season (3.1-5.31; 9.1-11.31) 31 yuan; Low season (6.1-8.31; 12.1-2.29) 21 yuan.

Tiger Hill: It is the landmark landscape of Suzhou City, and is known as "the first scenic spot in Wuzhong". Suzhou was the capital of Wu in the Spring and Autumn Period, and He Lv, the king of Wu, was buried in Tiger Hill after his death. When Bai Juyi, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty, served as a secretariat in Suzhou, he once dug a mountain to divert water and built a seven-mile dike to make the scenery of Tiger Hill more beautiful. Su Shi, a poet in 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 the theory of "nine suitability", saying that Huqiu is suitable for the moon, snow, rain, smoke, Yichun Xiao, summer, autumn, falling trees and sunset.

the main landscapes in the park are: the world-famous leaning tower-tiger hill, "the third spring in the world", Broken Beam Hall, Hanhan Spring, Sword Test Stone, Jianchi, Yongcui Mountain Villa and Wanjing Mountain Villa.

transportation: take bus No.1 and No.2, and take bus No.8 and No.49.

tickets: peak season (3.1-5.31; 9.1-11.31) 61 yuan; Low season (6.1-8.31; 12.1-2.29) 41 yuan. Flower shows and temple fairs are held in the two peak seasons respectively.

Lingering Garden: one of the four famous gardens in China, which was founded in the Jiajing period of Ming Dynasty. Qing Qianlong was acquired by Liu Shu at the end of the Qing Dynasty, and it was renamed Hanbi Mountain Villa after expansion, which was called "Liuyuan". In the early years of Guangxu, the official Shen Shengkang bought this garden, absorbed the strengths of various gardens in Suzhou, re-expanded and repaired it, and renamed it Liuyuan.

Lingering Garden is divided into four scenic spots, namely, China, East, West and North. The scenic spots are connected by a curved corridor with a length of more than 711 meters, and more than 311 calligraphy and stone carvings by famous artists of all ages are embedded in the two walls of the corridor, which is called "Lingering Garden Fatie". Under the veranda, there is a white flower wall with a leaking window, and the pattern is exquisite. Looking from the flower wall, the pavilion of the mountain pool is looming among the flower trees, like a picture scroll of Danqing, which has a unique interest.

transportation: take line 1 and line 2, and take bus 11.

tickets: peak season (3.1-5.31; 9.1-11.31) 41 yuan; Low season (6.1-8.31; 12.1-2.29) 31 yuan. During the peak season, "Wu Biao Lan Xun" performance is provided free of charge.

Opening hours: 7: 31-17: 11

saionji: Located in Xiatang Street outside Jinmen, Suzhou, not far from the west side of Liuyuan, saionji is the general name of Jiezhuang Law Temple and the release pond in West Garden.

the temple was built in the first year of the Yuan Dynasty (1264-1294). Its real name is Guiyuan Temple, and it has four buildings, such as the Heavenly Kings Hall, the Ursa Major Hall, the Five Hundred Arhats Hall, the Guanyin Hall and the Tibetan Scripture Building. Among them, Luohan Hall has outstanding features. In the center of the hall, there is a 13-meter-high avalokitesvara with thousands of hands and eyes carved with a whole camphor tree. Not far from it, there is a special Buddha statue with four different faces on all sides, which is said to represent the four famous Buddhist mountains and their main deities, namely, Manjusri Bodhisattva in Wutai Mountain, Bodhisattva in Jiuhua Mountain, Bodhisattva in Emei Mountain and Guanyin Bodhisattva in Putuo Mountain. There are also statues of Maitreya with a big belly, statues of Hanshan and Picked Up, statues of Guan Gong and Wei Tuo in the hall, among which the most famous statues are "Crazy Monk" and "Jigong", which are amazing and fascinating, and can be called masterpieces.

The release pond in the West Garden is also fascinating. There are many fish and turtles in the pond, most of which are released by Buddhists. Among them, five-color carp can be compared with Yuquan in Hangzhou. There is also a giant salamander in the pool, which is over 311 years old. It only comes out in hot weather.

transportation: take lines 1, 2 and 3, and take bus 6, 11, 11 and 17.

Tickets: 25 yuan

Hanshan Temple: Located by the Fengqiao Bridge outside Gusu City, it was built in the Six Dynasties and has a history of more than 1,411 years. During the reign of Zhenguan in Tang Dynasty, it was renamed Hanshan Temple. The main buildings in the temple are: Daxiong Hall, Xian Hall (Piandian Hall), Tibetan Scripture Building, Monument Gallery, Bell Tower, Fengjiang Building, etc. There is a bronze bell on the right side of the Hall of Ursa, which was cast by a group of craftsmen such as Kobayashi Seiyi in 1916. This clock is made of two pieces, one in Japan's Guanshan Temple and the other in Hanshan Temple, and it has been well preserved so far.

reminder: you can visit nearby scenic spots such as Fengqiao and Tielingguan.

transportation: take bus No.3, No.3, No.6, No.9, No.17, No.21, No.31 and No.311 and get off at Fengqiao Station.

Tickets: 15 yuan/person, 5 yuan/person for the exhibition hall, and 21 yuan/person for the joint ticket, and 5 yuan will ring the bell tower (3 times).

Wangshi Garden: Located at No.11, Kuanjiatou Lane, Daichengqiao Road, it is a typical house garden in Qing Dynasty. Originally, it was a house built by Shi Zhengzhi, assistant minister of the official department, after he was dismissed from office during the Chunxi period of the Southern Song Dynasty (1174-1189). It was named "Wanjuan Hall" and named itself "Fishing Hidden" for its reputation as a Tibetan thousands of books. During the reign of Emperor Qianlong of Qing Dynasty, Song Zongyuan, a young man of Guanglu Temple, built a villa at the old site of Wanjuantang, which was originally named Nets Garden as a place where his mother raised his relatives. "Nets" means fishermen and fishermen. The park covers an area of 5,411 square meters and consists of three parts: the mansion in the east, the main garden in the middle and the inner garden in the west. The main landscapes in the park are: sedan chair hall, hall, ladder cloud room, moon-to-wind pavilion, temple spring courtyard, etc. Ming Xuan, the courtyard of China, which was built in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1981, was designed and built based on the "Dianchun" courtyard of the garden.

The most special part of the Master of Nets Garden is the night garden, where Kunqu Opera, Pingtan, Jiangnan Sizhu, Guzheng and Dizi are performed in different halls in turn. Because the performance has the characteristics of the south of China and the environment is a famous Suzhou garden night scene, it helps tourists to understand the culture of Wu to a certain extent, so it is very popular with tourists at home and abroad.

Canglang Pavilion: the oldest garden in Suzhou, which was originally the pool hall of the King Guangling of wuyue in the Five Dynasties. Canglang Pavilion is known for its quietness and simplicity. It integrates the rockery in the park with the pool water outside the park. There is a corridor between the rockery and the pool water, and the wall of the corridor has flower windows, which communicate with the water outside the mountain through the leakage of scenery. It is said that there are 118 kinds of flower window styles in the whole garden, with varied patterns and exquisite structures, which are typical of Suzhou garden flower windows.

Canglang Pavilion is carved with the words "Canglang Pavilion" in calligraphy by Yu Yue, a master of park studies in Qing Dynasty, at the highest place in the fake Shandong. The architectural style is simple, and the structural form is very harmonious with the whole garden atmosphere. On the stone pillars on both sides, there is a pair of stone couplets: "The breeze and bright moon are priceless, and there are feelings near the water and distant mountains."

Yiyuan Garden: Located in the middle of Renmin Road in the city center, it is a private garden built by rich gentry Gu Wenbin during Guangxu period of Qing Dynasty. The eastern part was originally the old residence of Wu Kuan, a senior minister of the Ming Dynasty, and the western part was expanded by Gu. The east and west parts are separated by a corridor, and the wall of the corridor is decorated with flower windows. From the flower windows, the landscape of the east and west sides is particularly deep and tortuous.

transportation: take line 1 and line 4, and take bus 1, 8, 9, 21, 21, 38, 46, 68, 111, 112 and 113.

Admission: 15 yuan, and soldiers with certificates are free.

Panmen: Located in the southwest corner of Suzhou ancient city wall, there are the famous "Three Scenes of Panmen" Ruiguang Pagoda, Wumen Bridge and Panmen Tower.

The existing Ruiguang Pagoda is a brick pagoda in the Northern Song Dynasty, with a height of 43.2 meters, 7 levels and 8 sides, consisting of an outer wall, a cloister and a tower center. Precious cultural relics have been found many times in the Ruiguang Tower. In 1963, two wooden buddhas were found in the first floor of the tower wall, and a stone Buddha was taken out from the third floor of the tower heart, as well as the brick inscriptions of Dazhong Xiangfu. In 1978, more than ***111 volumes of Buddhist relics, Guanyin, Tathagata bronze statues, woodcut printing and blue paper gold books were found in the third-floor tower brick niche, which were cultural relics from the Five Dynasties to the Northern Song Dynasty.

transportation: take the No.2 and No.5 lines, and take the No.7, No.31 and No.711 lines to get off at Panmen Scenic Area Station. From Taihua Commercial Building on Renmin Road, 211 meters to the west, you can also reach Panmen Scenic Area.

Tickets: 25 yuan, with free pingtan performance.

Opening hours: 8: 11-16: 45

Travel itinerary recommendation:

Saturday: Take the intercity train to Suzhou at Shanghai Railway Station in the morning, then take the No.2 bus to Humble Administrator's Garden, Lion Forest and Suzhou Folk Museum after arrival, then take the No.1 bus to visit Tiger Hill, Lingering Garden and Xiyuan in turn, then take the No.6 bus to Hanshan Temple, visit Qianjie at night and stay.

Sunday: In the morning, take Tour 2 to visit Netscape Garden, Canglang Pavilion and Yiyuan Garden in turn, and in the afternoon, visit Panmen Scenic Area. After the tour, take Tour 2 back to the railway station and take the passing train back to Shanghai.

Travel expert's guide:

Entertainment:

suzhou amusement land is known as "Oriental Disney", which has the characteristics of international modern amusement technology and profound cultural connotation. Being in it, you can not only appreciate the colorful and gorgeous European and American elegance, but also feel the natural and rich oriental sentiment. The essence of Chinese and Western cultures is like a breeze, which is refreshing.

after several years of renovation, Guanqian Street and Shiquan Street in Suzhou have become modern commercial streets integrating entertainment, catering, sightseeing and shopping, and now they are the must-see places for tourists at home and abroad during their trip to Suzhou.

Catering:

The famous Soviet-style specialty dishes are: Sweet and Sour Mandarin Fish, shark's fin in clear soup, eel paste with fragrant oil, watermelon chicken, whole chicken with mother oil, water shield soup in Taihu Lake, jade shrimp bucket, lotus stew and so on. Suzhou snacks are also famous all over the world. Dried bean curd with honey sauce, pine nut candy, rose melon seeds, shrimp soy sauce, jujube paste sesame cake, lard rice cake, etc. are all well-known foods and must be tasted.

"Deyuelou" and "Songhelou" are old-fashioned Soviet-style restaurants; "Old Suzhou Tea Restaurant" is famous for its traditional Su-bang cuisine. "Zhuhongxing Noodle Restaurant" and "Lvyang Wonton" are inexpensive and suitable for mass consumption. The main food streets in Suzhou are: Eunuch Lane, Shiquan Street, Bachelor Street, Jiayufang, Fenghuang Street, Ganjiang Road and Shilu Jinmen Shangshi Food Street.

Transportation:

The intercity train from Shanghai to Suzhou leaves from Shanghai New Railway Station every morning, and it takes 41 minutes to get there directly.

There are high-speed buses to Shanghai from several bus stations in the south, north and west of Suzhou every day, with the most buses in the north station running every 21 minutes on average. The fare is 26-31 yuan, and the driving time is about 1 hour and 21 minutes. There are Hengfeng Road, Hutai Road, Xujiahui Hongqiao Road, Pudong Bailianjing and other places in Shanghai. It is recommended to ask clearly when purchasing tickets and choose a station close to your destination.

taxi: the starting price is 11 yuan (3 kilometers). After 3 kilometers, the unit price per kilometer is 1.8 yuan, and after 5 kilometers, 51% idle driving fee will be added. Waiting time of 5 minutes is free, and if it exceeds 5 minutes, every 5 minutes is equivalent to 1 km. After 23: 11, the fare (starting price) will be increased by 31%. Some scenic spots in Suzhou are located in alleys, so cars can't reach the door directly. At this time, tricycles are the best means of transportation. The starting price of tricycles is 2 yuan, with an additional 2 yuan per kilometer, and 5 yuan per person per hour when chartered.

There are many scenic spots in Suzhou. Riding a bicycle through the streets, visiting the ancient times and exploring the secluded places, you will surely be immersed in the artistic conception of "bridges, flowing water and people". There are many car rental shops in Pingmen Bridge on the east side of the railway station. The approximate price is: 2 yuan within 4 hours, 3 yuan within 5-6 hours, and 5 yuan for one day. ID card and deposit are required.

Accommodation:

If you are traveling by car, there are many luxury villas near Tianping Mountain and along Taihu Lake, and the prices are also cheap. Generally, the daily rent for a double-decker villa is about 411-611 yuan.

Of course, for those tourists who want to save money, it is quite easy to find a clean and cheap guest house. You can find "standard rooms" of around RMB 111 in the streets of the city. For example, the guest house of sports bureau located on Wu31 Road is more comfortable.

Shopping:

When shopping in Suzhou, Suzhou embroidery is the first tourist souvenir. Suzhou embroidery technology, Hunan embroidery, Sichuan embroidery and Guangdong embroidery are also called the four famous embroideries in China. Suzhou Biluochun Tea is one of the top ten famous teas in China, and it is a good gift for friends and relatives. There are also Suzhou Song Jin, Taohuawu woodcut New Year pictures and Su Fan, all of which are local specialties. In addition, Suzhou dried bean curd is also a famous local specialty snack, so you might as well buy some to share with your family.

Guanqian Street in Suzhou is a famous commercial pedestrian street integrating entertainment, dining and sightseeing, and there are sightseeing buses (every 1 yuan) running on the street. Stone Road outside Changmen and Huaihai Street in the new area are also famous commercial districts. In addition, Shiquan Street is a street of tourist souvenirs, Pishi Street is a flower and bird market, and Huqiu Road and the railway station are streets of wedding dresses and photographic equipment, all of which are good places for shopping.

China Pearl City in Hejiawan, weitang town is a large pearl trading center, which can be reached directly by bus No.83 at Suzhou Railway Station or by bus No.12 and No.84..

Travel tips:

Special dishes: lung soup, white sauce, abalone, shrimp and Sweet and Sour Mandarin Fish watermelon chicken

Specialty: Biluochun tea, Caizhizhai candy, Song Jin, Su Shi pastry, Su Shi candy, Su Xiu, Taicang meat floss, Taihu Silverfish, Taohuawu woodcut New Year pictures

Reminder: Most scenic spots in Suzhou are closed before 17: 31.

Suzhou Tourism Festival:

Xishan Taihu Plum Blossom Festival March 1-11

Huqiu Flower Festival March-May

Humble Administrator's Garden Rhododendron Festival March-June

Jiaozhi Water Town Clothing Culture Festival April

Nanhao Street Fairy Temple Fair May

Humble Administrator's Garden Lotus Festival July.