Suzhou gardens have a very high reputation. The Jiangnan style and cultural charm are extremely displayed here, which reflects the elegant feelings of ancient China literati and is also a kind of inheritance and sustenance of culture. Here, I will share with you what famous gardens Suzhou gardens recommend. 1. Humble Administrator's Garden

was built in the early years of Zhengde in the Ming Dynasty (the beginning of the 6th century) and is a representative work of classical gardens in the south of the Yangtze River. Humble Administrator's Garden, together with Beijing Summer Palace, chengde mountain resort and Suzhou Lingering Garden, is known as the four famous gardens in China.

As of 2114, it is still the largest classical garden in Suzhou, covering an area of 78 mu (about 5.2 hectares). The whole park is centered on water, surrounded by mountains and rivers, with exquisite pavilions and lush flowers and trees, which has strong characteristics of Jiangnan water town.

Address: No.178, Dongbei Street, Suzhou

Tel: 1186-512-67511286

Ticket price:

Off-season (from October 31th to April 5th): 71.11 yuan

Peak season (from April 6th to October 31th): 2. Lingering Garden

Lingering Garden is a large-scale classical private garden in China, covering an area of 23,311 square meters, representing the style of the Qing Dynasty. The garden is famous for its exquisite architectural art, spacious and gorgeous halls and varied courtyards. Cloud Capped Peak is the most important stone in Taihu Lake, which means "you can enjoy the forest without leaving the city". Its architectural space processing is exquisite, and gardeners use various artistic techniques to form a rhythmic garden space system, which has become a world-famous example of artistic processing of architectural space.

Address: No.338, Liuyuan Road, Suzhou (formerly No.79) (215118)

Tel: 1186-512-65337913, 1186-512-65579466

Ticket price:

Peak season (April 6 ~11 3. Master of Nets Garden

The Master of Nets Garden was founded in 1174 (the early year of Song Chunxi), and it was originally called "Fishing Hidden". After many vicissitudes, it was named "Master of Nets Garden" around 1765 (the 31th year of Qing Qianlong), and its current layout was formed. Master Wang's Garden has changed its owners several times. Most of the owners are literati, and each has its own poems and inscriptions left in the garden, which have been repaired and sorted out.

Master Wang Garden is a typical private garden with a combination of home and garden. The residential part * * * enters in four directions, starting from the sedan chair hall, the living room, the Xiuxiu Building and the Wufeng Bookstore, and spreading out in sequence along the central axis. The main hall "Wanjuantang" house is open and tastefully decorated.

Address: No.11, Kuanjietou Lane, Daichengqiao Road, Canglang District, Suzhou

Tel: 1186-512-65293191?

Ticket price:

Peak season (April 6th to October 31th): 31.11 yuan

Low season (October 31th to April 5th): 21.11 yuan

Opening hours: peak season: 17: 31 to 17: 31, and low season: 17: 31. 4. Huanxiu Mountain Villa

The landscape of Huanxiu Mountain Villa is dominated by mountains, supplemented by pool water, and there are not many buildings. Although small, the Garden is very imposing, and it is a wonderful work in the treasure house of traditional culture. Its characteristics clearly reflect China people's views on nature and life.

huanxiu mountain villa occupies a small area, but its inner lake rockery is the largest in China. According to reports, this mountain is Ge Yuliang, a master of overlapping mountains in the Qing Dynasty. Although it is made by people, it is like a heaven, and it is a treasure of rockery.

Address: No.262, Jingde Road, Pingjiang District, Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province

Tel: 1512-65225756

Ticket price: 15 yuan

Opening hours: 18:11-17:11

Ticket purchase: WeChat searches for Suzhou local treasures, and the dialog box replies to the garden to buy preferential tickets. 5. Canglang Pavilion

Canglang Pavilion, located at No.3 Canglang Pavilion Street, Sanyuanfang, Suzhou, is a classical garden building of Han nationality in China, which was built in the Northern Song Dynasty. It was originally a private garden of Su Shunqin, a scholar. It covers an area of 1.18 hectares and is the oldest existing garden in Suzhou.

Canglang Pavilion, together with Lion Forest, Humble Administrator's Garden and Lingering Garden, is listed as the four major gardens in Suzhou in Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties. Besides Canglang Pavilion itself, there are buildings and landscapes such as Yinxin Stone House, Ming Dow Hall and Kanshan Building.

Address: No.3 Canglangting Street (near Renmin Road), Canglang District, Suzhou

Tel: 1512-65194375

Ticket price:

Peak season (April 16-October 31) 21 yuan

Off season (October 31-April 15) 15 yuan.

Opening hours: 7:31-17:31

Ticket purchase: WeChat searches Suzhou local treasures, and the dialog box replies to the garden to purchase preferential tickets. 6. Lion Grove

Lion Grove was built in the year of Yuan Dynasty to Zhengzheng (1342), and it is one of the representatives of classical private garden buildings in China. It belongs to one of the four famous gardens in Suzhou. Due to the ups and downs of the forest garden, the temple, the garden and the house are separated and combined, the traditional gardening techniques and Buddhist thoughts are integrated, and the modern Bayes family introduced western gardening techniques and family temples into the garden, making it a temple garden that integrates the principles of Zen and the joy of gardens.

Because there are many bamboos in the garden, and there are many strange rocks under the bamboos, which look like a lion, and because the heaven is like a Zen master, the lion rock in Tianmu Mountain, Zhejiang Province is in the middle of the National Teacher's Peak. In order to commemorate the relationship between Buddhists and disciples, it takes the meaning of Leo in Buddhist scriptures, so it is named "Lion Forest".

Address: No.23 Garden Road, Pingjiang District, Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province

Tel: 1512-67272428?

Ticket price:

Peak season (April 6th to October 31th): 31.11 yuan

Low season (October 31th to April 5th of the following year): 21.11 yuan

Opening hours: 17: 31 to 17: 11

Ticket purchase: WeChat search Suzhou. 7. Ouyuan

Ouyuan, formerly known as Sheyuan, is located in Xiaoxinqiao Lane, Cangjie Street, Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province. It was built by Lu Jin, the magistrate of Baoning during the reign of Shunzhi in Qing Dynasty, taking the meaning of "the day of the garden is involved in making fun" in Tao Yuanming's Gui Ci. The rockery in Huangshi is the characteristic of Ouyuan.

Ouyuan faces the river on three sides and the street on one side, with river ports in front and back. The white walls and tiles reflect the flowing water of small bridges and have the charm of Jiangnan water town.

Address: No.7 Xiaoxinqiao Lane, Pingjiang District, Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province

Tel: 1512-67272717?

Ticket price: 251 yuan in peak season (April 6-October 31); Off-season 21 yuan.

opening hours:? 7: 31 ~ 17: 118. Art Garden

Art Garden is not very famous in Suzhou gardens, at least many people who come to Suzhou from other places will not include it as a necessary destination. However, for people living in Suzhou, the art garden is never tired of going.

the art garden is the representative of the existing Ming-style small gardens in Suzhou. After more than 411 years of vicissitudes, the main style has not changed much. The cheerful and concise way of managing water in the mountains and the philosophical demands of "seeking openness in the closed", "seeking depth in the simple" and "seeking danger in the narrow" still strongly shocked everyone who met with it.

Address: No.5 Wenya Lane, Changmen, Jinchang District, Suzhou

Tel: 1512-652414231512-67271614

Ticket price: 11 yuan

Opening hours: 7: 31-17: 11 (3.21 9. Retreat Garden

Retreat Garden, commonly known as Renjia Garden, was originally called in the new house to distinguish it from the old house. The whole house covers an area of nearly 11 mu, and the atrium of the West House is in the East Garden. Although the garden is small, there are all kinds of pavilions and pavilions, and it is built near the water. Chen Congzhou, a landscape expert, calls it the "water-attached garden". In fact, Chen Congzhou strongly recommended the restoration of the retreat garden. The owner of the garden is Ren Lansheng, Anhui Bingbei Road, and the designer is Yuan Dongli, a famous painter and painter in Tongli. Ren Lansheng, whose name is Wan Xiang, was named Nanyun, an Anhui soldier's road, and later acted as a provincial judge (the third grade), and died in Ren Shang. After Ren Lan's death, the emperor made a biography of him, gave him a bachelor's degree in the cabinet, and attached a special shrine to Yinghan.

Address: No.919, Yunli Road, Wujiang City, Jiangsu Province

Tel: 1512-63439111, 1512-63439651

Ticket price: Tongli Ancient Town Joint Ticket (including Tuisi Garden, Wang Shaosong Memorial Hall, Pearl Tower, Songshi Wuyuan, Jiangnan Wedding Customs Museum and Jiayintang) 11. Yiyuan Garden

Suzhou Yiyuan Garden, located at No.43 Renmin Road (now No.1265) in the urban area, has an existing area of 6,271 square meters. Yiyuan Garden was built in the Guangxu period of Qing Dynasty, and it is divided into two parts: east and west. In the west, it is an ancestral hall, and in the south, it is accessible to houses. Because the garden was built late, it absorbed the strengths of various gardens, such as the cloister, Yuanyang Hall, rockery and stone boat.

Address: No.1256 Renmin Road, Canglang District, Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province

Tel: 1512-65249317

Ticket price: 15 yuan

Opening hours: 17:11-17:11

Ticket purchase: WeChat searches for Suzhou local treasures, and the dialog box replies to the garden to buy preferential tickets. 11. Wufeng Garden

Wufeng Garden was built in Jiajing period of Ming Dynasty by Yang Cheng, a minister of Changzhou, commonly known as "Yangjiayuan". It was built by Wen Boren, the nephew painter of Wen Zhiming, and Wen Boren was named Wufeng Old Man. The whole park is dominated by five peaks, supplemented by pools, with cliffs, canyons, caves, stone bridges, ancient trees, dry boats, garden pavilions and caves. There is a mound in the southwest corner of the garden, which is popularly known as the tomb of Tang Liuyi.

Address: No.47, Changmen West Street, Canglang District, Suzhou (near Xiatang)

Tel: 1512-67275866

Ticket price: 2 yuan

Opening hours: 17:11-21:1112. Yongcui Villa in Suzhou

It is a mountain. There are Baowengxuan, Linglan Jingshe and Wenquan Pavilion in the village, which are small in scale but exquisitely constructed.

Address: Huqiu Mountain Scenic Area, No.8, Huqiu Mountain Gate, gusu district, Suzhou

Tel: 1512-67232315

Opening hours: 19:11-17:1113. The fishing village

The location of the fishing village was transferred to the former site of the Agricultural Park Hall of Shihu Villa in Fan Chengda in the Southern Song Dynasty. The existing halls have two entrances, with five rooms in width, the open room and the second room are the halls, and the tip room is the study and living room. The front hall is called "Fushoutang". The front hall and the back hall are connected by corridors on both sides, and the waist of the corridor is square and half-pavilion, opposite to the left and right, with a quadrangle courtyard in the middle. Another square pavilion, named "Fishing Pavilion", was built in front of Zhuangqianbin Lake, facing the Lengga Temple Tower in Shangfang Mountain and the Fan Chengda Ancestral Temple in Mopan Mountain from a distance, and the scenery was extraordinary.

Address: Yujia Village, the northeast of Shihu, Suzhou, Jiangsu

Tel: 1512-68231311

Ticket price: free 14. Gaoyi Garden

Gaoyi Garden * * * is built on the mountain, and the terrace rises step by step, with a depth of about 71 meters. Entering the entrance, passing through the instrument door, the third entrance is the Lotte Building, formerly known as the Imperial Book Building and the Old Chenhan Building, which is a grand and exquisite double-eaves building.

Address: Lingtian Road, Wuzhong District, Suzhou

Tel: 1512-66261382

Ticket price: no tickets are required, which is included in the ticket for 31 yuan in Tianping Mountain.

opening hours: 8:11-17:11

scenic spots

1. Huqiu Mountain Scenic Spot

Huqiu Mountain Scenic Spot is located in the northwest corner of the ancient city of Suzhou, with a long history of more than 2,511 years and the reputation of "the first scenic spot in Wuzhong" and "the first mountain in Wuzhong", written by Su Dongpo, a great poet in the Song Dynasty. The eternal famous saying.

Huqiu Mountain is 34.3 meters above sea level and covers an area of 1.19 square kilometers. The mountain is composed of Jurassic volcanic magma, and rocks such as Thousand Man Stone, Sword Test Stone and Jianchi are rhyolite. Jurassic volcanic rocks are distributed under the Quaternary alluvium in the whole plain area in the east, north and west directions of Huqiu Mountain.

Address: No.8, Shanmennei, Huqiu, Suzhou (215118)

Tel: 1186-512-653234881186-512-67232315

Ticket price:

Off-season: 1, 2, 3, 6, 11.

2. Tianpingshan Scenic Area

Tianpingshan Scenic Area is located in the southwest of Suzhou Ancient City, on the shore of Taihu Lake. It is the core scenic spot of Taihu Lake National Scenic Area, with the reputation of "the first mountain in Wuzhong" and "the scenic spot in the south of the Yangtze River", and is one of the four scenic spots for enjoying maple in China.

Tianping Mountain is 211 meters above sea level, and the mountain is steep and dangerous. It was called Baiyun Mountain in ancient times, also known as Ci Mountain, which was the burial place of Fan Zhongyan, a famous minister in the Northern Song Dynasty. Covering an area of nearly 111 hectares, the scenic spot is famous for its three wonders of "red maple, strange stone and clear spring", and there are 18 scenic spots such as Wanwanchaotian, Gaoyi Diecui, Wanxiang Hongxia and Yuquan Qingyin.

Address: Lingtian Road, Mudu Town, Wuzhong District, Suzhou

Tel: 1186-512-66515191

Admission price: adult ticket 31 yuan, children, students and elderly people aged 61-71 with valid certificates for half a ticket, and children under 1.2m and elderly people over 71 with valid certificates for free tickets.

Opening hours: 8:11-17:11

Ticket purchase: WeChat search Suzhou local treasure, and the dialog box replies to Tianping Mountain to purchase preferential tickets.

3. Fengqiao Scenic Area

Fengqiao Scenic Area is a provincial-level scenic area with Hanshan Ancient Temple, Jiangfeng Ancient Bridge, Tieling Ancient Pass, fengqiao ancient town and the "Five Ancient" of the ancient canal as its main tour contents.

The scenic spot has a long history. Since Sui and Tang Dynasties, the ancient canal has bred a prosperous Fengqiao town. The incense of Hanshan Temple, which was built in the Liang Dynasty, continues to this day. A poem "a night-mooring near maple bridge" by Zhang Ji in the Tang Dynasty describes the ethereal and spacious artistic conception here, making the scenic spot a place that Chinese and foreign tourists yearn for; In the Ming Dynasty, the fight against the Japanese invaders left a relic of the Iron Bell Pass, which became a barrier to the west gate of Suzhou.

Address: West End of Fengqiao Road, Suzhou (east of Heshan Bridge on Jinmen Road) (215118)

Tel: 1186-512-653212881186-512-65575111

Ticket price: adult ticket 25 yuan, 1.2m-1.2m. Fengqiao Scenic Area and Pingtan Cruise Joint Ticket 45 yuan.

Opening hours: 8:11-17:31

4. Shihu Scenic Area

stone lake, a "half-lake jasper", located 7 kilometers southwest of Suzhou, is an important scenic spot in Taihu Lake Scenic Area. Shihu Lake is the inner lake of Taihu Lake, which has been in the Spring and Autumn Period.