1. When Liu Bowen came to Suzhou in the Ming Dynasty, he found that the Shantang River was shaped like a dragon. He thought there would be a real dragon in Suzhou to compete with Zhu Yuanzhang. In order to curb the dragon that may rebel, he set up seven bluestone civet cats along the way from Shantang Bridge to Xishanmiao Bridge to lock the dragon body. The other is related to Shishan and Hushan in Suzhou.

Legend has it that the lion wanted to challenge the tiger, and the tiger invited seven civet cats to help him drive the lion to the place where Lion Mountain is now. The tiger who drove away the lion was worried that the lion would attack again, so he left the civet cat to guard the mountain pond.

Shantang Street is about seven miles long from beginning to end. Suzhou people call it "Qili Mountain Pond to Tiger Hill". This song "Qili Mountain Pond" has been passed down from mouth to mouth, but I don't know why it was read as "Qili Mountain Pond".

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Throughout the ages, the mountain pond has always been the favorite place of emperors, monarchs and literati. Qianlong Kangxi and Bohu Qiuxiang once lingered on both sides of Shantang River.

The inscriptions on the Five Tombs mentioned in the Chinese textbooks for middle schools, the classic passage "Getting a Son through a Bridge" in the Tanci Jade, the internationally renowned architect I.M. Pei and his ancestral temple, the first revolutionary cultural group in modern China, Nanshe and Chen Xiaowan in Yefangbang are all related to the mountain pond.

During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, the painter Xu Yang created a long scroll "The Breeding Map of Prosperity" (also known as "Suzhou Prosperity Map"), which described a village, a town, a city and a street in Suzhou at that time, and one of the streets was Shantang Street.

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