Suzhou's four famous gardens: Liyuan, Humble Administrator's Garden, Canglang Pavilion, Lion Grove.
1, Liouyuan
Liuyuan, once known as the "East Garden", "Hanbi Villa", is located in Gusu District, Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province, Liyuan Road 338, south of Liouyuan Road, north of Half Street, east of the city's bus passenger transport Group Co. Ltd., west of the embroidery lane, in the twenty-first year of the Ming Wanli (1593) was built, and then there are many abandoned and easy to own, in 1953, the People's Government of Suzhou City decided to restore the Garden, and then constantly repair and remediation.
2, the Humble Administrator's Garden
Humble Administrator's Garden, located in Suzhou Loumen in the northeast street, covers an area of 62 acres, is one of the largest gardens in Suzhou, Suzhou Gardens is also a masterpiece of the Ming Zhende years (1506 ~ 1521 years), the royal historian Wang Xianchen built. It was built by Wang Xianchen, an imperial official, during the Zhengde period (1506-1521) of the Ming Dynasty. Most of the existing gardens were formed at the end of the Qing Dynasty. The theme of the layout of the Humble Administrator's Garden is centered on water, with the water area accounting for about one-fifth of the total area, and various pavilions are built near the water. The whole garden is divided into three parts: east, center and west, and the center garden is the main body and the essence of the garden.
3, Canglang Pavilion
Canglang Pavilion, located in the south of the city of Suzhou Sanyuan Square, is the oldest garden in Suzhou, for the Northern Song Dynasty (1041 ~ 1048 years) poet Su Shunqin (the word Zimei) built, the early years of the Southern Song Dynasty for the military general Han Shizhong House. Outside the Canglang Pavilion, a vast expanse of green water wraps around the garden and enters the garden via a bridge. The garden is dominated by rocks and stones, with the Canglang Stone Pavilion at the top of the hill. There is a pond under the mountain, and a winding corridor connects the mountain and water, with flower windows and leakage pavilions in the corridor.
4, Lion Grove
Lion Grove, located in Suzhou Panru Lane, east of the Garden Road, the Yuan Zhizheng two years (1342), Zen Master Tianru in honor of his teacher in the peak of the monk and built. Because Zhongfeng originally lived in Zhejiang Tianmu Mountain Lion Rock, and the garden stone peaks, more like a lion, so the name "Lion Forest".
Architectural features
Suzhou gardeners use a unique gardening techniques, in the limited space, by stacking the mountains and water, planting flowers and trees, configuring the garden buildings, and a large number of plaques, couplets, paintings and calligraphy, carvings, monuments and stones, furniture furnishings and various furnishings and so on, to reflect the ancient philosophical concepts, cultural awareness and aesthetic appeal, thus forming a poetic and picturesque atmosphere. The formation of literati landscape gardens full of poetry and painting, so that people "do not go out of the city and get the pleasure of the landscape, living in the city and get the fun of the forest and spring," to achieve the "although made by people, just like the heavens open" artistic situation.
Suzhou classical garden is a deep cultural meaning of "literati landscape garden". Its architectural layout, structure, modeling and style, are skillfully used in contrast, backdrop, landscape, borrowed scenery, as well as the scale of change, level with and small in the big, less than more than a variety of gardening art skills and techniques, pavilions, terraces, buildings, pavilions, springs, rocks, flowers, wood together, in the city to create a harmonious living environment for man and nature.
Refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Liuyuan Baidu Encyclopedia-The Humble Administrator's Garden