Suzhou's four greatest gardens（苏州四大园林英文版）
烩小吃Summarization:
Suzhou is China's well-known "city of gardens", which tops all others in both the number and the artistry of gardens. Dating from Pi Jiang Garden of the Eastern Jing Dynasty,Suzhou's art of gardening has undergone a history of 1, 500 years. There were once over 200 gardens in the city,and 69 of them are still in good prervation today. The concept of Suzhou classical gardens has gone beyond the city limits,since it generally refers to all tho private gardens built in the regions south of the Yangtze.
雪景句子唯美简短The Suzhou garden originated from the desire to retire from the strife of officialdom and to shun from worldly affairs. It eks the return to Nature and the cultivation of temperament. In Taoist philosophy and the refinement of culture underlies the theme of the garden. Hills and waters,flowers and trees,pavilion, terraces,towers and halls constitute the basic garden elements,while the prominent tone is expresd in the dark colour of roof tiles,the grey of bricks,and chestnut brown of wooden pillars.
横柯上蔽
Suzhou garden is the Nature in nutshell ,which enables one to "feel the charm of mountains,forest and springs without going out of the noisy surroundings of the town". Its human interest also lies in that the architect, philosopher, poet, painter, and common folk can all find in it the idea,the flavour,the lines and the rhythm. The unfolding of the garden vistas is the verisimilitude of a landscape scroll. When enjoying tea, poem,flower arrangement or playing musical instrument in the garden,one gains the most natural inspiration. To tho tourists desiring to understand China, Suzhou garden is the best muum.
Local chronicles reveal that during its heyday, Suzhou city held nearly 200 gardens, topping the whole nation. Suzhou gardens have their own characteristics in layout, structure and style.The Four Classical Gardens of Suzhou, i.e., The Humble Administrator's Garden，The Lion Grove Garden,The Lingering Garden and The Surging Waves Pavilion reprent the styles of Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties.
The Humble Administrator's Garden :
Sunshine after a snowfall
The Humble Administrator's Garden. First laid out in 1509 AD, the garden's scenery is focud on a central pond with various buildings of pavilions,terraces,chambers and towers located by the water or on hillocks in a natural, unsophisticated,and appropriate composition. The garden is most reprentative of Chine classical gardens in the Ming Dynasty.
The Humble Administrator's Garden covers 4 hectares in northeast Suzhou. It is the largest garden of the city and a typical example of the art of horticulture south of the Changjiang river.
拜年打一作家名Lotus Hall
It was laid out in 1513 by the censor Wang Xiancheng after his retirement from political life. He named the garden after an essay by Pan Yue of Jing Era---On Idle Living:" Building hou and planting trees, watering garden and growing vegetables are the affairs (Zheng) of humble (Zhuo) people." After his death, his son gambled away the gard
en.
When Taiping troops occupied Suzhou in 1860, King Zhongwang picked this one and the neighboring buildings of the prent Historical Muum as a residence and center for his political activities.
Three-fifths of its area is covered by magnificent ponds. All of the buildings are right next to the ponds, so that the garden ems to be floating on the water. The entire grounds can be divided into three parts: an eastern, a central and a western part. The central one is especially worth a visit. It centers around Yuanxiang Tang pavilion. Two artificial islands linked to each other in the lotus pond north of the pavilion are denly overgrown with bamboo plants and trees. In the western part, Sanshiliu Yuanyang Guan hall, the Hall of the Thirty-Six Mandarin Ducks, will attract the visitors' special interest. On the adjoining lake, one ud to be able to e mandarin ducks, symbol of marital faithfulness. Today, some swim in a fenced-off part of the lake.West of the garden there is a noteworthy bonsai exhibition a a teahou.
The Lion Forest Garden :
春季健康小常识大全番桃 Compactly yet harmoniously spaced,the Lion Forest Garden has a prominent part for ries of man-made mountains with various buildings around the lake ,and an artificial waterfall and cliffs at the edge of the lake on the west. Remains of the 14th century man-made mountains,covering 1,and being the largest of all at Suzhou,can be still en today.Noted for its labyrinthine mountains with winding pathways and caverns,old pines and cypress trees,awesome peaks and jogged rocks of grotesque shapes rembling dancing lions with striking and unusral pos,it posss with pride the true delights of mountain and forest scenery in limited space with a flavor of Zen Buddhism.
双状元The Hall of Peace and Happiness,one of the principal buildings in the garden,is a master-piece of typical mandarin ducks'hall at Suzhou. Divided in halves, the northern half of the hall differs from the southen half in many particular aspects ,such as beam-framing systems,furnishings,pavements,carvings,window designs and so forth.With painted patterns and beam carvings and looking splendid in green and gold,the True Delight Pavilion in the royal style with the "True Delight "tablet inscribed by the Qing Emp
eror Qianlong is a main viewing place in the garden and differs from the other plain and elegant gardens of Suzhou.Other buildings include the pointing at Cypress Trees Hall,the Asking Prunus Mume Pavilion and the Stone Boat, etc.
