Four famous gardens in Suzhou

The lion forest is one of the four famous gardens in Suzhou and has a history of more than 650 years. From the Yuan Dynasty to the second year (1342 AD), the disciples at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, such as the disciples of the Zen division, "contributed by the Prime Minister and bought land to settle the house. "Because of the Garden" there are bamboo, many strange stones under bamboo, such as the Lions "; and because of the days such as Zen, the sun was expected to be in Zhejiang Tianmu Shan, The Lion Rock, puying, national division, zhongfeng, in order to commemorate the relationship between the Buddha and the teacher, take the meaning of Leo in the Buddhist scriptures, and name it "Shi Zilin" and "Lin ".
This garden can be viewed as a representative of the mature landscape of Wudi. The park covers an area of about 1.1 hectares and is near a Square area. It is famous for its wide variety of Lake rocks. Hu Shi Linglong, tunnel Wan, twists and turns, such as fans, there is a "Taoyuan 18 views. There are many strange rocks at the top of the cave, and they all look like a lion's dance. Including Hui, tuyue, Xuan Yu, Ang Xia and other famous peaks, with the lion peak as the first of zhufeng. In the rockery, the disc road is bent, sometimes close at hand, but not similar. Sometimes it takes several steps to break up. The pavilion, Hall, Xuan, and pavilion are built in the mountains and rivers. Yan Yutang is the main hall of the whole park, and Gao Chang Hongli. There are other small-party halls, zhufeng refer to Bai Xuan, the Ancient Five pine Park, Lotus Hall, really interesting pavilion, dark shadows building, wenmei pavilion, woyun room and so on. All of them are famous for their different shapes and have infinite interests. Gallery wall is embedded with more than 60 treasures of famous calligraphy inscriptions such as Su Shi, Huang tingjian, mi Miao and CAI Yi in the Song Dynasty. Wen Tianxiang's Plum Blossom poem is particularly precious in its inscription. During the Qing Dynasty, Kangxi and Qianlong went to the south of the Yangtze River to visit the park, and Ling imitated the lion forest in Chengde summer resort.
The last Park master of the lion forest is the bay runsheng of the famous international architect Beiming family. In 1917, he bought it for 9900 silver yuan, also known as the Bay garden.