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Which scenic spots in Suzhou are close?

Everyone is familiar with the saying "there is heaven above and Suzhou and Hangzhou below". This garden city is also called "Venice of the East" because of its original appearance of "small bridge and flowing water".

Humble Administrator's Garden

Introduction:

Humble Administrator's Garden is located in Loumen, Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province. It is one of the four famous gardens in China, one of the national key cultural relics protection units, one of the national characteristic tourist attractions and a world cultural heritage. So far, Humble Administrator's Garden is the only one in China with these four laurels. The whole park is divided into four parts: East, Middle, West and Residential. Ming Xiu has elegant pavilions and lush flowers and trees, which are the essence of the whole park. The water gallery in the west twists and turns, and the reflection of the balcony is quiet and quiet. East of Pinggang grassland, Zhuwu Qushui, open space.

The bonsai garden and Yashizhai are two bright pearls embedded in the humble administrator's garden. In the west of the Humble Administrator's Garden, there is a bamboo hedge with swaying trees, which houses exquisite Soviet bonsai. Known as the "treasure of famous gardens", there are more than 50 varieties and nearly 10,000 bonsai.

Located in the middle, Yashizhai is a quiet small courtyard surrounded by water and verandah, which displays "strange stones" and is the best indoor supplies. There are all kinds of strange stones and mahogany shelves on desks and bars, which make Zhong Ling more beautiful. In recent years, Humble Administrator's Garden has also launched tourism activities with traditional cultural characteristics-Rhododendron Festival and Lotus Festival, which have been loved and praised by Chinese and foreign tourists.

Travel tips

1, Humble Administrator's Garden is suitable for all seasons, but it is best to avoid the holiday peak.

2. The garden adopts hand-held electronic tour guides, which can be rented at the entrance.

3. After leaving the Humble Administrator's Garden, walk west 100 meters, you can go to the Loyalty Palace, Suzhou Museum and Suzhou Garden Museum of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and walk along the Garden Road for about 100 meters to the Lion Forest and Suzhou Folk Museum.

4. When shooting in the garden, we must pay attention to the intersection of light and shadow, and timely suggest the flash to fill the light when backlighting, and use a SLR camera. Because there are many green plants in Suzhou gardens, the contrast between flowers and other colors is great, so we should choose a lens with good imaging and high shooting resolution.

5. Xiangxiang Pavilion has a free guide map of Humble Administrator's Garden, which is available in Chinese, English, Japanese and Korean. Remember to take one when you go in.

Surrounding food: Humble Administrator's Garden and Guanqian Street are just across the street. After the tour, you can buy Suzhou specialties, Huang Tianyuan cakes, Caizhizhai zongzi candy, dried bean curd, generous cakes, jujube paste biscuits, sesame soup and other Jiangnan specialties. There are many century-old shops with unique tastes in Guanqian Street, and you can also go to a snack street to eat special snacks at night. Humble Administrator's Garden specialties, watermelon chicken, lung soup, white sauce, snail shrimp, sweet and sour mandarin fish, etc.

Hanshan Temple

Introduction:

Suzhou Hanshan Temple, located in Qiao Feng town outside Nagato, is now a place for Buddhist activities. Every New Year, people go to Hanshan Temple to listen to the bell, so as to abandon the custom of worry and sadness. It was called Qiao Feng Temple in ancient times. It was built in the Southern Liang Dynasty, and its old name was Miaopuminglou. The temple is east-west, covering an area of about 10600 square meters. There is a sumeru in the center of Ursa Mahayana Hall. The Tathagata sits on it, and Ananda and Ye Jia stand around. There are 18 gold-plated arhats with different looks on the walls on both sides, which were cast in Chenghua period of Ming Dynasty. There are bells and drums on the left and right. The bell is an imitation of the Tang bronze nipple clock, which was presented by the Japanese in the 32nd year of Guangxu.

Ring the bell prompt:

In the middle of the night, the master of Hanshan Temple will ring the New Year's Eve bell 108, indicating the end of the year, which means to say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new year, because a year has 12 months, 24 solar terms and 72 waiting periods (there were 360 days in ancient times, waiting periods every five days), totaling 108. After the master of Hanshan Temple has rung 108 New Year's Eve bells, visitors can ring the lucky New Year bells themselves. This activity is very popular because of its strong participation. According to Buddhist teachings, there are 108 kinds of troubles in life. As soon as you hear the sound of 108 on New Year's Day, you can get rid of it layer by layer, and wish people happiness and well-being in the coming year.

Zhouzhuang town scenic spot

Introduction:

Zhouzhuang, bred by thousands of years of historical vicissitudes and heavy Wu culture, has become a treasure of oriental culture with its exquisite water town style, unique cultural landscape and simple folk customs. As an outstanding representative of China's excellent traditional culture, Zhouzhuang has become the cradle of Wu culture and a model of Jiangnan water town. It has been listed in the World Cultural Heritage Protection List by UNESCO, and won the Dubai International Best Model Award for Improving the Living Environment, the United Nations Outstanding Achievement Award for World Cultural Heritage Protection in the Asia-Pacific Region, the American Government Award, the world's most attractive water town and the first batch of ten famous historical and cultural towns in China, the China Environment Award, the National Health Town and the National Beautiful Town. After more than ten years' efforts, it has successfully built the tourism cultural brand of "China's No.1 Water Town", pioneered the ancient town tour in the south of the Yangtze River, became the first batch of AAAA-level tourist attractions in China, and won the honors of "50 Most Popular Places for Foreigners", advanced collective of national tourism system and famous tourist brand in China.

Surrounding food: Zhouzhuang, a water town, is rich in delicacies and aquatic products, among which the most famous is the "Three Treasures of the Yangtze River": perch, white clam and whitebait. Zhouzhuang also produces eels, and it is well known that "cooked eels compete for ginseng". In addition, there are soft-shelled turtles, river shrimps and so on. The specialties are: Wansanti, Sanwei Tangyuan, steamed mandarin fish, steamed eel tube, water shield bass soup, ginger snail, oil-brewed meat, braised pork with white leaves, braised bean curd, stir-fried lotus root and so on. You can try the "Three Thousand Family Banquets" at Shenting Restaurant.

Lion Grove

Introduction:

Lion Forest is a rectangle slightly wider from east to west, with an area of 1. 1 hectare and an open area of 0.88 hectares. It is mountainous in the southeast and watery in the northwest, surrounded by high walls and deep houses and winding corridors. It has the humanistic landscape of Suzhou classical gardens, such as pavilions, terraces, buildings, pavilions, halls and corridors. It is also famous for its strange mountains and lakes and deep caves, and is known as the "rockery kingdom". There are many rockeries in the Lion Forest, which are exquisitely carved, with lakes and mountains, staggered caves and valleys and twists and turns, and are called "Eighteen Scenes of Taoyuan". The buildings in the park are mainly misty rain hall, followed by a small square hall with a snow hall.

Tiger Hill

Introduction:

Tiger Hill is an important place for folk gatherings in Suzhou. Two sessions a year has become a popular program in Suzhou's characteristic tourism projects. Every spring, an art flower show will be held here, displaying a large number of precious flowers such as peony, tulip, Belgian rhododendron and lily, totaling 6.5438+0.7 million pots and hundreds of varieties; In autumn, a folk temple fair (Huqiu Temple Fair) with strong folk customs will be held, and folk programs with a blend of North and South will be performed. There are many hills, which is the biggest feature of Tiger Hill. In particular, the Millennium Tiger Hill stands on the mountain, making it a famous tourist attraction since ancient times. Lingering Garden

A lingering garden

tong li ancient town

Introduction:

Tongli Town is located in the northeast of Wujiang City, Jiangsu Province, 80 kilometers away from Shanghai and 20 kilometers away from Suzhou. It is an ancient town with a long history and a typical water town. It has won the reputation of "Little Venice of the East" with the pattern of small bridges and flowing water. Tongli is famous at home and abroad as "the hometown of clean water and the old south of the Yangtze River". 1980 is listed as one of the national Taihu Lake scenic spots, and 1982 is listed as a provincial-level cultural relics protection unit. 1992 is listed as a provincial-level cultural relic protection town, and the famous scenic spot "tuisi garden" is listed as a world cultural heritage by UNESCO. It is like a pearl embedded in Tongli, Yeze, Nanxing, Pangshan and Jiuli Five Lakes. The winding rivers and criss-crossing tributaries divide the township into seven small islands. Because Tongli is located in Zeguo River network, the traffic is inconvenient and there are few casualties in history. There are many ancient buildings preserved, and it is one of the most intact water towns in Jiangsu Province. Because water has become a garden, every family is connected with water, and every family is connected with a boat, which constitutes a beautiful picture.

Jinxi

Introduction:

Jinxi (formerly known as Chen Tomb) is located 23 kilometers southwest of Kunshan City, bordering Qingpu District of Shanghai in the east and Wuzhong District of Suzhou in the west. Jinxi, named after the stream, is densely covered with lakes and connected by ancient bridges. In this ancient town with the beautiful legend of "36 bridges and 72 kilns", the density of bridges is rare in the world. Less than 1 km2 in the old city, there are 36 existing ancient bridges, most of which are well-preserved, and the bridge columns, couplets and inscriptions are well-preserved, forming a unique "Jinxi".

Bridge culture. "Numerous folk collection museums in ancient towns stand out among the surrounding ancient towns." "China Ancient Brick and Tile Museum" is called "the best in China" because of its rich cultural connotation and high cultural value.

"Zisha Museum" is an excellent collection of Shi Dabin's covered pottery pots, the famous eighteen pots full of life in Qing Dynasty and Gu Jingzhou's purple pottery wares. There are also Antique Museum, Coin Collection Museum, Zhangsheng Art Museum, Root Carving Museum, Huaxia Planetarium, Huaxia Kistler Museum, Jinxi Yingcai Museum, Persimmon Garden and Jinshi Family in the ancient town, which are deeply loved and praised by people all over the world.

Food around:

1, chimelong moon cake

Originated in the 24th year of Guangxu in Qing Dynasty (1898), it was named after the South Goods Store in sun changlong, which was a workshop before and after. Changlong moon cakes have the style of Soviet-style moon cakes, but the production technology is very different. It does not add loosening agent, but uses crisp dough. The skin is crisp, the color is bright, the filling is fat but not greasy, the taste is crisp, the filling does not add water, and the finished product has a long shelf life.

2. "Sauced meat"

It's a famous dish in the Red Star Pavilion. Its cooking history is long. At first, it was a home-cooked meal, and later it was extended to a formal banquet. The selection and cooking of sauced meat are more particular. Be sure to choose fat and thin pork belly and cut it into four or five inches square. Put it in a pot, first boil it with high fire, and then burn it with slow fire for three to four hours to make the meat crisp and tender.

Panmen scenic spot

Introduction:

Panmen is located in the southwest of Suzhou, next to the ancient canal. Three Views: Panmen, Ruiguang Temple Tower and Wumen Bridge.

There is a "Panmen" gate in the southwest, and a ramp to the city in the north. There are stacked city walls on the city, and defensive facilities such as lanes, perforations, blastholes, gates and turnstiles are arranged along the outer wall. The walls on both sides have been preserved to this day.

To the northeast is Ruiguang Temple Tower. The tower has eight sides, seven floors and a pavilion, and is about 43 meters high.

rice. The top is a brick-wood structure, and the tower is a brick structure, with four doors at the bottom, eight doors on two or three floors, and four doors on all sides above four floors. The vertical section shrinks layer by layer, slightly curved, beautiful and simple in shape, which embodies the style and structural characteristics of ancient pagodas in Tang and Song Dynasties. It is a good structure of the south brick and wood tower in the early Song Dynasty.

Wumen Bridge is near Panmen, on the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, running north and south, and made of gold.

Built of granite, it is 63m long, with a clear distance of16m and a drop of nearly10m. It is the largest single-span arch bridge in Suzhou, with exquisite workmanship and extraordinary momentum.

Suzhou amusement park

Introduction:

Lion Mountain (Yushan Road near Yushan Park) is located in the west of Suzhou New District, which is divided into two parts: water world and happy world.

Happy world: it combines the excitement and grandeur of western amusement parks with the leisure, tranquility and nature of oriental classical gardens. It is famous all over the country in the name of "Oriental Disney". * * * Located on the east side of Lion Mountain, according to the layout of "entertainment in the north and viewing in the south", it is divided into nine scenic spots, such as European and American towns, children's world, future world, Scottish manor, Venice water town, Baishi Garden and Throne Square. A large number of high-tech amusement equipment such as UFO exploration, spacecraft, space war, space exploration, triangle gliding, trapeze and high-altitude ejection have been introduced, with more than 80 amusement projects and attractions.

Water World: Since its completion, it has become a hot spot of summer tourism in East China. There are 13000 square meters of magical water city, 4000 square meters of wave-making pool, semi-spherical inflatable sliding platform imported from Sweden, and simulated animals lurking in the drifting river, as if they were in Jurassic Park.