Shizilin garden

The four major gardens in Suzhou are Lingering Garden, Humble Administrator's Garden, Canglang Pavilion and Lion Forest.

1, Liuyuan

Lingering Garden is not only the four famous gardens in Suzhou, but also the four famous gardens in China. Its architectural space is exquisitely handled, and gardeners use various artistic techniques to form a rhythmic garden space system, which has become a world-famous model for the artistic treatment of architectural space. The east is dominated by architecture, with landscape gardens in the middle, rockeries in the west and pastoral scenery in the north.

2. Humble Administrator's Garden

Like Lingering Garden, Humble Administrator's Garden is one of the four famous gardens in China except Suzhou. As of 20 14, Humble Administrator's Garden is still the largest classical garden in Suzhou, covering an area of 78 mu. The whole park is centered on water, surrounded by mountains and rivers, with pavilions, lush flowers and trees, and has strong characteristics of Jiangnan water town.

3. Canglang Pavilion

Canglang Pavilion is one of the four major gardens in Suzhou. Although the owners have changed, most of the buildings in the courtyard have been damaged and repaired, and the rockery in the garden and the pool water outside the garden have mostly maintained their old appearance and have not been damaged. Most of the scenery in the park is uncut, and the nature is beautiful and the mountains and rivers are suitable, just like natural scenery.

4. Lion Forest

Lion Forest is one of the representatives of classical private garden buildings in China. Due to the ups and downs of the forest garden, temples, gardens and houses are separated and combined, and traditional gardening techniques and Buddhist thoughts are combined, making it a temple garden that integrates the principles of Zen and the joy of gardens.

Brief introduction of Suzhou gardens;

Suzhou's classical gardens and homes are integrated, which can be appreciated, traveled and lived. The formation of this architectural form is a creation of human attachment to nature, the pursuit of harmony with nature, and the beautification and improvement of their own living environment in a densely populated city with scarce natural scenery.

China's philosophy, history and humanistic customs contained in Suzhou classical gardens are the symbol and condensation of Jiangnan's humanistic historical traditions and local customs, which show the essence of China culture and have a unique historical position and great artistic value in the world gardening history.

From 65438 to 0997, Humble Administrator's Garden, Lingering Garden, Master Garden and Huanxiu Mountain Villa in Suzhou classical gardens were included in the World Cultural Heritage List. In 2000, Canglang Pavilion, Lion Forest, Lovers Garden, Art Garden and Retreat Garden, as expansion projects of Suzhou classical gardens, were also listed as world cultural heritage.