What is the name of the gate of Suzhou Garden?

The gate of Suzhou Garden is called East Gate.

The East Gate, known as the gateway space of the Ming Dynasty gardeners' gardening and metallurgy, is one of the most common traditional design elements in ancient garden buildings in China, which is decorative and functional.

Yao wrote in Fayuanlou that those with empty windows on the wall were called Moon Cave. Wherever the portal frame goes down, the author uses fine clear water bricks, which is called door view. Here, the moon cave is the cave door in the garden.

From the spatial position, the cave doors of Suzhou gardens can be divided into: the doors on the fence, the doors in the garden and the partition doors in the garden.

Most of the cave doors in the garden only have door frames but no doors. The main shapes are full moon, rectangle, reed, hexagon, ellipse, begonia, Aquarius and so on. More distinctive, such as the shape of the laurel leaf cave door in the lion forest.

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 concentration of Jiangnan's humanistic historical tradition and local customs.

Suzhou classical gardens, represented by Humble Administrator's Garden and Lingering Garden, are regarded as the leaders and pride of China garden culture.

Suzhou classical gardens can be traced back to the Spring and Autumn Period, developed to the Jin and Tang Dynasties, flourished in the Song Dynasty and flourished in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Suzhou private gardens were built in the 6th century BC.