Old Album--Suzhou Song Dynasty Garden Canglang Pavilion

Canglang Pavilion, located in Suzhou Sanyuanfang Canglang Pavilion Street No. 3, is a built in the Northern Song Dynasty Chinese classical garden architecture. Beginning of the Five Dynasties for the Wu-Yue state of Guangling King Qian Yuan璙 near Qi Zhongjun Festival Minister Sun Chengyou's pool pavilion. In the fourth year of the Northern Song Dynasty (1044), Su Sunqin, the manager of the Jixian Academy, was relegated to Bianjing, and in the following year, when he was living in Wuzhong, he bought Sun's abandoned land with 40,000 guan, and then built a pavilion near the water. Because of the feeling of "Canglang's water is clear, can wash my tassel; Canglang's water is turbid, can wash my feet", the name of Canglang Pavilion, the name of Canglang Weng, and "Canglang Pavilion Records". Canglang Pavilion covers an area of 1.08 hectares, is the oldest of the existing gardens in Suzhou's ancient gardens, and the Lion's Grove, Humble Administrator's Garden, Liouyuan and known as the four major gardens of the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties in Suzhou.

The Canglang Pavilion was later returned to the Zhang and Gong clans, and Han Shizhong, a famous general of the Southern Song Dynasty who fought against the Jin Dynasty, lived here, and it was called Han Garden. In the Yuan Dynasty, it was changed to Miaoyinan and Dayunan. In the 25th year of the Ming Dynasty (1546), the monk Wen Ying rebuilt it. Qing Kangxi 35 years (1696), Jiangsu Governor Song eminent moved pavilion on the mound; Daoguang, Tongzhi years and after repairs, reconstruction, so the status quo. Walking to the Canglang Pavilion Street, a stone workshop that is into the eyes, the plaque on the workshop "Canglang Shengshu".

Canglang Pavilion garden wall outside the river adjacent to a small stone bridge through the garden door, the waterfront rocky, winding corridor, the garden inside and outside the integration.

Entering the garden, facing the east and west of the rockery lying horizontally, forming the main scenery of the garden, the rockery is accompanied by a pond, between the water and the mountains have a complex corridor connected to the Canglang Pavilion is located in the east of the rockery at the highest point. Around the rockery westbound, facing an imperial tablet pavilion, pavilion embedded in the twelfth year of the Kangxi Kangxi southern tour to Suzhou when written a poem and a couplet inscribed on the tablet. The poem says: "I have remembered the twelve years of Wu, literary style and outstanding people and can be passed on. I often think of the poor and the poor, and encourage the officials to diligently prove the wisdom of the officials. Couplet says: the rain is enough when the farmers are happy, the county flower bright place officer clear.

? County flower: Pan Yue in the Western Jin Dynasty when the county magistrate in Hengyang, more peach and willow planting, known as the "county flower", to express their own integrity.

The corridor is surrounded by mountains and water, connecting the halls and pavilions.

Clean fragrance pavilion, also known as the wooden rhinoceros pavilion, is located in the Mingdao Hall West, for the Southern Song Dynasty Shaoxing early Han Shizhong inscription. The name of the pavilion is taken from the Tang Li Shangyin's poem, "Be diligent not to make the fragrance through, the firm alloy fish locks the laurel bush". In front of the pavilion, a leaky window and a pink wall form a courtyard of its own, in which several osmanthus flowers are planted.

Canglang Pavilion corridor wall embedded with various types of leakage window, the whole garden **** there are 108 styles, hollowed out patterns colorful, well-conceived, none of the same. Through the leaky windows, so that the original scenery can be extended to expand the extension, seemingly non-separated, seemingly hidden non-existent, the formation of a step by step, the effect of changing the scenery.

Small view of the corridor formed by the Guanyin Dushi wall

Five hundred sages shrine, Daoguang seven years by the Jiangsu governor Tao Shu created, the shrine in the three flour wall embedded 594 with the history of suzhou characters carved stone statues for the Qing dynasty Gu Tingzhou engraved. It was destroyed by fire during the Xianfeng period and rebuilt in the 12th year of the Tongzhi period. These historical figures span more than 2,500 years from the Spring and Autumn Period to modern times***. The plaque on the hall reads: "The Master of the Work". Attack on the Analects of Confucius "as the king, as the master", that is, the meaning of respect.

Yanzhi Pavilion, half pavilion, was built in the Tongzhi years, its name and five hundred sages related to the Poetry Scriptures, "high mountains, Jingxing line stop," the meaning of the name. Pavilion embedded with imperial inscription Wen Zhengming small statue stone carving. Holding columns said: I do not know where the next year, not a day without this gentleman. This gentleman, refers to the bamboo.

Vase-shaped doorway

Cui Linglong, also known as the bamboo pavilion. The main room of three, with a few other rooms of different sizes, in front of the banana cover, and planted with more than 20 kinds of bamboo. Cuilonglong's name, from Su Zimei poem "autumn color into the forest red dull, daylight through the bamboo Cuilonglong".

Circle Spirit witnessed the alliance, rock carving, for Lin Zexu cursive. The word "Zen" is the word of enlightenment. The word "spirit" refers to the moon, and the word "alliance" refers to the proof of the Buddha's principles.

Watch the mountain building, Tongzhi 12 years by the governor Zhang Shusheng founded, its name from the Yuan Yu Ji poem "a guest return to plan wine; no words lying watch the mountain".

Mingdao Hall, three rooms wide, created by Zhang Shusheng, the governor of Qing Dynasty in the twelfth year of Tongzhi, taking Su Shunqin's "Canglang Pavilion" in the language "to view and listen to no evil, then the road to the Ming" and the meaning of the name. The main building is a brick and wood structure, three-story foyer, the main hall in the garden, with a floor area of about 600 square meters, the old will be the place of literature.

Facing the water Xuan, its name is taken from the poem of Du Fu of Tang Dynasty, "The layers of Xuan are facing the water, and the old trees are full of frost". This Xuan face north of the river, Xuan east of the double corridor, both sides of the feasible, north of the double corridor that is the Canglang Pavilion Street, inside and outside of the borrowed scenery, will be inside and outside the garden as one. This corridor is regarded as a major feature of the Canglang Pavilion landscape, one of the three famous corridors of the classical gardens of Suzhou.

From the corridor to view the Canglang Pavilion street, stone bridge through the Canglang Pavilion garden gate.

From the Canglang Pavilion street view of the water-facing Xuan.

View of the Canglang Pavilion from the Canglang Pavilion Street, Canglang Pavilion Garden Corridor.

Guanyu, formerly known as Hao Shang Guan, commonly known as the fishing platform, is located in the northeast corner of the Canglang Pavilion Gardens, is a prominent river four corners of the save the tip of the square kiosk, kiosk and the corridor is connected to the stone columns located in the river bank and the water. Pavilion couplet: *** know that the heart is like water; safe to see that I am not fish.

Canglang Pavilion, for the Song Qingli four years Su Shunqin created, the original Pavilion placed in the north of Saitama, Qing Kangxi thirty-four years, the governor of the Song eminent moved this ridge, pick up the stairs to the Pavilion, you can enjoy a full view of the park. Pavilion pillar engraved couplet "clear wind and bright moon is priceless, near water and far mountains are all sentimental", for the Qing Dynasty scholar Liang Zhangjui inscription set sentence couplet. The first line is from Ouyang Xiu's poem "Canglang Pavilion", "The wind and moon are priceless, but it is a pity that they are only sold for 40,000 dollars"; the second line is from Su Shunqin's poem "Passing through Suzhou", "The green poplar and egrets are all self-gratification, and the near water and far away mountains are all sentimental".

Second, Ke Yuan

When you go out of the Canglang Pavilion, you will find Ke Yuan on the opposite side of the street. Garden, once known as the near mountain forest, paradise, garden door facing south, and the Canglang Pavilion across the water. At the end of the Five Dynasties, this is the King of Wu-Yue State Guangling Qian Yuan璙 near Qi Zhongjun Jiedu Sun Chengyou villa in one corner. In the Northern Song Dynasty, it was part of Canglang Pavilion, and in the Southern Song Dynasty, it was the residence of Han Shizhong. In the 32nd year of Emperor Qianlong's reign in the Qing Dynasty (1767), Shen Deqian, a famous poet and Minister of Rites, rebuilt a garden here, which was named "Paradise", taking the meaning of "The Benevolent One is happy with the mountain and the Wise One is happy with the water". In the east of the garden is the Zhengyi Academy, and in the west is the Shen Ancestral Hall and mansion. Daoguang seven years (1827), Liang Zhangjui, Minister of the Jiangsu Province, Liang Zhangjui remodeling and will be assigned to the Zheng Yi Academy, renamed "can garden". At that time, it covered an area of more than 20 acres, and there were such attractions as Yiching Hall, Sitting Spring Conservatory, and Maundy Thursday. Because the garden site and Canglang Pavilion have the same origin, the name of the garden is also taken from the sentence "The water of Canglang is so clear that I can wash my tassel,......". Lin Zexu as governor of Jiangsu has also lectured in the garden.

The main gate of the garden faces south, opposite to Canglang Pavilion, and is in the style of traditional Suzhou residence Shikumen, with a brick carving above the lintel, engraved with the word "Garden".

Entering the door, the foyer is the ticket office of Canglang Pavilion and Ke Yuan. Outside the hall, the opposite side of the pink wall open a moon door, brick "four times elegant". Through the moon gate, a large pool of water can be seen, called "Yiqing Pond", also known as the Little West Lake. Across the lake is one of the main halls of the garden, "Yiqing Hall".

A small rectangular patio is formed between the porch and the wall. Out of the patio, there is a doorway in the gable corridor, and the patio has a vase door. The east doorway of the gable corridor is inscribed with the title of "Heavenly Light", while the west doorway is "Cloud Shadow". Outside the door to the porch along the lakeshore winding forward.

Westward along the corridor, in front of half of the pavilion, called "Tao Pavilion".

Over half of the pavilion, the garden of the westernmost for the Zheng Yi Academy.

There is also a half pavilion in the garden of the back hall of Zhengyi Academy, which is called "Mingqiang".

Donghaplou is a place for teachers to give lectures and hangs a plaque with the title of "Zheng Yi Ming Dao". On both sides, there are inscriptions that read, "Jung-gyi is righteousness," which explains the meaning of Jung-gyi.

Yiqidang is the front building of Zhengyi Seowon. Yicang is a metaphor for its location in the garden, and it is also borrowed from the Analects of Confucius. Shuji" in the "lift a corner not to the three corners of the counter, will not be repeated," that is, learning should pay attention to one against three.

Haoge Pavilion, located on the hill behind the main hall, is named after Wang Coronation's "Plum Blossom Poem", which reads, "Haoge is singing along with the spring breeze, and the drunkenness has surprised the Jiangnan weng".

The Sitting Spring Conservatory is located in the west of the Yiching Pond, which is named after Huang Tingjian, a Song Dynasty poet, who wrote "Partridge Sky" with the meaning of the sentence "The soup is flooded with ice and porcelain and the spring is sitting on it". It was first built in the Qing Dynasty in the seventh year of the Daoguang period (1827), and is a boat-boat style building. Facing east at the bow of the boat is a small pavilion; at the stern of the boat is a small room, which is an excellent place for enjoying the scenery in the garden.

Yiqing Hall is located in the main axis of the north and south landscape of the garden, on the north bank of Yiqing Pond, the water in front of the hall is so clear that the water can be yipped, so it is named Yiqing Hall, which was a place for the scholar to receive guests in ancient times. The couplet of the hall reads: "Three Wu scholars have their behavior; the water is clear and the streams of a thousand miles have nothing to ask for".

The view across the Yiquing Hall

The Yiquing Hall, with three rooms and four sides, has a couplet in front of the hall which reads: "Examining a hundred volumes of poems and books to learn about the present and the past; enjoying the water in a pond with a clear source of water", which reveals the ancient charm of the academy.

Yiqing Pond in the blue-headed duck

along the corridor out of the garden

China has three garden, in addition to Suzhou, there is one in Beijing, one in Dongguan. In terms of scale, Suzhou can be the smallest garden, but in terms of history, Suzhou can be the garden is the longest, as early as the Song Dynasty has been built garden, but also a courtyard garden, everywhere permeated with the flavor of the book, strolling in it, make people forget to come back.