Liouyuan is a classical garden in Suzhou, "Liouyuan" what is the history?

Liuyuan is located in suzhou gate of heaven, was originally the Ming jiajing years the secretary of the temple of the emperor xu tai time of the east garden. Inside the garden, the rockery for the famous stone Zhou Bingzhong (Shichen) made. During the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty, Liu Shuji rebuilt the old garden with the name of Hanbi Mountain Villa, also known as Liu Garden. Tongzhi years Sheng Xu people (his son that is Sheng Xuanhuai, Qing famous industrialist politicians, Beiyang University (Tianjin University) Nanyang Public School (Shanghai Jiaotong University) founder) purchased, re-expanded, repaired, to take the stay and Liu's resonance, began to be called stay in the garden. The last scholar of the imperial examinations, Yu Yue made "Liouyuan Tour" as the crown of the famous garden under the Wu. Stay in the number of buildings in the garden in Suzhou in the top, halls, corridors, walls, holes and other buildings and rockeries, pools, flowers and trees into dozens of varying sizes of garden vignettes. Its outstanding spatial treatment, fully embodies the ancient gardeners of high skill, excellent wisdom and the artistic style and characteristics of the architecture of the Jiangnan gardens

Xu Tai time to create, the forest garden bland and sparse, simple and rich in the interest of the mountains and forests. To the qing dynasty liu's time, although the building increased, still do not lose the deep winding quiet interest, the layout and now largely similar, part of the place also retained the atmosphere of the Ming dynasty garden. To sheng's time, after the construction, the garden appears to be opulent, the former deep atmosphere in the garden is gone. The whole garden through the corridor, according to the situation of the twists and turns, through the quiet across the gully, up to six or seven hundred meters long, the corridor wall embedded in the famous calligraphy stone carvings of more than three hundred parties, which is famous for the two Wang Dong carving post, for the Ming Dynasty during the Jiajing years of Wujiang Songling people Dong Hanze carved, took 25 years, to Wanli thirteen years before carved into. An American organization once wanted to buy the garden for two billion dollars, but the Suzhou city government insisted on not selling it.