Lion Forest Garden Review

The Lion Forest is one of the four famous parks in Suzhou, and has a history of more than 650 years. No. 23, Garden Road, northeast corner of Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province, covers an area of 1． 1 hectare and open area of 0.88 hectares. In the second year of Yuan to Zheng (1342 AD), monks and heavens like Buddhist monks built the Bodhi authentic temple in memory of their masters Zhongfeng Buddhist monks. The disciples of the late Yuan monks like Buddhist monks and heavens like Buddhist monks "funded the phase rate, bought land to settle houses, and lived in their teachers." Because the garden "the forest has bamboo and thousands of solids, and there are many strange stones under the bamboo, like a lion"; Also because Zhongfeng Zen Master once advocated the Tao Tianmu Mountain Lion Rock, take the Buddha book "Lion Roar" meaning, changed the name of the Lion Forest. Ming Hongwu six years (AD 1373), 73-year-old big calligrapher Yuan (No. Yunlin) passed through Suzhou, participated in the garden, and wrote poetry (with "Lion Forest Map"), making the Lion Forest famous, become a Buddhist scripture and literary poetry and painting resort. At the beginning of Qing Qianlong, the temple garden became private property, isolated from the temple, the name of the garden, also known as Wusongyuan. In 1917, it was purchased by the paint comprador merchant Bei Runsheng. After 9 years of construction and expansion, it is still called the Lion Forest (the east of the garden is the Bei's family home, ethnicity and residence). Due to the rise and fall of the forest garden, the temple, garden, house are divided and merged, traditional gardening techniques and Buddhist ideas are integrated, and the modern Bay family introduced the western gardening techniques and home into the garden, making it a temple garden that integrates the theory of Zen and the garden. The Lion Forest plane is a slightly wider rectangle, covering an area of 1.1 hectares, and an open area of 0.88 hectares. There are many mountains in the southeast, many waters in the northwest, surrounded by high walls and deep houses, surrounded by curved corridors. Central pool as the center, stacked mountains to build houses, moved flowers and trees, bridges and pavilions, making the whole garden compact layout, rich in "lap foot mountain forest" artistic conception. The Lion Forest has the cultural landscape of Suzhou classical garden pavilions, tai, buildings, pavilions, halls, halls, halls, corridors, and more famous for the strange stones of lakes and mountains, the caves and deep caves, and has the reputation of "roery kingdom". The lake rockery of the Lion Forest is both numerous and exquisite, the lake stone is exquisite, the cave is Wan, twists and turns, such as entering the maze, there is the name of "Peach Yuan 18 Views". The strange peaks of the cave are all like the dancing of the lion. There are famous peaks such as scorpion, Tuyue, Xuanyu, Angxia, and the lion peak is the first of the peaks. The building in the park is mainly Yanyutang, and the back of the hall is a small square hall with a snow hall. To the west, you can go to Zhibaixue, a two-story loft, surrounded by cockroaches, and Gao Shuangling. To the west of Baiyu is the ancient Wusongyuan. The southwest corner is the mountain building. From the mountain building to the west, you can go to the lotus hall. The hall is located in the northwest of the pool. The algae in the pavilion is beautifully decorated and the characters are lifelike. There are two floors of stone pavilion next to the pavilion. The stone pavilion is a dark fragrance and shadow building. From this, the corridor turns south to the waterfall pavilion. It is the highest place in the park. The west view center of the park is asked Mei Pavilion, and the front of the pavilion is the Shuangxian Xiang Pavilion. Shuangxiang Xianguan southbound to the east, southwest corner of the fan pavilion, the pavilion has a small courtyard, fresh and elegant.