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20230702 Morning: 1. The "Huxin Pavilion" is located in the "Lion Forest" of the 4A Scenic Area. The Lion Forest is one of the "Suzhou four famous gardens", the representative works of classical garden art in the Yuan Dynasty, partial Zen forest style, pavilions and water, ancient style melodious, beautiful and quiet, is a great place to shoot ancient costumes, which is particularly famous for its twists and turns. The park has the footprints of Qing Kangxi Emperor, Qianlong Emperor, Yuan Yuan, Bei Runsheng, Bei Xuming and other celebrities, and was listed as a world cultural heritage by the United Nations in 2000. The area in the park is not large, covering an area of 1.1 10,000 square meters, divided into indoor buildings and outdoor gardens. The garden landscape area is surrounded by the surrounding building corridor pavilions. ① Address: No. 23, Garden Road, Gusu District, Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province ② Transportation: direct bus, easy to stop by car. ③ peak season: no. ④ Time: 2 hours. 2. The history of the Lion Forest: ① Yuan Dynasty: It was built in the second year of Yuan to the second year (1342), and the Zen Forest was built by the disciples of Tianru Zen Master to buy land and build it. It is named because the stones under the bamboo forest in the garden are strange and like a group of lions. It is also said that Tianru Zen Master got the law on "Tianmu Mountain" (5A). "Lion Rock", take the meaning of "Leo" in the Buddhist scriptures, so the garden is named the Lion Forest; Yuan to Zheng 12 years (1352) renamed "Bodhi True Temple"; the garden owner of the late Yuan and early Ming Dynasty is Zhang Shicheng's daughter Pan Yuanshao, who is cut from Jiangsu and Zhejiang; One of the "Yuan Four", the Lion Forest was poetic and painted in the late years, and the famous Lion Forest Map was created in Ming Hongwu six years (1373). ② Ming Dynasty: Wanli 20 years (1592) built a Buddhist temple. ③ Qing Dynasty: In the early Qing Dynasty, the temple and garden were purchased by Huang Xingren, the Zhifu of Hengzhou during the Qing Dynasty, and became private property and changed his name to "Sheyuan". His son Huang Qi took the Qing Qianlong 36 (1771) title, and later became the inner-son of Qianlong Emperor. Kangxi Emperor and Qianlong Emperor visited this park several times. Qianlong Emperor gave "Mirror Zhiyuan Photo", "Painting Temple", "True Fun" and other , and also built a lion forest in the "Changchun Garden" in the Yuanmingyuan Park (5A) in Beijing and the Chengde Mountain Resort (5A). Incorporate the style of Jiangnan gardens into the royal gardens.④ Republic of China: Li Zhongxu, the head of Shanghai Civil Affairs in the first year of the Republic of China (1912), purchased this park; In the seven years of the Republic of China (1918), Shanghai pigment merchant Bei Runsheng (the world famous architect and uncle of Bei Xuming, a foreign academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering) purchased the park and expanded it. ⑤ After the founding of the country: The Lion Forest was donated to the country by the descendants of Beijia and opened to the public in 1953. 3, the lake center pavilion is the rest and feeding fish in the center of the lake, is the finishing touch of the lake view, the best location to view the waterfall, and the lake shore is connected by the "Jiuqu Bridge".