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Lion Forest Garden

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󰺂8.1
4.7/5
16306 Reviews
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Gardens
Open Opens at 07:30-17:30(Tickets available until 17:00; admission ends at 17:00)
Recommended sightseeing time:1-2 hours
Address:
No. 23, Garden Road, Gusu District, Suzhou CityMap
Phone0512-962015
What travelers say:

Ming Hongwu six years (1373), 73-year-old big calligrapher Yuan (No. Yunlin) passed through Suzhou, participated in the garden construction, and wrote poetry (with "Lion Forest Map"). At the beginning of Qing Qianlong, the temple garden became private property, isolated from the temple, the name of the garden, because there are five pine trees in the park, so it is also known as Wusongyuan. In 1917, the paint comprador merchant Bei Runsheng purchased, after 9 years of construction and expansion, still named the Lion Forest (the east of the garden is the Bei family home, ethnic learning and residential). In the 17th year of Ming Wanli (1589), Ming monk Tuo Yuhua was born in Chang'an, and the Lion Forest was rebuilt and the Temple of the Buddha. During the Kangxi period, the temple and the garden were separated, and then the father of Huang Xi and the ancestor of Huang Xingzu, the Zhifu of Hengzhou, were bought and named "Sheyuan". On February 11, 1703, Qing Kangxi cruised here, giving the "Shilin Temple", and the emperor of Qing Qianlong six tours of the lion forest, and then giving the "Mirror Zhiyuan Photo", "Painting Temple" and the existing "true fun". Qing Qianlong 36 (1771 AD), Huangxi High School Zhuangyuan, Renovated Mansion, Renovated Courtyard, named "Wusongyuan". By the middle of Qingguangxu, Huang's family road was down, the park had fallen, but the rockery remained. In 1917, Shanghai pigment giant Bei Runsheng (the uncle of the world famous architectural master Bei Xuming) bought the Lion Forest from the hand of the Chief of Civil Affairs Li Zhongxuan, spent 800,000 silver yuan, spent nearly 7 years renovating, added some attractions, and named the old name of the "Lion Forest", The Lion Forest was temporarily crowned Sucheng. Berun was preparing to open, but failed to do so due to the outbreak of the war of resistance. After Berun fell ill in 1945, the Lion Forest was put on the spot by his Sun Beihuanzhang

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