The early years of Lion Forest can be traced back to the Yuan Dynasty, earlier than Humble Administrator's Garden and Lingering Garden. The emperors of the Yuan and Qing Dynasties were both ethnic minorities. The emperor of the Qing Dynasty was surnamed Aisin Gioro, and the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty was surnamed Bo 'er Jijin (Nianbo' er Jijin). Bo 'er Zhijin is also written as Borzijit. Many emperors of the Qing Dynasty married women from the royal family of the Yuan Dynasty in order to strengthen their rule through marriage between Manchu and Mongolia. Huang Taiji's empresses Zhe Zhe, Consort Zhuang and Consort Chen all came from the Borzijit family, and Consort Zhuang became the later Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang. The two empresses of Emperor Shunzhi also came from the Borzijit family. Later, there were no Yuan Dynasty royal women among the empresses in the Qing Dynasty, but there were still concubines. Emperor Xianfeng's adopted mother and Emperor Daoguang's Jing concubine was Borzijit, and was later posthumously granted the title of Emperor Daoguang's queen by Emperor Xianfeng.

The last emperor of the Yuan Dynasty was Tuohuan Timur (Niohuan Timur), who finally abandoned Dadu and retreated to Xanadu before the Ming army attacked Dadu of the Yuan Dynasty. After his death, Zhu Yuanzhang said that he obeyed God's will and escaped voluntarily, so he called him Emperor Yuanshun. When the world was about to die, Emperor Yuan Shun built a refuge palace in advance. It was on what is now Jeju Island, which is also the end of the earth. At that time, the Koryo Dynasty on the Korean Peninsula was a subsidiary state of the Yuan Dynasty and was indirectly ruled by the Yuan Dynasty, and Jeju Island was directly ruled by the Yuan Dynasty. These are, by the way, historical background.

Emperor Shun of the Yuan Dynasty had three year titles. After he became the ruler, he changed the year title to the first year of Zhizheng (1341 AD) and announced that "starting with the world" meant that he would reopen the gongs and drums. He wanted to save the Yuan Dynasty and destroy the building. The new emperor ascended the throne and worked hard to govern, and scholars and scholars in the world restarted their style of study. At this time, a Zen Master Tianru traveled to Suzhou and saw the vast number of living beings waiting to be taught here. He drew a place as a platform and began to give lectures.

The name Tianru Zen Master indicated that he practiced Zen Buddhism, but after intensive cultivation, he thought that Pure Land Sect was not bad, so he said that Zen and Pure Unity were consistent and practiced both Zen and Pure. Since he taught all of the two sects, of course he listened to many people and accepted many disciples. Seeing that he worked very hard on the floor every day, the disciples raised funds to build a temple. Tianru Zen Master entered the temple and climbed into the hall to give lectures every day. Because the flames were high when everyone gathered firewood, the funds gathered not only built the temple, but also built a garden in the temple. There were bamboo forests and lions shaped like stones in the park. It is said that Buddha's preaching is like the roar of a lion, and the Dharma spreads all over the world and can subdue all beasts. Everyone named this temple where the Zen Master taught Dharma was like Lion Forest Temple. Nowadays, the plaque of "Lion Roar" hangs in the lecture halls of many large temples, such as the Dharma Hall of Lingyin Temple in Hangzhou.

It is said that in the early days of the construction of the temple, the famous painter and painter Ni Zan (Nian Ni Zan) participated in the construction of the garden. Ni Zan was one of the four famous landscape painters of the Yuan Dynasty. The other three were Huang Gongwang, Wang Meng and Wu Zhenhe. In the sixth year of Zhu Yuanzhang's Hongwu of the Ming Dynasty (1373 AD), Ni Zan visited Lion Forest Temple again and wrote a "Lion Forest Picture", which is now in the Forbidden City in Taipei. In the 14th year of Yuan Zhizheng, Zen Master Tian Ru passed away. After that, his disciples gradually dispersed and the incense gradually died out. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Jiang Yingke, a good friend of Liu Shu, the owner of Ancient Liu Garden, had participated in the renovation of Lion Forest Temple when he was in the garden last time, but did not renovate the garden.

During the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, the temple transferred part of the garden to others for some unknown reason, and the garden became a private house. In the early years of Qianlong, Huang Xingzu, who had been the prefect of Hengzhou, bought this garden, renovated it and put on Huaguang. It was named "Sheyuan", which was very famous. The old man was so impressed when he bought Ni Zan's "Lion Grove Painting" that he built a small garden with eight views of the Lion Grove in accordance with the artistic conception of the painting in the newly built Changchun Garden on the east side of Yuanmingyuan. Emperor Qianlong later visited the Huang family Lion Forest House during his southern tour and visited the park free of charge. After that, when I returned to Beijing, I added eight more views to the Lion Grove Small Garden in Changchun Garden.

Lao Qian once wrote a poem when he visited the Lion Forest in Suzhou: I knew the Lion Forest early, and it was passed down from Ni Gaoshi. I suspect that it hides in a secluded valley, while Wan lives in a busy city. If you are willing to build and cherish no one, you have belonged to him for a long time. The handwriting is hidden in the stone canal, but it is not lost. If you can lose your present position, the official said that you have not decorated it. If you don't decorate it, it's true, and it's more important to find your teeth. Rockeries are like real mountains, and immortals are different. Thousands of year-old vines hang on the pine tree, and the pond stores five lakes water. The small pavilion is really a hat, and the shoulders of the low house are wide. Five hundred years ago in Myanmar, good friends stopped here. Water the flowers for the Buddha bowl, and talk about the essence of the essence with tea. The longevity of the spring stone has not been predicted, but the spring stone condition is half destroyed. Looking west to Hanquan Mountain, the former site of Zhao's family remains. The pavilions are new, and the heights are glowing with red and purple. What is fortunate or unfortunate, who interprets its purpose? It seems like I feel like I am an ordinary person, but I feel ashamed to think about the forest.

The poem says that he had long known about the Lion Grove from Ni Zan's pictures and built a Lion Grove in Yitugou Garden in Beijing. Lao Qian praised the Suzhou Lion Forest and said that Hanquan Mountain should refer to Zhongnan Mountain. There are springs in the mountain, and its water can cure the plague. There was once an immortal Zhao in the mountains, the famous Zhao Gongming.

The ancient saying goes that "wealth cannot be reached for three generations", but the kindness of the Huang family's Xingzu has been passed down for more than three generations. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the Huang family declined and the courtyard gradually collapsed. In the sixth year of the Republic of China (1917 AD), Bei Runsheng, a businessman traveling to Shanghai in Suzhou, spent money to purchase the old Huang family house. A famous revolution broke out in Russia, but there was no connection between the two. At this time, the Lion Forest Temple was still in existence and was not for sale. President Bei purchased some additional residential buildings on the east side of the Huang family's dilapidated house and incorporated them into his private garden. Later, General Manager Bei carried out a major construction project, raised the fallen wall, piled up collapsed rocks, dredged ditches, and planted bamboo trees, and the garden started again. However, President Bei still kept the old gate of Huangjiazhai Garden, a very low-key gate, similar to the Shuangque Gate of the Lingering Garden.

The stone on the door reads "Lion Forest", written by Wu Yusheng, a Suzhou native who served as a minister of the Ministry of Rites in the late Qing Dynasty. Look at those three words. They are quite ancient, right? This shows that this gentleman's calligraphy skills are quite deep. Kang Youwei, the leader of the Loyalist Party in the late Qing Dynasty, came from his school. After the fall of the Great Sage Kang, Wu Yusheng was implicated and expelled from the official house by the Empress Dowager. He traveled around the mountains and rivers and wrote inscriptions, so he wrote "Lion Grove" for General Bei's New Garden. By the way, President Bei has a grandnephew named I.M. Pei, who is good at architectural design.

After General Manager Bei died, his grandson donated the house to the country and opened it to the public in 1954. In 2000, Lion Forest was included in the "Suzhou Classical Gardens" on the World Cultural Heritage List; in 2006, it was included in the sixth batch of national key cultural relics protection units.

The Lion Forest Gate faces south, and a square is enclosed in front of the gate. The gate on the square opens east. This is not the gate of the Lion Grove, but the gate of the scenic area.

The current Lion Grove Gate was newly opened by General Manager Bei. On the east side of the old gate, General Manager Bei expanded it from the past residential buildings. This is the Bei family ancestral temple, and the first place to enter the courtyard is the Xiangdian.

The hall faces north to south, with corridors on the east and west sides, and a patio in the middle. The face is three rooms wide and one room deep, with the front and rear doors fully open. There are eaves corridors at the front and back, and the upper part between the porch columns cannot be called an inverted lintel. This is a hollow woodcut door cover. Above it is a mountain top with beams and gray tiles with single eaves without ridges. The main ridge is quite fancy, covered with brick carvings and tiles, and on both sides are emblem turtle ridge kisses. There are still three gray carvings of little people standing in front of the middle ridge. On closer inspection, it turns out that they are the three immortals of Fu, Lu and Shou, not the three Buddhas. This is very telling. It is a metaphor that the ancestors of the Bei family could become immortals, but they would not become Buddhas.

Couplets are hung on the door pillars of the Ming Dynasty: they are scattered among hundreds of meteors, recalling the Yunlin Mountains to make manuscripts and revitalize the five dragons. This was written by contemporary calligrapher Wang Quchang (Nian Wang Quchang), who is good at this couplet chapter, cursive official script, and the oldest cursive script. Go in and have a look.

Blue bricks are covered on the ground, and they are made clearly. The hall of the ancestral hall is usually arranged according to the living room and is a conference hall for meetings of the family members. In the back of the Ming Dynasty, the gold pillar is equipped with a back screen, and a red sandalwood incense table is placed in front of the screen. There are screens, stones and bottles on the incense table; two pots of plum blossoms are high on both sides. In front of the incense table are the standard yellow sandalwood square table and red sandalwood chair in the living room. These are the seats of the chief and deputy chiefs. Below on both sides are the seats of other members of the clan, with several rose chairs arranged in square shape. The set of tables and round stools in the middle is not furniture here. No matter what, banquets cannot be held in the ancestral hall.

On the back screen hangs an ink painting of turquoise, made by contemporary Suzhou painters. A paper plaque "Yunlin Yiyun" is hung on it, written by contemporary calligrapher Gu Tinglong. The plaque "Wuxia Famous Garden" on the vertical screen in the lobby of the Lingering Garden was also written by Mr. Gu.

A stalagmite was set up in the courtyard of the second entrance.

The main room of the second entrance courtyard is a sleeping hall. According to custom, the sleeping hall should be slightly lower in size than the enjoying hall. The roof of the sleeping hall here has been replaced with a single ridge and two slopes. There are no brick carvings on the main ridge or ridge kisses. The porch columns and wall columns have been replaced with square columns, which are slightly lower in size than the columns. The four corners of this square column have grooves, and its cross-section is not square. Such a square column is called a plum blossom column.

According to the regulations of the Zhou Rites of "Left Ancestral and Right Society", the palace should have a ancestral temple on the left hand and the altar of land and grain on the right hand. There was no "community" in the common people's homes, so they only built a ancestral temple on their left hand, which was the ancestral temple. This is the case with the Beijia Courtyard. The gate faces south, and the ancestral temple is on the left hand side of the gate. When General Manager Bei built the ancestral temple, he should dedicate tablets of his four ancestors to it, namely his father, grandfather, great-grandfather and great-grandfather. These tablets are usually placed on the incense table in the bedroom hall. When worshiping ancestors, they are taken out from the bedroom hall and placed on the incense table in the hall to receive sacrifices. The layout of ancient royal ancestral temples used to be different from "different halls in the capital" and "different rooms in the same hall". People's homes all enjoyed sacrifices in the same hall, and there were no different rooms.

After President Bei died, his memorial tablet could also enter the ancestral temple to receive sacrifices, followed by the eldest son and eldest grandson. The positions of their tablets are arranged according to the left Zhao and right Mu, with Gaozu in the middle, and then the left Zhao positions are the first, third and fifth generations; the right Mu positions are the second, fourth and sixth generations. The Bei family ancestral temple in Lion Grove is very formal, but it is no longer arranged according to the ancestral temple. The largest ancestral temple in China must be the Imperial Ancestral Temple, which is the royal ancestral temple. Who is the biggest among the people? Guangzhou Chenjia Temple will definitely be a candidate. The customs of ancestral worship vary in different places, but no matter what, ancestral worship is required on New Year's Eve. When worshiping the ancestors, the living room furniture in the Xiangdian Hall was removed in advance, and then the ancestral tablets were brought out. The patriarch led the family's men to worship. Normally, when something big happens at home, you have to go to the bedroom to inform the ancestors, such as getting married or adding a baby. Important matters in the tribe required the patriarch to convene a meeting in the front hall of the ancestral temple to decide. After that, the patriarch led the important members of the tribe to the bedroom hall to inform the ancestors.

Turning around the Bei's Ancestral Temple, on the west side is Yan Yu Hall, the main hall in the garden. It sits north facing south, has three rooms wide, and has basically the same shape as the back hall of the ancestral temple. Yan Yu comes from the Book of Songs. Ji Fa, King Wu of the Zhou Dynasty, granted his five sons the title of Marquis of Han and fielded Han. During the process of entering the court and receiving the title, this son wrote a poem, which is called "Han Yi" in the Book of Songs·Da Ya. This was written by unknown person, and Yin Jifu later compiled it into a book. The Book of Songs was compiled by Yin Jifu, who is known as the ancestor of Chinese poetry. The ancient Greek "Iliad" and "Odyssey" were compiled by Homer and are called Homer's Epics. Homer and Yin Jifu are people of the same era, and Homer's epic and The Book of Songs are the oldest poems in the world.

Yin Jifu's "The Book of Songs" was compiled by Confucius and became the 300 chapters handed down later. Among the descendants of Mao Sui in Handan who recommended themselves during the Spring and Autumn Period were two uncles and nephews, Mao Heng and Mao Chang (read Mao Chang). They made a preface to the Book of Songs to facilitate its promotion, commonly known as Mao Jian. "Mao Zhuan of the Book of Songs" is still a little difficult. In addition, Zhu Xi in the Southern Song Dynasty wrote "The Book of Songs" after reading Mao Jian, which became a guide to reading the Book of Songs. The guidance book for the study of the Book of Songs is this Mao Jian Zhu annotation. In the Book of Songs·Da Ya·Han Yi, there is a sentence "Qing is the order to live, Han Ji is the reputation of Yan". Zhu's note: "Yan is peace; reputation is music." Therefore, Lion Lin Yanyu Hall means Anle Hall.

The courtyard in front of Yanyutang is also covered with egg stones and ground puzzles. Under the south wall, rocks are stacked to form a basin. Taihu Lake stones and bamboo shoots are built in, and peonies are planted to make bonsai. Magnolia trees are also planted on both sides of the bonsai. You can watch it inside the house.

Yan Yutang opened the door fully on the front and wiped the door six times. Look at the woodcuts on the skirt board. They are the strange stone peonies in the bonsai opposite. Go in and have a look. The house is two rooms deep, full of clear construction, and the floor is covered with blue bricks. The texture of the green brick is very close to the royal gold brick, but the size is much smaller. Look at its roof.

The screen is erected on the center pillar, dividing the front and rear halls. If you look at the roofs of the front and rear halls, they are all arched decorative rafters. This roof cannot be called completely made. Because this roof is very similar to a boat canopy, it is called a boat canopy roof. A Xuan hall with such a roof is called a Boat Peng Xuan, which is common in Soviet-style buildings. The same is true for the roof you can see on the eaves of Tianquan Pavilion in Humble Administrator's Garden, except that it is not inside the pavilion. It can be seen that such a boat roof can be used both inside the house and on the eaves.

Because the screen is erected on the center pillar, the front and rear halls of Yan Yutang are the same size. The front hall is a regular hall. Look at the back hall.

This back hall is also a regular hall. The front hall is a formal living room, and the back hall is a lounge. The bottom of the screen is not a table and chair, but a lohan bed. You can either lie on it or sit on it. So it is usually used by the owner to take a nap or receive guests.

The horizontal plaque of "Green Jade and Green Yao Pavilion" is hung on the screen. Ni Zan once wrote a poem "Tongli" praising the ancient town, in which there is the sentence "Yiwei Tongli connects Songling, green jade and green jade are intertwined." Green jade refers to green peony, and green yao refers to green peak. The title of this house's Green Jade Qingyao Pavilion should mean that there are peonies and rocks in the courtyard bonsai.

The back of this main hall is also fully opened with a six-touch partition door.

Look at the partitions and horizontal drapes, they are all stained glass. This is a Western architectural element. When General Bei decorated the Lion Grove, it was when the west wind was growing eastward. It is not surprising that Western elements were added to the ancient garden.

Yan Yutang stands on the middle pillar like this, and the Xuan Hall, which is divided into front and back halves, is commonly known as the Yuanyang Hall. Yanyu Hall is the main hall of Lion Grove and is used to receive guests. It is said that the male guests are in front and the female guests are behind, similar to the men's hall and the female hall in Humble Administrator's Garden. Unlike the Lingering Garden, where there is a restaurant, the banquet restaurant in Lion Grove is also here. The dining table placed in the middle of the bright room should be placed at the beginning of the banquet, and should be moved to the secondary rooms on both sides. There are dining tables in both the front and rear halls of Yanyu Hall, which means that male and female guests have separate tables. President Bei should have three meals on weekdays at his house, not here.

There are gate doors on both sides of the eaves corridor of Yanyu Hall, and there is a carved stone on the door.

Continue to enjoy the scenery and take a look at this hut.

The width of the face is three rooms and the depth is two rooms. The back screen in the Ming Dynasty is six screens with gauze. The gauze is the "Five Pines Painting" painted by contemporary Jiangsu painter Wu Yamu (Nian Wu Yangmu). A horizontal plaque "Ancient Five Pine Garden" is hung on the screen next to the screen, signed by contemporary calligrapher Su Juxian, who also wrote the plaque "How I Know I Don't Know the Joy of the Fish" in the Lingering Garden. It is said that in ancient times, there were five pine trees in the garden. Lion Grove was once called Five Pine Garden, but now the five pine trees have disappeared. Look at the side gables of this house.

The depth is very small. Because the roof has a single eaves and there is no canopy to decorate the rafters, the roof is very light, and the columns, beams, and wood are not large. There are two backrest chairs at the bottom of the wall, one square, which is very simple. This means that if a distinguished guest comes to the house, the distinguished guest's entourage will rest here. There is a turquoise picture on the wall, as well as a poem "Lion Forest" written by the Zen Master at the beginning of Lion Forest Temple: Birds singing, flowers laughing in the west and east of the house, Platycladi smoke, green taros are red. Humanity lives in a city, but I suspect I am in thousands of mountains. Half of the eaves is covered in the sun and cold clothes, and a pot of fragrant soup of wild fern fertilizer. Spring rain and spring smoke, and pine trees are planted on Shuixi Plain.

Look at the Songshi in the courtyard.

There is a first floor under the north wall of Lion Grove. Go in and have a look.

This building is the building of Lion Forest Temple. It used to be a Dharma Hall downstairs and a Buddhist Sutra Building upstairs. Past garden owners did not demolish them, but only repaired them back and forth. After Mr. Bei came, he built a gathering entertainment place, recited poems, painted paintings, drank big wine, and boasted about themselves and each other. So, you see, it is now decorated according to the large living room. On the back screen is a "Shou Bai Tu" collaborated by three contemporary Suzhou painters. On it is a paper plaque "Yi Feng Zhi Bai".

Bowing to the peak is to bow to the mountain. In the Southern Song Dynasty, Zhu Xi once climbed the Baizhang Mountain in Jiangxi Province, commonly known as the "Little Lushan Mountain", and watched the scenery from the mountain platform. The composition said: Taidang Mountain is missing in the southwest, and it is in front of Lushan Mountain. A peak stands out alone, and the heights of the peaks and peaks in hundreds of miles are also visible. The "Yi Peak" here in Lion Forest is a worship stone, which is the lion-like stone placed in the hall.

Zhibai is talking about a Zen official case called Zhaozhou Zhibai. The Zen Gong Case is a case of a Zen master practicing Zen, and Zhaozhou Zhibai is one of them. During the Dazhong period of Li Chen, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, there was a Zen master Cong Shen (Nian Cong Shen) in Zhaozhou, known as the Zen master of Zhaozhou. In the case of Zhaozhou Zhibai Gong, it is said that a monk asked the Zhaozhou Zen master: "How is the ancestor's intention to come to the west?" The Zen master replied: "The cypress trees in front of the court." The founder was Bodhi Dharma, the founder of Zen. The Zhaozhou Zen master used the cypress seed in front of the court to answer the fundamental realm of Bodhi Dharma Master. This question and answer may seem to be irrelevant, but in fact, it shows that Zen advocates that the mind is originally pure and the Buddha nature is originally present. Awareness should not be sought from outside, abandon the meaning of writing, and go straight to the source of the heart. You don't need to read to practice Zen Buddhism, and you can also become a Buddha if you are illiterate. There is a book titled "Bodhi has no tree, and a mirror is not a platform. There is nothing in the first place, where can it stir up dust?"Huineng, the sixth ancestor of the Bodhi Gta, was illiterate, and Zen Master Congshen was Huineng's four-generation successor. This building in the Lion Grove is called Zhibai, which means that it is a place for spreading the Dharma. Maybe there were indeed cypresses in front of the court in the past.

This building was probably called the "Zhibai Hall" in the early days of Lion Forest Temple. During the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, the famous litterateur Gao Qi once wrote a poem about Zhibai Xuan: The Qing Yin protects Yan Ji, and there are forgotten guests among them. When people come to ask but do not respond, they laugh and point at the cypress in front of the court. After President Bei took over, he added the word "Yi Feng" because of the lion-like stone placed in the hall.

There must be water in the Lion Grove. The ground is dug into a square swamp, surrounded by layers of mountains. The sky covers the ancient mirror, and the moss color covers the spring clothes. The birds are in love, and the shadows of idle clouds fly backward. Whoever installs a fist stone is compared to a fishing rock.

There is a boat by the water. Lu You once said,"Geng Yin went to Wuxi and traveled to Chu, and anchored in Jiangzhu alone in autumn evening. The moon and black tigers want to walk in the barren forest, and the people of the ancient road rarely talk to each other."

This is a building ship. The front and rear cabins are two-story buildings, and the middle cabin is above the sightseeing deck. Stone pillars, beams, and arches are framed, with doors and windows between the pillars. Its second-story roof is not a traditional sloping roof, but a vault. Even if this ship is not tied to the shore with cables, it cannot escape, because this is a stone boat, commonly known as the "untied boat", built by General Manager Bei.

Behind the stone boat is a building, which is the Anxiang Shuying Building. Dark fragrance refers to plum fragrance, and Shuying refers to bamboo shadow. In the Southern Song Dynasty, Jiang Kui (Nian Jiang Kui) once visited Shihu in Suzhou in winter and wrote the song "Dark Fragrance", in which "Playing the flute beside the plum blossoms arouses the jade figure, regardless of the cold or climbing." Look at the blooming wintersweet downstairs and lead Wu's daughter to the window to smell the dark fragrance.

Jiang Kui even wrote a song "Thin Shadow", which included "Meeting in the guest, dusk at the corner of the fence, speechless leaning on and cultivating bamboo." Look at the bamboo and sparse shadows downstairs. The spring trees have their glory and rest, but this festival has no wither.

There is a waterside pavilion downstairs by the water, which is the Zhenqu Pavilion. This water pavilion is very gorgeous, with beams and gray tiles with single eaves and rolling sheds on the top of the mountain. There are peony gray carvings on the mountain flowers. Although there is only one room, the rooms are all very deep. There are four pillars and four corners, and the upper end of the corner posts is a wood-engraved dragon head covered with gold. Two non-falling suspended columns are added under the eaves of the Ming Dynasty. Under the arches between the columns are golden-plated hollow woodcut planks, and below are golden-plated hollow woodcut doors. The gold plaque of "Zhenqu" is hung on it, and the inscription is "Qianlong Royal Brush", which was inscribed during the fourth southern tour of the Lion Forest in the 30th year of Qianlong (1765 AD). Because of this imperial plaque, this pavilion can be decorated with golden dragons, otherwise it will be overstepping.

Look at another pavilion.

This is a pavilion embedded in the middle of the corridor, which is the corridor pavilion. Carrying beams and gray tiles, the four corners of the single eaves are sharp, and the ridge ends of the four hanging ridges are also towering tender berms. The ridge brake above is a brick carved treasure gourd. Such ridge brake is rare. Brick walls are filled between the center pillars, and square windows are opened on the wall. Go in and look at its stained glass stained windows.

This window must have been a leaky window of frame scenery before General Manager Bei. General Manager Bei installed it with stained glass and directly made it into a Western painting. There is a couplet hanging by the window: Lan Cui Hui in the Lion Cave, and a number of cranes and books in the Xilin Fairy Hall; the inscription is Zhang Maojiong, an eighty-nine-year-old literati in the late Qing Dynasty. The first couplet comes from a poem written by Wang Shizhen who stayed at night in Suzhou Shengen Temple in the early Qing Dynasty. There is the sentence "The blue and green flowers in the Shizi Cave are gathered, and the smoke is gathered outside the Fahua Mountain." Shizi is a lion, and Shizi Cave means Buddhist Temple. Lan Cui originally refers to the fog in the mountains, Shengen Temple is close to the mountains, and Zhang Maojiong refers to the rockery in the Lion Forest. The second couplet comes from "Jiufeng Poetry" by Wu Weiye, a poet in the early Qing Dynasty. It includes the sentence "Purple cover is covered with green children and white deer turbans, and there is a collection of cranes in Xilin Fairy Hall." Wu Weiye is a native of Suzhou and once wrote twenty-eight rhymes of Humble Administrator's Garden poems. The thin forest means the bamboo forest; the crane book is the emperor's edict to recruit talents, saying that there are immortals like cranes in the immortal mountains.

Look under the window, there are strange stones and bonsai on the table. The table was also made of gold bricks made from the palace floor, but of course it was still inferior. General Manager Bei inherited the wondrous stone records of his predecessor's garden owner. He went to all directions to search for stones, but he accepted any gains in the hall. Look at his collection.

The most distinctive feature of Lion Forest is its rockery.

These rockeries were piled up by a Zen master in the early days of the garden. He once studied and practiced meditation in Tianmu Mountain in Zhejiang, and read all the strange rocks in the mountain. When building a temple in Suzhou, we searched extensively for strange stones, and even searched for the residue of flower stone from Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty, and piled up some rockery in the garden behind the temple. The Lion Forest Rockery is the largest in Suzhou Ancient Gardens. It has several floors up and down, multiple turns left and right, and there are clear and dark holes everywhere, showing the strange wrinkles of Taihu Lake rocks. This rockery is one of the most popular climbing places for Suzhou people when they were children, and some adults even dig here. This mountain is also the most common place for stumbling, and tourists often wailing out of the mountain. Therefore, the garden not only set up signs at the mountain pass to announce safety, but also shouted at the top of the loudspeaker to mothers to be careful.

In the late Qing Dynasty, Mr. Yao Xie (Nian Yao Xie), a painter from Damei, once visited the Lion Forest of the Huang family. There is a poem praising its rockery: I once heard that the lion Lin Qi was as tall as the Fangong. Zhuo's land is more than a few feet away, and the sky is high. The spiritual trace is once again passed, and the divine work is alone. When I first entered the road, I wandered around, but when I stopped, I felt depressed. Thousands of holes are surrounded by bees, and seven trays of ants are surrounded by ponds. The empty crack shows the depression in the bottom, and turn back the stone and turn it over. The light from the side sinus gradually cleared, and the stream suddenly cut off at the next step. When the darkness and the light collide with each other, the east and west move an inch. After a long time, every time you travel hard, you will be suspicious of your actions. The situation is critical and the foundation is safe, and the situation of Austria is turning clear.

There are also windows in the garden and scenes in front and back. Take a look here: ink paintings are hung on the pink walls, and colorful pictures are made from leaking windows.

Look at the red plum and white plum lining the flower window. Li Zhi of the Ming Dynasty wrote in a poem: I first realized that the meaning of spring belongs to leisure, and the red and white phases will enter the scene. You go again when the flowers are just blooming. Seeing the flowers is not a flower grower.

Look here: Several generations of people are wandering around the corridors, like ants wearing pearls. Ren Erliang had no intention of meeting each other, but his shadow and fragrant clothes greeted him intermittently.

After Qing Dynasty poet Xu Chuanpei (read Xu Chuanpei) visited the Lion Forest, a poem praised him: "Before April fasting, greenery grew, and travelers walked back and forth in silence. I heard that there is a fairy garden here, and Wu Song is the most familiar with the name today. When the door lies on the clear pond, the beautiful brocade flower clusters are introduced. I began to climb the winding pavilion and look at the water and trees of Tsinghua University. Cui Wei rises steeply several stone peaks, and the peak peaks are high with clouds and clouds. Facing the current, the momentum is about to tilt, and the towering faces are flying around the house. If you want to go back, you will deliberately wonder, like you will secretly write about your love alone. I didn't see Ni Yunlin's brilliant hands and paintings compared to Gu Lu's. Not only lions are like a lion forest, but they are piled up like a cloud mountain." The poem mentions that Danqing is compared to Gu Lu. Gu refers to Gu Kaizhi, a painter of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and Lu refers to Lu Xizhen, a painter of the Southern Dynasties. Both of them belong to the four great masters of the Six Dynasties. Lu You in the Song Dynasty had a saying,"How can you paint a painting like Gu Lu? I use the canal to draw a picture of my return at night." Gu Kaizhi has no real works left behind, but the most famous copy in existence is "Fu Tu of Luo God". There are not even copies of Lu Shayu's paintings left behind.

Although the Lion Forest has been abandoned and rebuilt through the past dynasties, its waters and mountains are still relics from the end of the Yuan Dynasty, and there is also a Zhibai Xuan left behind in the Yuan Dynasty. The entire garden layout was still the foundation of the late Yuan Dynasty, embedded in a large number of Ming and Qing gardens, and embellished with Western elements. Generally speaking, it is still dominated by the Ming and Qing styles. The Manchu architectural style in the Qing Dynasty was not very prominent. After entering the Pass, the architecture followed the Ming style as the main line, so the Jiangnan classical gardens continued from the Ming style. After seeing Humble Administrator's Garden and Lingering Garden, two gardens with even more breezy winds, I became even more drunk when I visited the Lion Grove, which has a legacy of the Yuan Dynasty.