Among Suzhou gardens, if Humble Administrator's Garden is the most famous, should the Lingering Garden be second? Because Humble Administrator's Garden is the largest, followed by Lingering Garden. Humble Administrator's Garden covers an area of nearly 80 acres, the Lingering Garden covers an area of 35 acres, and other gardens cover an area of more than ten acres. The Lingering Garden was first built during the Wanli Period of the Ming Dynasty, three dynasties later than Humble Administrator's Garden, a full seventy years. Why did the three dynasties spend seventy years? Because there was a century-old Jiajing emperor. There are also gardens in Suzhou that have a longer history than Humble Administrator's Garden and Lingering Garden. Lion Forest and Master of Nets Garden have a longer history.

According to records, this Lingering Garden was first built in the 21st year of Wanli of the Ming Dynasty (AD 1593), when the garden owner was Xu Tai. Xu Taishi's ancestors were Xu Pu, the chief cabinet assistant of the Hongzhi Dynasty in the middle of the Ming Dynasty. He assisted Zhu Youtang, the Emperor Xiaozong of the Ming Dynasty, in creating the "Hongzhi Revitalization" and was one of the chief assistants with outstanding political achievements in the Ming Dynasty. Xu Pu once accidentally obtained the "Riverside Picture at the Qingming Festival" written by Zhang Zeduan in the Northern Song Dynasty. When he retired, he gave it to his colleague Li Dongyang and passed it down. This Xu Taishi came from an official family, and he was a cultured official. Xu Taishi was admitted to the Jinshi in the eighth year of Wanli. His first position was as the chief engineer of the Ministry of Works, and his first job was to repair the Cining Palace. Emperor Zhu Yijun of Wanli was only ten years old when he ascended the throne. His biological mother, Concubine Li, who was a palace maid, lived in Qianqing Palace to take care of Zhu Yijun. After Zhu Yijun grew up, Xu Taishi was ordered to rebuild the Cining Palace so that Noble Consort Li, who had already been called Empress Dowager Cisheng, could leave the Qianqing Palace and move to live in the Cining Palace. After living in the Cining Palace, Noble Consort Li claimed to be the embodiment of the Jiulian Bodhisattva.

Xu Taishi later presided over the construction of Emperor Wanli's Shouling Mausoleum, the Ming Dingling Mausoleum, which is the only Ming Mausoleum excavated so far. Because of his meritorious service in building royal buildings, Xu Taishi was promoted to Taipu Temple Shaoqing, becoming the second-in-command of Taipu Temple. The leader of Taipu Temple is called Taipu Temple Minister and is one of the nine ministers.

This Xu Taishi was an architect and an engineering technician. He had a straight personality and offended someone in the court. This person spoke ill of Xu Taishi in front of the emperor. Emperor Wanli sent Xu Taishi to his hometown of Suzhou for punishment, but in the end he did not punish him much. Xu Taishi had the ability of an architect. After returning home, he expanded his home. He ignored what was happening outside the window and only focused on building an extraordinary garden. After completion, it was named "East Garden". Xu Taishi did not make very extensive friends, and most of them were associated with fellow scholars. Such friends include Jiang Yingke and Yuan Hongdao, both of whom are nearby county magistrates. They all left words praising Dongyuan. Brother Jiang wrote "Hou Le Tang Ji", while brother Yuan wrote "Yuan Ting Ji Ji".

After the Xu family, the East Garden gradually became deserted. It was not until the end of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty that Liu Shu, a native of Suzhou who was dissatisfied with his official position, removed the remnants of the East Garden and rebuilt it into a new garden, named Hanbi Villa, commonly known as Liu Yuan. Liu Shushan is good at calligraphy and painting and likes to collect, retaining the cultural characteristics of the East Garden. He was quite proud of the rebuilt garden and called himself the "Hanbi Master". He also invited fellow friends to stay in the garden and compare ancient books of calligraphy, painting and calligraphy in the morning and evening. This is still not enough. You can't hide such a good garden. He opened the door for public visits in Daoguang's early years, causing a great sensation. As the saying goes,"People are afraid of fame and pigs are afraid of being strong." During the war chaos during the Xianfeng period, Hanbi Villa was destroyed.

Until the Tongzhi period of the Qing Dynasty, there was a Changzhou man who worked as a judge in Zhejiang, named Sheng Kang. Sheng Kang also had a culture. He was born as a Jinshi in the 24th year of Daoguang (1844 AD) and served as an official as prefect, governor, governor, and governor. He must have visited Hanbi Villa when he was young, so after retirement, he went to Suzhou to buy the abandoned garden of Hanbi Villa in full. Shengkang rebuilt the home garden and expanded the scope during the Guangxu period, naming it Liuyuan. After staying in the garden, it was inherited by Sheng Kang's son Sheng Xuanhuai, who was later used by Sheng Xuanhuai's son Sheng Enyi, but was greatly damaged during the war. What we are seeing now is the new park rebuilt after the nationalization of New China in 1953, restoring the appearance of the Shengkang period.

In the early 1950s, the Lingering Garden was rebuilt in the same batch as the Humble Administrator's Garden, and was also handed over to the Suzhou Garden Management Office for unified management. Therefore, the Lingering Garden was announced together with Humble Administrator's Garden in the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units, and it is also the first batch of Suzhou classical gardens to be included in the World Cultural Heritage List.

After the reconstruction of Shengkang, it was intended to restore the prosperity of ancient Liu Garden, so it retained the sound of Liu Garden and renamed it Liuyuan. Wu Yun, a painter and painter who worked with Sheng Kang, wrote an inscription for him "Lingering in the Garden".

The door facing north to south should be the gate of Liu Yuan back then. I wonder if it was so low-key back then? Although there are three vestiges inside, this door is just a simple wall door. The inverted houses on both sides of the foyer extend southward, forming a small square in front of the door. The two inverted houses here are not the common eight-character shadow walls, but more like double towers in the foyer. In the past, double watchtowers were unique to royal palaces. There were double watchtowers in the Weiyang Palace of the Western Han Dynasty, Hanyuan Hall of the Daming Palace in the Tang Dynasty, and the Meridian Gate of the Forbidden City in Beijing.

The current main entrance was partially rebuilt in Shengkang. It has nothing to do with Xu Taishi's East Garden in the past, or even Liu Shu's Hanbi Villa. The foyer is not a standard gate. There is a wooden screen imitation of red sandalwood in the foyer.

There is a full picture of the Lingering Garden on the front of the vertical screen, with a horizontal plaque "Famous Garden under Wu Xia" hanging on it, which is from "Lingering Garden Notes" by Yu Yue, a writer in the late Qing Dynasty. Yu Yue was a scholar in the 30th year of Daoguang and the great-grandfather of Yu Pingbo, a redologist. Zhang Taiyan and Wu Changshuo both came from him. The inscription on the plaque is Gu Tinglong, a native of Suzhou who once served as the director of the Shanghai Library. Yu Yue's "Lingering in the Garden" is written on the back of the screen and is written by Mr. Wu Jinxian, a contemporary calligrapher who lives in Suzhou.

I entered the first house at the gate.

This should be called a gate hall, with verandas on both sides. The enclosed area should not be called a gate court. It is a patio in the Hui-style house. This gate hall is regarded as the inner gate, with a wooden screen in the middle, so this is a screen door, used to block the outside view. The screen-door-style door hall is already very special, but it has something more special. Forget about the man who photographed each other with me. Pay attention to the wooden screen. There are no large-scale paintings, but four hanging screen paintings. Isn't it special? Go up and take a closer look.

These are four pictures of double birds in spring flowers, for which I will concoct four crooked poems: Red plum, white plum, peony, double birds ride in the spring breeze east. I haven't heard of spring crickets chirping under the stone, but I find the dark fragrance on the branches.

Looking closer, this is actually four pastel porcelain paintings! Hanging four pastel porcelain screens on the lobby screen is the only place in the world. As soon as you enter the door, your eyes will light up and you will shout "Wow". Your first reaction is that this garden is by no means ordinary. Are these four screens remnants of the East Garden? Remains of Hanbi Villa? Sheng family stayed in the garden? If neither is, then it is hung when Suzhou renovated the Lingering Garden. The one who presided over the restoration of the Lingering Garden was still the old Chinese doctor Mr. Wang Xingbo. You can see that Mr. Wang's aesthetic taste is by no means comparable to ordinary people!

Turning to the left hand, there is a hall.

This is an open hall with a width of three rooms and a depth of three rooms, with a partition screen installed on the back. This is called a gauze divider, and there are also four calligraphy and paintings on the divider. In front of the house, trees and bamboos are planted with stones, and in autumn, there is the fragrance of osmanthus flowers, jealousy, and chrysanthemums.

The side wall of the open hall is inlaid with copybooks and carved stones.

After Liu Shu built Hanbi Villa in the early Qing Dynasty, he liked collecting calligraphy and paintings, so he found ancient inscriptions and stones on the wall, which became one of the characteristics of the garden. Later generations of garden owners still follow this trend. There are such inscriptions and stone inscriptions everywhere in the park.

Look at this stone."Zhiwen Tie" and "Kubi Tie" by Wang Xizhi of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

After passing through this hall, you enter a corridor. This corridor winds around in the garden and stretches continuously, connecting various towers and pavilions. The Lingering Garden Corridor is 700 meters in total, second only to the Summer Palace Corridor. Walk to the winding corridor, make a small patio, and then create a landscape here.

Build a tree pool with a wall, plant a cypress tree, and then plant a camellia tree, and embed a stone with an "ancient wood intersection" on the wall. Jiaoke means that the branches are staggered. The trees of Jiaoke stand east and west, and there are camellia in the west and cypresses in the east. Leaning against the wall and leaning against the stone to watch the warm sun, let the east, west, north and south wind.

There are many such courtyards in the garden that are made of winding corridors, and then stacked with rocks and planted trees to set the scene. The same is true for the "Flower Step Building" below.

The Eshihuabu Building and the inscription were written by Qian Daxin, a famous academic representative of the Qianjia School in the Qing Dynasty and as famous as Gu Yanwu. Back then, there were many inscriptions on Qian Daxin in Liu Shu Hanbi Villa. A small building is a small building. It must be exquisite, elegant, quiet and peaceful, otherwise it can only be called a small circle. Flower steps of course mean that one flower step by step, and the scene becomes a scene. Walking along the corridor, it was true.

There are many leaking windows in the corridor, which is for lighting and for setting scenery. Look at this.

Plant a camellia tree in the small patio outside the window. When the flowers are in place, looking at the window is to appreciate the paintings. This is called frame view. In the garden, building frames and door and window frames are used as frames to view the scenery outside. The framed scenery can be like this man-made or purely natural. Look one more place.

Here, there are cross crabapple ridges on the window, and the scenery outside the window is quite illusory. This is called leaking scenery. Frame the scenery to observe the shape and leak the landscape momentum. You see, are Chinese art concepts profound and profound? With the help of just a small leaking window, you can distinguish different expression methods, including contrast between light and dark, and contrast between reality and reality.

This way of setting scenery in the Lingering Garden is ever-changing, with the top frame in front and the scenery in the back. Look at the one below. If you stand in the right position, you will see the scene in front and the frame behind. This can also be called a frame view.

This is based on a pot of red plum blossoms and the open front of the Jiaqing Pavilion with Rain and Fast Snow as the frame. Jiaqing, in the Song Dynasty, there were several praises about snow and Ji: "Three white colors are good as good as fine skies, and layers of powder and Dai are visible in the mountains." Welcoming the rain, Yang Wanli of the Song Dynasty chanted good rain,"Want to know the rain makes the public sentiment, listen to the sound of the flowing stream." The wind is chaotic and thousands of green brocade mattresses, and the clouds are covered with green jade screens." In the Song Dynasty, Chen Jie sang about the fast snow, saying,"The houses in the dark are silent, and the plum eaves in the morning are bright." The residual wax at the end of the awns washes the clear snow, and the bottom of the flowers is good spring returns every other year." Good sunshine, happy rain, and fast snow overlap each other, which means that there are beautiful scenery here in all four seasons.

Look at another one with a door as a frame.

The "Dongshan Silk Bamboo" written on the stone on the lintel is an allusion. Dongshan is the East Mountain of ancient Kuaiji. Silk and bamboo are ancient musical instruments, piano, flute and flute. Xie An, a famous figure in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, once lived in seclusion in Dongshan, wandering around the mountains, and playing music everywhere. He was very happy and praised himself,"How far is it to Boyi?" There is a Wen Jian who commented that "having fun with others, but also having to worry with others." Later, Xie An left Dongshan at the age of 40, which is the origin of the idiom "comeback". After coming out of the mountain, Xie An commanded 80,000 Eastern Jin troops to defeat Fu Jian's millions of former Qin troops in the Battle of Feishui, laying the foundation for 200 years of the Northern and Southern Dynasties. Later, people called reclusive music "Dongshan Silk Bamboo". It was a life like an immortal, but it contained a hint of helplessness that they did not recognize their talents.

Take another look at the moongate frame scene.

From the Moon Gate, you can see the bamboo forest, path and a fairy residence inside the gate. The white color of the exterior wall and the distant view inside the door form a strong contrast between light and dark, which is exactly the opposite of the bright scenery of the dark house in front. Go in and explore the immortal residence.

It was actually a Bodhisattva temple, and on the shrine was a stone statue of Guanyin. The horizontal plaque of "Zhuyun Temple" is hung on it, signed by Lu Runxiang (Nian Xiang), the No. 1 scholar in the 13th year of Tongzhi (1874 AD), who once served as a sacrifice wine for the son of the country. Storage is the meaning of accumulation, and the place where clouds are stored is a fairyland? In the Song Dynasty, Lu You had "the courtyard was vast and the moon was extended, and the fasting sky was half-filled with clouds. The sound of pine trees travels the same way, and the spring veins are close to each other." You must remember that there is a Youni Buddhist Temple in the Grand View Garden of "Dream of the Red Chamber", which is the Longcui Nunn where Miao Yu practiced. This Yuyun Nunnery is similar to Longcui Nunnery, a temple in the home. This is a new building added to Shengkang's Lingering Garden in the late Qing Dynasty. No matter who cultivates here, the old lady of the Sheng family can worship Guanyin here.

Last time, it was said,"In such a beautiful garden, there must be two gentle Jiangnan women to look more graceful." Two women walked into the frame of the Moon Gate. The ancient garden was picturesque and people were swimming in the painting.

A plaque "I know I don't know the joy of the fish" hangs on the moon gate, signed by contemporary calligrapher Su Juxian. "I know I don't know the joy of fish" comes from "Zhuangzi and Huizi Wandering on Haoliang" in "Zhuangzi·Autumn Water". Among them is the dialogue between Huizi and Zhuangzi about whether the joy of fish is, which means not to measure others 'stomachs with your own heart. It is well known to the world.

This plaque is named because it is a square pavilion facing the water, where you can watch fish. Look at the tabletop in the pavilion. It looks like a bluestone slab? No, this is a gold brick from the Ming and Qing palaces. These gold brick imperial kilns are located on the outskirts of Suzhou. The substandard gold bricks that fail the factory inspection are spread to the people. There are many such substandard gold bricks in Suzhou gardens to make tabletops. These gold brick kilns are still produced and are used for ground repairs in the Forbidden City and other royal buildings.

You can watch fish by sitting in this pavilion. The fish observed in front of the pavilion live in a pool called Huanyun Pond. Isn't this name very artistic? By the clear water at the foot of Gusu Mountain, Xi Shi washes the gauze and I wash the clouds. The women of Yue wash their own gauze at the head of the river, and the people of Tao Yuan wash the clouds together with the immortals.

The stacked stones in the pool are Penglai, and three Taihu Lake stones are set as immortal mountains.

The highest one among the three stones is Guanyun. Guanyun Peak is full of holes and folds, and its faces are exquisite, which is exactly what Bai Juyi praised: the spirit dominates the bamboo trees, and the color suppresses the pavilions. The shape is about to move, and the towering momentum is about to be destroyed. Qi Ying hides ghosts, and spirit gathers clouds and thunder. The dress is moist with the new rain, and the ancient moss is bright. This Guanyunfeng Peak is one of the three major strange stones in the south of the Yangtze River, and it is also the tallest of them. The other two are the crepe peaks of Jade Linglong in Yu Garden in Shanghai and the wind and lotus of the West Lake Quyuan in Hangzhou. It is said that this Guanyun Peak was originally the flower stone of Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty. It fell into the river during transportation and was fished out of the river in the Ming Dynasty. It was not until Shengkang got Hanbi Villa and rebuilt it into a Lingering Garden that this stone entered the Lingering Garden.

There is a good story about the ancients advocating stone. It is said that Mi Fu, a calligrapher and painter of the Northern Song Dynasty, took office in the Wuwei Army to govern the state during the Chongning period of Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty. When he arrived at the state government office, he saw a wonderful Taihu Lake stone standing in the courtyard and said,"How can he not worship such a strange stone?" He ordered his private advisor to set up incense tables and offerings, took out the official robe and jade hat, changed clothes and held the hat to worship. From then on, this strange stone was called "Shizhang". From then on, if there was a strange stone in the world, it would be called "Shizhang". If news of Mi Fu's bizarre behavior spread, he couldn't help but be laughed at as crazy. Even Emperor Qianlong made fun of him,"Why is he addicted to the folding of the Qing Dynasty? What happened in the past?" He said he knew you Mi Fu loved stones, but let's bow, why still hold the hat? Mi Fu's rice should be Mi, one of the eight surnames of Zhu Rong, the god of fire, from the ancient Chu family. There are many famous literati in the Mi tribe, including Mi Qu (Qu Yuan) and Bai Juyi, as well as this Mi Fu.

Because there is Guanyun Peak here in Huanyun Pool, Shengkang built houses and corridors around it to make a courtyard. The center of the courtyard is the Huanyun Pool, the west of the pool is the Joy Pavilion for the Knowing of Us and the Unknowing of the Fish, and the east of the pool is the corridor outside the west wall of the Storage Cloud Nunnery. In the middle of the corridor, a pavilion is built on the top of the hill. The carved stone "Clear spring washes the heart, white clouds and pleasant meaning" is inlaid on the corridor wall in the pavilion. Shao Yong, a Neo-Confucian scholar in the Northern Song Dynasty, once said,"Many people seek to wash their bodies, but not their hearts." Wash the body away from dirt, wash the heart away from evil." Tang Meng Haoran said,"In the white clouds on the northern mountains, the reclusive person is happy. When you look at each other, you start to climb high, and your heart flies with the geese." There is also a pavilion in the northeast corner of Huanyun Pool, called Guanyun Pavilion in the name of stone.

It can be seen from the above picture that the north of the pool is the back building of the courtyard, which is also called Guanyun Building in the name of stone. Guanyun Tower is very strange. Its main room is a three-bedroom two-story building, and upstairs is a beam and gray tile single-eaves rolling shed on the top of the mountain. There are connected two-story buildings on the east and west sides of the main house, with a wide face and a hard mountain top with gray tiles and single eaves. The depth of these two small buildings is smaller than that of the main house, but the rear gable wall is connected to the main house. From the front, they are slightly smaller than the main house. These two buildings are called the Mountain Building. Mountain building is rare. If it is a single-story main house with small rooms on both sides, the small rooms are called ear rooms, so the mountain building here can also be called ear buildings.

Huanyun Pool is the most exquisite Chinese-style courtyard. There is water in the middle, houses in the north and south, corridors and pavilions in the east and west, and the north room is a building. Ancient feng shui emphasized that building houses were built on mountains with low south and high north, with water in front of them. If there are no mountains on the flat ground, we must chase them into the courtyard and raise the base; if we don't enter the courtyard more, we must build a tall building in the north, called a rear cover building.

Look at Guanyun Tower.

There is a rock embedded in the mountain wall behind the west room of Guanyun Tower.

This is a sedimentary rock with a cod fossil on it, so it is called a fish fossil. Sheng Kang embedded this rare fish fossil on the wall, which has the same meaning as a painting, so he matched it with a plaque couplet. The plaque says "Fairy Garden Stop Clouds", a fairyland surrounded by clouds and mist. Couplets: He hair is born and lives thousands of years, Ting Song is the eldest son Sun Zhi. It's from Su Dongpo. This is a birthday couplet. Why is it hung here? Sheng Kang once celebrated his birthday here?

On the south side of the courtyard is a large five-room house facing north and south. It carries beams and gray tiles, has a single eaves and a rolling shed on the top of the mountain, and is surrounded by eaves corridors. Go in and have a look.

The living room is used in the Ming Dynasty, and the back screen is used in the rear golden pillar room, with "The Hall of Lin Quan and Qi" hanging on it. Lin Quan means a place of seclusion. Li Bai of the Tang Dynasty praised Xie An once wrote a poem "Xie Gong is about to be a prostitute in Dongshan, and he works with Lin Quan everywhere." "Qi Shuo (Nian Qishuo)" means an elderly man with great virtue, which refers to a highly respected old man, and comes from the book of Jin "," An elderly man has great virtue, and his virtue is equal to that of his father." The author is Wang Dong, a modern writer and calligrapher. On the back screen is "Guan Yun Feng Praise Order" written by Yu Yue, a late Qing Dynasty litterateur, signed as "Three Han Hui Rong Shu", Hui Rong was a late Qing Dynasty calligrapher and native of the Three Han Dynasties in Liaodong. There is also a couplet hanging on the gold pillars on both sides of the back screen. The second and back gold pillars are equipped with Soviet-style hollow woodcut moon doors, which are very gorgeous.

A moment later is a resting place.

There are "Guanyun" themed towers and pavilions in the front, back and left of the Huanyun Pool courtyard, with words of celebrating the birthday and singing morality. Sheng Kang built this place specifically to admire the crown stone, and he must have held a 70th or 80th birthday celebration here.

Sheng Kang loves stones. He collected many strange stones from Wen Zhengming's old house in the past. During the Hanbi Villa period, he piled five piles of stones in the courtyard next to the Sutra Hall, called it the Five Peaks. During this period, he deliberately planted bamboos and planted willows.

The scripture hall of Hanbi Villa was a three-bay Houle Hall during Xu Taishi's Dongyuan period, which was recorded in Jiang Yingke's "Houle Hall Notes" mentioned earlier. During the period when Liu Shu built Hanbi Villa, it expanded it into five rooms. After Sheng Kang rebuilt it, it became the largest hall in the Lingering Garden, which is the main hall.

This large house faces north to south and has a two-foot-high base under it. The Lingering Garden is not like the Humble Administrator's Garden. There are few steps in front of the halls of the Lingering Garden. There are stacked stones in front of this big house. The house is built on the base, with a width of five rooms and a depth of three rooms. Six six-panel partition doors are opened in the open and secondary rooms on the front, the highest specification partition doors. The solid wall was closed slightly, and a partition was opened on the wall to leak out windows. The missing picture in front was obtained in this house. When this house was first three-bay, it should be on top of the mountain with eaves corridors on all sides. After the expansion of five rooms, the eaves corridor was closed to make a small room, and the top was changed into a hard mountain top with a single eaves for lifting beams and gray tiles; flying rafters were added to the front and secondary rooms to extend the eaves forward. When bucket arches are not used, flying rafters can be added to lengthen the eaves, but the lengthening is limited. Go in and have a look.

The floor in the house was covered with blue bricks, but the top was not made in the open, but was covered with sea plaster ceilings. The functional area is separated into the house by adding columns between eaves columns and gold columns. There is a large living room in the bright room and the secondary room. The rear gold pillar is equipped with a partition screen, creating a small warm pavilion similar to a shrine in the Ming Dynasty.

Inside the warm pavilion are the main guest seats, with standard tables, high tables, square tables and chairs. There are four screens hanging on the back screen. On the screens are Wang Xizhi's "Preface to the Collection of Lanting" written by Ma Xifan. This Ma Xifan served as the prefect of Hanzhong for a few days in the early Republic of China. A horizontal plaque of "Five Peaks Fairy Hall" hangs between the golden pillars behind the warm pavilion, signed by Wu Dacheng, a painter and painter who was both civil and military in the late Qing Dynasty. The couplet hanging on the gold pillar is a post from a friend when Shengkang's new house was completed.

The wooden structure and internal furniture of this Wufeng Fairy Hall are all made of nanmu, so it is called nanmu Hall. Look at the chairs it has. The main guest seat and the escort seat are the same. They are all rose chairs with small armrests. In fact, many people in large families still use overchairs for the main and guest seats, both in the north and south. The marble-topped nanmu round table and six nanmu round stools placed in the center of the living room are the dining table. They should not be placed here. They should be in a restaurant in a residential area. If you want to hold a banquet in this hall, you should only do it at the beginning of the banquet.

Because there are three doors open in front, when they are fully opened, the lighting in the house is very good and not dark.

A piece of Taihu Lake stone was also stacked in the courtyard in front of the house, and five hills were made, pretending to be the Wulaofeng Peak of Lushan Mountain. This is also the origin of the house's name Wufeng Fairy Hall. Sitting in the house, you can view the rockery through the open front door.

The six-touch gauze partition screen on the back gold pillar divides the room into front and rear halls. The front hall is a large living room, and a pair of square tables and armchairs are placed in the open room of the back hall. There is a marble screen standing under the gable wall in the west of the back hall. The stone is one meter long and has wonderful patterns on it, like a landscape painting. It is called the "Picture of the Sky After Rain". The light in that place is too dark and there is no picture to show it. There are three treasures in the Lingering Garden. One is the Guanyun Peak stone in Huanyun Pond; the other is the fish fossil in Guanyun Tower; and the third is this marble screen.

In addition to the main hall of the Five Peaks Fairy Hall and the Hall of the Great House of Lin Quan and Qi, there are also some independent halls in the Lingering Garden, such as Guanyun Tower and Zhuyun Nunnery. There are some other halls. Look at this one below.

The face is three wide, with gray tiles and single eaves and a hard mountain top. In order to improve lighting, the partition doors are fully opened at the front and back, and there are horizontal partitions above the lintel, with crabapple ridges. Go inside and have a look.

One deep room, blue bricks are covered on the ground, and the top is made clearly. During the Ming Dynasty, a paper plaque "Hanbi Mountain Room" was hung under the rear eaves and the inscription was signed by Xiangchan Scholar, who was Pan Zhongrui, a calligrapher in the late Qing Dynasty. Yellow sandalwood furniture is placed inside, and in the Ming Dynasty, there is a dining table with six blue and white porcelain embroidered piers. The stone or porcelain drum-shaped seating block is very cool. Before the master or wife sits down, a servant girl will come over and lay a piece of embroidered silk on the seating block, so this kind of seating block is called embroidered block. This is standard for a restaurant. The second room is a small living room with calligraphy and paintings hanging on the wall.

One picture of lotus flowers, and the other is Yang Wanli's two seven-character quatrains chanting red white lotus in the Song Dynasty.

Hanbi Mountain Room is the living room for a banquet. What do you think of when you look at the layout of the house? Is it a high-class private room in high-class restaurants nowadays? There is a dining table in the middle, surrounded by sofas and chairs for guests to chat before and after meal. Now the high-end restaurant learned this set of layout from Hanbi Mountain Room in the Lingering Garden!

There is a small building next to the Hanbi Mountain House, and there is a open pavilion downstairs. Look inside the open house.

Inside the open pavilion is a place to rest and drink tea, and a plaque of "Qiahang" hangs on the back. In the Tang Dynasty, Lao Du had "autumn water is only four or five feet deep, and Ye Hang is just affected by two or three people." At dusk in Cuizhujiang Village in Baisha, the moonlight is new compared to Chaimen." There are four screens hanging under the plaque, which are four paintings of fishermen in mountains and rivers, pavilions, which are actually blue and white porcelain paintings. Four pastel porcelain screens are hung on the screen of the main gate, and four blue and white porcelain screens are hung here. The owner of the Lingering Garden is quite emotional.

In front of this pavilion is a pool, which is exactly what Lao Du meant to be "Baisha Cuizhujiang Village".

There is a hexagonal pavilion on Chibei Mountain, and its hexagonal peaks and ridges are also towering tender berms.

Of course, there must be strange rocks and old trees next to the pavilion.

But there are mountains, ponds, trees and stones here. Standing here and viewing the Lingering Garden, just as Bai Juyi lamented: a ten-acre house, a five-acre garden. There is a pool of water and a thousand bamboo poles. Don't say that the soil is narrow, and don't say that the land is partial. Enough to hold knees and enough to hold shoulders. There are halls and courtyards, bridges and boats. There are books and wine, there are songs and strings. There is an old man in the middle, and his white beard is floating in the wind. You see, the old man Sheng Kang was quite proud of his white poetry. He sighed in the pavilion,"You can see the green pool, you can see the hall; you can see the bamboo and stone, you can see the aunt." They called this "Keting".

To the north of the pool is Keting on the mountain, and to the south of the pool is the first floor.

The "Qu Xi" is carved on the forehead of the octagonal door downstairs. Standing under this door and looking at the four banks of the curved pool, will you think of the Song people's "Green Creek in the Junjia Family, where the banks are winding and the streams form vortices?" There are countless stones in the vortex, and the water is grinding each other "?

A piece of land was opened up under the north courtyard wall and many bonsai were placed. It was called Bonsai Garden and named Youyi Village. Of course, there are many bonsais in the Bonsai Garden, and the most visible one is a corner of the garden. A small pool was dug there. On the north bank of the pool is a dangerous cliff made of bamboo shoots and rocks. There are also welcoming pine trees planted on the mountain. This is a large bonsai.

Although the Lingering Garden is not as big as the Humble Administrator's Garden, the main scenery is arranged in an orderly manner, with small pavilions and micro-platforms interspersed with each other, which shows the exquisiteness and elegance of the Jiangnan gardens. The bend of the corridor seems to accidentally build several courtyards. You can arrange a small building and create a scene by stacking stones and planting flowers.

I can only visit here briefly. If I have a permanent resident in Suzhou, I will definitely be able to enjoy the blooming flowers and luxuriant leaves in spring, and the leaves are red and white in autumn and winter. It's really: Wuxia's interesting gardens are sunny and spring, and the fenced corridors are full of pine and bamboo. The south building and the north pavilion are paved around the water, and the east wind and the west rain are deep in the courtyard.