The spring is just right, from the hot Chongqing to the warm Jiangnan, the weather in Suzhou is very good these days, I love the classical atmosphere of Jiangnan, exquisite food, and the fireworks between the streets. Have been to Suzhou many times, large and small gardens have also visited a lot, this time to spend a few days in Suzhou, visited some of the garden that has not been seen before, sorted out a Suzhou three-day play strategy, to provide to Suzhou friends for reference.

Day1

Morning: Silk Museum

Afternoon: Pingjiang Road Historical Block (recommended punch card: Pingtan Museum, Kunqu Museum, Couyuan)

Evening: Night tour Pingjiang Road & Guanqian Street (recommended accommodation Guanqian Street, dining and shopping are very convenient)

Day2

Morning: Art Garden & Huanxiu Villa & Grace Park

Afternoon: Subo & Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Zhong Palace & The Twin Towers Market

Evening: Night tour of Humble Administrator's Garden

Day3

Morning: West Garden Temple & Qili Hill Pond (Lunch suggestion: Qili Hill Pond)

Afternoon: Lion Forest

(The above three-day itinerary is more substantial, only for reference, you can also make adjustments where you want to go)

Ok, then go with me to see those places I have played in Suzhou for three days!

I have been to Suzhou for countless times, and this is the first time to enter the Suzhou Silk Museum and carefully look at the pictures and objects of the exhibition hall, which is of great help to our understanding of silk and Suzhou.

Suzhou Silk Museum has six exhibition areas: History Hall, modern Hall, children's Science Hall, Sangziyuan, silk Machinery Exhibition room and Qian Xiaoping Silk Culture Art Museum.

Suzhou, an ancient city of culture, is not only a city of gardens, but also a house of silk. In the old days, rural villages in the south of the Yangtze River were full of mulberry trees, and silkworm rearing and embroidery were essential skills for girls.

The ancient Chinese people reeled silk and woven silk, created the silk civilization, gave birth to the silk culture, and spread to other parts of the world through the Silk Road.

There is also a symbolic extension of the Silk Museum to the back yard of the museum, which is designed according to the geographical location of Europe, showing the cultural essence of the ancient East on the social impact.

The museum environment is very good, and it is also good to take photos

Add: No.2001, Renmin Road, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China

Admission: Free admission (During the epidemic period, you need to register at the gate and check your temperature before entering)

Opening hours: Every Tuesday to Sunday 9:00-17:00(closed at 16:00), closed every Monday (except national holidays)

When it comes to Pingjiang Road, it is really countless how many times have been to Suzhou, it seems that every time to go around, play a card.

A lot of time is to go to the bookstore with friends, and then find a small restaurant near the river, order a few Su Bang food, and talk about their situation after parting.

Or, in the evening, go to see Pingjiang Road in the twilight, until the sun goes down, the sky turns blue, and the lanterns on both sides of the street gradually light up to outline the river.

You see Gusu, people do pillow river.

The ancient palace has few idle places, and the water harbor has many small Bridges.

Night market sell lotus root, spring boat carrying Yee Luo.

Far know not sleeping moon, homesick in the fishing song.

Then go to Hong register inside to find a position near the front, Wu Nong soft language, listening to never understand the Pingtan tone, at that moment, through the old time of Suzhou, I fantasized that my previous life had not lived in such a dream water town... ...

Address: Pingjiang Road, Gusu District, Suzhou City

Admission: Free

Couple garden

The flower window reflects the moon, and the lotus garden is deep.

Garden, located in Suzhou City Cang Street Xiaoxin Lane No. 6, was built in the early Qing Dynasty, formerly known as the garden, in the late Qing Dynasty renamed "garden".

The east garden carries wine and the West garden is drunk - the layout of the couple garden is one house and two gardens, and the north and south barge pier is one of the characteristics of the Couple garden, which is rare in other gardens.

On the central axis of the layout is the obvious official residence, and the east and west gardens correspond to each other. The East Garden takes the Huangshi rockery in the center as the main attraction, which is the remains of the garden and the Huangshi rockery in the classical garden of Suzhou.

The west garden is landscaped with lake stone, stretching and stretching. At the same time, there are also pairwise echoes in individual buildings, such as east and west, north and south, up and down, light and dark, or high and low.

Free from the city, as if between mountains and rivers. The unique structure of "one house in one garden, one house in two gardens" is the material material for the study of garden art in Qing Dynasty.

I like these exquisite flower Windows in the Couou Garden, with light and shadow dancing and the charming spring scenery.

Transportation:

Suzhou Take Suzhou Metro Line 1 "Xiangmen" Station, exit 3, walk 660 meters east along Cang Street north turn right to Xiaoxinqiao Lane, then walk 40 meters east to arrive.

Opening hours:

7:00 ~ 17:00 (High season: March 1 ~ October 31) 7:00 ~ 16:30 (low season: November 1 ~ the end of February next year) Tickets will stop 30 minutes before closing.

Ticket:

Off-season ticket: 20 yuan; High season admission: 25 yuan.

Garden of arts

During the days we went, the roses in the garden were in full bloom, and many citizens and tourists went to explore them.

Art Garden, also known as Zuiying Hall and Medicine Garden, is located in No.5 Qianwenya Lane, Tianku, Changmen, Suzhou. It was built during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty (1541).

Suzhou Art Garden is a private home garden with a history of more than 450 years. Its successive owners enjoyed certain social popularity and influence at that time.

The pool in the garden is in the center, accounting for about a quarter of the garden.

The south of the pool is dominated by mountain scenery, and the north of the pool is dominated by buildings.

The forest of Yipu is a rare masterpiece in Suzhou gardens, especially in the combination with trees has high artistic value.

Art garden is hidden in the city, it is definitely worth going to the garden, choose a corner, sit quietly, you can feel the artistic conception of "city mountain forest".

Address: No.5 Wenya Lane, Changmen, Jinchang District

Admission :10 yuan

Suzhou Huanxiu Villa is a classical garden with mountains as its main feature. The rockery in Taihu Lake, stacked by Ge Yuliang, a master of stacking mountains in the Qing Dynasty, is unique in the south of the Yangtze River and is recognized as the first best rockery in Chinese gardens.

"Look slowly at the mountain shape, and the mountain scenery moves step by step." The area of the rockery inside the mountain village accounts for about a quarter, and the buildings in the garden are built in accordance with the mountain, and there are different viewing points near and far.

The village integrates traditional Han arts such as architecture, garden, sculpture, poetry and grey carving. It highlights the characteristics of magnificent, strange, dangerous, secluded, beautiful and open in Han garden architecture.

At the end of 1997, it was listed as a World Cultural Heritage by the UNESCO Heritage Committee. It is a famous garden landscape in Suzhou and is well worth seeing.

Address: 272 Jingde Road, Suzhou City

Admission :15 yuan

Grace Park

Yiyuan, a classical garden in Suzhou, is located at No. 43 (now No. 1265), Renmin Road, downtown, with an area of 6270 square meters.

Yiyuan silver 200,000 built, take "Analects" "brother Yiyi" sentence meaning, named Yiyuan.

Yiyuan was built in the Qing Guangxu years, the park is divided into east and west two parts, the old garden is the ancestral hall, the south garden can pass the residence. Due to the late construction of the park, it absorbed the advantages of the garden, such as the double corridor, the Mandarin duck Hall, the rockery, the stone boat and so on.

Garden rockery meanders, pavilions vaguely, Tang cloud pear rain, swaying bamboo shadow, birds and flowers, the scenery is elegant and pleasant.

In the garden, there are LAN Yi Pavilion, Qing Qing Garden, Cool Cave Pavilion, Green Zi Zhai, Shii Tang, Qing Zhi Pavilion, Drunk Stone Xuan, etc., solemn and elegant, unique ingenuity. Being in it, like entering a fairyland, is refreshing.

The clear green water of Fan Quan adds moisture and vitality to the garden.

Transportation:

Take Subway Line 1 or Line 4 to Leqiao Station, exit 8, and you will reach Yiyuan. Or take bus 4, 1, 8, 38, 933 and get off at Leqiao North Station.

Admission is 15 yuan.
Opening hours: 07:30-16:30 (January 1 - December 31 Monday-Sunday)

Suzhou Museum

Subo is now a national well-known Internet celebrity museum, to enter Subo is free, but you must make an appointment online in advance, remember to make an appointment in advance ~! Make an appointment in advance! Otherwise, you'll just have to worry when you get to the door.

Subo is a local historical and artistic museum, located at the site of the King Li Xiucheng Palace of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and is a national key cultural relic protection unit. The new building was completed in October 2006, designed by the famous architect Ieoh Ming Pei.

It is precisely because of the participation of Master Bei, Subo is more famous, and many people come to watch Subo is also directed at him.

With a total investment of 339 million yuan, Subo is a comprehensive museum integrating modern buildings, ancient buildings and innovative landscape gardens.

Suzhou Museum has a collection of more than 40,000 pieces, with unearthed cultural relics, paintings and paintings of Ming and Qing dynasties and ancient handicrafts as the characteristics of the collection, which includes many "Wudi treasures", and is a collection museum that can best reflect the culture of Wudi.

Suzhou Museum Taiping Tianguo Zhongwang Mansion is a group of Taiping Tianguo historical buildings preserved in the whole country. Preserved more than 400 "Soviet-style painting" and other important remains and art treasures of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom period.

Zhong Wang Fu painting is the representative of the "Su style painting" in the Qing Dynasty. Its large number of preserved paintings is rare in Jiangnan, and it is an extremely precious cultural heritage in the treasure house of Chinese culture. The preserved buildings, painted paintings and murals have historical and artistic value.

Out of Subo, you can go to the opposite coffee house to sit down and taste the small atmosphere of Suzhou.

Address:

No. 204, Northeast Street, Gusu District, Suzhou City

Transportation:

By bus, take bus No. 1, 2, 5, 55, 178, 202, 309, 313, 518, 529, 923 and get off at Suzhou Museum Station.

Admission is free.

Opening hours:

Tuesday to Sunday 9:00-17:00, closed at 16:00; Closed on Mondays (normally open on public holidays), may be temporarily closed for major events or maintenance.

Some people say that the vegetable market of a city truly reflects the level of economic development of the city and the warmth and tolerance of the city.

After Gusu District launched a new round of quality improvement project for the farmers' market, Shuangta Vegetable Market was renamed "Shuangta Market".

Visiting the Twin Tower Market has also become the most romantic and fashionable place for Suzhou people, not only young people like it, but also many elderly people.

The clean vegetable farm is very well managed, the variety of vegetables and fruits is also very rich, and the old vegetable farm has a new look.

The open and beautiful kitchen, bustling passenger flow, and steaming stoves create a tender market, which also attracts many young people and foreign tourists to punch in and take photos and taste the special food.

It should be noted that when the meal is ordered, there are more people, be sure to leave enough time to queue.

Address:

Gusu Fresh and Shuangta Market, Zhonglou New Village, Shuangta Street, Gusu District, Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province

The most representative scenic spot in Suzhou is the Humble Administrator's Garden. Before to the Humble Administrator's Garden are daytime, this experience of the Humble Administrator's Garden has just developed a night tour, bring us another different feeling.

Night tour Gusu, ask Yaosu politics.

Using the multimedia exhibition of garden time and space, it brings us a spiritual resonance spanning five hundred years.

The Humble Administrator's Garden in the modern light and high-tech design is more elegant quiet, twists and turns, change the scenery, so that people spontaneously "how deep the courtyard" deep space sense.

It is the visual crossing of the soul art, but also the time and space invitation of the garden artistic conception.

Fifteen scenes of the Heart Garden and eight scenes of the Li House - In the story told by the narrator, the Humble Administrator's Garden shows its unique style.

With the heart of awe, it reveals the Oriental aesthetics of the garden itself, seeks the forest and spring, and visits the beautiful scenery of the city hidden by scholars; Using the method of light, reshaping the spatial poetics of Oriental gardening.

Between heaven and earth, the landscape of the garden, five hundred years of garden pond clear rhyme audio-visual interaction, light rhyme sound.

Oriental wisdom and Chinese philosophy aesthetics show the Chinese life aesthetics incisively and vividly through "foolish politics and elegant questions".

Add: No. 178, Dongbei Street, Gusu District, Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province

Transportation:

Line 4 Longdobang direction to Beitata Subway Station 4 northeast exit exit or Line 1 Mudu direction to Lindun Road exit 3

Visiting time: 19:00-22:00

Ticket price: 198 yuan during the week, 228 yuan on weekends

Limited number of people: Night tour is limited number of people, so be sure to make an appointment in advance. Limit of 50 people per day. The tour guide takes a small group of guests and the whole time is about 1 hour. Keep up with the team. Don't fall behind.

West Garden Ring building Law Temple, referred to as West Garden Temple. Located in Suzhou Changmen Liuyuan Road west garden lane 18.

Xiyuan Temple was founded from the Yuan Dynasty to the Yuan period (1264-1294), the beginning of the name Guiyuan Temple, has a history of 700 years, the existing buildings are rebuilt in the Qing Dynasty, the temple five hundred arhat Hall is one of the four major Arhat halls in China.

Most of the existing temples in Xiyuan Temple were built in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, and it is the largest temple in Suzhou.

From south to north on the central axis, there are three broad archway, mountain gate, Diamond Hall, release pool, Daxiongbao Hall, and Sutra Collection Building. On the east side of the Diamond Hall is the Hall of Guanyin, and on the west side is the Hall of Arhat. In the temple, there are Buddha chanting hall, Dharma Cloud hall, guest hall, fasting hall, warehouse and other buildings.

Coming in from the mountain gate, it is a quiet, very good environment, it can be said that the West Garden temple is one of the best temple and garden integration.

To the extension of three bow Xi several net window bright willow eyes must be covered, pond open a look at the kite flying fish leap sky cloud shadow wandering. There are many towering ancient trees in the garden, and two wisteria trees, planted in the Ming Dynasty, are more than 400 years old.

In the west Garden, the largest area is the release pond. The release pond is tadpole shaped, with the head in the south and the tail in the north, and curved to the southeast. The pond water around the garden, and then from the lower part of the Armor-Han Hall straight into the Xiangji pool in front of the main hall, nine twists and three bends, when in the light, when hidden in the dark, and then extended to the back of the warehouse, in the release pool there is a pavilion in the middle of the lake.

When you come to Seionji Temple, you can have a taste of Seionji's famous plain noodles and steamed buns at the Sosaitkan.

Ticket:

Five yuan, three sticks of incense.

Opening hours:

7:30-17:30

In the Tang Dynasty, Bai Juyi served as the governor of Suzhou, dredged the northwest river outside Suzhou City and dug it into the Shantang River. The ancient street built along the river was called Shantang Street, and the ancient buildings along the street were known as "the first street in Gusu" since ancient times.

Most of the ancient buildings are the buildings of the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, which are the architectural groups composed of several falling and advancing. In the longitudinal line, the buildings in the Ming Dynasty were almost all one way, but in the Qing Dynasty, with the improvement of economic power, people began to admire luxury, so there were three roads and five roads.

Later, he dug out the soil and filled the embankment, and the long embankment was wide into a road, which also went straight to Tiger Hill. At that time, Tiger Hill was called Wuqiu, and there was Wuqiu Temple on the mountain, so the poet wrote that it was called Wuqiu Temple Road, later called "White Gong Di", and the embankment length was seven Huali, also known as seven Li Mountain pond. Between Chang Men downtown and scenic spot Tiger Hill, it has gradually become a bustling tourist commercial street.

There are many rivers and stone Bridges in Shantang Street. Through the ages, the mountain pond has always been the favorite place of emperors and scholars. Whether it is Qianlong Kangxi, or Bo Hu Qiu Xiang, have lingered on both sides of the Shantang River.

The ancient stone bridge, ancient stage, museum, Wu Yipeng's former residence, Quanzhou Guild Hall, Shaoxing Guild Hall, Antai fire fighting Society, Tonggui Bridge, the tomb of the Five, etc., are all places worth seeing in Qili Shantang.

Now coming to Qili Shantang, I like to sit and drink tea with my friends under the canopy by the river, watch the boats sailing across the river, and watch the tourists taking photos on the stone bridge......

There are many special shops in Shantang Street worth visiting, and you can take some hand letters home.

Address:

No.177, Shantang Street, Gusu District, Suzhou City

The Lion Forest was built in the second year of the Yuan Dynasty (1342), is one of the representatives of Chinese classical private garden architecture. It is one of the four famous gardens in Suzhou and also a world cultural heritage.

The Lion Forest is located in the northeast of Suzhou City. Because of the forest of stone peaks in the park, many like lions, so named "lion forest". The flat surface of the lion forest is rectangular, with an area of about 15 mu. There are many and beautiful rockery lakes in the forest, and the buildings are scattered and scattered. The main buildings are Yanyu Hall, Jianshan Tower, Flying waterfall Pavilion, Ask Mei Pavilion, etc.

The Lion Forest is famous for its rockery, which covers an area of about 0.15 hectares. Shizilin rockery is the only one of large-scale rockery in Chinese garden, which has important historical value and artistic value. Lion forest rockery peaks undulation, Qifeng grotesque stone. The rockery group has nine routes and 21 openings. Lateral as far as twists and turns, vertical strive to circle ups and downs.

Due to the rise and fall of the forest garden, the temple, the garden and the house are divided and combined, the traditional gardening techniques and Buddhist thoughts are integrated, and the modern Baye family introduced the western gardening techniques and the ancestral hall into the garden, making it a temple garden that integrates the principles of Zen Buddhism and the pleasure of the garden.

Most of the ancient buildings in the Lion forest have retained the style of the Yuan Dynasty, which is the representative garden of the Yuan Dynasty. Garden to stack stones to win, caves and ravines, strange stones, pools linger. Shizilin rockery is one of the most tortuous and complex examples of mountain mounds in Chinese classical gardens.

After visiting the lion forest, don't forget to buy a lion forest online red ice cream at the exit of the scenic spot to taste oh ~!

Eat the taste of Suzhou in your mouth and stay in your heart:)

Peak season ticket: 40 yuan/person (April, May, July, August, September, October)

Off-season fare: 30 yuan/person (January, February, March, June, November, December)

Opening hours: 7:30-17:30 (March 1 - October 15)7:30-17:00 (October 16 - the end of February) Tickets will be sold 30 minutes before the park closes.

Transportation lines: 518, 112, 55, 262, 202, You 2, 50 East Line, 50 West Line, You 5 South Line, 811, 529, You 1, You 5 North line, You 1 North line, You 1 South line, 309.