Ancient Five Pines Garden Review

20230702 Morning: 1. "Gu Wusongyuan" is located in the "Lion Forest" of 4A Scenic Area. The Lion Forest is one of the "Suzhou four famous gardens", the representative works of classical garden art in the Yuan Dynasty, partial Zen forest style, pavilions and water, ancient style melodious, beautiful and quiet, is a great place to shoot ancient costumes, which is particularly famous for its twists and turns. The park has the footprints of Qing Kangxi Emperor, Qianlong Emperor, Yuan Yuan, Bei Runsheng, Bei Xuming and other celebrities, and was listed as a world cultural heritage by the United Nations in 2000. The area in the park is not large, covering an area of 1.1 10,000 square meters, divided into indoor buildings and outdoor gardens. The garden landscape area is surrounded by the surrounding building corridor pavilions. ① Address: No. 23, Garden Road, Gusu District, Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province ② Transportation: direct bus, easy to stop by car. ③ peak season: no. ④ Time: 2 hours. 2. The history of the Lion Forest: ① Yuan Dynasty: It was built in the second year of Yuan to the second year (1342), and the Zen Forest was built by the disciples of Tianru Zen Master to buy land and build it. It is named because the stones under the bamboo forest in the garden are strange and like a group of lions. It is also said that Tianru Zen Master got the law on "Tianmu Mountain" (5A). "Lion Rock", take the meaning of "Leo" in the Buddhist scriptures, so the garden is named the Lion Forest; Yuan to Zheng 12 years (1352) renamed "Bodhi True Temple"; the garden owner of the late Yuan and early Ming Dynasty is Zhang Shicheng's daughter Pan Yuanshao, who is cut from Jiangsu and Zhejiang; One of the "Yuan Four", the Lion Forest was poetic and painted in the late years, and the famous Lion Forest Map was created in Ming Hongwu six years (1373). ② Ming Dynasty: Wanli 20 years (1592) built a Buddhist temple. ③ Qing Dynasty: In the early Qing Dynasty, the temple and garden were purchased by Huang Xingren, the Zhifu of Hengzhou during the Qing Dynasty, and became private property and changed his name to "Sheyuan". His son Huang Qi took the Qing Qianlong 36 (1771) title, and later became the inner-son of Qianlong Emperor. Kangxi Emperor and Qianlong Emperor visited this park several times. Qianlong Emperor gave "Mirror Zhiyuan Photo", "Painting Temple", "True Fun" and other , and also built a lion forest in the "Changchun Garden" in the Yuanmingyuan Park (5A) in Beijing and the Chengde Mountain Resort (5A). Incorporate the style of Jiangnan gardens into the royal gardens.④ Republic of China: Li Zhongxu, the head of Shanghai Civil Affairs in the first year of the Republic of China (1912), purchased this park; In the seven years of the Republic of China (1918), Shanghai pigment merchant Bei Runsheng (the world famous architect and uncle of Bei Xuming, a foreign academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering) purchased the park and expanded it. ⑤ After the founding of the country: The Lion Forest was donated to the country by the descendants of Beijia and opened to the public in 1953. 3. The ancient Wusongyuan was planted in the Lion Forest during the Qing Kangxi period (1662-1722), and there were 5 towering ancient pine trees in the Lion Forest, so it is also called the Lion Forest as "the ancient Wusong Garden". The garden name is from the modern calligrapher, the "Nanxian North Buddha" in the "Nanxian" Suju Xian handbook, and the pine cypress has a longevity, and he also lived to the age of 101. Indoor is a small hall, the north courtyard has a collegial.

The lion forest is one of the four major gardens in Suzhou. It is said that there are five towering ancient pine in the lion forest during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty. The lion forest is also called the ancient five pine garden. Then the Bay family bought this garden and bought five pine trees in the garden. The pine trees in the hall are very beautiful.

The ancient Wusong Garden is one of the more well-known attractions in the Lion Forest, but the current pine trees are newly planted, and the feeling is good. The wood carvings in the hall are particularly beautiful, and the pillars are very beautiful. It feels relatively simple and scholarly.

The lion forest in the Kangxi years, there are five ancient white leather pine, so at the time the name "five pine gardens." But when the Bay family bought the garden, five towering ancient pine were no longer there, so they specially found five white skin pine trees from Hunan, four planted on the rockery, one planted in the courtyard of Lixuetang, and named the flower hall as "Guwu Songyuan". The flower hall is divided into two rooms by the interval fan, and the eastern half is placed by the partition fan. For a table, there are a few mahogany flowers on each side of the table.

The ancient Wusong Garden is located in the north of the Lion Forest. It was famous for planting five pine trees in the Yuan Dynasty, and now Wusong is replanted. China has more patronage of Wusong. There are five doctors in Taishan and five pine trees in Beijing, all of which have set good expectations.