The rest garden travels Suzhou of China

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Had another name called People s Park, lay in the park to get, was established in 1130, had already had a history of more than 600 years from today.
There were famous hydraulic expert s Jia tomb, large-scale Yuan Dynasty in the garden The iron kettle , the Ming Dynasty The maritime spring , the Song flower stone key link relic Look at the sea peak . The most well-known one has The wonderful pavilion of Chinese ink . A lot of quite valuable tablets of tree Xuan room, wall are inlaiding etc.. In addition still carry on one s shoulder or back scene views such as the pool, three bridges,etc.. The rest garden is the good place where visitors and citizens visit and lie fallow.
The rest garden is the old site of Haining temple, already had a history of eight or nine hundred years from today. The beginning such as the Republic of China,from in there go with is people land, DaHeng, an abundant three people Li Chen design by overall arrangement, reconstruct into the rest and visit the mountain villa, is commonly called as the park. Lay out into People s Park after liberation. Through these decades constant transformation, enlargement, the rest garden has already become common people of Taicang and a good destination of nonlocal visitors . The rest garden is a comprehensive garden, takes up an area of 4.133 hectares, divide a plurality of scenic spots such as the mini-scape garden, zoo, amusement garden, peony garden, Chinese rose garden, Chinese wistaria corridor, greenhouse, beauty spots such as nine bridges, mid-lake pavilion, sector are highing, six mao pavilions, tree Xuan rooms, consoling Xuan room,etc., among them it is the treasure of rest garden six that is most worth visiting, namely it is high to look at sea peak, big iron kettle, maritime spring, wonderful pavilion of Chinese ink, Jia s tomb and teacher bamboo.
Enter the garden door, it is the extremely precious looking at the sea peak in an independent peak rockery to head on loftily, the colored stone key link relic in Northern Song Dynasty, and then return in seven sub leader Wang Shi s loyal younger brother s king all Mao quiet garden of generation after the Ming Dynasty according to legend. Transferred from government to the garden in 1956. Quiet garden commonly called as five beautiful garden, until stone beautiful, spend beautiful and tree beautiful and American spring, beautification of the buiding well-known, this stone is up to seeking Zhang, exquisitely carved, one hundred keys a thousand are efficacious, deserve to be called the reputation with American stone sincerely. Look this stone such as strange beast from far to raise one s head and look and look at the sea afar, so call and look at the sea peak; Look it sideways like Goddess of Mercy, wonderful and solemn, folk there is laudatory title of peak of Goddess of Mercy.
Look at several meters forward of sea peak, there are large iron kettles on the left, there is maritime spring in right, have stone pavilion with simple and unsophisticated model that is covered above, it is a municipality protected historic site. Big iron kettle spoken parts in an opera are a big iron pan, are used for boiling and soaking the thin bamboo strip used for weaving cable. This recorded early in Zhu GuoZhen s welled up an essay book in the Ming Dynasty, it is said it is still a relic in the field of shipbuilding of Yuan Dynasty. General situation the beginning of Ming Dynasty and the end of Yuan Dynasty Lou Jiang edge outside south gate find, moved in the shipbuilding field of Suzhou office outside the small north gate later. Determine its era as the Ming Dynasty in the explanation of the rest garden, has reflected the appropriate cautious attitude. This huge iron kettle internal diameter is 164 centimetres, 87 centimetres deep, thick 5. 5 centimetres, the brim is 7 centimetres wide, weigh up to several tons, can want to see the shipbuilding scale at that time. Its concrete usage is to quench the tung oil into, and then put the cable cheese woven with the thin bamboo strip used for weaving into kettle and soak and boil, make the tung oil permeate through the cable. In this way, the thin bamboo strip used for weaving cable is antiseptic and durable, not afraid of the corrosion of the sea water. In case of not having thick nylon rope, thick steel wire rope in ancient times, it is really a wise move. The maritime spring is a well in the garden, reign of Ming Emperor Hongwu is 31 years (1398) Cut by Zhang ZongYuan, calculate that has already had a history of more than 600 years. This spring belongs to originally and helps a institute holily, put under while reconstructing the park. The spring gurgle is constant, does not dry up by the drought, city people praise for being maritime, so maritime spring by name . Turn right forward along the path, cross the mini-scape garden, there are Jia s tombs. It is at the time of Northern Song Dynasty been in Jia last house Wuzhong water conservancies famous,until Song is bright would rather five year,take the post as by department temple assistant officers agricultural, responsible for, build two Zhejiang water conservancy, write the the the intersection of water conservancy and book ,etc., it is a historical personage making large contribition to water conservancy cause of the motherland. Jia s tomb had path leading to a grave, door of a coffin chamber, stone horse,etc. previously, the knoll in the side of tomb was the original tomb now, seal the tree and grow green and fresh on it, lie hidden and undeveloped the limitless business. Having built the new tomb by the location of tomb in August of 1993, there is a stone pavilion before the tomb, put and rebuilt the agricultural shrine of Jia department to write the tablet in the pavilion, it is clear with managing for seven years 1868 years) The granary knows one li of straight paths leading to a grave of Kuai morality mould of the state, set up while building the door of a coffin chamber. The miscellaneous tree is covered shadily around the tomb, the pine and cypress is set off, the environment is peaceful and solemn.
It is surely the wonderful pavilion of Chinese ink that is most worth visiting in the rest garden. According to the records of local chronicle, this pavilion is in the Huaihe River cloud temple in the north of the city originally. The army device of Zhejiang proposed and cited officer Gu Xin and big expert of calligraphy and painting Zhao Meng cobalt had very thick personal friendship in Yuan Dynasty, has acknowledged Zhao as master, the calligraphy with great concentration. He resign, get back to Taicang, Zhao Meng the intersection of cobalt and book present go, come diction and Han Yu of YuanMing Tao, give Li, wish, belong to the valley preface of plate as a means of regarding as memory , if Gu XinZhen joins the ancient piece of jade, ties the stone tight and builds the pavilion, the wonderful pavilion of Mexico by name for it after going back to Taicang. Gu Xin gave up the residence as the temple, the tablet belonged to the Huaihe River cloud temple, moved and rebuilt to the rest garden in March of 1983. What has been rebuilt Mexico inlay have according to what book of rubbings carve again it is want diction by whether tablet, Chu Zhao satisfy good whether trees withered compose tablet and lasting Haining Buddhist temple tablet,etc. Zhao Shu not to belong to, have romantic charm of original tablet. Talk about the belonging to the diction tablet, there is a little story: Castrate the intersection of official and ZhongXian Wei, arrogate all powers to oneself Ming Dynasty according to legend, confederate its Wei castrate in order to resort to cheap undisguised flattery in overhaul life-time temple for it by China. Maos of one egret, governor of a province of Suzhou, want Taicang give tablet Zhao, rub, go, carve separately, Taicang people chokes with silent fury, on one hand in order to protect the local historical relic, under the pressure of despotic power on the other hand, have to find out that strike and break the body of tablet, in order to keep the method of the stone inscription, kept the tablet at last. Entered Qing Dynasty, this tablet was moved and inlaid among the door walls of the strong points of Confucian Temple, in the Culture Revolution, this tablet went through the disaster again, lose the trace for a time. Generally investigate historical relic, find one Section make the intersection of river and port do washing footboard again will it be the beginning the eighties, one Section make the intersection of pigsty and the intersection of tablet and body of backing board, as Zhuangzi say until material can be kept tablet exactly, also cloud good fortune. wonderful pavilion of Chinese ink in the pavilion Three words, for own handwriting of looking forward of Qi of master s bright red of painting of this city. The hillfoot old Mr. of the night Wang Jun of local Die has also written Mexico builds the new pavilion wonderfully, intersperses the scenery of the garden ; The civilization shines in the ancient garden, develop artistic glory Couplet written on scrolls,it is new from fee I am left for pen. Embrace column, unite, write for the intersection of scene and Zheng Pan in the pavilion, Shen embrace one book, unite until black mark hang down ink Lou, protect the new pavilion with admiring it long; The wonderful mark spreads the gull wave, value highly and offer as a gift the high wind of normal form far. Inlay words and succeed foolishly, meaning is laminated, can be rated as the fine piece of writing.
Study the mountain garden old site for Pu s former residence in the wonderful pavilion site of Mexico now, the pavilion is in order to rebuild, fly to eaves insult clear and timid, cloister shake, spend shadow, doors and windows and the intersection of flat and base, afford to carve, or mould vividly, all appear dense ancient purpose. rebuild the wonderful pavilion of Chinese ink and write in front of reading the pavilion, start to realize and build newly.