The lion travels in the forest Suzhou of China

Open hour

09:00-17: 00; Stop selling the ticket at 16:30 p.m. since November 29 every year, opening time does not change.

Ticket

Busy season ( April 16 October 30 every year) 30 yuan; 20 yuan in slack period. Old man free evidence have over the 70, 1.2 following children free.

Traffic

Road No. 23 to the garden of northeast of the city.
3 kilometers from railway station and Northern Station of the car to lion s forest, it is very convenient to take the taxi.
Also 5 Luis more East line) Go to the station of lion s forest and get off with Bus No. 2.
Take 1 No., 101 No., 102 Bus No. street change to 3 Luis or 5 Luis to view East line) Get to lion s forest.
Drive by oneself: Entering Suzhou from east can be made a detour capable person s way or Northeastern street to reach lion s forest by the east cycle, entering Suzhou from west can be made a detour northwest street or White Dagoba West Road by Renmin Road and reached lion s forest, there is free parking sound of more than 1,000 square meters on the southern side of lion s forest.
Point out: Can visit with museum of folk custom of Suzhou, coin museum together. Hectometre is Humble Administrator s Garden northwards along the garden way.

Introduce

Especially remind: Recently, the secret fragrance, one of lion s significant views in the forest dredges the studio in classical garden of Suzhou to begin overall maintenance. The secret fragrance dredges the studio to suspend and open to visitors in maintenance period, it is estimated the maintenance engineering will be completed in mid-March.
Relevant historical the intersection of lion and forest such as honorific Buddhist monk establish for commemorating his teacher hits the supernatural monk of the peak for Yuan Dynasty the intersection of Buddhist monk and heaven. From Yuan Dynasty to two years A.D. 1342) ,Yuans of the intersection of the end and famous the intersection of monk and it such as the honorific Buddhist monk s disciple picture rate provide funds, form the room buying, in order to occupy his division. . Because forest have bamboo Wan firm, many spectacular rocky peak, like suanni(lion) under the bamboo in the garden Person ; Because it such as honorific Buddhist monk is done in the proper way in rock of eye mountain lion of day of Zhejiang generally in conformity with country s teacher again -Supernatural monk of China s peak, the mantle in order to commemorate Buddha in vain, a disciple of the relation, chooses the meaning that Sutras hits Leo, thus come the name of teacher s sub forest , lion s forest .
According to historical records, patrolled, granted the volume temple of lion s forest in lion s forest in the south of Emperor Kang Xi on February 11, 1703 And then, Emperor Qianlong visited lion s forest six times, successively granted the mirror shone round intelligently , picture Buddhist temple And store now Very interesting Wait for the horizontal inscribed board. Qianlong also orders to imitate two of lion s forest in Yuanmingyuan, Chengde Mountain Resort of Beijing. It is obvious the emperor of emperor that year is deeply in love with lion s forest.
Praise lion forest Yu Yue, scholar of Qing Dynasty, if you can t reply, insufficient instead for five times for five times,nine low reaches getting the more whole in nine . Contemporary Jun Tong, expert of garden, comment the intersection of lion and the intersection of forest and rockery records of the intersection of ring and twists, step on, lower Huang, as if the mound gully rotates, the fan is like palindrome .
Architectural style and overall arrangement building can be divided into the ancestral hall, house and three parts of flower garden, the entry to the garden was shellfish s ancestral hall now, there are hard mountains halls two that are entered, the high drawing room of the eaves was deep, the light is dim, the atmosphere is solemn. The residential area is the main drawing room of the whole garden represented by swallow s reputation hall, the building is opened bigly high, the furnishings are elegant and poised in the hall. There are four small flower gardens in all on the north axis just along the main drawing room.
Swallow s reputation hall regards white, purple magnolia and peony platform as the flower garden of the spring scenery just, cordial and lucid and lively; The north flower garden of the hall plants two oriental cherries, add the spring in the air even more, the small mountain type in order to have a rest of drawing room just, the empty window and wintersweet outside the window in the east side and the west side in the drawing room, the bamboo, stone peak form cold plum picture together on day just With bamboo stone picture ; Nine lions peak institute regards nine lions peak as the main scene, the things are each set up openly with two and a half close pavilion, mutual contrast, interlock and appear and stress the stone peak; And then win a small courtyard to the north again, one colored platform of Buxus sinica, a segment of song corridor, peaceful and simple and elegant.
Lion forest leak, spend window to be various informative, do work exquisite, particularly with nine the intersection of lion and musical instrument under peak , chess , book , picture Four door frame and mean cypress taking natural flowers as subject matter clay sculpture type leak and spend the window as top grade at the high around wall. The ingenious application of empty window and door opening, spent the door opening of the shape as the model with these two frame scenes and Chinese flowering crabapples of nine lions peak institute in Xiao Fang drawing room.
Draw near water and build in the lotus drawing room, very interesting pavilion in the main garden of lion s forest, wooden equipment is featured by exquisite carving. The shape of the Marble Boat is small and exquisite, dimension is suitable. It is that the floor is not the floor that the secret fragrance dredges the studio, the corridor upstairs can reach the rockery, the design has much ingenuities. Cliffside waterfall pavilion, asking the plum pavilion, setting up the snow hall with the waterfall, cold plum, repairing bamboos to echo each other. Fan pavilion, one kind of stone-tablet pavilions on gentle day, resist the stone-tablet pavilion and are run through by a long corridor, has broken the straight, high and steep sense of the south wall.
Main the intersection of view and the intersection of Suzhou and the intersection of Northeast and garden way under door Lou under city, establish in Yuan Dynasty, it is the representatives of gardens in Yuan Dynasty. Rockeries spread all over in the garden, the long corridor is surrounded, the tower is dimly visible, the winding path leads to a secluded quiet place, there is one burst of generally feelings of fan. Inlay have Song Dynasty four major the intersection of classic and Su Shi, Mi Fu, Huang front yard hard, the intersection of calligraphy and tablet and the Southern Song Dynasty the intersection of Wen Tianxiang and the intersection of stone inscription and work of plum blossom poem that assist Cai in the wall of long corridor.
Lion s forest has the largest ancient rockery group of Chinese Shang Cun. Exquisite and numerous, superb in the lake stone rockery, similar to lions and dance, is praised as rockery kingdom ,There are 18 scenes in Land of Peach Blossoms Its good reputation.
Visitor like, play, play hide-and-seek in false the intersection of stone and masses mostly, does not know people of knack still really very much difficult to make by treading, can yet be regarded as the biggest fun of visiting a park. But actually enter the rockery group and only arrange the same direction, keep turning right or turning left straight, went out of the hole of the mystery very easily.
The highest peak is in the garden Lion s peak ,There is include the sunshine besides , spit the moon Wait for the famous peak, there is sets up the snow hall in the building , lie the cloud room , it is high to mean the cypress , Q the plum pavilion When. Lion colored drawing room of forest Suzhou of war of resistance victory army and the people accept place that Japanese aggressor troop surrender.
The north of the courtyard is that the subject building opens the big mandarin duck drawing room high. The south drawing room name Swallow s reputation hall ,Come from > ,The high emolument is heavy and relaxed and happy that purpose runs after fame. North drawing room claim the the intersection of emerald and blue and green hall of precious jade , come from yuans of the intersection of painter and the intersection of cloud and forest poem Ni, green water Point water, blue and green precious jade Mean the rockery. The form of address for a Grand Secretary carves > ,Record and narrate the shellfish 1917- -Rebuild among 1926 Lion s forest Process. Carve the picture of > ,The ancient cypress of peak of the temple, one storey of buildings of cliffside waterfall. The furnishings are exquisite and luxurious in the drawing room. Very open in the west of front corridor of the drawing room Set up the snow hall ,The west side door of back corridor delays the cave cave of the interchangeability of Chinese characters and is entered Lie in the cloud drawing room ,In after Xiao the Fang s,open up in the west of it by door, can last rockery. Regard mandarin duck s drawing room as the centre, the overall arrangement faced all sides is rather ingenious. Pass through Xiao Fang drawing room, see the huge peak on the colored platform is spectacular in the courtyard, made up of the lions of nine heads of different posture. It is different that the north courtyard wall of the peak leaks the frame shape in the window, and telescope the pattern of lute-playing,chess,calligraphy and painting respectively, smooth and lucid and lively. Appear in court on the Chinese flowering crabapple type door of the institute and delay, the peak of saluting means the cypress is high to the stall in the garden ,Overlook according to being high, the stone peak meets the eye on every side to stand in great numbers, the ancient cypress Qiu root is twined, means the peak salutes the cypress all becomes picture purpose among the peak. The bamboo grove on the right is fresh and green, the weather in midsummer, green dense shade is pleasant. High in the south, cross a narrow and long Xiao Chi s jade ancient bronze mirror ,It is the exquisite and high and beautiful, hole that holds and wheels, comes in and goes out very skillful rockery kingdom . The rockery scale is large, account for 1/7 of area, there are 11 caves, 9 meanders, divide upper, middle and lower three storeys, in order to pile the windingest and most complicated embodiment of mountain in classical residence garden of Suzhou. Put the lake stone pile in the rockery, it is the abstract model of the rare birds and animals in Buddhism story, there are with water on three sides on rockery,at massif by north and south to water ravine last rockery and become whether ravine be divided the east, ravine west, the eastern stone step steps on and lowers sometimes sometimes, do not examine at last; The western stone hole fastens the twists, like the meander, the part of the things two forms the ring-type respectively. Combine the end in water ravine, two parts of rockeries of things are connected across the ravine, divide into and compound and link a whole, the tactics show ingenuity. The mountain table of the whole rockery, the huge peak of lake stone, stalagmite tower on it, a group of hill rises and falls, each have a grand posture. The ancient tree of a century, the root is grown among the cracks, one is done and interlocked, the imposing manner is forceful like the remote,thickly forested mountains. Within the rockery, the overcast hole is tortuous, the empty fairy in the depths, relative superiority wheels, the way goes back to the peak to rotate, indoor setting exteriorses are all different, have the praise of 18 scenes in Land of Peach Blossoms, really a great wonder. It is all right to follow the north of west pool bank, pass from song bridge to the mid-lake pavilion of six mao. This pavilion thinks in the temple in the best place of the mountain scenery of inland lake of the garden, the name waterfall pavilion of the view . China and Spain look into the distance from the pavilion, the rockery stands in great numbers all around, the trees are dense, the steep hillside cliff of western pen, the waterfall if three piles through the lake stone pour down, untiring, impressive. Face the drawing room of basket of flowers of the wide pool in the east of the pavilion Water hall wind will come ,Carve and engrave Seiko. Stood in front of the drawing room overlooking the south of the pool in the balcony, the hills and mountains became the mountain range, the stone inverted image of the peak is apparent, the scenery is lucid and elegant, plant the lotus here, summer has set in, it is some green scenes which overlay the red skirt. The west of drawing room draws near half a pavilion of the pool Very interesting pavilion ,Mention for the intersection of Qianlong and the intersection of the Supreme Being and emperor s hand writing. It is said the 22nd year of Qianlong A.D. 1757) ,The intersection of Qianlong and emperor visit a park get here, view and admire the whole the intersection of garden and scenery, see stone peak overlap, way turn the peak answer, the density of the trees, even one is handed in to Ke, a curved pond of water, several pieces of jade bridge, rise for the moment, resist the book very interesting Some accompany the emperor minister feel deeply unsightly, ask the intersection of Qianlong and emperor have The word grants him. The intersection of Qianlong and the intersection of emperor and insight, make a favour at the little cost, nod, agree. Then leave Very interesting Two words are horizontal inscribed boards. Roof truss the intersection of roof beam and column carve phoenix, wear the intersection of tree peony and pattern, Wang Wu lean against, carve the intersection of word and flowers Wan, head of lion, against the tradition with plain tone, splendid everywhere. The biggest characteristic of lion s forest is that there are many lake stone rockeries. The ridges and peaks are bullied in the garden, the hole gully is mild and indirect, grotesque peak huge stone, exquisitely carved. Nine routes that group has in all in the rockery, 21 entrances to a cave, step into and is like in Eight-Diagram tactics it, it step on sometimes as,enter by hole,in desperate straits obviously,but a new vista, be looked at hole, within sight but beyond reach.