Open hour
07: 30- 18: 00,Generally can cross the tiger mound in 2- 3 hours.
Ticket
Busy season ( April 16- October 30) 60 yuan; Slack period ( October 31- April 15) 40 yuan. Old man free evidence have over the 70, 1.2 following children free.
Traffic
Reach the public transportation route of the south gate of scenic spot: Tourist bus No. 1, tourist bus No. 2, tourist bus No. 3, No. 949, No. 146, No. 316;
Reach the public transportation route on the door of Peking University of scenic spot: No. 32, No. 36; The scenic spot is about 3 km from Suzhou railway station, can take and visit 1, visit Line 2, No. 32, No. 146, No. 949 and arrive directly after getting off the train.
Driving the guide: The export of Suzhou newly developed area of Shanghai-Nanjing highway is left, is up to the beauty spot road sign and can go to the door of Peking University of scenic spot directly by 312 national roads; Su good high-speed Suzhou garden export of Hangzhou leaves, is up to the beauty spot road sign, pass Suzhou urban area, take Jing distance of general term for paulownia, phoenix tree and tung tree, the glass can reach the south gate of scenic spot to towpath. (There are parking areas on the north and south door in the scenic spot, the whole area is about 12000 square, have about 400 berths of car, about 60 parking stalls of cart. )
Introduce
1,The tiger mound is an important place that Suzhou is folk to gather. Two Conferences has already become the hot program in the characteristic travel project in Suzhou in one year. Here holds the artistic flower fair every spring, exhibit 170,000 basins of large quantities of famous and precious flowers such as tree peony, tulip, Belgian cuckoo, lily, several hundred varieties; Hold the intersection of local conditions and customs and strong folk custom temple fair autumn Temple fair of tiger mound) ,Perform the folk custom program blending in the north and south.
2,There are many mountain Xiao Jings, it is the greatest characteristic of the tiger mound, especially the tiger mound tower stands on the mountain in millennium, make tiger mound been the famous excursion center since ancient times.
Lie in the northwest suburb of Suzhou, 5 km from city center. This mountain occupation of land is only more than 300 mu, only 36 meters high, but there are tables of the left mound gully of river Demeanour,hopeless rock towering gully,spectacular. The beauty spot here is mostly historic site, the scenery is beautiful. The ancient once had a characteristic of appraising the tiger mound, had proposed: nine should Saying,it should last mound on moon, should snow, should rain, should cigarette, should Chunxiao, should summer, it is should comfortable, should fall wood in autumn, should the setting sun.
Relevant history
In ancient times, the tiger mound was once an island that was hit-and-miss with the tide in the bay, the changes that time brings great changes to the world that go through, gush out from the sea finally, become the hillock that isolated on the level land, people call it the sea to well up the mountain. brightness of pouring of sea Screen wall facing the gate of a house, sea last fountain, gather around mountain villa moons green drive high to erect scholar money Xins old to write on Qing Dynasty inside Well up the peak in the sea The stone engraving can be seen the tiger mound and origin of the sea.
Suzhou is the capital of the Wu s during spring and autumn, according to the records of Historical Records , king Wu entire gate of a village is buried here after dying, 3 days after burying, there is a white tiger that crouches on it, thus comes the name of the tiger mound mountain.
And then Qin Shihuang has ascended the mound and visited scenic spot; Xiang Yu, clear overlord of the west, lead 8000 sons and younger brothers raise troops Qin instead here.
And then famous poet Bai Juyi has dug the mountain and channeled water while taking the post as the feudal provincial in Suzhou in the Tang Dynasty, build dyke of 3.5 kilometers, make tiger s mound view more beautiful.
Main a view Enclose: Tiger s mound beauty spot sketch map) There is be mound tower, roof beam hall, sword pool, a thousand people stone, spring, control thrust stone, sword pools foolishes foolishes broken mainly now at garden, last mountain villas, mountain villa Wan green The most famous beauty spot is tiger mound tower, sword pool and a thousand persons stone. Among them, the cloud rock temple tower towering into the clouds has already had a history of more than 1,000 years, in second leaning tower of world, simple and unsophisticated and grand, have already become the landmark building of Suzhou ancient city; The sword pool is deep and remote and very mysterious, king Wu s eternal mystery of the entire grave of gate of a village is buried, make people enjoy oneself so much as to forget to go home; A thousand people stones are impressive, leave grow the common lecture, a thousand people list and sit down to play Much-told tale. Tiger mound tower: Also called the cloud rock temple tower, the classics of 18 scenes. Tower on the mountain peak of the tiger mound, it is a sign of Suzhou. This tower was built in Song Dynasty A.D. 961) Level brick towers octagonal,amount to 7 layers,47.5 meter high.
Because of the reason of the foundation, the body of the tower begins to slope in the northwest direction 400 years ago. According to measure tentatively, tower upper central point deviate from and up to 2.3 meters (world-famous Italy leaning tower of Pisa from the perpendicular line of in the center, its top of the tower deviates from 4.4 meters) Called The eastern leaning tower of Pisa . The original top of the tower is destroyed in and struck by lightning. 1956 is when rebuild,it find by stone letter in at third layer of intermediate layers, through case, bronze statue of Buddha, bronze mirror, exceed kiln celadon lotus flower bowl,etc. historical relics preciouses large quantities of. Tiger s mound most mysterious, most attractive historic site of sword pool of tiger mound is the sword pool. On a thousand people stone due north cliffs, are engraving four big characters: sword pool of tiger mound . It is said these four words come from the big calligraphist Yan ZhenQing s own handwriting of the Tang Dynasty. There is narrow pond like the rapier under the cliff in the so-called sword pool. The tomb of king Wu entire gate of a village may be here, it is buried alive with the dead to regard fish s intestines sword and other double-edged swords 3,000 as king Wu at that time according to legend, thus come the name of the sword pool. Two blocks of precipitous stone precipices rise sheer from level ground, lock a pond of green water. the pool grows the cold secretly , the empty mountain sword is angry and deep ,The meteorological phenomena, in order to change. According to the records of will of Suzhou office , Luyu reside abroad or in a place away from one s hometown tiger mound for a long time, study the tea, work The Classic of Tea on one side. Water in the sword pool is chosen as by him The fifth spring all over the world . Mystery of tomb Wang Wu rebuilt the tiger mound in 1955, dredged the sword pool. Had scrubed the liver moss at that time, verify sword have Cheung Chau, Wu County, the intersection of Kunshan and three the intersection of county magistrate and the intersection of I and stone engraving of amiable and compliant wait for someone and Yin, Wang Ao Tang,et al. to keep a record of events in two sides Ming Dynasty really at the the intersection of pool and in the east rock wall, loaded with bright straight Germany seven years (1512) Sword the intersection of pool and water do, find simple situation of door of a coffin chamber Wang Wu on bottom of the pool. Mountain pile by earth and all above-mentioned sign analyze sword pool for shield, present tomb Wang and design cut probably behind the mound from tiger. Probably there is a certain secret behind the door of a coffin chamber too. But tomb Wang Wu in among them, before not exploring, proving by archaeology, it is still eternal mystery.
Note: Can rent the holding electronic guide machine in the entry, 10 yuan each time.