Ticket
Busy season (April 16- October 31 )20 yuan; 15 yuan in slack period. Offer storytelling and ballad singing performance, folk music to play free in the whole year
Traffic
Small lane No. 8 of new bridge of the east of the city. The No. of public transit 701 arrives directly. Call the tricycle to the east garden from Humble Administrator s Garden, lion s forest,etc., the money of car is 5 yuan.
Public transit 305 No. get east garden take the intersection of storehouse and the intersection of street and entry, walk several hectometres reach promptly.
Introduce
The intersection of coupling and garden, locate Lou, the intersection of looks and light the intersection of new bridge and lane among the inner gate. The overall arrangement of the whole garden, rather do in the proper way. Huangshi rockery, as the theme of the whole garden, pile pile it naturally, the position is appropriate, precipitous steepness and uprightness, the meteorological phenomena is forceful, for a comparatively successful one in Suzhou garden Huangshi rockery. Worth visiting and awarding the destination lingered on in fact.
Coupling (and even )The garden, mean married couple all live in seclusion and belong to the field, the meaning which two people cultivate together. The coupling garden, gain the name because there are two gardens of the east, the west.
Would rather protect the procurator Lu Jin to build for the first time for being clear originally in the east garden, the name involves in the garden ,Have another name called Xiao Yu forest . And then in order to wish the villa.
In the period of only continuing, Anhui governor of a province administration two governor Jiang Shen BingCheng, resign and settle in Suzhou, belong to the field and live in seclusion, engage painter Gu Tan to build again, extends the west garden on the basis of exactly building and involve in the old site of the garden, start into a current situation, the Republic of China is all check marks of the Liu s of Changzhou at the beginning.
The east garden overall arrangement takes mountain as the core, regard pool as and line with, the subject building faces south, it is a group of balconies of layers of eaves. The northeast corner is outstanding slightly, open up the small courtyard 3 inside, the heavy floor replies one; Link with the house in the west, the song thatched cottage of general name city; It is the place where the garden mainly wet and have a get-together in former days to set up 3 halls in the middle, this kind of structure, rarely seen for Suzhou garden.
Separate in front of the balcony with the wide flat slope meadow, there is Huangshi to fold the rockery, the imposing manner is forceful, it is deep to dig the pond the false side of Shandong, narrow and long in the north and south.
There are corridors in the east of the pool, connect the east of the hall in the north, face small pavilion of water in Nantong. Water of the pool is spread from the rockery eastwards, there are song bridge shelves on water. It is built across water that there are pavilions in the south of the pool, called among the mountains and rivers, there are three durable plants of winter: pine, bamboo and plum blossom inside Fall and cover, featured by exquisite carving.
Huangshi rockery before the song thatched cottage of the city, one pile of stones is spectacular, it is the most exquisite part of the whole mountain.
By the east,beyond city river is for circle. All the intersection of garden and 18 of area 18 hectares) ,Built up tentatively in 1979, and opened to the outside world formally on June 10 of the same year.
East garden to utilize Jiang garden ruins, the intersection of ancient city and the intersection of wall and site and inner city river, through transforming manually. Original the intersection of inner city and river dig vast surface of water, wide to plant the flowers and trees at continuous the intersection of ancient city and site, form the new modern garden taking mountains and rivers as main view. There is the largest yacht quay of Suzhou city on the now open riverside, there are more than 60 sightseeing boats. Go boating and ripple on the surface of water, make people completely relaxed and happy. There is travelling area in the south, there are bumper cars, slide in more than 10 kinds of recreation facilities such as the dragon, air fighter, merry-go-round inside.
Building and view of the east garden can roughly be divided into two things. West Israel mainly Contain the green floor It is a main scene. It hang two of mountain, the intersection of grey tile and white wall, have spacious platform ago, face the mountain, close to water, have the intersection of song and mild and indirect to connect corridor, separate light courtyard, high or low prices straggly, scenery each other different, sip tea, award scene good. And real kind of Chinese style courtyard which New York Metropolitan Museum of U.S.A. built in 1979 Bright and high . It is with Wang Shi Yuan Garden End of the springtime Yi It is the original version, consulted the Ming Dynasty of Suzhou form of the building and structural design were built, 31 meters long, 13.5 meters wide, it is more than 7 meters of high envelope volcano walls all around. There are cold spring pavilions inside, the song corridor, buildings such as the mountain stone,etc., and plant and have plants such as briar, hydrangea, canna, kind filial piety bamboo, red Chinese sweet gum, melon seed Buxus sinica,etc.. The whole overall arrangement is dredged bright and gracefully, the structure is careful. Embody the building soft carefully and neatly, simple and elegant and lucid and lively, succinct and agile in the Ming Dynasty Characteristic. The east takes residual mound of wall of ancient city as the core, extend the trees on several hectometres of mounds lush and greenly, have imposing manner of mountain forest. The river surface in the west, the south is wide the north is narrow, the twists hover. Containing the inverted image of green floor forms a beautiful ink and wash painting with three hole bridge inverted image during that time. There is a pond, the name view fish district besides in the east of three hole bridge . Have the intersection of pavilion and the intersection of song and bridge at the pool, raise have numerous aquarium fish in the pool, visitor already can lean upon a balustrade, play with fish, can go angling.
The east garden is shady to gather, fresh and cool and pleasant, there is 100 multi-type of trees now, among them the arbor accounts for 57.2%, the bush accounts for 36.1%, rattan wood 6.1%, it is about 3500 altogether. The special variety is cedar, black pine, fragrant camphor tree, Chinese ash, camellia,etc.. There is the main scenic spot The scenic spot of spring With scenic spot of summer . scenic spot of spring In the south of the wall of ancient city, plant and do something for the occasion the flowers. There is flat one in the highest point of city wall The spring scenery pavilion . To spring, Chinese flowering crabapple, oriental cherry are competitively opened, layer upon layer of, Spring is very much in the air. These colored bush was planted in 1991 mostly. scenic spot of summer Lie in scenic spot of spring The north,mountain is above one flat the Xia JingTing With spring scenery pavilion Respond to and cooperate with each other across a great distance. A lawn under the mountain, green grass such as mattress. Other has a pond of names The lotus pond . Plant the lotus fully in the north of the pool, there are song bridges on the pool, carry water and build a waterside pavilion nearby, the back is wide Lou Jiang. Summer come here, the cool breeze is breezy, carry on one s shoulder or back fragrantly and overflow, a group cool world.
There is 10 sites of friendship facility in the east garden. They are that Suzhou city and world sister city conclude the witness of the friendship. These facilities are distributed in the west mostly. Among them the earliest one was October of 1980 Suzhou and Canadian Victorian city concluded the twin cities and planted trees to commemorate, there is one totem now, in the east in the gate of east garden. There are market, KANAZAWA and friendship monument of Venice, Italy of Ikeda of Japan to contain the green floor adjacent place. There are mountain market, big Tian Yuan city, friendship essay of the market of ridge of tortoise of east village of KANAZAWA of Japan near the bridge. scenic spot of summer There is Japan in the north The flower garden of KANAZAWA One, cover an area of about 1500 square meters, built up in 1999, there were typical Japanese buildings such as stone lantern, stone earthen bowl, large bamboo or straw hat with a conical crown and broad brim pavilion,etc. inside. Planting has Japanese oriental cherries, plants such as black pine, red Chinese sweet gum,etc., the whole garden adopts Japan withered mountains and rivers The landscape gardening of the type is built, has reflected the building characteristic of the Japanese courtyard. There is one in the north of the Japanese garden Rose Garden ,It is the friendship garden of Portland of U.S.A.. Built up in 1995, planted American rose in the garden, it was a typical Western-style garden. There is a friendship monument of Quanzhou of South Korea in the camellia garden in the west, set up and planted and had ginkgoes, tree of two of friendship of sweet-scented osmanthus in 1996.
The scenery of east garden is graceful, green tree makes a pleasant shade, it is a natural oxygen bar in the city, the good destination that the citizens in Suzhou visit recreation.
Suzhou zoo lay within the east garden, it was the government of Suzhou that prepared to establish on old sites such as the original prosperous good office,etc. in April of 1953. And open to the outside world formally on May 1 of next year.
Go through the development of over half a century, Suzhou zoo extends several times, starts into a current situation. Exhibit animals and rise to more than 100 breeds now from the first 3- 40 pieces of assortment too, the total number is up to more than 1000, become the famous medium-sized zoo with certain scale of China.
The whole garden is divided into five exhibition areas together, the Northeast is the exhibition area of beast of prey, exhibit large-scale beast of prey such as the lion, tiger, leopard, bear; The southeast is in order to eat the grass exhibition area, exhibit herbivores such as the camel, David s deer, blue sheep,etc.; The middle part is primates exhibition area, exhibit various monkeys; The west is bird s poultry s exhibition area, exhibit various ring birds birds; The north is the little beasts exhibition area, exhibit various racoon dogs, fox, badger, moles animal. There are goldfish s halls besides, aquatic bird s pool,etc. intersperses during that time. There are pools of one party in the middle part, it is free captive animals in the pool of the prosperous good office remains ,There is a large soft-shelled turtle inside, it is criticized of a text that age is difficult, old Suzhou it, for hangs on a soft-shelled turtle ,Quite well-known in citizens.
There are more than ten kinds in the variety as animal under top-level State protection to exhibit now, more than 20 kinds are animals under second -level State protection, among them the famous one includes tiger, manchurian tiger, leopard, David s deer, red-crowned crane, Chinese alligator, lesser panda, boa, big soft-shelled turtle of South China,etc.. Especially the tiger of South China, the whole world only stored 64 by 2003, endangered animals in world class, for not making this species become extinct, the zoo began to be engaged in the research that the tiger of South China beeds since the eighties, and the landscape bureau raised funds of more than 8 million yuan in 1999, set up the tiger of South China of China fostered the base on the island of calabash shell serving as a dipper of scenic spot of stone lake ,Had already beeded 40 successful young tigers by 2003, made the achievement in protecting this species.
In recent years, the east garden management office has strengthened basic construction at the zoo, on the basis of protecting the original ancient and well-known trees well, wide to plant the flowers and trees, extend the lawn, adjust and afforest the overall arrangement rationally, is building a beautiful visit environment for visitors constantly.
, in the west of the central axis of house, with the study for two small courtyards before and after dividing into the centre in the west garden. The name of the study Weave the old room of curtain . There is a institute behind the study, build the book one building through the mountain stone trees, the study is combined with the courtyard closely on building arrangement, this is a characteristic of the coupling garden too.
The area of West Garden is smaller, and weave the old room as the centre with the study and have railway platform ago, spacious and bright, and then there are small courtyards, quiet and tastefully laid out and delicate and pretty, build the book one building again through the mountain stone trees; The south it have one institute also, irregular shape, southwest corner sets up the rockery, set up the flowers and trees, among lake will put stone,is it deep and remote to seem interesting in song.
The main scene Huangshi rockery of the whole garden, builds before the balcony of thatched cottage of city song, the stone is alternate in size, the tactics are lifelike naturally. A half of false Shandong is relatively large, the platform in the east and stone room in the west on very open mountain of cobbled path in front of the drawing room; The east of platform, mountain lie increase, transfer precipice to, sharpen and leave direct, face on pond, precipice southeast set up the intersection of stone step and dish, by the pool in accordance with the tendency, the imposing manner here is the most excellent place of the whole mountain, a half of false Shanxi is relatively small, but reduce from the east step by step in the west, the slope is slower and slower, are stopped in the small right wall of drawing room. There is valley one between the two halves portion of the things, both sides precipice such as cliff. And the precipice borders on the pond in the east, the dimension in the rockery cooperates with width the pool appropriately, the space matches. Do not build the pavilion on the mountain, but pave the place of the soil on the mountaintop behind the mountain, intersperse more than ten kinds of flowers and trees, flicker with the wind, it is interesting to add the mountain forest.
Remind: While visiting three gardens, should be chosen the good route, come in and go out from the east garden front door, otherwise apt to get lost. Can along the intersection of White Dagoba and the intersection of East Road and 200 meters westwards, and then visit half a garden after visit, (3 yuan) ,Although these gardens are obscure, extremely peaceful, graceful, incomparable in famous beauty spots such as Humble Administrator s Garden, lion s forest,etc..
The zoo of Suzhou was set up on May 1, 1954. It lies in a detached island of the inner river mouth of the east in Sioux City of aunt, area is about 2 hectares. The ancient tree reaches to the sky, green on the tree and makes a pleasant shade in the garden, luxuriant flowers and plants, compactness of animal s overall arrangement is reasonable, protect the wild animal, popularize the good place of animal scientific knowledge and people s entertainment.
East and back of the zoo, are raising dozens of kinds of mammals; Distribute dozens of kinds of birds in the west; Span in the middle of two parts of the east, the west, there are beautiful goldfish view exhibition corridors; The east, west pond in front of goldfish s hall, can only raise at the zoo of China surviving the winter and weight, largest big soft-shelled turtle of size in the natural environment; In the west have have two two isolate, raise and breed the building, there are long bridges with communicating in the garden outside garden.
At present, raise Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, American and China characterized precious wild animal at the zoo, the animal, among them there are fish, amphibian animal, reptiles, birds and mammal, variety ask animal total number in 120O- 1600 piece about, possess medium-sized scale of zoo totally in whom 120-14O plant.
Suzhou zoo also successively set up a lot of wildly to give birth to animal s population, such as Chinese tiger and Siberia tiger s population,etc.. Three old and precious ginkgoes, tree of a Zhyuan of purple Sri Lankan and a cypress in the zoo, complement each other with a lot of classical buildings in the garden, intersperse the scenery of the whole garden. Give up and plant various flower, grass and trees with the vacant lot around animal s cage, make the wild animal live in the clump of the flowers and plants of the woods.