Lion Grove (LionGroveGarden), Lion Grove is one of the representatives of the classical Chinese private garden architecture, has a history of 672 years. It has a history of 672 years and is famous for its deep caves and gullies, and is known as the "Kingdom of Rockery".
Lion Grove rockery, undulating peaks, majestic, strange peaks and rocks, exquisite. Wigwam group *** there are nine mountain road, 21 holes. Horizontal extremely meandering and vertical strive to ring undulating. Tourists through the hole, circling left and right, sometimes on top of the peak, sometimes sinking down to the bottom of the valley, looking up to see full of iterative Roach, looking down on the four sides of the slope difference, God's marvelous heavenly work." "People say I live in the city, I suspect that I am in the mountains", is the true portrayal of the Lion Forest.
The garden rockery all over, the promenade surrounded by buildings and platforms hidden, winding paths and secluded, there is a general feeling of a maze. The walls of the promenade are embedded with calligraphic tablets of the four great masters of the Song Dynasty, Su Shi, Mi Fu, Huang Tingjian and Cai Xiang, as well as inscriptions of "Plum Blossom Poem" by Wen Tianxiang of the Southern Song Dynasty.
Mountainous in the southeast and watery in the northwest, it is surrounded by high walls and deep houses and curved corridors. With the pool in the middle as the center, stacking the mountains to build houses, moving flowers and trees, bridges and pavilions, making the whole garden layout compact, rich in "length of the mountains and forests" mood. Lion's forest of lakes and rocks rockery both more and exquisite, lakes and rocks exquisite, cave and gully turning, twisting and turning, such as into the array, there is a "Taoyuan eighteen scenic" known as. Cave top strange peaks and stones, are like a lion dancing. There are famous peaks, such as containing light, spitting moon, Xuanyu, Angxia, and to the lion peak for the first of the peaks.
Because the garden "forest has bamboo ten thousand, bamboo under the more strange stones, like a mythical beast (lion)", but also because of the Tianru Zen Master but the law in Zhejiang Tianmu Mountain, Lion Rock Puyin Master in the peak, in honor of the mantle of Buddha, the relationship between the teacher and take the meaning of Buddhist scriptures in the lion's seat, it is known as the "Master and son Lin The name "Shizi Lin" or "Lion Forest" is taken from the meaning of the lion seat in the Buddhist scriptures to commemorate the mantle and master-teacher relationship. Also due to the Buddhist book "lion roar" phrase, and many rockery resembles a lion and named.
Ming Hongwu six years (1373 AD), 73-year-old great painter Ni Zan (No. Yunlin) passed through Suzhou, had participated in the garden, and inscribed poems and paintings, painted the "Lion Grove", so that the reputation of the Lion Grove, became a Buddhist preaching and calligraphy and literati poems and paintings of the resort.
Ming Wanli seventeen years (A.D. 1589), the monk surnamed Ming bowl in Chang'an, rebuilt the Lion Grove Sheng'en Temple, the Buddha Hall, reproduced the prosperous scene. In the Kangxi period, the temple and the garden were separated, and then Huang Xingzu, the father of Huang Xi and the governor of Hengzhou, bought it and named it "Shibuyuan".
1703 A.D. February 11, Qing Kangxi tour to this, given "Lion Grove Temple", after the Qing Emperor Qianlong six visits to the Lion Grove, has given the "mirror Zhiyuanzhao", "painting Zen Temple "and the existing" true interest "and other plaques. Qing dynasty Qianlong thirty-six years (A.D. 1771), Huang Xi high school scholars, refurbishment of the mansion, reorganization of the courtyard, named "five pines garden".
Lion Grove is not high, but the cave gully circling, embedded in the sky strange; although the pool is not deep, but the ring of twists and turns, the level of esoteric, waterfalls and springs hidden in the flowers and trees in the sparsely populated, the old and famous wood is very impressive. Most of the ancient buildings of the Lion Grove retained the style of the Yuan Dynasty, for the Yuan Dynasty garden masterpieces. The garden to stacked stones to win, caves and gullies, strange stone forests, pools and haunted. There are some structures in the mountain and the water, such as the Finger Cypress Xuan, the True Interest Pavilion, the Plum Pavilion, the Stone Boat, and the Crouching Cloud Room. The main hall YanYuTang, the structure is exquisite, the furnishings are gorgeous, is a typical form of mandarin ducks hall; finger cypress xuan, south of the wigwam, under the small pool, the cypress is pale and strong, such as set in the painting; see the mountain building, can see the group of peaks, the mountains such as the clouds like the sea; HeHuaHuaHall carvings are exquisite; the five pines garden garden is quiet and elegant; the lakeshine pavilion, the dark scent of shadows building, fan pavilion and so on have their own specialties and are durable to watch. The garden is surrounded by long corridors, flower walls and leaky windows with complicated changes, and more than 70 calligraphic tablets and posters by famous writers, which have been honored by the world so far.
When you enter the garden, you will see exquisite stalagmites, stone peaks, clusters of peonies and magnolias, which are harmonized with the side windows at the back of the "Lixue Hall" to make the framed scenery more complete and form a visual sense of beauty before entering the courtyard, and at the same time, it is a metaphor for "Jade Hall of Wealth and Prosperity". And there are hidden outside the meaning of the hidden inside and the deep meaning of the landscape. North of the courtyard is the main building spacious and magnificent Yuanyang Hall. The name of the south hall is "Yanyutang", which comes from the Book of Songs and means "high reputation and high salary", meaning leisure and happiness. Introduced through the courtyard layer by layer, step by step to unfold the technique, so that the space is rich in change, the depth of the scene to expand the main garden to play a wonderful role in paving the way.
Travelers through the cave, circling left and right, sometimes on top of the peak, sometimes sunk to the bottom of the valley, looking up to see the full range, looking down on the four sides of the slope difference, such as into the deep mountain peaks. The cave is treacherous, suddenly open, suddenly deep, stirrups Road jagged, or gently, or narrow, to the tourists bring a kind of trance mysterious fun. "Across the rocky situation Yin, back to the road suddenly through. Such as wearing nine curved beads, winding potential embedded in the air. As if the eight array diagram, change the shape of infinite. The old road forgets to go in and out, and the new technique is lost in the west and east. The same tour is occasionally dispersed, the sound of people do not meet. Changes open the veins of the earth, subtle heavenly work", "people say I live in the city, I doubt that I am in the mountains", is the true portrayal of the Lion's Forest.