Tuesday, December 05, 2006

Suzhou 2

Shi Zi Lin (Lion Forest Garden), the only garden surviving from the end of the Yuan Dynasty, is also called the Kingdom of Rockeries. It is famous for its man-made limestone mountains with winding pathways and caverns as well as pavilions, terraces and towers.


This is called "Nine Lions' Peak". Can you find 9 lines from the rokery?

One of the expression in Chinese style garden is called "frame the sceneray" which used different shapes of gate and window, and made the scenerary looked like a painting.



Forgot to say, this garden used to belong to the brother of the grandfather of IM Pei, who designed the Louvre Pyramid.

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