The lion forest is one of the four classical gardens in suzhou, has been 650 years of history, as the representative of the yuan dynasty garden. Located in suzhou city, jiangsu province city northeastern garden road no. 23, plane into something a bit width rectangle, covers an area of 1.1 hectares, open area of 0.88 hectares. In 1982 was designated as cultural relics protection unit in jiangsu province. Garden rockery throughout, gallery, number crunchers looms, winding path leading to a secluded spot, feel history generally. Are embedded in the walls of the gallery's four big famous song dynasty, su shi, huang tingjian, calligraphy Cai Xiang monuments, and the southern song dynasty wen tianxiang inscriptions of plum blossom poems.
Mountainous southeast, northwest much water, surrounded by high walls deep curtilage, corridor surrounded. Central to the pool as the center, fold mountain building, move the flowers planted wood, bridge pavilion, has dominated layout is compact, rich artistic conception "Zhi foot mountain". Lion grove both suzhou classical garden pavilion, palace, building, hall, hall, porch, gallery of humanities landscape, more to the lake mountain stone, lives deep hole and famous in the world, known as "rockery kingdom". Lion forest lake stone rockery was more and exquisite, lake Shi Linglong, hole lives flowing, twists and turns, such as the history, is regarded as "taoyuan 18 scene". Ceiling mountain peak forest, are like the lion dance. With CDH, spit on, XuanYu, Leon xia peak, lion peak and to the ZhuFeng list. Campus construction is given priority to with YanYu hall, after hall is a lion originally bodhi authentic temple garden, Lin in A.D. 1341, the monk preached day such as Jackson went to suzhou, by his disciples. The following year (the yuan dynasty last emperor shun emperor to is two years), the disciples to buy to buy house for days like phil Jackson to build monasteries. Garden was built in the yuan dynasty to two years (AD 1342), by the day, such as master but the disciple made for in the division, the early name "Lin temple", later renamed "carry authentic temple", "divine grace temple". History, yuan at the end of the monk day if phil Jackson d disciple "at capital contribution, to buy land and house, to the teacher".
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Ming hongwu six years (AD 1373), 73 - year - old big painter-calligrapher NiZan (yunlin) via suzhou, participated in gardening, painting and acknowledged (with the lion figure Lin), make very famous lion grove, become a buddhist lecture and literati painting chanting songs of the resort. At the beginning of the qing emperor qianlong, temple garden is a private property, from temple temple, involved in the garden, because the park has wukesong tree, so it is also called five pine garden. For pigment comprador businessman bought BeiRunSheng 1917, after nine years of building, expansion, is still a lion grove garden east (for bayesian clan academy, learn and housing).
Ming wanli seventeen years (AD 1589), Ming surname monk begging for alms chang-an yu, rebuild the lion Lin Shengen temple, Buddha hall, thriving scene. To kangxi years, temple, garden, for the father of Huang Xi, hengchow magistrate after Huang Xingzu bought, named "for garden."
On February 11, 1703 AD the qing emperor kangxi tour at this point, given the forehead "lion Lin temple", after the qing emperor qianlong six lion grove, has been given according to the mirror round, "painting of Buddha and existing" really fun "equal plaque. Qing qianlong thirty six years (AD 1771), Huang Xi examination, refinement, reforming courtyard, named "five pine garden". To the middle of the reign of qing emperor guangxu huang family decline, garden have qian Bridges, rockery is still only.
In A.D. 1917, the Shanghai pigment company BeiRunSheng (world famous architect i. m. pei's uncle) from civil administration chief Li Zhongyu purchased lion grove, 800000 silver, for nearly seven years of time to repair, add some of the attractions, and dubbed "the lion forest" old name, lion forest canopy Sioux city at one time. BeiRunSheng had prepared to preparations for the opening, but due to the outbreak of the war of resistance. BeiRunSheng died in 1945 AD, the lion by its Sun Beihuan Lin chapter management. After the liberation, bayesian posterity will be donated to the country of suzhou gardens administration over after renovation, open to the public in 1954 AD.
穿过有砖砌“涉趣”(取自陶渊明“园日涉以成趣”句)二字的圆洞门，我们便到了指柏轩。这里是僧人讲经说法的地方。唐代禅师从谂(号称赵州法道)在传授禅教宗义时，不论弟子问他什么，他总是一句话：“庭前柏树子”，意思是要参禅者从玄妙的暗示中自行体会。故取名为指柏轩。这里也是贝家亲属们聚会的地方。厅堂上方悬挂了由王同愈所写的“揖峰指柏”匾，“指柏”是指禅宗公案一事，“揖峰”则取宋代米芾见石峰作揖典故。以下是1988年由著名书画家合作的《寿柏图》，张辛稼画红梅、吴牧木写古柏，徐绍青绘湖石，费新我题词。厅堂前假山林立，柏树龙盘虬绕。卧云宝座落在假山丛中，这座假山峰是目前古典园林中最著名的湖石假山，其中有4条山道，互相缠绕，错综复杂，当年乾隆皇帝在其中转了两个时辰也没转出去。里面还有一个棋盘洞，传说是吕洞宾和铁拐李下棋的地方。假山峰上有含晖、吐月等名石。石缝间长着奇松怪柏，恰似一幅美丽的山水画，传说乾隆皇帝曾在此绘像留影，请各位抓紧时间在此摄影留念。
经走廊往西，我们便到了花篮厅。花篮厅因厅内柱端雕有花篮状，饰有花篮图案而得名。1945年在此厅曾举行日本人投降仪式，屏门上刻有巨幅《松寿图》，隶书横匾“水里风来”，点出了在夏天这里是赏荷花的好地方。
出花篮厅往西便到了真趣亭。“真趣”二字由乾隆皇帝亲笔御题。这其中有这样一个故事。清代乾隆游园，状元黄熙接驾，见乾隆题“真有趣”三个字，觉得其中的“有”字太俗，便请皇上恩赐“有”字，而留下了“真趣”二字。亭上有“秀才帽”的装饰，寓意深远，有道是“秀才本是宰相根苗”，要成为状元首先要从秀才做起。园主意在教育子孙后代的发奋学习，期望有朝一日金榜题名，得中功名。高楼万丈平地起，这个道理在今天同样适用。现在，我们可以一边欣赏湖心亭、九曲桥、石舫、飞瀑、池湖等景色，一边摄影留念。过后我们在石拱桥东面空旷地集合，钻洞爬山，真正领略一下闻名中外的“假山王国”的韵味。
〔钻假山后〕
我们现在来到的地方叫立雪堂。这里有一个典故，说的是北宋时期，杨时和游酢二人冒雪在门外候见堂内的程颐老师，以表明虚心好学，所以又叫程门立雪。这充分体现了园主旨在宣扬尊师重教的思想。请各位再看看庭院中的三块湖石分别像什么?对!像牛、螃蟹和狮子。牛想吃螃蟹，不知从何处下口，螃蟹是张牙舞爪，毫不示弱，而狮子则在边上好奇地静观，这一组湖石十分有趣，名称叫做“狮子静观牛吃蟹”。还有狮子滚绣球、刘海戏金蟾两组湖石。我们细心一点，可以发现一个有趣的现象，瞧，狮子的尾巴往上翘，金蟾只有三只脚，这并不是疏漏，而是园主为了暗示一种禅宗教义，为人处世不要太认真，糊涂一点为好，而“牛吃蟹”也是反映了一种马马虎虎的意思。这只金蟾，本来在刘海身边，是乘刘不注意的时候逃出来的，刘海后来知道它躲在了贝家园林的一口井里，便用金钱串成钓杆把它钓了上来。从此，金蟾的真身回到了刘海的身边，而肉身却留在了贝家，贝家以此为荣，认为它象征了荣华富贵，从此三脚金蟾成了贝家的族标。
再过去就是燕誉堂，又回到了我们进园的地方了，经右拐可以出园门，整个游程到此结束。在此视各位身体健康、万事如意!
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欢迎来著名的江南园林狮子林游览!
狮子林系苏州市四大名园之一，位于城东北的园林路上，始建于元代至正元年间，距今已有六百多年的历史了。这座园林是元代僧人天如禅师为纪念他的老师中峰禅师所建。第一道门门额上“师子林“的师，就是老师的师。后因园内假山众多，状如狮子，在写法上又改为狮子林，一直沿用至今。检票处门额上的“狮子林”三个字系清朝乾隆皇帝的御笔。
跨入园内，可以见到一座大厅，这就是贝家祠堂。正中的一块匾上有顾廷龙手书“云林逸韵”四个字，是赞扬狮子林的设计者之一倪云林的设计有虚静清逸的韵味。两边走廊的木栏杆上雕有牡丹、凤凰及寿字图案，上有带花瓶与贝叶图案的挂屏。贝叶为书写佛经所用，既反映了狮子林是禅宗修学佛道的地方，又有纪念意义，因狮子林最后一位园主姓贝。祠堂是供奉、祭祀祖宗，族人聚会的地方，在屋顶上塑有福、禄、寿三位神仙和一个小孩的塑像，表明了园主希望他的子孙后代能够出类拔萃、光宗耀祖。再看走廊入口处有砖砌“春华”二字，意思是园内春光烂漫。请往前走。
现在我们已到了燕誉堂，燕誉是安祥、快乐的意思。出自于《诗经》“式燕且誉，好尔无射”。再请大家看看脚下是个什么字，对!是个“寿”字，边上是五只蝙蝠，取五福祝寿之意，五福“寿”为先，所以寿为中心。说明园主希望他和他的家族健康长寿，多子多孙、安祥、快乐。该厅堂的建筑是苏州园林中著名的鸳鸯厅。前面称为厅，后面称为堂。前厅接待贵宾或男宾，后堂则用于女眷聚会之处。在建筑风格上绝然不同，体现了男尊女卑的封建思想。
我们现在来到了小方厅，因为其厅方正，所以得名。请看两边的大型空窗，让我们感觉是两幅图画，东窗外是素芯腊梅，西窗外是城市山林，这是苏州园林的一种造园艺术手法，叫框景。它可以随季节的变化，脚步的移动而变化画面，我们不妨试一试。