苏州园林的历史地位及影响力【英文】

The Historical Status and Overseas Influence of Suzhou Gardens (解说词)

May, 1994 Wangshi Garden, Suzhou

"Suzhou Gardens are refined and elegant with the winding path leading to a secluded quiet place. New realms are created one after another by separating the scenery. I think Sino-American relation is just like sleight of creating. Though the path is not straight, it will still have a bright future." said Kissinger, the former Secretary of State of America.

At the dawn of May 11, Wangshi Garden 1993, the Minister Mentor of Singapore Lee Kuan Yew with his wife was sightseeing Wangshi Garden. In the Lady Building of this garden, dozens of meetings, negotiations, and discussions between China and Singapore have been carried out in ten months. And this finally resulted in the constructing of the Suzhou Industrial Park which can hold 13,112 Wangshi Gardens. The negotiators were all astute. Costs, profits, bottoms lines, and principles, all these rigid concepts should be the contents of the negotiation. The tough things are subject to breaking if they inflict, so both sides turned to some softness coincidently to alleviate the conflictions and oppositions. This was what the enjoyment of the Biluochun Tea and the relaxing atmosphere in the boudoir of the Lady Building came from. In the boudoir, reason and sentiment reconciled with each other; argument and modesty co-exisisted. And this is the prerequisite for the thriving of the

Suzhou Industrial park today. The mayor of Suzhou of that time concluded that Jishu Zhai of Wangshi Garden made a great contribution to the progress of negotiation for the Industrial Park.

(解说词)

There are more and more foreigners who have great favor in Suzhou Gardens like Kissinger and Lee Kuan Yew, which can gain its manifestation from the increasing of the Chinese classical gardens overseas.

(英文字幕)

In 1981, the Metropolitan Museum in New York, America imitated Suzhou Gardens to construct Ming Xuan. From then on, XXX countries across the five continents have constructed XXX Chinese classical gardens.

(解说词)

Today, the greatest fame of Suzhou Gardens is gained by the Peony Study of Wangshi Garden. There is a copy of her in the Metropolitan Museum, which is called Ming Xuan with the might meaning of "the Xuan of Ming Dynasty". Such clone realized an ambition, which was trying to restore the private gardens of the ancient oriental country in the skyscraper which had the highest land price. And we did it in 1981! At the beginning of the Opening, the first people who had chance to go abroad on business were surprised at the first glimpse of Ming Xuan, and