拙政园英文介绍

Main Scenery Spot
The Humble Administrator Garden is divided into three parts—the eastern park, the western park and the middle park,including 兰雪堂、涵青 亭、秫香馆、天泉亭、芙蓉榭、缀云峰、玉兰堂、 见山楼、荷风四面亭、香洲、松风水阁、小飞虹、 远香堂、海棠春坞、听雨轩、雪香云蔚亭、梧竹 幽居、留听阁、塔影亭、浮翠阁、笠亭、与谁同 坐轩、倒影楼（夜景）、波形廊、宜两亭、卅六 鸳鸯馆（十八曼陀罗花馆）、盆景园、雅石斋.
Luxuriant flowers and trees
The Humble Administrator Garden is well known for its flowers and trees. Peach blossoms in spring, lotus in summer, polygonum in fall and wintersweet constitute the most gorgeous picture scroll.
Architectural Art
• Ubiquitous ponds • Elegant design style of courtyards • Courtyards strewn at random • Luxuriant flowers and trees
Ubiquitous ponds
There is nearly 6 mu of water surface,which occupies one third of the garden area.It is said that when Wen zhengming started to design the Humble Administrator Garden,he found that it is unsuitable to build many constructions on this place because of soft soil,diffuse water and heavy moisture.So Wen Zhengming took water as the theme and embellished the garden with trees and flowers,designing each scenery spot tactfully.With the addition of lotus and brightcoloured carp,these ponds have been beautiful landscapes.
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Graceful interior design
Courtyards strewn at random
In early years, the constructions in the garden were quite sparse, only including a hall, a little building and six pavilions. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the quantity of constructions had increased obviously while the area of the whole garden decreased. The consistency of central buildings had reached 16.3%. The ancients interpenetrated two groups of courtyards betweeen the houses and the garden landscape,solving transition of both. Set off by the spaces of these different size courtyards, the main space appear to be wider.
Elegant design style of courtyards
• Exquisite carvings • Classical windows and doors • Graceful interior design
Exquisite carvings
Classical windows and doors
Chinese Suzhou Traditional Garden
Humble Administrator Garden 拙政园
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Brief Introduction
The Humble Administrator Garden, built in 1509(明朝正 德四年）by Wang Xianchen during the Ming Dynasty , is located in the No.178 Northeast Street of Suzhou City. It is the largest and most renowned classical landscape garden in Suzhou, covering an area of 83.5 Mu. As one of four great gardens in china, it is a 5A tourist spot and listed in the key national heritage conservation units in 1961.The garden was inscribed on the World cultural heritage listed by UNESCO in 1997.It is worth mentioning that the designer is a very famous figure— Wen Zhengming(文徵明).