拙政园英文介绍

1、拙政园英丈介绍Pleasure Group Office T985AB-B866SYT-B182C-BS682T-STT18】 The Humble Administrators Garden is the largest and most famous classic garden in Suzhou. Its exquisite beauty； artistic value and historic significant established the garden, as one of Chinas four most famous gardens, other three being

2、 the Summer Palace in Beijing, the Mountain Resort of Chengde in Hebei Province and the Lingering Garden in Suzhou. It also listed as a World Cultural Heritage site by United Nations Educational , Scientific r and Cultural Organization in 1997 Covering an area of 52,000 square meters, the Humble Adm

3、inistratorl Garden was began to built in 1509 AD during the Ming Dyn a sty and was finished after 16 years of elaborate private residence is a govemme nt administrator named Wang Xianchen. It was said that he was tired of official life and want to build himself a garden to do some gardening work lik

4、e planting trees and vegetable, which he believed should be a life of a humble man.In 1513, Wang Xian cheng, an gover nment admi nistrator and poet of the Ming Dyn a sty, created a garde n on the site of the Dahong Temple which had bee n bur nt out during the Ming conquest. In 1510, he retired to hi

5、s native home of Suzhou on the occasion of his fathers death He had experieneed a tumultuous official life punctuated by various demotions and promotions, and gave up his last official post as a magistrate of Yongjia county in Zhejiang province, and began to work on the garden, meant to express his

6、fine taste, received close attention from the renowned artist, a Suzhou native, and his friend, Wen Zhengming. The garden was named by a verse of a famous scholar official of Jin Dyn a sty, Pan Yue, i n his prose he said ”1 enjoy a carefree life by planti ng trees and buildi ng my own house.I irriga

7、te my garden and grow vegetables for me to eat.such a life suits retired official like me well. It took 16 years to complete Wen Zhenming wrote an essay for this Garde n, and painted Lan dscapes of it in 1533 in eluding 31 paintings and poems to commemorate the garden.Wangs son lost the garden to pa

8、y gambling debts, and it has changed hands many times since. In 1631 the eastern garden was divided and purchased by Wang Xinyi. the Vice Minister of the Justice Board He added many modifications over the next four years, finishing work in 1635 After completion it was renamed as Dwelling Upon Return

9、 to the Coun tryside The central garden was purchased by Jia ng Qi, Governor of Jiangsu in extensive renovations he renamed it Garden Rebuilt. Cao Xueqin, the author of the Dream of the Red Chamber, is supposed to have lived at the garden during hjs teenage years 一 around 1735 Among Chinese scholars

10、, it is believed that much of the garden in his novel Dream of the Red Chamber was in spired by the see nery of the Humble Administrators Garde n.The Humble Administrators Garden is centered upon a lake of large size； making up about one fifth of the total area The buildings are carefully arranged i

11、n order to match the natural beauty of lakes, pondsr artificial mountains, and various of vegetation and flora And therefore, the garden Iandscape and water scape are simple, extensive and natural, and yet not at all dull since the seenes are distinctive, changeful and of interest. The garden is div

12、ided into three sections - the eastermiddle and the western sections. The middle part is the gem of the garden with clear water, various shaped stones and mountainsf elegant buildings、 leafy old trees and colorful flowers When stepping into the garde you will find a lake of peaceful water and many a

13、ncient cypresses near the bank To the opposite of the pond is the main building Hall of Distant Fragranee (Yuanxiang Tang). The building is beautifully designed, and the reflection of the pavilions, trees and flowers just make up a beautiful picture And you may just imagine that you are walking thro

14、ugh a 3-D Chinese painting.The eastern part of the garden features a verdant hills covered with pine and bamboo trees and en circled by win ding stream and an exte nsive area of grass, flowers and trees The highlight spots include the Furong Waterside Pavilion and the Tianquan Pavilion, which are ve

15、ry finely built and make beautiful reflections on the ponds. The peaceful west section has rich water views with a lake at the center, around which are zigzagging corridors and Mandarin Duck Pavilion. There are so many seenes and spots you can discover in the Humble Administrators Garden. When you are strolling deeper, the landscapes change and y