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Lingering Garden is located outside the Changmen gate (阊门) of Suzhou, Jiangsu province. It was commissioned by Xu Taishi ( 徐泰时 ), an impeached and later exonerated official in 1593 CE. Stonemason Zhou Shicheng ( 周时臣 ) designed and built the East Garden ( 东园 ) as it was initially called.
Spanning a period of almost one thousand years, from the Northern Song to the late Qing dynasties (11th-19th century), these gardens, most of them built by scholars, standardized many of the key features of classical Chinese garden design with constructed landscapes mimicking natural scenery of rocks, hills and rivers with strategically located ...
Humble Administrator's Garden: ... Suzhou: 1-121 Lingering Garden: Liuyuan 留园: Suzhou: 1-124 Suzhou Confucian Temple and its stone inscriptions Suzhou Wenmiao ji ...
The Humble Administrator's Garden and Lingering Garden are among the four most famous classical gardens in China. The Canglang Pavilion , Lion Grove Garden , Humble Administrator's Garden and Lingering Garden, respectively representing the garden styles of traditional architecture are called the four most famous gardens in Suzhou.
The gardens were intended as spaces for contemplation and retreat from the outside world, embodying ideals of harmony and tranquility. Among the most famous of these gardens are the Humble Administrator's Garden and the Lingering Garden.813: Old Town of Lijiang * Yunnan: 1997 ii, iv, v
Protecting New York's forests. The U.S. Forest Service has found selective breeding of lingering ash trees can lead to offspring that are highly resistant to emerald ash borers within two ...
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The Chinese garden is a landscape garden style which has evolved over three thousand years. It includes both the vast gardens of the Chinese emperors and members of the imperial family, built for pleasure and to impress, and the more intimate gardens created by scholars, poets, former government officials, soldiers and merchants, made for reflection and escape from the outside world.