Characteristics And Features Of The Oriental Venice, A Beautiful City

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Suzhou, known as the Oriental Venice, is a very beautiful city. There are about 150 gardens in Suzhou, some of which have a history of 1000. These gardens aren't big, but they all have their own characteristics. We can find a lot of features among them. Let's introduce the two places. Humble Administrator's Garden, which I think is one of the most beautiful gardens, is also one of the four big gardens. It is also the largest garden in which many flowers and buildings were listed as world heritage sites with some other gardens in 1997. Building the existing Humble Administrator's Garden, mostly Qing Xianfeng ten years (1860) reconstruction of Humble Administrator's Garden became the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom zhongwangfu garden, to …show more content…
The overall layout of the pool, pavilions are built near the water, some pavilion is straight out of the water, with the characteristics of the Yangtze River delta. Pool Guangshu Mao, the natural scenery, beside the layout of the body and the level of scattered buildings, boats. The overall pattern still maintains the Ming Dynasty garden vigorous, simple, the sparse long artistic style. The former "fill the garden", the water roundabout, compact layout, yard built to pavilion. The ups and downs, twists and turns, Ling Bo Gallery of water, streams, Suzhou garden art masterpiece. The eastern part of the original "back to the garden" layout to Toyama Hiraoka, pine grass, bamboo based Qushui dock. With the mountain pool Pavilion, remain sparse bright and bright style main building, Lan Xuetang Furong, Tian Ting, Zhui Yunfeng, were moved to …show more content…
Its total area is 416 square kilometers. According to the Yangcheng Lake East and Kunshan, the west by the Taihu, north of Wuxi and Changshu, south of Suzhou City District, industrial park and high-tech zones. Xiangcheng District is one of the most developed areas in Suzhou and even in the Yangtze River Delta. It has 14 high-speed entrances and exits. Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway and Huning are all located in Xiangcheng. Xiangcheng District has a rich cultural background, which has bred many historical and cultural celebrities such as Lu Xun, Lu Li, Yao Guangxiao, Shen Zhou and Wen Zhiming. It has also formed the cultural heritages of "ten absolutely Xiangcheng" represented by "the Royal kiln and the gold bricks". Xiangcheng District has 2/3 of the Yangcheng Lake surface, rich aquatic resources, including: Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs well-known at home and

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