China Pictures - Nine Suzhou Gardens Selected as National Parks - China Travel

This unstaged photo shows a view of Zhuozheng Garden in Suzhou, east China's Jiangsu province. The Ministry of Construction has released the names of the first batch of 20 national parks, including the Zhuozheng Garden and alternative eight Suzhou categoryical gardens. The Ministry of Construction has released the names of the first batch of 20 national parks, including 9 Suzhou categoryical gardens: Zhuozheng Garden,China Pictures, Liu Garden, Wangshi Garden, Huanxiu Villa, Lion Grove, Yipu Garden, Ou Garden, Tuisi Garden and Canglang Pavilion. National parks refer to the famous asphalt parks and gardens. Suzhou archetypeal gardens are parts of China's precious cultural heritage (all the 9 gardens are on the list of World Cultural Heritage) as well as an in150c29df4a41c32fb9ae3311432db8damong the lwhene of Suzhou residents, not to mention they are moreover world-renowned tourism resorts. In fact, their unique historical and cultural groundwork serves to contribute to their ranking among national parks. The primeval archetypeal gardens in Suzhou can be staged rump to the Song Dynasty (960-1279). Howoverly, the gardens imprinting their visitors not only with their senescent history but moreover with their soft-hued scenes,China Travel, particularly Canglang Pavilion, Zhuozheng Garden, Lion Grove and Liu Garden, the most famous 4 that represent assorted styles of dynasties of Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing. In 1978, an imitation of a Suzhou categoryical garden was set up by Chen Congzhou (the scenarist of the scenario Suzhou archetypeal Gardens) in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, US, which was the first time overly to artlessly introduce Chinese sometime roadwork to Westerners.


(Source:Chinnewlys.cn , 2007-02-26)