Canglang Pavilion in Suzhou | Unwilling to compete with the bright winter snow, it bestows its unique beauty and lingering fragrance to solitude
Jade plum trees quietly bloom, with endless subtle fragrance rolling in.
Auspicious snow flutters and dances in the southern garden, as a pot of aged wine intoxicates the terrace.
Photos were taken in early January at Canglang Pavilion,
a very niche garden in Suzhou, where the wintersweet flowers bloom, filling the garden with a floating, hidden fragrance,
anticipating the arrival of spring.
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📍Canglang Pavilion (7:00-17:30)
🎫Peak season 20 yuan/person, off-season 15 yuan/person, garden pass accepted.
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Canglang Pavilion is the oldest garden in Suzhou, originally built during the Qingli era of the Northern Song Dynasty (1041-1048 AD), and in the early Southern Song Dynasty (early 12th century AD), it was the residence of the famous general Han Shizhong. The garden art of Canglang Pavilion is unique; before entering the garden, a pool of green water is set to encircle the outside. The main scenery inside the garden is rocky mountains, with a soil mountain facing the entrance, on which the Canglang Stone Pavilion is situated. Below the mountain, a water pond is excavated, and a winding covered corridor connects the mountains and waters. The Mingdao Hall in the southeast part of the rockery is the main building of the garden, which is complemented by other structures such as the Five Hundred Sages Shrine, Kanshan Tower, Cuilinglong Pavilion, Yangzhi Pavilion, and the Imperial Stele Pavilion.
Canglang Pavilion, along with Lion Grove Garden, Humble Administrator's Garden, and Lingering Garden, is listed as one of the four great gardens of the Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties in Suzhou. In addition to the Canglang Pavilion itself, there are other buildings and landscapes such as the Yinxin Stone House, Mingdao Hall, and Kanshan Tower.
The garden is not big, the rockery garden structure of the garden, the Han Shizhong residence of the Southern Song Dynasty of the Langlang Pavilion, an hour of shopping is enough, the ornamental nature is general, just famous, in contrast, I prefer other gardens in Suzhou.
Other Suzhou gardens have similar landscape garden layouts. The difference is that they belong to a private garden. There are different courtyards and scenery in the garden, but I didn’t see the house. The scenery is still good.
The Langlang Pavilion is a relatively mini garden, built next to the water, and you can see the rockery when you enter the door. It means to be straight to the point and has its characteristics. Tickets are not expensive, it should be a yard worth seeing in Suzhou gardens.
Literature master Lin Yutang said that the girl is the most like a woman in China, so I specially bought the floating six notes, from which I knew Shen Fu, the girl, and the girl. On the weekend, I went to Gusu to travel in a hurry, and I still arranged the girl's pavilion. Without the flow of people in the Humble Administrator's Garden, the flow of people in the Canglang Pavilion is sparse and can be carefully tasted. Building by the water makes this garden look different, and the corridors on both sides are especially elegant and chic. The interior decoration is simple and elegant, and even the indoor decorations are so suitable for the bonsai orchids. In short, the experience is very good.
The name comes from the book "The Record of the Sound of the Lang Pavilion" written by Song Suxuqin, and the poem "The Sound of the Lang Pavilion" written by Ouyang Xiu - "The Qingfeng Mingyue is priceless, but unfortunately only sells 40,000 yuan", only this sentence, the world knows the Sound Pavilion.
The Langlang Pavilion is very beautiful and chic, especially the 108 windows of different shapes are too attractive. There are two kinds of scenery in the courtyard with one wall and two corridors, which is great. During the Spring Festival, tickets are better to make an appointment, that is, there are more people, and you can also play in the park, the Confucian Temple, etc.
Compared with the Humble Administrator's Garden and the Lingering Garden, it is very small. During the Qing Dynasty, the Linglang Pavilion moved from the river to the mountain. The bricks on the ground were still printed by craftsmen, like those taken from the city building when it was rebuilt after the founding of the country. There are 500 celebrities in it, and the name of Lin Zexu, but I didn't find it. Opposite the swelling pavilion is the garden.
Each garden in Suzhou has its own characteristics, and the swell pavilion is full of romanticism from name to structure. The garden is built in the water, reflected in pairs, entering the gate, a green river surrounds the whole building, which has a unique charm.