I also want to know the feng shui evaluation of Suzhou gardens.
Lion Forest is located in the northeast of Suzhou, with an area of 1. 1 hectare and an open area of 0.88 hectares. The general plane is a rectangle with something slightly wider. Surrounded by high walls and deep houses, surrounded by winding corridors. With the central pool as the center, it is built on mountains, with flowers and trees, small bridges and flowing water, pavilions and pavilions, which makes the whole park compact and full of the artistic conception of "standing in the mountains".
This garden was built in the second year of Yuan Dynasty to Zheng Zheng (AD 1342) by Tian Ru, a disciple of Zen master Wei Ze. Originally named "Lion Forest Temple", it was later renamed "Bodhi Zhenzong Temple" and "Shenen Temple". However, he once wrote the poem "Fourteen Scenes of Lion Grove", which described the scenery and life scenes at that time.
Ni Yunlin, a painter and calligrapher in the Ming Dynasty, participated in gardening and painted poems, which made the Lion Forest famous all over the world and became a resort for Buddhists to give lectures and literati to recite poems and paint. The garden has experienced ups and downs, and temples, gardens and residential houses have merged, combining traditional gardening techniques and Buddhist thoughts. The modern Bayes family introduced western gardening techniques and ancestral temples into the garden, making it a temple garden integrating Zen theory and garden fun.
Lion Forest is famous for its rockery, covering an area of about 0. 15 hectares. The rockery in the lion forest simulates the human body, lion shape and animal image related to Buddhist stories, so as to achieve the purpose of rendering the Buddhist atmosphere. This practice has been misused by later generations, and it has evolved into a pleasure of establishing animal images, which has led to some poor works and made some landscape experts think that the techniques and effects of overlapping mountains in the East are unnatural.
Its cave practice is not entirely based on natural caves, but uses maze practice, which is connected by winding and intricate caves to increase the interest of tourists, so it is more appropriate to summarize its mountains with the words "love" and "interest". In the east of the garden, Dieshan Mountain is all made of lake stones, and is abstracted and exaggerated with Buddhist scriptures Leo as mimetic modeling, forming a rocky "rockery kingdom". The mountain is divided into upper, middle and lower layers, with 2/kloc-0 caves and 9 winding paths. The cliffs and gullies are winding and the peaks are undulating, so it is fun for tourists to walk in them, such as entering a maze.
The stone peaks on the top of the mountain are all kinds of peaks, such as "containing light", "spitting Dan", "standing upright" and "lion", each with its own expression and strange shape, which makes people think. The ancient cypresses and Gu Song branches on the mountain are vigorous, which adds to the wild interest in the mountains. There is a long and narrow stream on the west side of this rockery, which divides the mountain in two. The bamboo pavilion was built and repaired across the stream. The pavilion imitates the shape of a natural cave and connects the rockery into a whole. This technology is unique.
There are waterfalls, dry streams and stone streams in the mountains in the west and south of the park, which are naturally combined with buildings, walls and water surfaces, and are matched with plants such as Magnolia grandiflora, Cinnamomum camphora and bamboo to form a natural picture scroll, so that tourists can experience the Zen meaning of "being suitable for forest interest and being outside things" while enjoying the garden and scenery.
There are several points of water accumulation in the park. A pavilion stands in the center of the aggregate main pool, and the curved bridge is connected with the pavilion, which seems to be separated and combined. Red scales jump into the water, green willows brush the water, and clouds float. It's really "half an acre of square pond is like a mirror, full of clouds and shadows." The treatment of water source is unique. Deep in the rockery to the west of the park, the rocks are cliff-like. A clear spring flows down lake rocks, such as Qinming Valley, which is crisp and pleasant, forming a striking artificial waterfall in Suzhou classical gardens. The park is rich in water features, with streams and springs flowing, winding between caves and valleys, looming among trees and hidden in caves and rocks, with profound changes and rich twists and turns.
The lion forest consists of three parts: the building divides the hall, the house and the garden. At present, the entrance to the garden used to be the Bei's Ancestral Hall. The mountain hall is hard, the eaves are deep, the light is dim and the atmosphere is solemn. The residential area, represented by Yanyutang, is the main hall of the whole park. The building is spacious and magnificent, with elegant and luxurious furnishings in the hall.
There are four small gardens along the north axis of the main hall. Yanyutang takes white, purple magnolia and peony terrace as the spring garden, which is cordial and lively. Two cherry blossoms are planted in the garden of Bei Tang. Add more springs. A small square hall is a style that is surrounded by mountains and waters. The empty windows on the east and west sides of the hall, together with Chimonanthus praecox, Bambusa Fukuda and Shifeng, form a picture of "Cold Plum" and a picture of "Bamboo Stone", just like a silent poem, which enlivens the small square hall. The leaky windows in the Lion Forest have various forms and exquisite workmanship, especially the four leaky windows of Qin, Chess, Book and Painting behind the Nine Stone Peaks and the clay sculptures with the theme of natural flowers on the walls around Zhibaixuan.