The entrance hall of Canglang Pavilion is a three-bay, covering an area of over 100 square meter. In the past, this was the parking place for dignitaries who entered the park, and bearers could also take a nap here, so the entrance hall was also called "sedan chair hall".
Between the east and west walls of the foyer, there are inscriptions reconstructed in past dynasties and panoramic stone carvings of Canglang Pavilion, which are extremely precious historical relics. Through these inscriptions, we can fully understand the vicissitudes of Canglang Pavilion.
Ming Dow Hall, located in the center of the garden, is the main hall in the garden, covering an area of more than 200 square meters. In the old days, it was a place to give lectures, taking the meaning of Canglang Pavilion in Su Shunqin as "seeing and hearing is innocent, then it is clear".
According to legend, during his seven years as governor of Jiangsu, Lin Zexu, a national hero, often gathered friends here, recited poems and enjoyed operas, and discussed the world together.
Ming Dow Hall is divided into three main bays, which are right in the middle of the north and south. They are all floor-standing long doors and windows, 12, with a light skirt at the waist and a water chestnut with a window heart. There are two left and right rooms in Ming Dow Hall, and there are 24 half-length windows on the north and south walls, all of which are begonia and water chestnut. There is a rectangular fixed partition window between the east and west walls of the hall, all of which are water lines.
The whole building of Ming Dow Hall is magnificent, and its northern hills are covered with trees and peaks. There is a parallel corridor between the east and the west, connecting the opposite "Kingdom of Hua Yao". Walking in the corridor will give people a feeling of being in the mountains.
There is a brick carving "Dongmao" embedded in the southeast corridor of Ming Dow Hall. This brick was carved on the east entrance of Ming Dow Hall 1873, which was later lost, and what was left was later supplemented with books.
Dongmao refers to the newly reclaimed land in the east of the garden, in order to persuade farming to emphasize agriculture. This quantity is taken from the poem "Gathering Rain into a River" by the poet Wang Wei in the Tang Dynasty:
Rain was stored in the forest, and smoke slowly appeared.
Steamed quinoa and cooked millet.
In the past, the east of the garden was farmland. On the occasion of Sanqiu every year, it is golden, with a hut in the middle, and the smoke from the kitchen rises from the roof of Ran Ran, which is full of field atmosphere.
There is also a brick carving "Xishuang" embedded in the southeast corridor of Ming Dow Hall. This brick was carved on the west entrance of Ming Dow Hall 1873, which was later lost, and the surviving ones were later supplemented with books.
Xishuang means seclusion in Xishan. This quantity is based on the poem "If you see the Western Hills, you should know Huang Qixin's heart" written by the poet Wang Wei in the Tang Dynasty, which describes the quiet and elegant landscape and Tsinghua here, which is faintly refreshing.
The leisure pavilion is located in the east of the garden, and the leisure pavilion in the north of the Confucian Temple is a semi-pavilion, with an area of about 10 square meter and cornices. The name of the leisure pavilion is taken from the artistic conception of "reading under the window is difficult, and the staff by the pool wants to sing leisurely" in the poem "Disease" by the poet Lai Peng in the Tang Dynasty, which means to chant leisure. On the inner wall of the leisure pavilion, there is a stone tablet engraved with the imperial poem "Tidal Disaster in the South of the Yangtze River" given by Gan Long.
Jianxin Bookstore is located on the east side of the garden, connected with the "Confucian Temple Fragrant Room", with plum blossoms planted in the middle by a patio. "Seeing the heart" is the heart in a mirror, which means that the mind is as calm as water without any evil thoughts, and the significance of discovering the true source of human nature belongs to Confucianism. It was also built by the governor of Zhang Shusheng, and later it was changed into a greenhouse.
When Governor Zhang Shusheng rebuilt the Canglang Pavilion, he also built a pavilion called "Yangzhi", which is located on the left side of the "Five Hundred Immortals Temple", facing west and facing east, with an upturned cornice and an area of about 5 square meters. A small poem by Wen Zhiming, a painter and calligrapher of Ming Dynasty, is embedded in the wall of the pavilion. Its name implies that 500 sages are highly respected in the mountains, which is enough for future generations to admire.
The Kanshan Building is located at the southernmost tip of the garden. It is built on the "stone house of initiation" and can climb along the stone steps. It has three floors and covers an area of more than 50 square meters. Zhang Shusheng borrowed a sentence from the poem of Yuan Dynasty poet Yu Ji, "Guests come to look for wine, but they look at the mountain without words", and named it Kanshanlou.
Think of the bottom floor of the mountain building as a stone house with no doors. There is a small square window with plum blossom pane on the stone wall on the east and west sides of the stone house. The stairwell on the middle floor of the second floor has four floor-to-ceiling facing south, and the stairwell is separated by two flat doors on both sides. There are two pictures embedded in the center of the French window, and the waist is a convex flat skirt.
Kanshan Pagoda is one of the most beautiful and unique buildings in Suzhou gardens, with its cornices and exquisite structure. Its artistic modeling is like an ark moored on the swaying green waves. When you climb this building, you can overlook Pingchou Village in Nanyuan, southwest cangue, Qizi, Lingyan Mountain and Tianping Mountain. The peaks are floating green and the artistic conception is far-reaching.
In addition, there is the Lotus Waterfront, which was also built by Governor Zhang Shusheng in 1873.
Lotus Waterfront is located on the south bank of the west side of the lobby, facing the current in the north, with three bays, covering an area of nearly 90 square meters. There are six French windows in the center, and 12 half windows in the south of the left and right rooms. The inner patterns of long windows and half windows are palace-shaped light skirts. There are 27 * * * windows above the waist in the north, which were embedded with tiles in the past.
There is a small wing next door to the west of the waterside pavilion, and there are six floor-to-ceiling windows in the south, with palace patterns and revealing skirts. There is a hexagonal flip window and an ice lattice on the north wall. There is a small courtyard on the east and west sides of the pavilion, and two beautiful flower windows on the north wall of the courtyard form their own beautiful scenery under the shadow of banana.
There are cloisters on the left and right sides of the pavilion to connect the cabins facing south to form a courtyard. Podocarpus and cypress trees are planted on both sides of the courtyard, which are century-old trees, old and strong, vigorous and elegant. In the flower bed in the south of the courtyard, bamboo is the screen, which sets off the graceful figure of wintersweet and hydrangea.
After summer, the whole waterside pavilion looks like a thousand layers of green cover, red makeup and swaying green leaves. Before the morning dew was dry, when the morning light was bright, a wisp of distant incense came on, which was even more beautiful and quiet. It was an excellent place for tea tasting in the whole garden.