xi-hui park
located in the west suburb of the old town of wuxi the park ** rich in h**torical sites and cultural relics:the“lord huang gully”in there being so named for presumably prince huang xie of the kingdow of chu in the warring states.period(475 bc-221bc)ever had h** battle steed drink from it;jichang garden and yu gong(fool**h man)valley being ming dynasty(1368-1644)gardens;the hu**han temple dating back to the southern&northern dynasties(420-589)and the dragon brilliance pagoda on top the x**han hill being originally built in 1506.after 1949,were built in there including the dragon brilliance c**e,the azalea garden and a zoo.
寄畅园：jichang garden;天下第二泉：the second best spring under he**en
jichang garden
also known as the qin family garden,it,dating,nearly 400 years from the ming dynasty,** one of the most famous classical gardens in china’s jiangnan(south-of the yangtze region).efforts were made to upgrade the garden to its art**tic perfection on mainly by the two descendents of the qin family:qin yao of the late ming dynasty and h** great-grandson qin dezao of the early qing dynasty.the two had hillocks piled up and spring water from the“second best spring under he**en”led into the garden-all performed by top –notch art**ans of the time.numerous verses&rhymes couples&inscriptions on the garden by the two best-known qing dynasty emperors kang xi&qian long are just a proof of their v**itations of the place.outstanding in an old-world and secretive charm,the garden owes it success to the unrivaled location and setting,proper layout,and most remarkably,the various ingeniously applied gardening conceptions and stunts.
mey blossom garden
started in 1912 by the two outstanding wuxi industrial**ts rong zhongjing and rong desheng who purchased a small peach garden from a qing dynasty palace graduate and turned it into a mey blossom garden with the aim of“contributing fragrance to the world”.the said garden began with the planting of some 1,000 mey trees,and it was made to expand eastward with 3,000 mey trees added.in 1955,rong desheng’s son rong yiren,former vice-president of p.r.china,rendered the garden to the local **.new,as one of the establ**hed attractions specially for mey blossoms in jiangnan,if also makes an ideal place for enjoying the fragrance of the sweet osmanthus in the mid-autumn time of the year.the garden appears strikingly novel with the hillsides embell**hed with the blossoming mey trees,with all the buildings like the pagoda&p**ilions properly set among them.
凝春塔 the ning chun(concentrated spring)pagoda
(石墨香)