Posted 2017/2/24
Covering an area of 23,300 square meters, the Lingering Garden is a large-scale classical private garden. It ranks No. 1 of all Suzhou Gardens in terms of size. Built in the 21st Wanli year (1593 AD) of the Ming Dynasty as a private garden of Xu Taishi, director of the court of the imperial stud, the garden was called "East Garden" at the time. The Lingering Garden covers an area of over 30 mu and integrates residences, ancestral halls, home temples and gardens in a whole. The garden combines the landscape architectural techniques of the south of the Yangtze River and is best known for the building structure, which is creatively arranged according to the size, straightness, brightness, height, deploying, retracting of architectural compositions. Surrounded by the landscape of all four sides, the garden is a spatial system with clear layers, arrangements, rhythms, colors and contrasts.
