Looking far into the Suzhou Terrace

Author: Shanyuan
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Publish Date: 2001-01-01
Features: Every city has its own character and cultural features. Readers with different cultural backgrounds, education, interests, and perspectives often draw vastly different conclusions when facing the atmosphere, cultural heritage, and historical background of a city. My feelings for Suzhou stem from the book Wu Jun Su Hua Ji Li, a work documenting the seasonal customs of Suzhou compiled by Yuan Jinglan, a native of Yuanhe (now Suzhou) during the Jiaqing and Daoguang years of the Qing Dynasty. Suzhou is warm and undeniably suitable for those who appreciate a domestic life and cultural companionship with poetry and books. The main content of this book: Feeling Suzhou – Preface, The Eternal Cold Mountain Temple, A Dream in Shan Tang, Focusing on Xuan Miao Temple, Passing Through Changmen Again, Shen Shihong, the First Minister and Chief Scholar, Red-Roofed Bridges (390 in Total), Nostalgic for the Water Town (Part 1), Nostalgic for the Water Town (Part 2), How Often Can One Hear Such Beauty in This World, The Ever-Blooming Flowers of Huqiu, Memories of Canglang Pavilion, The Gardens Still Stand, Stone Lake and Fan Chengda, Ten Li of Green Mountains and Wang Tong, Gazing at the Su Palace, The Five Martyrs’ Tomb, The Autumn Colors of Tianping.