狮子林英文导游词
【篇一：狮子林英语导游词】
lion grove garden
lion grove garden is famous as a representative garden of the yuan dynasty (1279-1368). construction on it started in 1342. originally named bodhi orthodox monastery, it was built by the monk tiau for his teacher, the monk zhongfeng who lived at lion cliff in the west tianmu mountains in zhejiang province, and in the garden were a large number of rocks shaped like lions.
repaired many times during the ming (1368-1644) and qing (1644-1911) dynasties, the garden is noted for its rockeries and covers an area of 16.7 mu, or
2.7 acres. most of its hills are in the southeastern part of the garden while the ponds and streams are in the northwest. it ranks among the unique gardens in suzhou. and it is listed as the world cultural heritage of unesco.
behind the magnificent gate of its entrance hall is spacious courtyard paved with rectangular stone-slabs and surrounded with a corridor. and it stretches for hundreds of metres along the northern parts used to be living quarters including halls, studios and pavilions. the garden’s western and southern parts are enclosed by zigzag corridor adorned with stelae and kiosks.
facing the entrance hall is the ancestors’ memorial hall, which is very imposing. displayed inside the hall are a whole set of mahogany furniture with a pair of brass lions for decoration. hung above the white wall is a wooden plaque written with four big characters, which mean the excellent expertise in garden construction engaged by ni yunlin, the garden’s principal designer in the yuan dynasty.
as we enter the garden further more, a corridor leads north to the hall of fame and peacefulness and a small square hall behind it.
when emperor qianlong visited this garden, he had his meal in this hall. so it was known as the imperial dining hall. it is popularly known as the mandarin ducks hall i
tablet screenn traditional architecture. it is divided by a middle screen into northern and southern parts, facing two courtyards. both parts are decorated in different from each other. for instance, the bricks on the ground are different in their layout. those in the northern hall are in regular formation while those in the southern hall are in rhombus formation.
the small square hall is decorated with two framed windows, through which we can see different scenes. through the framed window on the east we can see a plum tree which blossoms in winter. through the window on the west we can see trees and rockeries made of the taihu lake stones. looking north from the hall, we can have a nice view of a huge rockery piled up with taihu lake stones
shaped like lions. it is said that there were altogether nine stone lions standing in a row. that’s why it is called the nice-lion peak. now there are three lions hiding themselves at the top of the rockery while others bear little resemblance to those animals.
behind this rockery is a white wall decorated with lattice windows. they represent four scholarly pursuits for men of the letters, which are the plunk musical instrument, chess board (symbolic of playing chess), calligraphy and painting. such a design reflects that the garden contains so much chinese traditional culture.
a begonia-shaped gate on the west side of the nice-lion peak opens to main landscape part of the garden. the two storied building is known as the hall for bowing-to-peaks and pointing-cypress, which was used by its former owner to entertain guests, close relatives and good friends. pointing –cypress comes from a line of poetry by gao qi (1336-1374) of the ming dynasty: “ instead of greeting his guest, (the host) smiles and points at a cypress before the hall.” bowing-to peaks comes from a poem by zhu xi in the song dynasty: “bowing to lushan maintain, a peak of unique charm.”
toward to south, s stone bridge we may see a forest of rocky formations, cypresses and several stalagmites picturesquely arranged to form the garden’s main scenic attractions.
the rockeries here are built of rocks from the taihu lake and cover almost half the garden’s surface. the highlight among them is a maze of mountain paths amidst peaks and through grottoes. totally there are 21 caves underneath, while are all connected with nine zigzag paths linking up and down the hill, extending to all directions. people say it is a labyrinth of caves. sightseers unfamiliar with these caves may easily lose their way in them.
the sleeping-on-clouds chamber is located in the centre of the rockeries. it is a very quiet place where in old days monks used to cultivate their minds. so the founder of the garden, monk tiau, wrote in a poem, “people say i am in a city, but i suspect i am among tens of thousands of mountains.” coming here, we may feel as if we have entered a forest of stone.
the lotus flower hall overlooks a lotus pond and is a good place for those who like to look at lotuses in bloom in summer. it’s popularly called the flower baskets hall because it is decorated with some wooden carvings shaped like flower baskets unde
r the roof. a wooden tablet hung above bears four characters reading sui dian feng lei, which mean water as foundation and breeze coming.
it was in this place that the japanese aggressors stationing in suzhou surrendered in 1945 at a surrender ceremony.

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