Located in the northeastern corner of Suzhou, Humble Administrator's Garden was origninally built in 1509 by the former imperial censor Wang Xianchen of Ming Dynasty.
When was the Humble Administrator's garden built?
1509
Where does the name of the Humble Administrator's garden come from?
The garden was named (first evidence around 1517) after a verse by the famous scholar official of the Jin Dynasty, Pan Yue, in his prose, An Idle Life, "I enjoy a carefree life by planting trees and building my own house I irrigate my garden and grow vegetables for me to eat
How to get to Humble Administrator's garden?
The Humble Administrator's Garden is easily accessible by public buses Tourism Bus No. 01, Tourism Bus No. 02, Bus No. 313 and get off at the stop of Suzhou Museum (苏州苏州Suzhou (/suːˈdʒoʊ/; Chinese: 苏州; Suzhounese: [səu tsøʏ], Mandarin: [sú.ʈʂóu]), alternately romanized as Soochow, is a major city in southeastern Jiangsu Province of East China, its city center being 100 km (62 mi) west of that of Shanghai and outer suburbs of the two global hubs meet.https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › SuzhouSuzhou - Wikipedia博物馆) since Suzhou Museum is very close to both the Administrator's Garden and the Lion's Forest Garden.Dec 9, 2021
Who built the Humble Administrator's garden?
Built in the early years of Zhengde of the Ming Dynasty (the early 1500s), the Humble administrator's Garden has a history of more than 500 years. As a representative of classical gardens south of the Yangtze River, it ranks at the top of all the gardens in Suzhou.