The Lion Grove Garden or Lion Forest Garden(Chinese:狮子林;pinyin:shīzīlín) is famous for the numerous artificial hills made of pebbles. In the garden stones stand in odd postures, which look like dancing lions. Hence, people named the garden The Lion Garden. It has a prominent part for series of man-made mountains with various buildings around the lake, and an artificial waterfall and cliffs at the edge of the lake on the west. Noted for its labyrinthine mountains with winding pathways and caverns, old pines and cypress trees, awesome peaks and jogged rocks of grotesque shapes resembling dancing lions with striking and unusral poses, it possesses with pride the true delights of mountain and forest scenery in limited space with a flavor of Zen Buddhism.
The Lion Grove Garden is famous for "Eighteen Sights of Peach Land". Each sight was designate with a poetic name, such as Containing Sunshine, Spitting Moon, Unreliable King, Rosy Clouds, and so on. The most lively and attractive scene among them is the summit of each peak.
Actually, there are many other special scenes in the garden, for example, Hehuanting (Lotus Hall), Zhenquting (Pavilion of Real Pleasure), Shuxiang'anyinglou (Tower of Sparse Fragrance and Shadow) are distinctive and unique. It will take you lots of time to complete all the sights in The Lion Garden. The garden is really worth visiting.
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