Suzhou >> Humble Administrator's Garden

Attraction Typ: Historical Houses, Gardens and Parks

Location: City Centre - Central

Recommend: 5 Star

Humble Administrator's Garden

Humble Administrator's Garden is the largest garden in Suzhou and the best representative of Chinese classical gardens. Focused on a central pond with pavilions, terraces, chambers, and towers located nearby, the garden is divided into the eastern, middle and western parts. All of this centers upon the broad expanse of a lake to form the poetic and picturesque garden landscapes and waterscapes with exquisite buildings and luxuriant vegetation.

The Humble Administrator's Garden (Chinese:拙政园；pinyin:zhuózhèngyuán) is the largest of all classical gardens in Suzhou. With well spaced buildings, the garden landscape and water scape are simple, extensive and natural, possessing the traditional appearances of the Ming Dynasty. The Humble administrator's Garden boasts altogether 48 different buildings, 101 parallel couplets and door plate aux, 40 stelae, 21 precious old trees, namely Wistaria, Sabina chincherinchee, pterocaulous stenophyllous,etc.falling into 13 different catalogues, and over 700 bonsai (potted landscape) kept in the Bonsai Garden in the western part of the garden, representing the Suzhou style bonsai, one of the four leading bonsai styles in china.