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The Twin Pagodas are the two pagodas most characteristic of Suzhou. They are artistic and natural as they are close at hand. These two precious pagodas lie in the Dinghui Temple Lane in the southeastern corner of the city proper of Suzhou and can be accessed by taking No. 2 and No. 4 Buses. One of them is called Clarity Dispensing Pagoda and the other Beneficence Pagoda and they are in the same form of building. Both the twin Pagodas are wooden building structure in appearance. They are ... View Detail

Dongshan

In Wuzhong District ofSuzhoucity, the East Hillhas always been a place of flowing milk and honey. Because it is located very near of the famous Taihu Lake. Fertile field is green and vast, tea trees are juxtaposed on the hillside like stairs, fish ponds are dotted around and colorful ripe fruits are like a carpet paving on the slope. You can pick Chinese oranges when they are ripened and eat them. You may feel they are very sweet and juicy. In addition to the great natural scenery, many ... View Detail

Xuan Miaoguan

Xuanmiao Temple ( "Mysterious Sublimity Temple" or "Mysterious Essence Temple") is a prominent Taoist temple with a long history, located at the center of old Suzhou City. The street along east-west direction in front of the temple is called Guanqian Street , a famed business pedestrian street in Suzhou. A lane called Gong Xiang along north-south direction leads directly to the gate. Xuanmiao Temple was founded in Xianning 2nd year (AD 276), Western Jin Dynasty, and was ... View Detail

Copper Temple

Guangfu Temple,the Copper Buddha After turning your nose up at the din and ruckus of Mudu, hop a cab to Guangfu Temple . Built on a small hill, it's not as big as even the Hanshan Temple in Suzhou, but it's very quaint and, unlike Hanshan, active monks still live there. The treasure of the temple is a 1000 year old copper Buddha of Mercy housed in the main prayer hall. Legend has it that it was unearthed in the area during the Song Dynasty. Standing about 1 meter tall, it would ... View Detail

Divine Grace Temple

Sheng'en Temple of Guangfu in Suzhou enjoyed a special relationship with the care of the royal family of Ming Dynasty.During the 14th year of rule by Emperor Hongwu(Zhu Yuanzhang) of Ming Dynasty(1381 A.D.),Zhu Yuanzhang called in the monks of the temple,wrote a calligraphy scroll for the temple and granted lots of materials.Moreover,he wrote several poems for the temple.During the 8th year of rule by Emperor Zhengtong(Zhu Qizhen) of Ming Dynasty(1443 A.D.),the emperor awarded the temple ... View Detail

Wong Lo Temple

Located in Nian jia bang village yangchenghu town xiangcheng district , east of Yangcheng Lake , there is a stream behind the temple , the monastery is surrounded by water, a corridor inside the temple , beautiful scenery, vertical and horizontal River Lane , is green and beautiful scenery and pleasant , is only one set of north style architectural temple of Yangtze river delta region . Monastery was founded in the Middle Tang period, formerly known as charitable nunnery , was incense ... View Detail

Paul Temple

Introduction Baosheng Temple is situated in Luzhi Town, Wu County, Jiangsu Province and was built in the Southern Dynasties. In accordance with The History of Fuli of Wuxian County, the temple was first built in the second year (503) of the Tianjian reign in the Liang Dynasty (502-557) and was a large-scale temple. But according to The History of Suzhou Governmental Office, it was first built in the Dazhong reign (847-860) of the Tang Dynasty (618-907) and rebuilt in the sixth year (1073) of the ... View Detail

Suzhou baoguosi

Located in the ancient city of suzhou renmin road (the old name : Malone street) wear heart street number three. Northern neighbour the famous Yi Garden , east have double towers , south have surging wave pavilion . Suzhou BaoGuoSi, was founded in the song dynasty Xianchun years , the original temple in the west, named " Bao Guo Temple " . It was rebuild in yuan dynasty , donating by government , Renzhao as the abbot , Very many people pay respects to visit . Suzhou baoGuoSi within ... View Detail

Stuart Temple

Located at the foot of Dengwei Mountain, city of Wuxian, the Prime Minister Temple is so named because this is the place where the former prime minister, Deng Yu used to live in during the East Han Dynasty. The four cypresses are said to be planted by Deng Yu. These cypresses have a long history of 1900 years. Qianlong, one of the emperors in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) once visited and gave the four old cypresses four words "comely, strange, old, and odd." It is comely because of ... View Detail

Second place mansion

BangYan house in mudu town of the pond street , it is Fengguifen's house - Lin zexu's disciple - enlightenment thinkers and political commentator in late qing dynasty . Having backyard structure, typical of the early qing dynasty jiangnan a mansion garden architectural style. There are three treasure in the BangYan house : tile carving , stone carving and wood carving , know as River South " three carve" . Especially the stone carving , honesty to describe hong dry time gusu ... View Detail