Garden of Cultivation

The Garden of Cultivation is one of the best preserved examples of a Ming Dynasty traditional garden in Suzhou. It is a piece of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Classical Gardens of Suzhou on the World Heritage List. "Because of its exceptional history, this Garden was for all intents and purposes obscure before it was recorded as an UN World Cultural Heritage site." The structure of the garden is shaped along a north to south pivot which ties the three principle components of rockery, pool, and lobby together.

This style of piece is additionally utilized as a part of the Mountain Villa with Embraced Beauty. The general outline is the easiest articulation of a traditional garden, there is one prevailing sythesis, the Longevity Hall, and its related view. The 700 m2 Lotus Pond is square with two water tails to give the hallucination of unbounded size. These tails are crossed by Fish Viewing Bridge and Ferrying Beauty Bridge The previous is a three-advance angled scaffold nearby the Fry Pavilion. The last is a characteristic stone extension at the passage to the Sweet Grass Garden.

The Garden of Sweet Grasses is a downsized form of the principle garden and comprises of the Sweet Grass House and Bathing Gull Pond and in addition a littler rockery. This zone is the herb plant included by Wen Zhenheng. It is intended to summon his foremost of "to leave inhabitants free from stresses, make occupants unwilling to leave, and empower guests to divert from their tiredness".