Lingering Garden
Lingering Garden (; Suzhou Wu: Leu yoe, ) is a renowned classical Chinese garden, dating back to 1593. It is located at 338 Liuyuan Rd. Suzhou, Jiangsu province, China (留园路338号). The garden is divided into 4 themed sections connected by covered walkways. The central garden encircles a pond and a grotto constructed of yellow stone granite. It was created by the noted artist Zhou Binzhong. In 1997, the Lingering Garden was recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, along with seven other Classical Gardens of Suzhou. The garden also contains two UNESCO Intangible World Heritage Arts; Pingtan () and Guqin music. History Lingering Garden is located outside the Changmen gate () of Suzhou, Jiangsu province. It was commissioned by Xu Taishi (), an impeached and later exonerated official in 1593 CE. Stonemason Zhou Shicheng () designed and built the ''East Garden'' () as it was initially called. The East Garden became famous in its day when the magistrates of Wu and Cha ...
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Suzhou
Suzhou (; ; Suzhounese: ''sou¹ tseu¹'' , Mandarin: ), alternately romanized as Soochow, is a major city in southern Jiangsu province, East China. Suzhou is the largest city in Jiangsu, and a major economic center and focal point of trade and commerce. Administratively, Suzhou is a prefecture-level city with a population of 6,715,559 in the city proper, and a total resident population of 12,748,262 as of the 2020 census in its administrative area. The city jurisdiction area's north waterfront is on a lower reach of the Yangtze whereas it has its more focal south-western waterfront on Lake Tai – crossed by several waterways, its district belongs to the Yangtze River Delta region. Suzhou is now part of the Greater Shanghai metro area, incorporating most of Changzhou, Wuxi and Suzhou urban districts plus Kunshan and Taicang, with a population of more than 38,000,000 residents as of 2020. Its urban population grew at an unprecedented rate of 6.5% between 2000 and 2014, which ...
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Hubei
Hubei (; ; alternately Hupeh) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, and is part of the Central China region. The name of the province means "north of the lake", referring to its position north of Dongting Lake. The provincial capital, Wuhan, serves as a major transportation hub and the political, cultural, and economic hub of central China. Hubei's name is officially abbreviated to "" (), an ancient name associated with the eastern part of the province since the State of E of the Western Zhou dynasty of –771 BCE; a popular name for Hubei is "" () (suggested by that of the powerful State of Chu, which existed in the area during the Eastern Zhou dynasty of 770 – 256 BCE). Hubei borders the provinces of Henan to the north, Anhui to the east, Jiangxi to the southeast, Hunan to the south, Chongqing to the west, and Shaanxi to the northwest. The high-profile Three Gorges Dam is located at Yichang, in the west of the province. Hubei is the 7th-largest p ...
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Li Bai
Li Bai (, 701–762), also pronounced as Li Bo, courtesy name Taibai (), was a Chinese poet, acclaimed from his own time to the present as a brilliant and romantic figure who took traditional poetic forms to new heights. He and his friend Du Fu (712–770) were two of the most prominent figures in the flourishing of Chinese poetry in the Tang dynasty, which is often called the " Golden Age of Chinese Poetry". The expression "Three Wonders" denotes Li Bai's poetry, Pei Min's swordplay, and Zhang Xu's calligraphy. Around 1000 poems attributed to Li are extant. His poems have been collected into the most important Tang dynasty poetry, ''Heyaue yingling ji'', compiled in 753 by Yin Fan. Thirty-four of Li Bai’s poems are included in the anthology ''Three Hundred Tang Poems'', which was first published in the 18th century. Around the same time, translations of his poems began to appear in Europe. The poems were models for celebrating the pleasures of friendship, the depth of nature ...
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Lingering Garden - 五峰仙馆 20220904
Lingering may refer to: *"Lingering", a 2014 song by Sheppard from the album '' Bombs Away'' *''Lingering Pt. I'', a 2017 album by Sleep Party People *''Lingering Pt. II'', a 2018 album by Sleep Party People * ''Lingering'' (film), a 2020 South Korean horror drama film starring Lee Se-young See also * Lingering Garden, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China; a renowned classical Chinese garden * * Linger (other) * Ling (other) Ling may refer to: Fictional characters * Ling, an List of James Bond allies#Film allies, ally of James Bond's from the film ''You Only Live Twice'' * Ling, a character in the ''Mulan (franchise), Mulan'' franchise * Ling, a playable character fr ...

Lingering Garden Zigzag Hallway
Lingering may refer to: *"Lingering", a 2014 song by Sheppard from the album '' Bombs Away'' *''Lingering Pt. I'', a 2017 album by Sleep Party People *''Lingering Pt. II'', a 2018 album by Sleep Party People * ''Lingering'' (film), a 2020 South Korean horror drama film starring Lee Se-young See also * Lingering Garden, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China; a renowned classical Chinese garden * * Linger (other) * Ling (other) Ling may refer to: Fictional characters * Ling, an List of James Bond allies#Film allies, ally of James Bond's from the film ''You Only Live Twice'' * Ling, a character in the ''Mulan (franchise), Mulan'' franchise * Ling, a playable character fr ...

Lingering Garden - 花步小筑 20220904
Lingering may refer to: *"Lingering", a 2014 song by Sheppard from the album '' Bombs Away'' *''Lingering Pt. I'', a 2017 album by Sleep Party People *''Lingering Pt. II'', a 2018 album by Sleep Party People * ''Lingering'' (film), a 2020 South Korean horror drama film starring Lee Se-young See also * Lingering Garden, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China; a renowned classical Chinese garden * * Linger (other) * Ling (other) Ling may refer to: Fictional characters * Ling, an List of James Bond allies#Film allies, ally of James Bond's from the film ''You Only Live Twice'' * Ling, a character in the ''Mulan (franchise), Mulan'' franchise * Ling, a playable character fr ...

Lingering Garden - 古木交柯 20220904
Lingering may refer to: *"Lingering", a 2014 song by Sheppard from the album '' Bombs Away'' *''Lingering Pt. I'', a 2017 album by Sleep Party People *''Lingering Pt. II'', a 2018 album by Sleep Party People * ''Lingering'' (film), a 2020 South Korean horror drama film starring Lee Se-young See also * Lingering Garden, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China; a renowned classical Chinese garden * * Linger (other) * Ling (other) Ling may refer to: Fictional characters * Ling, an List of James Bond allies#Film allies, ally of James Bond's from the film ''You Only Live Twice'' * Ling, a character in the ''Mulan (franchise), Mulan'' franchise * Ling, a playable character fr ...

Jade
Jade is a mineral used as jewellery or for ornaments. It is typically green, although may be yellow or white. Jade can refer to either of two different silicate minerals: nephrite (a silicate of calcium and magnesium in the amphibole group of minerals), or jadeite (a silicate of sodium and aluminium in the pyroxene group of minerals). Jade is well known for its ornamental use in East Asian, South Asian, and Southeast Asian art. It is commonly used in Latin America, such as Mexico and Guatemala. The use of jade in Mesoamerica for symbolic and ideological ritual was influenced by its rarity and value among pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures, such as the Olmecs, the Maya, and other ancient civilizations of the Valley of Mexico. Etymology The English word ''jade'' is derived (via French and Latin 'flanks, kidney area') from the Spanish term (first recorded in 1565) or 'loin stone', from its reputed efficacy in curing ailments of the loins and kidneys. ''Nephrite'' is der ...
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Lingering Garden Gatehouse
Lingering may refer to: *"Lingering", a 2014 song by Sheppard from the album '' Bombs Away'' *''Lingering Pt. I'', a 2017 album by Sleep Party People *''Lingering Pt. II'', a 2018 album by Sleep Party People * ''Lingering'' (film), a 2020 South Korean horror drama film starring Lee Se-young See also * Lingering Garden, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China; a renowned classical Chinese garden * * Linger (other) * Ling (other) Ling may refer to: Fictional characters * Ling, an List of James Bond allies#Film allies, ally of James Bond's from the film ''You Only Live Twice'' * Ling, a character in the ''Mulan (franchise), Mulan'' franchise * Ling, a playable character fr ...

Yangtze River
The Yangtze or Yangzi ( or ; ) is the longest list of rivers of Asia, river in Asia, the list of rivers by length, third-longest in the world, and the longest in the world to flow entirely within one country. It rises at Jari Hill in the Tanggula Mountains (Tibetan Plateau) and flows in a generally easterly direction to the East China Sea. It is the List of rivers by discharge, seventh-largest river by discharge volume in the world. Its drainage basin comprises one-fifth of the land area of China, and is home to nearly one-third of the demographics of China, country's population. The Yangtze has played a major role in the history of China, history, culture of China, culture, and economy of China. For thousands of years, the river has been used for water, irrigation, sanitation, transportation, industry, boundary-marking, and war. The prosperous Yangtze Delta generates as much as 20% of historical GDP of China, China's GDP. The Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze is the list ...
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Yuan Hongdao
Yuan Hongdao (, 1568–1610) was a Chinese poet of the Ming Dynasty, and one of the Three Yuan Brothers, along with his brothers Yuan Zongdao and Yuan Zhongdao. Hongdao's life spanned nearly the whole of the Wanli period (1573-1620) in Chinese history. A native of Gong'an in Hukuang, his family had been military officials for generations. Hongdao showed an interest in literature from youth and formed his own literary club at age fifteen. At the age of twenty-four in 1592 he took the jinshi examination and subsequently received an official position in 1595. However he quit out of boredom after a year. He traveled and consulted with the radical philosopher Li Zhi. On another trip his brothers joined him. Hu's elder brother was a Buddhist-Confucianist synchronist. His travels resulted in his publishing a poetry compilation '' Jietuo ji'' ollection of One Released His and his two brothers' poetry, which focused on clarity and sincerity, produced a following eventually known as the G ...
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