獅子林英文導遊詞

篇一：獅子林英語導遊詞

Lion Grove Garden

Lion Grove Garden is famous as a representative garden of the Yuan dynasty (1279-1368). Construction on it started in 1342. Originally named Bodhi Orthodox Monastery, it was built by the monk Tiau for his teacher, the monk Zhongfeng who lived at Lion Cliff in the West Tianmu Mountains in Zhejiang Province, and in the garden were a large number of rocks shaped like lions.

Repaired many times during the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) dynasties, the garden is noted for its rockeries and covers an area of 16.7 mu, or

2.7 acres. Most of its hills are in the southeastern part of the garden while the ponds and streams are in the northwest. It ranks among the unique gardens in Suzhou. And it is listed as the world cultural heritage of UNESCO.

It was Qianlong Emperor (1736-1796) who made this garden well-known in China