Tiger Hill
Location
No. 8, Huqiu Mountain Gate, Gusu District, Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province
Reasons to visit
Tiger Hill is located in the Huqiu Mountain Scenic Area in the northwest corner of the ancient city of Suzhou, 5 kilometers away from the city center. It has a long history of more than 2,500 years. King Helu of Wu built the city and built his capital here, and his tomb is in Tiger Hill after his death. Later, the first emperor of Qin climbed the hill to see the scenery; Xiang Yu, the overlord of Western Chu, led 8,000 of his descendants to rebel against Qin; when Bai Juyi, the great poet of the Tang Dynasty, was the governor of Suzhou, he dug mountains to divert water and built a seven-mile embankment to make the scenery of Tiger Hill even more beautiful. Su Shi, a poet of the Song Dynasty, once said: "It would be a pity to go to Suzhou and not visit Tiger Hill." Therefore, Tiger Hill has become a fascinating place for tourists. This mountain is only 36 meters high, but has towering ancient trees and many scenic spots around it. The many scenic spots on the mountain are a major feature of Tiger Hill, especially the thousand-year-old Tiger Hill Tower standing on the mountain, making Tiger Hill a famous tourist attraction since ancient times.
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Tiger Hill is located in the Huqiu Mountain Scenic Area in the northwest corner of the ancient city of Suzhou, 5 kilometers away from the city center. It has a long history of more than 2,500 years. King Helu of Wu built the city and built his capital here, and his tomb is in Tiger Hill after his death. Later, the first emperor of Qin climbed the hill to see the scenery; Xiang Yu, the overlord of Western Chu, led 8,000 of his descendants to rebel against Qin; when Bai Juyi, the great poet of the Tang Dynasty, was the governor of Suzhou, he dug mountains to divert water and built a seven-mile embankment to make the scenery of Tiger Hill even more beautiful. Su Shi, a poet of the Song Dynasty, once said: "It would be a pity to go to Suzhou and not visit Tiger Hill." Therefore, Tiger Hill has become a fascinating place for tourists. This mountain is only 36 meters high, but has towering ancient trees and many scenic spots around it. The many scenic spots on the mountain are a major feature of Tiger Hill, especially the thousand-year-old Tiger Hill Tower standing on the mountain, making Tiger Hill a famous tourist attraction since ancient times.
The scenic spot currently covers an area of 100 hectares, and the protected area covers an area of 475.9 hectares. As an important tourism window in Suzhou, Tiger Hill has won many awards and has been rated as one of the first batch of top ten civilized scenic tourist area demonstration sites in the country, a national AAAA-level scenic spot, and in In December 2001, it passed the ISO9001-14001 dual system certification. Huqiu is also an important place for folk gatherings in Suzhou. According to the history of "Three Cities and Three Festivals" in Wudi, the Huqiu Mountain Scenic Area Management Office holds an art flower show every spring, displaying a large number of precious flowers such as peonies, tulips, Belgian azaleas, and lilies. There are more than 70,000 pots and hundreds of varieties; in the autumn, a folk temple fair with rich folk customs is held, with folk shows that blend the north and the south, which are very popular among tourists. The two fairs a year have become hot spots in Suzhou's characteristic tourism projects. The scenic spot also launched a special Spring Festival flower show during the Spring Festival of 2004, with the main exhibition being peonies. With the successful completion of the lighting project in the scenic spot, the scenic spot will also launch special tourist activities such as the Mid-Autumn Moon Appreciation Lantern Festival.
After entering Tiger Hill, go up the mountain road and you can see the famous eighteen sceneries of Tiger Hill along the way. Among the eighteen sceneries, the top one is Yunyan Temple Pagoda, also known as Huqiu Huqiu Pagoda. It was first built in the ninth year of Renshou (601), the reign of Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty. It was initially built as a wooden pagoda but was later destroyed. The existing Huqiu Pagoda was built from the eighth year of Qianyou in the Later Zhou Dynasty to the second year of Jianlong in the Song Dynasty (959-961). The tower is octagonal in plan and has seven levels. The original tower top was destroyed by lightning. During the renovation in 1956, a large number of precious cultural relics such as stone letters, sutra boxes, bronze Buddhas, bronze mirrors, and Yue kiln celadon lotus bowls were discovered in the third mezzanine. Due to numerous fires from the Song Dynasty to the late Qing Dynasty, the roof and wooden eaves were destroyed. The original height is no longer known. The existing tower is 47.5 meters tall, made entirely of bricks and weighs more than 6,000 tons. According to records, due to foundation reasons, the Huqiu Tower has tilted northwest since the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). The center of the top of the tower is 2.34 meters away from the center of the bottom floor, with a slope of 2.48 degrees. It is called the "Leaning Tower of Pisa of the East". In 1956, the Suzhou Municipal Government invited experts on ancient architecture to use iron hoop grouting methods to reinforce and repair the ancient pagoda. In 1961, it was listed as one of the national key cultural relics protection units.
The most mysterious and attractive monument in Huqiu is Jianchi. Looking north from the Qianren Stone, there are four big characters "Huqiu Sword Pool" beside the round cave door of "There is a Different Cave". The strokes of each character are three feet long and the strokes are powerful. According to records such as "Mountain Chronicles" and other books, it was originally written by Yan Zhenqing, a great calligrapher of the Tang Dynasty. However, due to age, the stone surface was eroded by wind and frost, and the two characters "Huqiu" were lost and lost. During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, a famous Suzhou stone carver named Zhang Zhongyu copied and reengraved the original stone. Therefore, there is a proverb in Suzhou: "Fake Tiger Hill, Real Sword Pool". Some people also say that this sentence refers to the secret of Helu's Tomb. Yongcui Villa is located on the west side of the second mountain gate of Huqiu. It has a rectangular plan and covers an area of more than an acre. The houses are built on the mountain and are built layer by layer. The buildings are dotted with peaks, rocks, flowers and trees, and have the charm of a small garden. The villa combines the topography and cleverly borrows the scenery outside the garden, with flexible layout and broad vision.
Here you can look up at the Tiger Hill Tower, overlook the Lion Mountain, and overlook the beautiful scenery at the foot of the Tiger Hill Mountain, which is unique and interesting. There is a stone well on the mountain, which is said to have been dug by Lu Yu in the Tang Dynasty and is called "Lu Yu's Well". Lu Yu is the author of the tea book "The Classic of Tea". According to "Suzhou Prefecture Chronicles", Lu Yu lived in Huqiu for a long time. While studying tea, he wrote the "Tea Classic". He found that the Huqiu Mountain Spring was sweet and delicious, and was rated as "the third spring in the world". Lengxiang Pavilion is located in the north of Yongcui Villa. It is a good place to enjoy tea and view the scenery. Three hundred plum blossoms are planted in the garden. Every mid-spring, they have red buds and green calyxes, sparse shadows and dark fragrance. There are five couplets above and below the pavilion, surrounded by corridors on the east, west and south sides. It is high, refreshing and quiet, and does not get around.
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