 the Mountain Villa of Ten Thousands Views 金艳（苏州万景山庄）
Welcome to “the Mountain Villa of Ten Thousand Views”. This is an inner garden of the Tiger Hill, the one of the most famous tourist Attractions in Suzhou. This garden is specially for the exhibition of Suzhou Bonsai. It was built and opened to the public in 1982, covering a big area of about 17000㎡. What is bonsai? Bonsai is an idea to use small plants and rocks s to imitate a natural landscape. Each bonsai work is created with various techniques and materials which has its unique style and composition. This garden, known for its thousands of exquisite bonsai on display,hence the name “Mountain Villa of Ten Thousand Views”. Firstly let’s have a look of the entrance.There is a huge brick carving gate frame which is just like a frame of a Chinese watercolor painting . you can see a water pond lying next to a pebbled path, with two springs streaming down along cliffs . And the brick tablet overhead on the gate frame with four Chinese characters “like mountain like water”, appropriately describes this delicate landscape.Going through this gate is like walking in to a painting. And here begins the tour of bonsai garden. Today “Bonsai” is only a Japanese term while inChina, it is wildly known as 'Peng Jing”, a landscape in a pot. Many Europeans think Bonsai is fromJapan. But actually it is fromChina. Bonsai originated in Tang Dynasty, about 1300 years ago. In Song Dynasty it was first taken toJapanby Japanese envoys, and then brought fromJapanto Europe andAmericain 1940’s. That’s why it is known as“Bonsai” in the rest of the world except inChina. Chinese bonsai is mainly divided into two types: landscape bonsai and tree bonsai. The first section we see here is the tree bonsai exhibition area. There are about 600 pieces of bonsai works. The youngest one is 50 years old while the oldest one is 400 years old. This Bonsai Garden was built on the hillside of the Tiger Hill, where bonsai works blend in with the surroundings harmoniously.You can see the magnificent Leaning Pagoda at the back; several garden styled pavilions and halls scattered up and down, forming the exhibition area into three different levels. All these indicate the development of bonsai which has borrowed a lot from the art and skills of garden designing. The materials of tree bonsai come from two sources, one is planting seeds or grafting, the other one is being removed from a forest. For example, there is an oldest bonsai work in the center of this exhibition area, called “Crouching Tiger and Coiling Dragon” .Use your imagination, the top part looks like crouching tiger while the bottom part looks like coiling dragon. In 1971, this tree was still growing in a small village in Suzhou. A famous master Zu Zi an, found this tree and loved it so much. So he exchanged it with a bicycle from the owner. And now, here it is, the king of this garden. Bonsai is often made by pines plums bamboo and so on. These trees can grow very old but always full of vitality. It is a combination of the spirit of Chinese classical gardens, watercolor landscape paintings and flower-bird paintings. So people said bonsai is a picture, a poem and even a spirit ofChina. Walking along the path, we will see all kinds of landscape bonsai. They are decorated with different types of rocks. They are small in size but delicate in shapes. Landscape bonsai is created in principle of traditional Chinese landscape painting, which is “mountain higher than trees, horses taller than people”. Chinese people love bonsai, crazy about bonsai, not only because it’s a fun recreation or an elegant art. But also because bonsai is like the spirit of our nation, ancient, vibrant, creative and tough. （苏州万景山庄）李妍凡 译 欢迎来到“万景山庄”。这是苏州最著名的旅游景点之一虎丘山的内花园。这个花园是专门为苏州盆景展览而设的。它占地面积约17000㎡，是1982年建成的，同一年向公众开放。 盆景是什么？盆景是一种利用小植物和岩石来模仿自然景观的想法。每一盆景作品都是以各种技法和材料创作而成，有其独特的风格和构图。这座花园以其数以千计的精美盆景闻名于世，因此得名“万景山庄”。 首先让我们看看门口，有一个巨大的砖雕门架，就像一个中国水彩画的框架。 你可以看到一个水池旁边躺着一个鹅卵石路，两条泉水沿着峭壁流下来。砖片架空门框上有四字“像山一样的水”，恰当地描述这种雅致的景观。穿过这道门就像走进一幅画。我们就从这里开始我们的盆景花园之旅。 今天英文“Bonsai”只是日本关于盆景的一个术语，而在中国，它被广泛地称为“pengjing”，一个在陶盆里的风景。许多欧洲人认为盆景源于日本。但实际上它来自中国。盆景起源于唐代，大约1300年前。宋代时首次被日本使节带回日本，然后在1940年时被从日本带往欧洲和美国。这就是为什么它在除了中国以外的国家被称为“盆景”的原因。 中国盆景主要分为两大类：山水盆景和树木盆景。我们在这里看到的第一部分是树木盆景展览区。盆景作品约有600件。时间最短的一盆有50年，而最长的有400年。这座盆景园建在虎丘山的山坡上，盆景作品与周围环境和谐融合。你可以在后面看见雄伟的斜塔。 （根据录音整理，如有差错，欢迎纠正！） https://m./live/310000160146103.htm （长按连接，点击选择复制，全选连接后，选择点击打开）  |
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