In Suzhou, there are not only ancient pink-walled Dewa pillow water homes, but also modern universities that make mathematicians yearn for.
If you, like me, like to see architecture and like to visit the campus, then, after coming to Suzhou, you must find an opportunity to visit the headquarters of Soochow University.
In the ivory tower, which is known as the most beautiful university in China, the retro teaching buildings and towering trees can make you harvest a piece of Gu Su's past and have one more reason to fall in love with Suzhou.
After visiting once, you will feel that you have no regrets in this life.
There are 4 campuses in suzhou university, of which the most beautiful and representative one is the tiancizhuang campus of the headquarters of suzhou university. Moreover, the headquarters is close to the Pingjiang Road Historic District, the main entrance is at No. 333 Ganjiang East Road, and the Xiangmen Is not far away. After visiting the campus, you can go to Xiangmen or go to Pingjiang Road.
Su Da, I personally went three times, each time I will have different feelings, no matter the spring, summer, autumn and winter, in the ancient charm of the campus, you can feel its charm of a hundred years of time, immersed in it, as if back to the white-clothed university era again, let me feel beautiful.
The predecessor of Soochow University is soochow University, founded in 1900, originally founded by the Americans, qing tongzhi decade, the American Christian Supervision Association set up a college in Suzhou, Guangxu 27 years, the establishment of Soochow University Hall, also known as Soochow University College.
It was one of the early church universities established by American Christianity in China, and was renamed Soochow University after the Xinhai Revolution. It is also the first university in China to operate according to the modern university curriculum system.
In 2013, the former site of Soochow University was selected into the "Seventh Batch of National Key Cultural Protection Units List", and in 2019, it was selected into the "Fourth Batch of China's 20th Century Architectural Heritage List".
Dongwu Gate
I think that friends who have had the privilege of visiting Soochow University (Tiancizhuang Campus) will be impressed by Dongwumen, which is not only a landmark building of Soochow University, but also a landmark that friends who enter the campus to visit must punch in.
It is the original campus entrance of Soochow University, which was built in 1900, and the upper end of the door with European-style architecture is inscribed with four large characters of "Soochow University", and the back side is the school motto "Nourish heaven and earth and righteousness, the law is perfect in ancient and modern times".
It is here that the first master's degree student in Chinese history has come out, which is of great significance.
belfry
The Bell Tower is the main building of Soochow University, its predecessor is the library, auditorium and classroom of Soochow University, and it is now the administrative office building of Soochow University.
Designed by a British architect, the building was built in 1901 and inaugurated in 1903. It was built to commemorate one of the earliest founders of Soochow University and the first president of Soochow University, Lin Lezhi.
Originally known as "Lin Tang", later, in 1934, Dr. Chen Tingrui, a son of Su University, and his wife generously donated money to reset a set of four-sided clocks for the bell tower and renamed it the bell tower.
The entire building is "concave" in shape, the façade is filled with green brick, the red brick outlines the frame and window lintel, while the columns, line feet and floral decorations are made of stone, and the top is equipped with a chiming clock. There is an open-air corridor outside the ground floor of the north façade, which is divided into two sides by the gate, each side is divided into three rooms, and the lower part is made of red brick piers, and there are six Romanesque classical stone columns on both sides, which increases the layering of the wall façade. The rose window of the bell tower is very exquisite, which is also a major feature of this building.
The bell tower not only has far-reaching significance for the students of Su University, but also makes the tourists who have come to look at the red building in front of the green grass and the lawn, and feel sorry for their regretless youth.
Wenxing Pavilion
To say that the oldest building in the Campus of Su Da Tiancizhuang, Wenxing Pavilion should bear the brunt of it, and it has been more than 500 years now. Wenxing Pavilion was built in the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, also known as the Square Pagoda, Suzhou people used to call it "Bell Tower".
Wenxing Pavilion is a square building with a four-storey spire and a bottom floor length of 8.6 meters; a square bluestone platform with a length of 14.4 meters on the bottom side, with a height of 6.5 meters; and a height of 28 meters.
Brick and wood structure, each layer of four walls with arch windows, no waist eaves, flat seat, the scale of the floor slightly converged. It is famous for the iron bell of the "Wenxing Treasure Pavilion" stored on the top floor.
Here used to be a place where many literati in history taught and exchanged courses, and the attic was divided into four floors, and the stone platform foundation and the brick pavilion on the ground floor were all relics of the Ming Dynasty.
Built in 1934, the Soochow University Museum was originally a gymnasium, and the Lingyun Building and Lover's Slope are also worth punching, in short, the whole campus is worth your slow visit.
At the end of the writing, it is estimated that friends will ask me, how did you get in? Now during the epidemic period plus the reason for the winter vacation, Soochow University is not open to the public for the time being, but in normal times, the public name search "Soochow University", it is possible to make an appointment to visit the school, but the number of places is limited, to suzhou travel, friends who want to visit the school, it is recommended to pay attention to the time of the opening of the Su Dagong in time, and make an appointment in advance.