Founded in the Yuan Dynasty to the second year of the Zheng Dynasty, Lion Forest is one of the representatives of classical Chinese private garden architecture. It belongs to one of the four famous gardens in Suzhou. At the same time, it is also a world cultural heritage and a national key cultural relics protection unit, so here is to tell you the story of the lion forest.
During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, near the Suzhou Lion Forest, there was a champion named Huang Xi, who liked to play in the Lion Forest since he was a child. At that time, the Lion Forest was the back garden of the Lion Forest Zen Temple, and the abbot of the temple, Huang Xi, was clever and clever, and he also liked him. He joked with Huang Xi: "Don't you like this garden very much?" Then you have to study well, and in the future, when you win the title, I will give you this garden. "The speaker has no intention, the listener has a heart.
Later, Huang Xi did pass the examination, but he had not yet been assigned to an official position. At this time, the old monk sent the garden, of course, did not mention it. However, Huang Xi had always remembered this matter in his heart. At this time, the Qianlong Emperor came down to Suzhou, and heard that there was a famous Shilin Zen Temple in the north of the city, and he wanted to play.
The host heard that the emperor was going to drive, and for a moment he panicked, did not know how to take over, and suddenly remembered Huang Xi next door. Huang Xi read a lot, was well-spoken, and had seen the world again, so he asked him to come and receive Long Cha, so he sent a young monk to invite Huang Xi over. After the Qianlong Emperor arrived, Huang Xihe and the abbot respectfully introduced Qianlong into the back garden with the young monks. Qianlong saw that the mountain on the wall in the garden was overlapped and overlapped, and the peaks and loops were turned, which was very wonderful. Coupled with Huang Xi's vivid explanation of the Lion Forest, Qianlong was happier and happier the more he listened, nodding his head and entering the rockery with great interest. The more Qianlong looked, the more interesting he became, crossed the rockery, sat down in a pavilion, and asked what the name of the pavilion was?
Huang Xi knew that the opportunity had come, and hurriedly replied, "This pavilion has not yet been named, please give it a name." Qianlong is a person who likes to write everywhere, and Huang Xi's words are in the middle. So he asked his men to take the four treasures of the study room. But he thought about it for a long time, and he didn't find a suitable name for his stomach scraping, so in a hurry, he randomly wrote down three words: It's funny.
Huang Xi watched from the sidelines, and saw that The Saint had inscribed such vulgar and unsympathetic words and sentences, and he would hang them up in the future, wouldn't he be laughed at? He moved at the spur of the moment and went forward to play: "The subject sees the imperial inscription of the saint, the pen and iron stroke the silver hook, the word dragon and phoenix dance, of which the word 'has' is even more charming, lying on the taste of damn, I hope that the saint will give a 'have' word to the minister."
After the emperor inscribed the three words "really interesting", he thought about it and felt tacky, and he wanted to change it, listening to Huang Xiyi, he found that he omitted this "there" word, leaving "really interesting", which sounded elegant, and nodded his head in agreement. He also inscribed a small line next to the word "yes": "Imperial Gift Huang Xiyou", cut it on the spot, rewarded Huang Xi, and left the word "true fun" to make a plaque for the pavilion. Huang Zhuangyuan got the word "yes" in this royal book, and he was secretly happy in his heart. After Qianlong left, he pasted the word "yes" on the garden gate. Immediately asked the family to move the cage and move all the furniture to the garden. The abbot of the Shilin Zen Temple looked very strange and stopped Huang Xi and asked, "How did you move your furniture to the garden?" Huang Xi narrowed his eyes: "Have you not seen the big words 'Imperial Gift Huang Xi has'?" But deliberately disobeying the Divine Commandments? The host took a look at it, fully understood, and won Huang Xi's treacherous plan. It's really dumb to eat yellow lotus, and there is bitterness that cannot be said. Since then, this garden has been separated from the Shilin Zen Temple, and it has been the private garden of the Huang family.
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