the Humble Administrator's Garden, Suzhou Garden, China

the Humble Administrator's Gardon, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
The Humble Administrator's Garden was built in the fourth year of Zhengde in the Ming Dynasty (1509). It was built on the site of Lu Guimeng's residence in the Tang Dynasty and the former site of Dahong Temple in the Yuan Dynasty after the Ming Dynasty Hongzhi Jinshi and the imperial censor Wang Xianchen abandoned their official positions and returned to their hometown. Taking the meaning of the sentence "Building a room and planting trees, free and happy... Irrigate the garden and sew vegetables for meals in the morning and evening... This is also the government of the clumsy" in the Jin Dynasty writer Pan Yue's "Old Residence", and this garden was named as Humble Administrator's Garden. It is said that when Wang Xianchen was building the garden, he asked Wen Zhengming, a representative of the Wumen School of Painting, to design a blueprint for it, forming a garden with water as the main, sparse and plain, and almost natural scenery.