Why is Lingering Garden special?

Located at 338 Liuyuan Road, Suzhou, Lingering Garden, in Chinese known as Liuyuan, is a renowned classical Chinese garden and it is recognized with other classical Suzhou gardens as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

In addition, the garden itself stores two UNESCO intangible world heritage arts: Pingtan, a form of traditional Chinese storytelling, and Guqin music, Chinese name for a plucked seven-string Chinese musical instrument of the zither family.

Lingering Garden Highlight

Located about 3km west of the city center, the Lingering Garden was originally built in the Ming Dynasty by a doctor who wanted to give his parents a relaxing place to recover from illness. With coverage of 23,310 m2, the garden is divided into four distinctly themed sections: East, Central, West and North.

The Central Part
For its longest history in this whole area, the central part is the essence of the Lingering Garden for its fabulous waterscape.