Suzhou flourish in the Qing dynasty

Suzhou is a city known for its long history and cultural tradition.Its achievements in classical landscape architecture over the past dynasties and the paintings of the Suzhou School in Ming have provided a constant source of inspiration for its potted landscape gardening to draw on.All these listed above contributed a lot to the formation of the local feature s and unique style of Suzhou's potted landscapes.

Tree stumps are used as chief material in Suzhou's potted landscape gardening.Some of them are decades or even hundreds of years old and theirbranches have withered and crooked,given a strange and picturesque look by the workings of Nature.Some even seem to be dead and rotten and are regarded as useless.However,transplanted in pots and handled carefully,they will put forth green and luxuriant foliage.Hanging low or shooting upwards,many are beariful by nature and have a high decorative value .Put in old-looking pots and stands,they are given a flavour of antiquity.Hence the unique classic elegance and simplicity of Suzhou's potted landscape, which are both life-like and artistically suggestive.
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Dating far back to Tang and Sung Dynasties and flourishing in Ming and Qing ,Suzhou's potted landscape gardening has continued to develop in our times.Early in Qing ,it already attained the artistic standards of traditional Chinese landscape painting. As a result ,they have become famous not only on the mainland of China,but also in Hongkong and Macao and the rest of the world.