More than 2,400 years ago, wuyue competed for hegemony, and Gou Jian, the king of Yue, got the help of doctors, and handed the mission of saving the nation from extinction to the beautiful Huansha woman stone. From then on, Fu Cha, the prince of Wu, was addicted to alcohol and lost his guard against Yue. In addition, he dominated the Central Plains militarily and exhausted his national strength.
After leaving his post, Fan Li called himself "Yi Zi Yi Pi". "Yu Yue Chun Pian" said that "when Wu dies, the more he floats on the river, the more he dies with the barbarians". Go boating on five lakes with rocks and swim 72 peaks. Tang Du Mu has a poem: "When he learned Chinese characters and went to Gusu, he drove away the barbarians." They are obsessed with the beautiful scenery of Wuli Lake and are reluctant to leave. In memory of them, future generations called Wuli Lake Lihu Lake. West Lake in Hangzhou and Lihu Lake in Wuxi are named Yin and Yang, and the wind causes the difference between leaves. Scholars in Ming Dynasty spoke highly of the natural scenery of Wuli Lake. Shu Hua's "Wu Li Khufu" says: "The victory of the West Lake is as beautiful as beauty, beauty, tenderness, gardens, dikes, bridges, pavilions, ancestral tombs, pheasants, peaches, willows, songs and dances; Wuli Lake is spacious, ancient, relaxed, rough, cool and chivalrous? " Gao Panlong, leader of Lindong Party, intoned: "Jiulong Mountain stands like a blue screen, and Wuli Lake opens like a mirror." Qian Guoheng compared it to Wang Wei's famous painting in Qing Dynasty: "There are mountains and lakes on the lake, and there are natural Wangchuan Villa." Between the green hills and clear waters of Lihu Lake, there are many garden buildings such as Ruopu, Ruojingtang, Caotang Lake and Liyuan.
Ruopu was built by entrepreneur Chen Zhongyan 1928, so it is also called Chenjia Garden. At that time, the garden owner took his secluded place of empty mountains and birds singing, widely planted Chinese and western flowers and turned it into a villa. In the center of the garden, Nie Er Pavilion is hidden in evergreen trees. Before the Anti-Japanese War, Nie Er, a famous musician in China, practiced piano here and wrote the famous Song of the Road. Nie 'er Pavilion is elegant in architecture, with white walls and grey tiles, red bricks embedded in the corners, and arched doors separating the two sides, with appropriate volume. Although there are no carved beams and painted buildings, it is also intriguing. From the eastbound direction of the Garden, you can see a long bridge lying across the misty lake, that is, on the hill southwest of baodai bridge Bridge, there is a magnificent palace-style building, which is the private courtyard of the master of Chinese studies, Tang. There is a mountain and a lake behind this building. The main entrance of the courtyard is titled "Respect for the Hall" and the back is titled "Example of Teachers". There is a small pool at the door. Once upon a time, there was a clear water, like a mirror, with a stone road beside it. Climb the stairs, which is the main house in the traditional national form. Tang () was born in the early years of Guangxu. He and his entourage traveled many times and later took charge of the translation department. He once presided over Nanyang University of the Ministry of Communications and the "Museum of Chinese Studies" on the banks of Liangxi River, which influenced more than 4,000 people. Many of his disciples became dignitaries, so they raised funds at 1935 to "build a church and camp" for them to show that they did not bear the burden of teachers' teaching.
Dozens of steps to the west of baodai bridge, there is a small village. Along the stone road next to the village, there are several old houses, namely the Hushan Caotang built by the Ming Dynasty painter Wang Zhongshan and his son. Caotang, with its back facing the mountain and the lake, has an excellent location, with bamboo in Maolin and Banqiao in Shanxi. You can fish matches, farm and weave, and expect the snow and waves in Shitangxi to be green, so Wang Zhongshan abandoned his post and retired. For two generations, the father and son have successively built the Qinyin Garden and the Hushan Caotang here, created 35 scenes and lived in them for 50 years. Wang Zhongshan wrote a song about Hushan, saying, "In this area, there are blue mountains and Jing fans, green apes whistle repeatedly, egrets fly in groups, and mountains and peaks are reflected in Xitan Island. Water-soluble haze, refreshing, no violation. "
Lihu Lake became a tourist destination in the Ming Dynasty. 1928,, and Wang Brothers "generally admired Dr. Fan as a human being and recovered his wealth to govern his hometown", chose the natural place by the lake and began to build a large-scale garden, which was named "Liyuan". 1930, Chen Meifang built a "fishing village" next to the pear garden. It is said that Fan Li once raised fish here with the villagers. In the 1950s, the two gardens were merged into one, flowers and trees were widely planted, and pavilions were built, named "Pear Garden". With the theme of water, the pear garden borrows the landscape of Lihu Lake to build long dikes, pavilions, ponds and rocks, forming peaks and mountains, with blue waves near the water and ethereal peaks and mountains in the distant mountains. Just around the pond, the "Four Seasons Pavilion" breaks the traditional layout, with east-west confrontation and north-south symmetry, and is divided into Chun Mei, Oleander, Jingui and Chimonanthus praecox. There is also a thousand steps gallery, a pavilion in the middle of the lake and a rockery in the park. Fake peaks stand on the wall, like clouds circling upwards, so they are all named after clouds, including nests, feet, clouds, clouds, clouds, clouds, clouds, clouds, clouds and clouds. There are brick carvings with famous French stickers in the park, which adds a cultural atmosphere to the new park.