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June 9th 2007
Published: June 20th 2011
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Suzhou, one of biggest cities in the Jiangsu province, famous by Chinese gardens, beautiful women, silk and river's canal inside the city, somebody calls Suzhou as Chinese Veneza.

There is a lot of river's canal in the Suzhou, you can take a boat for a tour, passing by old building, semi-circle bridge (very common in the past), some family still living in the old houses around the river's canal, but the most of houses are already commercial building.

The gardens are main sights from Suzhou, the style of gardening of Suzhou is the most representative in China, influencing the whole garden construction concept of China, you can find the same style in the lot of palaces, ancient mansion and some current houses from China. The up tail roof, the circle and the rocks are the main elements for Suzhou's garden style. In this case, there 2 main garden in Suzhou, The Humble Garden and The Tiger Hill.

The life in Suzhou is relatively calm, even it is a developed city, maybe the gardening had influenced the life style of the citizen, the people are more interested to the natural beauty.


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