1. Erxian Pavilion

Erxian Pavilion was originally built in the Song Dynasty, and was rebuilt in Jiaqing period of Qing Dynasty. There are two stone tablets in this pavilion with two immortals engraved on them, one is Chen Tuan and the other is Lv Dongbin. Legend has it that one day two immortals were playing chess here, and a woodcutter saw it, so he came to watch them play chess and went home after a game of chess, but no one knew him. Later, people guessed from his clothes that he was thousands of years ago.

2. Thousands of stones

Thousand people stone, also known as "thousand people sitting", is the main attraction of Tiger Hill at the end of Shangshan Road. Lao Zhiyun: "The public lecture takes thousands of people, hence the name." "Ji of Emperor Wu" said: "Spring Stone in Tiger Hill, the most successful sword pool, thousands of people sit." "Wu Junzhi" says: "There are several acres of boulders in the lecture hall in Gong Sheng, which are as high as cutting, and there are none in other mountains." The stone is engraved with the three characters of "thousand people sit", which was written by Hu Maozong.

Test sword stone

"Sword test stone" is on the east side of the hiking trail, and the boulder is like a sword. This stone is a typical volcanic eruption tuff. After a long period of weathering, such a big crack is formed along the crack, which looks like a sword split.

4. Cui Yongshan Villa

Cui Yongshan Villa, with "Dragon, Tiger, Leopard and Bear" carved on two walls, is magnificent. According to legend, it was made by Guilin pottery in the eighth year of Xianfeng in Qing Dynasty (AD 1858) and moved here from other places. Cui Yongshan Villa is the only waterless garden in Suzhou, which is unique among Suzhou classical gardens, combined with the natural hillside of Huqiu Mountain.

5. sword pool

The most fascinating monument in Tiger Hill is Jianchi, the tomb of He Lv, the king of Wu. Looking from Qianshi to the north, the four characters "Tiger Hill and Sword Pool" are engraved next to the circular cave entrance, which was originally written by Yan Qi, the only son of Yan Zhenqing, a great calligrapher in the Tang Dynasty. On the stone wall in the round cave, there is also the inscription "Fenggu Yunquan", which was written by Mi Fei, one of the four great calligraphers in the Song Dynasty.

Secondly, the area around Tiger Hill is also worth seeing!

Nearby attractions: Third Spring, Lion Grove, Master of Nets Garden.

Third spring

Guanyin Spring is behind Guanyin Temple in Huqiu, Suzhou. Jing Quan's yard is quiet and elegant, and the three characters "Third Spring" are engraved on the garden door. The Third Spring, also known as Lu Yujing, was recorded in Suzhou Official Records. Lu Yu once lived in Huqiu, and found that the spring water in Huqiu was clear, beautiful and delicious, so he dug a spring well on Huqiu Mountain, hence the name. Liu Bozhou commented that this water is the third.

Although Tiger Hill is a hill, its mountain is as majestic as a crouching tiger, and its peak is more like spewing out of the sea. The stone spring water of Huqiu Temple, together with "Biluochun", makes tea here, which has a unique flavor. No wonder Gu Ying, a famous scholar in Yuan Dynasty, boasted: "Snow Ji is green in spring, and moss is soaked in stone porcelain. How can Hung-chien not enter the tea classics? "

Lion Grove

There are ponds and rockeries in the center of the park, such as Lion Peak, Han Hui, Tuyue and other famous peaks, and there are buildings such as Zhenqu Pavilion, Zhuge Pavilion and Jianshan Tower around the pond. When you climb the Jianshan Tower, you can enjoy the scenery of the garden. There is Mei Wenting on the earth mountain in the west of the garden. The tables, chairs, ceilings and windows in the pavilion are all plum blossom-shaped. Plum trees are planted in front of the pavilion and bloom every February. There is also a long corridor around the park. The wall of the long corridor is embedded with calligraphy plaques of four famous Song Dynasty artists Su Shi, Mi Fei, Huang Tingjian and Cai Xiang, as well as the inscription of plum blossom poems by Wen Tianxiang in the Southern Song Dynasty.

The owner of the network garden

Wang Shi Garden was built in Xichun period of Southern Song Dynasty (A.D.1174-1189). It was originally the former site of Wanjuantang, and the name of the garden was "Fishing Hidden", which means retiring from the Jianghu under the present name. Most of the scenery we see now is the remains after the restoration and expansion in the last years of Qing Qianlong.

In the center of the garden is a big pond-Cai Xiachi, and all the buildings are surrounded by this pond. The east is residential area, the north is study area, the west is inner park, and the south is banquet area. There are two doors in the garden, the north gate and the southeast gate. The north gate is the back gate and the southeast gate is the main gate. It is recommended to enter from the southeast gate and tour around the pond counterclockwise, where you can see all the buildings in the park.

From south to north, the east of the garden is the sedan chair hall, the main hall Wanjuan hall, the Xiu Xiu building where the owner lives and meets, the Wufeng Bookstore (the former site of Wanjuan Hall in the Southern Song Dynasty), and the northeast of Wufeng Bookstore is the ladder room.