Suzhou Gardens, Jiangsu Exploring China's Ancient Architectural Wonders (4K UHD)

The classical gardens of Suzhou (蘇州), Jiangsu (江蘇) Province, China date back to the 6th century BCE when the city was founded as the capital of the Wu (吳) Kingdom. Inspired by these royal hunting gardens built by the King of the State of Wu, private gardens began emerging around the 4th century and finally reached the climax in the 18th century. Today, more than 50 of these gardens are still in existence, namely the Humble Administrator’s Garden (拙政園), Lingering Garden (留園), Net Master’s Garden (網師園), the Canglang Pavilion (滄浪亭), the Lion Grove Garden (獅子林). The earliest of these, the Canglang Pavilion was built in the early 11th century on the site of an earlier, destroyed garden. Conceived and built under the influence of the unconstrained poetic freehand style originally seen in traditional Chinese landscape paintings, they are noted for their profound merging of exquisite cr