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The scenery like a picture of 12 animals’ bustling with noise and excitement at
spring
Passing moon gate, flanking a winding pebble road, there are over ten osmanthus trees of one hundred years old, which were planted in the flower bed surrounded by stones from Lake Taihu. In southeast there is a dragon shaped small mountain sticked closely up by the lake stone, which nestles against the west wall of Fresh Wind and Bright Moon Hall. The slope of the mountain extends to link the flower bed, in which there stand several lake stones, several meters high. To further exaggerate the spring atmosphere. Garden builders selected odd shaped stones having striking resemblance to various animals with various postures. The builders use such skills of sticking, enclosing and decorating stones to form the scene like a picture of One Hundred Animals Bustling with Noise and excitement in spring, which may also be called twelve animals bustling with noise and excitement in spring. Look, the first animal who feels that spring returns to the earth is the snake, the one ploughing the field onwards with load is farm cattle, the one breathing freely is the steed and the one being lively and lovely is the dog. All of them are lifelike. Even the fierce tiger roaring loudly in mountain forest, the fairy dragon showing its head only and the monkey clever and naughty were all piled up properly. Of course there is also a meek rabbit dearest to man. “The scene of spring returns to the earth and all living things come back to life” is expressed adequately. Opening the book of History of Chinese Gardening Development, we know that the earliest embryonic form of Chinese gardens is a round animal is farm according to Mao Heng’s Biography in Book of Poetry. The fact indicates that it is helpful to tourists if they know something about the origin of Chinese gardens.
Outside the garden one sees early spring scenery but inside of the garden one sees fine sights and colors of mid spring. To one’s surprise, this change takes place silently without one’s knowing it.
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