Who used to live in Suzhou Lion Forest?

It turned out to be a monk who lived in the sky like a Zen master.

From the Yuan Dynasty to the second year of Zheng Zheng (1342), the disciple of Zen master Wei Zetian was founded by his teacher. Originally named "Lion Forest Temple", it was later renamed "Bodhi Zhenzong Temple" and "Shenen Temple".

In the early Qing Dynasty, temple gardens became private property, separated from temples and named gardens. Because there are Wukesong trees in the park, it is also called Wusong Garden. 19 17 was bought by the pigment comprador Bei Runsheng. After nine years of construction and expansion, it is still named Lion Forest (the eastern part of the garden is the Beijia ancestral hall, ethnology and residence).

From the 17th year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1589) to the Kangxi period, the temple was separated from the garden, which was later bought by Huang Zhi's father, Huang Xingzu, the magistrate of Hengzhou, and named "Garden". Xi Hunag was the top student in high school, finishing the mansion and reorganizing the courtyard, and named it "Wusong Garden". By the middle of Guangxu in Qing Dynasty, the Huang family had declined and the garden had fallen, but the rockery was still there.

19 17, Bei Runsheng, the king of Shanghai pigments, bought the lion forest from Li Zhongyu, the director of civil affairs. 1945 After the death of Bei Runsheng, the Lion Forest was managed by Sun Beihuan Zhang. After liberation, the descendants of Bayes donated the garden to the country, and Suzhou Garden Management Office took over the renovation and opened it to the public on 1954.

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Wei Ze (1298— 1368) was a monk and writer in the Yuan Dynasty. Also known as Zi, whose real name is Tan, whose name is Ji Zhi, is from Luling (now Ji 'an, Jiangxi). Qi became a monk in 2000, first entered, and later learned Ming Ben (No.Zhongfeng), a famous monk in Yuhang, Wu Shan.

In the second year (1342), he came to Wu (now Suzhou) from Zhejiang, and his disciples invested to buy an abandoned garden in the Song Dynasty and built a buddhist nun for his daily life. It was named Lion Forest and became a famous garden in Suzhou. He is good at poetry and has four volumes of quotations. He is the author of Pure Land or Problem.

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