However, the origin of "Gusu" can be found from the following points:
Legend has it that Xu was Dayu's assistant in controlling the Taihu Lake area. After the flood was leveled, he was honored as the "horizontal king". Xu was "sealed in Wu" for helping Dayu to control water, and this place was later called Xu. Coupled with the pronunciation word "Gu" in the local dialect, the name "Gu Xu" was born and later evolved into "Gu Su".
Gusu has always existed as another name of Suzhou, and literati poets have written it in poems, such as Li Bai's "Gusu lives on the stage, and the beauty is drunk in the Wu Palace", Zhang Ji's "Hanshan Temple outside Gusu, the bell rings on the passenger ship at midnight", Bai Juyi's "A prostitute leaves Gusu tonight, and a guest visits the mirror lake in the Ming Dynasty", and Du Mu's "People are in a sparse pavilion at night".
"A Gusu city, half Jiangnan poetry". How many people know the beauty of Suzhou in the poems of literati. Suzhou is drunk in the misty rain in the south of the Yangtze River. This is a gentle and romantic city, which allows you to calm down and feel the cultural atmosphere here, so that you have unconsciously been in the painting. Suzhou is not particularly beautiful, but it is inseparable when it comes.
Shuicheng Garden is infinitely beautiful. We can take a boat through the ancient town, visit the gardens and feel the lion forest surrounded by winding cloisters, the humble administrator's garden surrounded by mountains and rivers and the unique master's garden. After seeing Suzhou, I know why ancient people like to travel and remember Jiangnan, all of which praise Jiangnan.
I hope my answer can help you!