Soochow China,Where I live!

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the frist mountain scenary in SuZhou city.wonderful!

Stones and stakes are put in little flower pots. Grass and flowers are kept in them. They form natural scenes. That's what you can see everywhere in Suzhou garden. In Humble Administration Garden and Lingering Garden , special lower pot areas are kept for people to enjoy. There are over 1000 pots of stakes, water and stone pots in different postures. They are old, strong, prosperous. These make you enjoy the natural scenes about mountains and trees. Many of them use the treasures left from Ming dynasty.
Potted landscapes can be classified into two. One focuses on trees, with mountains and stones, characters and houses. The other focuses on mountains and stones with clear water, pavilions. The former is called stake potted landscape. The latter stone and mountain potted landscape.
Potted landscape of suzhou pay close attention to the postures of stakes and the age, curiosity of the appearances. These stakes are dug out from fields or deep mountains. Then they are cultivated carefully and treated artistically. Some look old and strong, like huge trees. Some only have two or three branches, like old trees in deep mountains. Some hang upside down like the ancient pine trees hanging along the precipitous cliff. Some lay twisted horizontally like dragons flying in the sky.
The expert on potted landscape, Zhou Shoujuan said that potted landscape include 60 percent of nature and 40 percent of art. Among the 40 percent, trimming covers 25%, binding up covers 15%. Only in this way can trees not look too artistic or become bad ones. At the same time, people should also learn from those famous pictures of the past and present.
The flower pots osed are also laid emphasis on. The purple pot from Jingshan, Yixing are often used. Some porcelain or stone ones are also used to.

Thread lanes, brocade mills, embroidery flower streets, etc., in the city. That proved the prosperity of suzhou embroidery. Some lived by embroidering. Daughters in rich families were engaged in it as a way of killing time and molding their experiment. That's how “popular embroidery”, “boudoir embroidery” and “palace embroidery” came into being. Suzhou embroidery in Qing dynasty reached its culmination. Suzhou was called the “market of embroidery”, famous both at home and abroad. There were various ways of knitting and they were applied widely. Mountains, rivers, lakes, pavilions, flowers and birds, characters were all embroidered. Suzhou embroidery was largely needed in the palace. Therefore wonderful and magnificent embroidery sprang up.
At the end of Qing dynasty and the beginning of Ming dynasty, Songtao, an expert at embroidery, renovated the traditional way of knitting. Flowers and birds, characters embroidered in new ways, or endowed with new meaning ,were very characteristic. The image of Lina, the queen of Italy absorbed the theory of chiaroscuro. Close attention was paid to the vividness of the images. Such embroidery was called “art embroidery” or “emulation embroidery”. Songtao combined the previous art and his own experience, classified the way of knitting into 18 varieties, as recorded by Zhangsui in a book. Thus the way of knitting was systematized. Her own embroidery won several awards for the country in International Fair.
The pieces of embroidery on characters, animals and flowers, mountains and water are for appreciation. They can also be made into pictures, book marks, a set of hanging scrolls, etc. There are also the varieties of embroidery: single-side embroidery, double-side embroidery of different colors. Double-side embroidery, the specific style of suzhou embroidery can be appreciated from both sides. Pictures look exactly the same and wonderful on both sides. Special ways are used in knitting instead of knotting. There the end of silk threads are invisible. It is knitted in the right angle without piercing the other side. Both sides will present the same excellent effect. The Nangjing Bridge , Xiangjun, the peony, the cat, the goldfish are the masterpieces in double-side embroidery.