Kuojiatou Lane

Kuojiatou Lane

Kuojiatou lane is a street in the southeast of Suzhou city. The classical garden net master garden is located in the lane.

geographical position

Kuojiatou lane is located in the east of the north section of daichengqiao road in Suzhou City, connecting the south end of Wangshi Lane in the East and daichengqiao road in the West. The lane is 191 meters long and 3-10 meters wide. In 1991, the stone pavement was changed to cement brick pavement.

Place name allusion

Kuojiatou lane is the main gate of wangshiyuan. It is said that there was Yuantong Temple in the lane in the old days, which was called Yuantong lane. Feng Guifen's "Suzhou Fu Zhi" is a broad street lane. In the Qing Dynasty, there were many noble people living in the alleys, who were rich in money. Wu county annals of the Republic of China was written as kuojie (street) touxiang. The painting of Suzhou city is marked as kuojiatou lane.

Historical relics

Garden of the Master of Nets

11 is Wangshi garden.

Yuantong Temple

Yuantong Temple in Xiangnei, originally named Yuantong Temple, was originally built by a monk in Chunxi of Song Dynasty. It was merged into dongchan temple in the early Ming Dynasty and changed into a temple in Guangxu of Qing Dynasty. In the 20th year of the Republic of China, there were more than 50 buildings of various types in the temple, which was quite large. In 1958, most of the temples were converted into dwellings, some of them were converted into warehouses in primary schools, and the "Faru hall" behind the main hall has been converted into a teahouse in Wangshi garden. Monks in the temple are good at poetry and writing. Before the Anti Japanese War, master Fengyue, a monk of the temple, was good at poetry and painting. He knew that poetry could play the piano when he lived in the valley. Ye gongchuo, a well-known scholar, paid a visit to the temple and talked with the monk about Zen and sang poems. Xiao Tuian (1876-1958), a famous calligrapher in Wuzhong, lived in the temple for more than 20 years. At the beginning of the "Cultural Revolution", the monks disguised the Scriptures skillfully and smuggled them to Xiyuan temple at night to avoid the disaster of "breaking the four olds". The former site of Yuantong Temple (No.6 and No.8 kuojiatou Lane) is a city controlled and protected building.

In 2007, social forces invested in the reconstruction of Yuantong Temple, where Suzhou Yuantong Art Museum, Suzhou prehistoric jade Research Association and museum were founded. The cultural relics in the collection include porcelain, Gaogu jade, oil painting, etc.

Former residence of Shen Deqian

23-26 is the former residence of Shen Deqian, a famous poet of Qing Dynasty, also known as jiaozhongtang. Shen Deqian (1673-1769) was a Jinshi in the fourth year of Qianlong (1739). He was an official, Bachelor of cabinet and Minister of rites. Ten years later, he retired and returned to his hometown. In his later years, he took charge of Ziyang Academy. Shen lived in Jiaozhong hall for more than 20 years until he died. After Shen's residence, he changed his master many times. Cheng Dequan in the late Qing Dynasty and Wu Zhongxin, director of the Mongolian Tibetan Committee in the Republic of China, successively lived there. Since the 1950s, Shen's house has become a residential complex. After the demolition of residents in 1995, Shen Deqian's former residence was restored by financing. At present, it is a cultural relic protection unit in the city, and it is also the site of Kunqu opera school.

Other sites

No. 4 is the site of silkworm farm in the Republic of China.

Address: East of the north section of daichengqiao Road, Canglang District, Suzhou

Longitude: 120.633934021

Latitude: 31.298276901245