A hundred miles of flat fields, a peak stands out alone: Tinglin Park

Tinglin Park is located in the northwest corner of Yushan Town, Kunshan City, Suzhou, covering an area of more than 850 acres, even encompassing the entire Yufeng Mountain. Yufeng Mountain is the only mountain within the Kunshan region, and although it is only 80 meters above sea level, it is shaped like a saddle and was once called Ma'anshan. In the thirty-second year of the Guangxu era of the Qing Dynasty (1906), this place was already established as a park, named 'Ma'anshan Park'. Later, to commemorate Gu Yanwu, a thinker from the late Ming and early Qing dynasties who proposed the idea that 'everyone is responsible for the fate of the country' and hailed from Kunshan (styled Tinglin), it was renamed 'Tinglin Park'. Tinglin Park was built around the mountain, and Yufeng Mountain was historically said to have 'seventy-two scenic spots'. Kun stone, qiong flowers, and twin lotuses are known as the 'Three Treasures of Kunshan', and all three are found in Tinglin Park. After years of construction, there are now nearly a hundred attractions in the park: the Gu Yanwu Memorial Hall, the statue of Zu Chongzhi, the tomb of Liu Guo, a Southern Song Dynasty lyricist, the Kunqu Museum, the Kun Stone Pavilion, the Bonsai Garden, Huacang Temple... The cultural landscape is rich. The Miaofeng Pagoda, also known as the Zhiping Tower, is called the 'Descendants' Pagoda' by the locals. Descendants are related to bloodlines and foundations, which shows that this pagoda, initially built in the second year of the Song Dynasty's Zhiping era, holds an extremely high status in religion and belief. The base of the Miaofeng Pagoda is the former site of Miaofeng Nunnery. The pagoda has seven levels and eight sides, is nine meters high, and is made of bluestone. It has been repaired and rebuilt several times throughout the dynasties, and each layer is engraved with forty Buddha statues of various expressions, preserved in their original form. Becoming a paradise for the people should be the best destiny for Tinglin Park. Tinglin Park