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fall on the western rockery hill. The building behind the stone boat is named the Chamber of Subtle Fragrance and Spare Shadows. On the rockeries in front of the chamber a few plum trees blossom in early spring, spreading faint aroma. Hence the name. The Flying Waterfall Pavilion, from which visitors can watch and listen to the rushing of the waterfall. It is also named the Pavilion for Listening to Waves. In old days water was carried here on shoulder poles from the pond below. The Questioning Plum Tower looks like a twostorey building, but actually it is a onestorey house. It used to be a place where scholars painted and wrote poems. Between this tower and the Fan Pavilion lies the Double Fragrance Fairy Studio. The name of the studio is based on the fragrance from plum flowers in spring and the fragrance from lotus growing in the pond in summer. The southern corridor is a zigzag one going up and down, along which are erected two famous stelae, one is Wen Tianxiang’s PlumBlossom Poem Stela, and the other is Emperor Qianlong’s imperial stela. Wen Tianxiang was VicePrime Minister of the Southern Song Dynasty. He was arrested during the battle with the army of the Yuan Dynasty. And he refused to surrender even if the Yuan Dynasty emperor personally persuaded him to do so. Almost every educated person in China recite the two lines from his poem, which go likes: “Death es to everyone. Who will not die since ancient times? I could rather keep my loyal heart shinning in history.” From this stela, we can appreciate his cursive handwriting and know how he eulogized the purity and uprightness by describing the plum flowers. The StandinginSnow Hall is situated on the eastern side of the corridor, where Emperor Qianlong’s stela is displayed. It is recorded that two studious young scholars in the Song Dynasty once came to seek instructions from their teacher when it was snowing. But the teacher happened to be sleeping, so they stood in the courtyard and waited until their teacher woke up. When the latter got out of the bed, he saw his students standing in the snow. Deeply moved by the two young men’s conduct, he had his building renamed the StandinginSnow Hall. This story shows a good example of students’ paying homage to teachers and their willingness to learn more. In the courtyard in front of the hall we can see several piles of Taihu rocks shaped like lions, toads, crab or oxen. These have given rise to some fanciful names and stories such as the Ox Eats the Crab, which indicates that it’s impossible for somebody to acplish a certain job. Or it’s beyond one’s ability. Because an ox only eats grass. Never does an ox eat crabs. In this garden tourists can have a lot of fun and learn a lot of from its long history. That’s the reason why the Lion Grove Garden can attract so many sightseers. Thank you for your visit. 13