Canglang Pavilion (Surging Wave Pavilion)

It was first built in the Northern Song Dynasty by poet Su Shunqin, the only Suzhou garden named after a standalone pavilion. Breaking the enclosed layout of other Suzhou gardens, it borrows the outer Fengxi River scenery through a winding covered corridor embedded with over 100 exquisite hollowed lattice windows, perfectly interpreting Song literati’s landscape philosophy of borrowing scenery from afar. Core highlights include the iconic Canglang Pavilion atop the rock hill, the double-sided veranda corridor, dense bamboo forest, Imperial Stele Pavilion and mountain stone courtyard. Quiet and less commercialized, it carries the simple and reclusive aesthetic of Song Dynasty literati gardens.