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ST On last Monday a landscape architect Zhao Bing came to GCA and gave all of the Grade 10 students an interesting speech.Zhao Bing is the vice professor of Nanjing Forestry University.

The landscape garden is konwn as people all over the world.The most famous landscape garden is Suzhou landscape garden.There are plenty of landscape gardens in Suzhou like Zhuozheng Garden,Wangshi Garden and so on.

At first,Mr. Zhao showed us a video about landscape gardens.After about 10 minutes,he started his attractive talk.He used some poems in China and pictures.We listened carefully and learned a lot of konwledge about the Chinese classical tradition.The style in Suzhou is very different from the landscape garden in nothern China.Mr.Zhao said that the style of landscape gardens in northern China is very strong,for example the Palace Museum.It is a huge and well-konwn landscape garden in north of China.

Zhao Bing also told us how to appreciate the beauty of landscape garden.He combined the beautiful photographs.When he showed the PPT pictures to us,we shouted.We were surprized to see such the wonderful view of beauty.

From many pictures I saw the pond or stream in the landscape gardens is very common.There are many big orange golden fish in the water.There are also a pair of mandarin ducks on the water.It is a poetic picture.

Suzhou Classical Gardens are the symbol of Chinese traditional gardens.The number of stelae in the Lingering Garden has never been surpassed by any other gardens in Suzhou.Superbly inscribed with the works of more than a hundred calligraphers in the Jin,Tang,Song,Yuan,Ming ,and Qing Dynasties, these invaluable stelae bring to light the evolutionary course of Chinese calligraphy in the past 1,000 years. The whole garden possesses with pride 42 rooms and halls , a 670-meter-long roofed walkway,200 lattice-windows of different kinds, 44 parallel couplets and stone carvings , 373 stelae,and 17 such valuable old trees as gingkoes,southern wistaria,etc. which fall into 8 catalogues.

Zhuozheng Garden is the most famous garden in Suzhou.I have been to Zhuozheng Garden.It is very big garden with a huge reservoir.

After Mr.Zhao's talk,I knew the styles of the Chinese landscape gardens and how to enjoy them.