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Suzhou is known as its historiy, culture ，humanities ceremony,and beautiful sceneries。Pan gate scenic area is located in the ancient city of suzhou long southwest corner, during tang and song dynasty,it is a north-south traffic crossroads,。with the auspicious and active rui guang temple, this area became the business prosperous area.in 1860, taiping rebels attacked suzhou, qing army retreated to this area and made fire, former pan gate gradually become cold water pan gate, but many historical sites and unique landscape remained. The whole pan gate area consists of three parts: the south to the world-famous ancient land and water gates, which was desighed by wu zi xu,as early as the spring and autumn period. it is now the only remaining a land and water gates,.a famous scholar Mr Chen Congzhou once praised: north to see the Great Wall majestic, south to see beautiful pan gate. North of five-star hotel was built by the joint venture,.this hotel cost nearly billion yuan wu gong sheraton hotel. Now it is highest level hotel in suzhou.

Please look at the tall arch, this is a scenic spot of entrance landmark building. Monument.it is also used for commemorating sages.the monument is 8.8 meters high, 12.8 meters wide, 8, 8, 1, 2, 8 .its chineses prounciation is fortune fortunre,symbol of prosperity and development.

The rui guang tower is 53.57 meters high ,and Dasha is 9.14 meters,.the tower is an important buddhist art. The tower is designed to store the Buddha and the buddhist relics,such as she li. The Buddhism thought: she li is a symbol of the Buddha and it is holy and pure. 解释什么是舍利？Whorshipping she li is to worship bodhisattva, so the buddhism tower is always built behind the temple .now You can have a count,how many layers the tower have ? Yes, it should be seven layers. Why is the seven layers, not six or eight layer? Because according to the theory of five elements of Yin and Yang, even is yin, odd for Yang, Yin for ground, Yang for the heaven. Layers of the tower is upwards,it should be an odd number. Usually,one tower has 7 layers. So \"7 class floor\" is a synonym for tower. In 241, monk kang,came to the wu county for preaching buddhism, the king built a temple for the monk.in 247,to return

wu king, the monk built one she li tower .the she li tower was the origional rui guang tower.now the tower was in fact built in 1004. in April 1978 people found a group of extremely precious five dynasties and northern song dynasty relics, among them,the pearls sarira treasure house (commonly known as the pearl tower) is the most precious, Pearl sarira treasure pearl alone has more than forty thousand, fine craftsmanship, material of expensive, modelling pearl, is the most elegant handicraft, found in the tower in china.The rui guang tower and pearls sarira treasure house are like a goddess of the east, welcoming tourists from home and abroad.

Four hall of the north and the south side are the bell tower and drum tower.in the moring,the bell will be stuck and in the afternoon,the drum will be stuck.

Now the fang sheng pond is closely related to Buddhism.buddhism belivers like to set the fish and turtle free in the pond .and the creatures can have natural multiplication. So this pool is also called \"free life pond\". Buddhism prefer to releasing than killing. So,usually in a buddhism temple,there is a life free pond..

Pan waterand land gate. suzhou has been more than 2500 years of history, although the name has changed, but the basic pattern is the same. At the end of the spring and autumn, in 514 BC ,the prince he lu, summoned wu zixu to build a city, professional construction. Wu zixu built the city in accordance with chinese traditional fengshui 早些关于中国建筑风水的资料来解说！That was the origional suzhou city. the origional suzhou city had eight gates; The south gate of pan gate, snake; The north gate of qi, flat door; The northeast gate of artisan, swallow the door; The west gate of Chang door, professional. The eight gates set both land and water gates. In the following dynasties,all the gates had some renovationa, but the total urban size and layout are based on the origional gates. Pan gate is the only well-preserved city gate, pan gate is also the only water and land gate which has the shape of

trapezoid and the water gate and land gate is 并列的。It is unique in the world. at the beginning of the city, to prevent yue north invasion, wuzixu ordered people to carve wooden panlong above the gates to deter yue. hence the name, pan gate . The ancient pan gate is located in suzhou city surface position, grand canal from north to south passes around the city .here the traffic wasdeveloped, commercial was prosperous, in history ,pan gate is the capital fort. Professor. Pan gate attracts thousands of tourists from home and abroad, experts, scholars and cultural ambassadors.after visitors step into the pan gate, they will leave deep impression. Now,Pan gate consists of water and land, barbican, twofold gate towers and the side walls. The water gate is alongside south, land gate is alongside north .the water gate and land gate skew and the have the shape of trapezoid. The space between the water gate and land gate is named weng. In ancient times, the soldiers could lure enemies to the two gates, then,the solider would close the gates .the enemy were like turtles in a jar. Lock in the pan gate can be open and closed at any time,it is not only for defenses, but also for controlling the city river water level.This thoughtful preparation and flood control design was unique and creative in the world. In 1544, thousands of the enemy attack suzhou ,due to the strong city, the enemies failed, suzhou city bustling commercial city and the safety of the lives of tens of thousands of villagers have been protected.