Lingering Garden is one of the cerebrated gardens in Suzhou. It was first constructed in 1460 in the MIng Dynasty. Winding throughout the garden is a 700-metre-long corridor, and on the walls of which are a great number of stone carvings and windows. Within the garden is "Yet Another Village," a winding path with a trellised grape vine canopy. All along the path are hundreds of potted flowers and trees, some as much as three hundred years old. The Lingering Garden boasts the largest rock in South China. It is nine metres high, weighs five tons and was transported from Lake Tai some four hundred years ago/ Because of its height and shape it was named"Cloud Capped Peak." Limestone boulders like this were quarried from mountains around the lake and sunk in it where they stayed, eroding into strange shapes with cavities and grooves. These are the rocks that have been used in the landscaping of many famous gardens in China.
    Encompassing 3.3 hectares (8.15 acres), the garden is divided into four parts: east, west, central and north. Lingering Garden is the masterpiece of the garden building in ancient China and put under special preservation by the Chinese Gouverment.