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Sights & Attractions --- Yi Garden

Built in 1921, to the west of South Street in Yixing city, this garden was once a private park of the Ren Family.

Now a part of it is laid out to be the Exhibition Hall of Xu Beihong, an outstanding artist. Although the garden is small in size, you can see the Lotus Pool, the Yanxian Spring, the Nine-folds Bridge, Pewilions and platforms. There are 22 tablets exhibited in the garden; among them, the tablet of the Chaste Woman, written by Li bai-a great poet and engraved by Li Yangbing during the reign of Tianbao in the Tang Dynasty. This is the most famous.


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