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Lingering Garden is one of the great four gardens in China. It was first built in Wanli reign of Ming Dynasty in 1593 as Xu Taishi's private garden. The garden was originally called East Garden , and the middle pond and overlapped yellow stone rockeries on the west of the pond are built at that time. After Xu's death, Liu Su become the owner of the garden. By rebuilding it, Liu plated many bamboos and had many stones inscribed out of his hobby. The fourth owner is Sheng Xuanhuai, who named the Garden ˇ®Lingering', the word has the same pronunciation with ˇ®Liu' in Chinese, the surname of its former owner.
Covering 23,330 square meters, the Lingering is a typical one of gardens in Qing Dynasty. It boasts its fine gardening, luxurious and spacious hall, and collection of stones from Taihu Lake by which people can be freshened up without going out the city. In 1997, Lingering Garden was inscribed into UNESCO's World Heritage List.
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