The House of Sweet Smelling Rice

The Humble Administrator’s Garden was first owned by a former government official who retired to Suzhou and started cultivating a garden that grew to immense size. The government official is supposedly unassuming and yet has a garden as wonderful as this, leading to its name. The garden has changed hands several times in the past which included it being payment for a gambling debt. Much of the charm of the garden remains over the centuries and with the advent of mass tourism, I believe it will continue to be maintain to a high level of quality.
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