According to a beautiful legend, there was a man, named Han Han, with an eye disease— now is called cataract. The abbot of Huqiu Temple felt for him and adopted him as a monk in charge of carrying water for the temple. It was a long distance from the river to the temple, so he had to rest somewhere on the way. One day, he felt asleep there and dreamed an abbot told him a mouth of spring just under where he slept, which was directly running to the sea. He waked up and touched the ground finding some moss here. There must be water under the moss. So he began to dig with shoulder pole. After 49 days, water came out. Surprisingly, when his eyes touched the water, his eyes recovered. Thus it was naturally named Han Han Fount. Han Han also became a noted eminent monk in the Liang Dynasty (502-557).

    Traveler can see a stele standing on the Front Gate Square on which characters “??”meaning “Surf Surging” is carved. The four characters on the wall of Hill Entrance Gate also indicate that Huqiu had been a small island in the ocean. All walls of the Front Gate are in yellow, implying there must be a temple inside. Accurately, Huqiu is in the temple because the complete hill in fact is hidden in the large temple?and which is a unique feature among all temples all over the country.

    On both sides of the wall of the Green Resort are large four characters in cursive style carved: Dragon, Tiger, Leopard and Bear, which look vigorous and powerful. It is said it was written by Tao Maosen (a person born and lived in Guiling) in 1858—the eighth year of Emperor Xianfen Reign, Qing Dynasty (1616-1911). They were moved here from other place long ago. This Green Garden is the only one that has no pool among all gardens in Suzhou, and was built by Hong Jun, who was the Number One Scholar in the imperial examination of late Qing Dynasty, and the hubby of the well-known beauty Ms Sai Jinhua. The garden is a rectangle covering more than one acre. The structure is based on the natural landform of the tableland, with four levels, each of which has different layout and scenery is varied. It develops a school of its own in Suzhou Gardens.

    The Green Xixi is one of the ten sights in Huqiu. Originally, it was a family ancestral shrine of Lu Zhaoyu, built in 1787 for memorializing his ancestor Lu Guimeng, an honorable man in the Tang Dynasty (618?907). The basic structure is based on the original villa in Tang Dynasty, with the green attic, wind pavilion, bay tree house, duck pool, chrysanthemum plot, and bamboo bank. It was destroyed thoroughly by the war in 1862, and later became a flower house of the resort?and rebuilt in 2004. When rebuilding?there are some new sights added?they are?Cloud Mirror Stand?Bamboo Fence?Wind-hearing Pavilion?Flowers-hanging Door?Wild Stone Sight?and Waterscape. The Cloud Mirror Stand is an ancient drama stage, which is recorded in the Chronicle of Huqiu and the Some Historical of Tongqiao. Today the Stand offers a suitable stage for flower fair or folk custom performance. In the front of the stand is rockery made with thousand tons of stones?and comes down in one continuous line of the landscape of Huqiu, outlining a flora square which tells people the tale of the flora of Huqiu. At the west side, there is a bamboo grove that is made according to the original manner recorded in the historic book Wu Du Fa Cheng. Among the bamboo there dotted some thatched cottages?a recent found ancient well?the water of which is connected with the Green Attic?the Duck Playing Pool. All echo the Cloud Tea House landscape in distance, displaying the beauty in the history that is birds and flowers, winds and forest, green and brook exist together harmoniously.

    This Tea House was built in 1982 in connection with “White Cloud Tea”, famous tea of Huqiu. Poets in old time used to like to describe tea in their poems as Du Fu?Lu Yanrang in the Tang Dynasty (618?907) and Yu Yue in the Qing Dynasty (1616?1911). Du Fu says?pursuing not the flowing water but the clouds; Lu Yanrang says?the sweet tea with the spring water is good?and Yu Yue was known for his article My Elegant Room with Tea Fragrance. The White Cloud Tea began popular since Song Dynasty (960?1279)?and came to its golden age in the Ming Dynasty (1368?1644). The historic book Chronicle of Suzhou records as?the tea planted in Jin Li area of Huqiu is so outstanding. Ater infused, it is white as jade?sweet as orchid?yet it is easy to finish drinking. Its name started from Song Dynasty?and the poet Su Shi ranked it the best in his book.