Millet Fragrance Hall

    This hall faces a brook and luxuriantly green island with a pavilion on top. Behind the hall is the garden’s northern boundry, beyond which there used to be paddy rice fields.
    The character millet here refers to rice in the south of the Yangtze River. When rice ripens, its fragrance can spread far, hence the name. For many years it was used as a tea house, and now it serves as a souvenir shop.
    Around the hall traveler can see lots of different trees such as ginkgo, magnolia, crape murtle, sycamore, camphor, boxwood, pine, cypress, maple, etc. The pavilion at the top of the hill is known as the Far Sighted View Gazebo or Far Away Looking Pavilion.
    Walking along the corridor with tile roof and viewing scenery behind the flowery lattice windows set on the white wall, traveler can appreciate trees, water, ponds, hillocks and classical buildings appearing or disappearing from view. This is the magnificent view of the central section, which is the main attraction of this garden.

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