Stay and Listen Parlour

    North of the Pagoda Reflection Pavilion lies the Stay and Listen Parlour, which neighbours the lotus pond on the east side. Its name was inspired by a poem written by Li Shangyin of the Tang Dynasty:“Autumn gloom does not disperse and frost flies late; Leaving the withered lotus leaves to listen to the sound of rain.”
    The parlour is elegantly designed. The cloud and dragon carvings on the partitions are of exquisite workmanship, as they are left over from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
    The arched frame partition is from the Ming Dynasty. Carved on it are gnarled pine trees, bamboo leaves, clusters of plum blossoms, oddly shaped rocks and strikingly lifelike birds.
    Located west of the Stay and listen Hall is the bonsai garden, where traveler may have a short rest amidst hundreds of miniature potted trees, rockeries and azaleas. Many of these bonsai trees are between one or two hundred years of age.

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