Standing on the east terminal of the ancient city Changshu, the Fangta Garden is a classic garden newly built on its old site left from the Song Dynasty and has got the name owing to the Fangta standing inside.
Fully named as “Chongjiao Xingfu Temple Pagoda”, the Fangta has four sides and nine floors; as a landmark building of the ancient city Changshu, it was firstly built in the Southern Song Dynasty and was listed as a Key cultural relic under state protection in 2006.
The Fangta, the ancient well and the ancient ginkgo left from the Song Dynasty are called as “the three treasures in the garden”. The Fangta building, imitated from that of the Song Dynasty, is not only splendid, grand with the spiritual charm of royal gardens, but also applies the twisted and changeable techniques of Southern China gardens, and the twisted bridge, pavilion, corridor and waterside pavilion, hilly stone, flowers and trees bring out the best in each other.
At the northeast part of the scenic area, it is built with “Bishui Qinchuan” clean government culture theme park and at the north, Changshu City Tablet Carving Museum and Changshu Celebrity Hall.
In the warm and sunny March, it is a good time to walk outside and view flowers. The once a year camellia exhibition is to be held again at Fangta Garden again.
With a planting history of over 1,000 years in our country, camellia is one of our national traditional top ten famous flowers, and one of the world famous flowers too.
Changshu camellia planting and cultivation takes a leading place among the counties nationwide, while Fangta Garden is one of the camellia gardens that have the largest size, more full range of species and more quantity in Changshu.
