10th February, 2001.
Embroidered Designs Of Fishes, Dog's Head And Phoenix: Garden With Pavilions, Corridors, Moon Gate And Pine Trees. Goldfish In Lily Ponds Form Ring Ripples
August, 1987.
The embroidered screens; large and small reversible screens of flowers, birds, fishes, and famous Temples, were on sale in an adjacent showroom, together with unframed pieces of traditional scenery; the legendary phoenix with its one hundred attendant birds and the piece that captured my eye, of a realistic dog�s head embroidered on a practically transparent screen.
 Embroidery was also the theme at the fashion show we attended, where the models were attired in period costumes, evening dresses and dresses in a modern fashionable style. All costumes and dresses were in richly coloured silk, some costumes being very elaborate and probably worn only by wives and concubines of Mandarins. At the end of the show, when the audience applauded the models, models returned the applause, a custom we had experienced at the evening performances in Shanghai.
We had visited the Yu Yuan Mandarin�s garden in Shanghai so we had something with which to compare Liu Yuan garden in Suzhou, which certainly had more pavilions and corridors and a more open presentation, but the landscape gardeners were equally skilled, for the framed vistas through the moon gates and wall gates
 resembled stage settings and it would not have been a surprise to see the artists, wearing their splendid costumes, entering the scene. Leaves of lilies floated on the ponds which reflected nearby pine trees and there was the occasional glimpse of goldfish darting after their prey and where they had broken the surface, ring ripples spread out to the edges.
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