Yaji Pavilion

Yaji Pavilion

Yaji Pavilion is located at the foot of the Northwest Mountain of jiaoweixuan in Suzhou. The original stele has been destroyed and some rubbings are kept in the city museum.

On the northwest foot of jiaoweixuan in Suzhou, the pavilion faces south from the north and is made of granite. It is a square, Xieshan peak. The width of a single room is 3 meters and the height is 5 meters. The original monument has been destroyed, and some rubbings are kept in the Municipal Museum.

Jiaoweixuan was built by Yang Ziqi, the magistrate of Hongzhi County in Ming Dynasty. In the 17th year of Hongzhi (1504), he succeeded Ji Zongdao, the magistrate of the county, and met with 19 people, such as Wumen and Yang Xunji, who were famous in the city. Ji Zongdao wrote the story of Yushan Yaji Pavilion and Shen Zhou drew the picture of Yushan Yaji, which was inlaid in the pavilion wall with various poems and inscriptions.

After the collapse of the pavilion, the Qing Dynasty Jiaqing 19 years (1814) Tai'an County Magistrate Jiang yinpei rebuilt. It was written by Wu Cihe in Wuxian county and written by Gu Chun. It is called the place where Jiang yinpei's tenth ancestor Ming presented the poems of Guanglu Temple Minister Jiang Qin and Ji Zongdao. In the pavilion, there is a stone plaque of Yaji Pavilion written by Shi Kaiyu, the number one scholar of Wu County.

In 1817, Taizhou painter Zhu Henian redrawn the painting of Yaji Pavilion, which was used to lay stones in the pavilion. After the founding of the people's Republic of China, it was rebuilt in 1985 with an investment of 17000 yuan from Suzhou landscape management office.

Address: Northwest foot of jiaoweixuan, Yushan, Changshu

Longitude: 120.70301818848

Latitude: 31.675653457642

Chinese PinYin : Ya Ji Ting