Introduction of “Four Bridges in Mist Rain”
Walk through Xu’s Garden and stands on the small Rainbow Bridge, you will be suddenly enlightened. In the west side, it is the widest scenes of Slender West Lake. And look back to Xu’s Garden; you will know it is just a prologue. From now on, the veil of Slender West Lake will be uncovered and come to the climax.
The platform in the east side is called “Four Bridges in Mist Rain”. Whenever it is raining, you will see the scene of “Four bridges fly across the mist”. Standing in the platform, you could see four bridges with different colors and styles: Spring wave Bridge, Great Rainbow Bridge, Long Spring Bridge, and Lotus Bridge”. In the misty rain, four bridges stand far and close, thick and light, high and low. Emperor Qianlong in Qing Dynasty loved this scene very much, made poems and odes many times and gave his autography “Interesting Garden”