元、明之际的“师子林”及相关诗、画

Shizi Lin during Late Yuan and Early Ming and Relative Poems and Paintings

元平江路、明苏州府城东北隅的“狮子林”亦“师子林”,最初由中峰和尚明本的徒孙为其师天如和尚维则所建,以石山的精巧和构筑的幽胜,“自然”与“人工”结合的布局而闻名当世。此后,菩提正宗寺的主人“天如则公”和他的继任“卓峰立公”、“如海因公”一直保持着吸引、友善文士的传统,从而赢得欧阳玄、李祁、张翥、郑元佑、高启、王彝、王行、张适等的题诗,朱德润、倪瓒、徐贲等的绘画,成就了一段非常辉煌的园林文化佳话。特别是关于释道衍亦姚广孝的传闻,更为这座园林的早期历史添上了更多的传奇色彩。迨明中叶以后,师子林几经易主,不复再有雅会。

Shizi Lin in the northeastern part of Pingjiang Lu or Suzhou Fu, built by the prentices of the Tianru Monk Weize who was the prentice of the Zhongfeng Monk Mingben, was famous of the ingenious rocky hill and ethereal structure, or overall arrangement combining the natural and artificial objects. At that time, the masters of the Puti Zhengzong Temple such as Tianru, Zhuofeng and Ruhai was friendly to literati and thus received lots of poems and paintings of Ouyang Xuan, Li Qi, Zhang Zhu, Zheng Yuanyou, Gao Qi, Wang Yi, Wang Xing, Zhang Shi, Zhu Derun, Ni Zan and Xu Ben. It was an impressive ＂garden culture＂ story. Especially the legend of the Monk Daoyan or Yao Guangxiao makes the early history of the garden quite attractive. Now people can only retrospect and imagine the good old days from existing poems and paintings, since there were no such salons any more in Shizi Lin from the Middle Ming as the owner of this garden changed several times.