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Portland: outside Lan Su Chinese Garden
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Chinese Garden entrance. Inscriptions above the moongate in this courtyard remind the scholar to look for meanings and use our senses to learn about the world: "Read the painting; Listen to the fragrance." Notice the monk to the left - there were several
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Portland Chinese Garden decorative bat-shaped drip tiles. Each tile is adorned with five bats, each representing the five blessings - long life, good fortune, good health, a love of virtue and a painless passing.
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Lan Su Chinese Garden stone courtyard flooring represents plum blossoms.
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Lan Su Chinese Garden courtyard like bonsai although the Chinese have another name for these miniature trees.
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Lan Su Chinese Garden courtyard like bonsai although the Chinese have another name for these miniature trees.
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Lan Su Chinese Garden meeting room building, titled Hall of Brocade Clouds. The intricately-carved wooden panels depict Three Friends of Winter: plum, bamboo and pine.
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Lan Su Chinese Garden practicing Tai Chi on porch of Hall of Brocade Clouds.
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Lan Su Chinese Garden Hall of Brocade Clouds porch from across lake
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Lan Su Garden walk with intricate rock designs.
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Chinese Garden lake, Rainbow Bridge & pavilion.
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Lan Su Chinese Garden: Rainbow Bridge.
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Lan Su Chinese Garden and lake: Rainbow Bridge. Knowing the Fish Pavilion on the left.
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Lan Su Garden walk design with intricate rock designs.
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Lan Su Chinese Garden embroidered tapestry found in Reflection in Clear Ripples pavilion, known as the lounge house where the family would gather for music, painting or games.
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Chinese Garden hand embroidered tapestry. Stitches are so tiny they look like paint instead of threads.
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Lan Su Chinese Garden teahouse, Tower of Cosmic Reflections.
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Lan Su Chinese Garden Lake Zither
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P C Garden window framing a scene
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Chinese Garden with a visiting monk in pagoda by teahouse
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Lan Su Chinese Garden scholars' study. Chinese characters on the white columns read "Braving the snow, myriad flowers come into blossom; leading the world, a single tree heralds the spring."
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Lan Su Chinese Garden scholar's desk
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Chinese Garden hanging lantern in scholars room
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Lan Su Chinese Garden Painted Boat in Misty Rain where calligraphy was done.
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Sally & nephew Phil in front of Rock Mountain and waterfall. The rocks from China were formed underwater, with the flow of water creating their unique shapes. Chinese view the rocks from bottom to top like going up mountain.
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Lan Su Chinese Garden: Sally with begonia. Unbelievable this entire garden is contained within one city block of downtown Portland.
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Lan Su Chinese Garden flowers.
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