The Lingering Garden was firstly listed as cultural and historical relics in 1961 by the Chinese government. The Garden covers an total area of 23,310 sq.m., and it is celebrity lies in the artistic way of dealing with the spaces between nature and architectures. Buildings make up one third of the total area of the garden. The garden is separated into the middle, eastern, northern and western parts by its artistic arrangement.

The garden is featured with stragely-shaped man-made mountains and lake scenery in the west of the garden. The middle part of the garden is the original site of the Xu’s East Garden and the Liu’s Hanbi Villa, regarded as the best part of the whole garden. The eastern,northern and western parts are the extensions of the Sheng’s Garden. The eastern part is noted for its strangely-shaped limestones, and the northern part is famous for its idyllic scenes while the western part the delights of woody hills.

A winding roofed walkway, which is behind the small entrance of the garden, leads to the places of quietude, showing the masterly use of contrast between big and small, straight and zigzag, and light and shade. Interestingly enough, every view along the walkway is changing at every step to attract visitors’ eyes. The middle part of the garden is located on a island in a lake. There are mountains and atrange trees around the middle part of the garden. The mountains made mainly of yellowstones and earth, believed to be desigtned and piled up by Zhou Binzhong, look very much archaic and splendiferous. The northern part is now a bonsai garden in which about 500 valuable bonsai are put on display. The western part of the garden sets a fine example of good-looking earthen hills studded with yellowstones and covered with maple trees.There is a winding brook lined with peach trees and weeping willows.

The whole garden possesses with pride 42 rooms and halls, a 670-meter-long roofed walkway,200 lattice-windows of different kinds, 44 parallel couplets and stone carvings, 373 stelae, and 17 such valuable old trees as gingkoes, southern wistaria, which fall into 8 catalogues.