Blue Wave Pavilion takes its name from a waterside pavilion built in 1044 by the poet Su Shunqin. It is the oldest garden in Suzhou, with a wilder design than the others, with rockeries and artificial hillocks decorated with bamboo.

Suzhou, the city of canals and gardens, was called the ???enice of the East??by Marco Polo. An ancient Chinese proverb states: ???n Heaven there is Paradise