上世纪70年代中美正式建立外交关系后不久,美国纽约大都会艺术博物馆要在纽约建造一座“中国园”,用以向美国人民介绍中国的悠久历史文化。这个中国园是以苏州网师园的殿春鋎为蓝本,这座中国古典园林建筑的设计者就是我国著名古建筑学家、园林艺术家陈从周。陈从周(1918~2000), Shortly after the formal establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the United States in the 1970s, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City of the United States planned to build a “China Garden” in New York to introduce the long history and culture of China to the American people. This Chinese garden is based on the temple of Suzhou Netsong. The architect of this classical Chinese garden is the famous ancient architect and landscape artist Chen Congzhou. Chen Cong Zhou (1918 ~ 2000),