Suzhou is located in the south of Jiangsu province, some 50 miles west of Shanghai, along the old Grand Canal. The city has been famous for its gardens for many centuries. According to a Chinese proverb says: “In heaven there is paradise. On earth there are Suzhou and Hangzhou.” Suzhou has also long been noted for its beautiful women. The city is dotted with lakes and ponds connected by a spider's web of canals. And all the canals are lined with whitewashed houses with gray-tiled roofs.
The canals of the town eventually join up with the famous local waterway known as the Grand Canal, located to the west of the city. It is believed to be the largest internal waterway in the world, and was originally constructed to carry tribute grain from the Yangzi plain to the capital. Marco Polo, who visited Suzhou in the 13th century, wrote that “the great Khan... has made a huge canal of great width and depth from river to river and from lake to lake and made the water flow along it so that it looks like a big river. By this means it is possible to go ... as far as Khan-balik” (as Beijing was known in the Yuan Dynasty). Although the canal is not used for long-distance transport today, it is still heavily used by a great number of flat-bottomed boats under sail and engine power conveying agricultural produce to nearby towns.
苏州位于江苏省南部，地处上海以西约50英里处，沿古老的大运河而建。数世纪以来，这座城市一直以其园林而闻名遐迩。正如中国谚语所言：“上有天堂，下有苏杭。”苏州也素以盛产美女而著称。城内湖泊池塘星罗棋布，并由纵横交错、宛如蛛网般的运河相互连通；运河两岸，白墙灰瓦的民居错落有致。
城内的运河最终汇入位于市西、当地著名的“大运河”水道。这条运河被认为是世界上规模最大的内陆水道，最初修建的目的是将长江平原的贡粮运往京城。13世纪曾造访苏州的马可·波罗在游记中写道：“大汗……开凿了一条宽阔深邃的巨大运河，连通了各条河流与湖泊，引水其中，使其宛如一条大河。借此水道，人们可以……一路直达汗八里”（即元代对北京的称呼）。尽管如今该运河已不再承担长途运输功能，但仍有大量依靠风帆或动力驱动的平底船往来其间，将农产品运往周边城镇。
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