The breeze and bright moon are priceless.

"The breeze and bright moon are priceless, and all the mountains near the water have feelings" means that the breeze and bright moon can't be measured by money, and all the mountains near the water bear the emotions of the viewers.

This is a couplet carved on the stone pillar of Canglang Pavilion in Suzhou Garden. The first part comes from the poem Canglang Pavilion written by Ouyang Xiu, a famous minister in the Northern Song Dynasty, "The cool breeze and bright moon are priceless, only selling for 40,000 yuan".

The second part comes from the next sentence in Su Shunqin, the founder of Canglang Pavilion and contemporary of Ouyang Xiu's poem "Egrets of Qingyang are complacent, and egrets near water and distant mountains are affectionate".

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The antithetical couplets of the upper and lower parts are neat, which not only records the origin of the private garden in Su Shunqin where the Canglang Pavilion is located with a total investment of 40,000 yuan, but also highlights the beautiful scenery of "remote mountains and near water" here, which can be described as a perfect match and complement each other. Canglang Pavilion has been destroyed and restored many times in history. This couplet was carved by Liang Zhangju, Jiangsu Buzheng, when he rebuilt Canglang Pavilion in the seventh year of Daoguang reign in Qing Dynasty (1827). Couplets are composed of famous poems, and their writing style is dignified and rigorous, which adds a lot of luster to the famous pavilion.

For 200 years, many literati have been wandering in front of the pavilion, watching the scenery and thinking about things. More than one hundred years later, Wang Xiaju, a famous contemporary calligrapher, wrote this couplet. Calligraphy and couplets complement each other, and poetry and ink blend, expressing the beautiful feelings of a generation of calligraphers.