Pudong has large and small parks, and taking the whole family to the nearby parks in your spare time is also a good choice for "stealing half a day's leisure". Let's visit the park with its ancient buildings and experience the charm of a traditional garden.
Ancient Clock Garden
The Ancient Bell Garden is a garden that integrates the essence of Chinese classical garden art, located on the bank of the satellite river in Huinan Town, Pudong, and is named after a bronze giant bell treasured in the garden.
Located at the entrance of the Huxin Pavilion of Jiuqu Bridge, Rucui Pavilion adopts the traditional design of beams and columns and wooden structures, with typical Chinese architectural characteristics, its white pedestal with red pillars and black roof, the whole is exquisite and elegant, facing the open water surface, it is a unique scenic spot in the park, the beauty of humanistic architecture is combined with natural landscapes, providing tourists with an ideal place to taste the beautiful scenery and rest.
Just like its name, the pavilion is surrounded by dreams and water, with a hexagonal mixed structure and heavy eaves and corners, alone in Panlong Island, pure and elegant.
The bell pavilion is a hexagonal mixed structure, red lacquer cement columns, heavy eaves and corners, blue bricks and tiles, and a copper bell is placed in the pavilion, so it is named the bell pavilion. The bronze bell carries the inscription "The golden sound is shaken, the tiger roars and the dragon roars, the imperial wind is clear, and the sea road is peaceful", which shows the meaning of this bronze bell.
The tide pavilion faces the east, with blue tile powder walls, simple and elegant, two-storey antique buildings, with wood carved lattice doors and windows. The phoenix stone drum is placed on both sides, there are Meiling mountains in front of the ups and downs, there is a courtyard deep in the back, climb the pavilion and look out, you can see the satellite river in the distance.
Plum Garden Park
Meiyuan Park is a classical garden in the south of the Yangtze River featuring "plum", the layout of the park adopts the design idea of combining traditional courtyards and modern gardens, and constructs a natural, concise and large garden space through garden elements such as plants, topography, water surface, and architecture.
More than 10 scenic spots, such as the Mingyue Tower, Qiaochun Pavilion, Shu Cinema Scenery Wall, Plum Viewing Path Scenery Stone, Qixue Garden Zhaobi, and Lianchi with Clear Water Quality, are distributed in various courtyards in the park, constituting a beautiful three-dimensional picture.
The scenery wall of the sparse cinema is a major feature in the park, the white wall, the eaves of the green tiles, the antique, full of charm, there are also the poet Yang Wanli's verses: "The stream returns to the valley and turns sorrowful, and suddenly there are one or two plum blossoms." ”
The two main buildings in the park, Mingyue Tower and Jingxiang Building, are quite traditional and are located on the shore of Lianchi Lake in the park, with blue sky and white clouds reflected in the pool, which vividly reflects the characteristics of Jiangnan gardens.
Text: Zhang Lei, Yao Jingye.
Photo courtesy of the New District Ecology and Environment Bureau.
Editor: Li Zhihao.
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