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Yuyuan Garden

With a long history of more than four hundred years, the Yuyuan Garden (in Chinese 豫园), also known as the Yu Garden, is the most celebrated classical Chinese garden in Shanghai. The garden is located to the northeast of the old town, not far from the Bund. The garden is typical of the gardening art south of the Changjiang River and is famed as "an architectural miracle in the region south of Yangtze River".

A typical building in Yuyuan Garden	The corridor upon water in Yuyuan Garden

Located on Anren Street, Yuyuan garden was built during the Ming Dynasty (1577), 400 years ago. It is a residential garden built by Pan Yunduan, minister of finance in Sichuan Province during the Ming Dynasty. Pan built the garden to "please his parents and let them enjoy themselves in their late years". In ancient Chinese "Yu" (豫) means "pleasing", hence the name of the garden.

A building over water in Yuyuan Garden	The dragon carving upon the wall of Yuyuan Garden

When you penetrate deeper, it seems you are getting lost in a maze: the landscape seems to wind on forever as the gardens are purposefully designed to distort space and distance. And the elegant wood carving or engraving you come arcoss, are the obvious characteristics of the the gardening style of the Ming and Qing dynasties. The more you step inside, the more you get fascinated for the Yu Garden, a maze of houses, grottoes, pavilions, lotus ponds, and rickety bridges crossing lazy streams, a maze in a Chinese way. hough the gardens in Suzhou often get more praise from critics, the Yu Garden in Shanghai attract far more visitors each year, due partially to their convenient location in one of the largest cities in Asia.

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