Grand View Garden

As a five-star garden in Shanghai, the Grand View Garden is located in No. 701, on the Qingshang Road in Qingpu District of Shanghai with 65 kilometers (40 miles) away from the downtown area, covering an area of 90,000 square meters (107,639 square yards) with a construction area of 8,000 square meters (9,568 square yards), which was renamed the Grand View Garden instead of Dianshan Lake Landscape Tourism Area, and it was open to the public from 1988 after renovation and expansion. It was enlisted as an AAAA-level tourism area by National Tourism Administration, which has become a comprehensive park combing sightseeing, tourism and recreation as one perfectly, and it has received more than 20,000,000 visitors from all over the world since its opening.

The main features of the Grand View Garden

The Grand View Garden is a large- scale archaized garden, which is designed according to the novel “A Dream of Red Mansions” by Chao Xueqin in the Qing Dynasty (1,616 A.D.-1,911 A.D.). Unlike the Grand View Garden in Beijing City, the Grand View Garden in Shanghai fully makes use of the gardening characteristics of the south of Yangtze River with a vast man-made lake in the garden, and there are more than 10 architecture groups with more than 20 scenic spots in the garden, which are centered with the man-made lake. The scenic spots are well connected by the ponds and the streams with bridge and pavilions over the water, displaying the traditional gardening art in the south of Yangtze River. With the Grand View Building as body architecture, the whole garden is composed a series of famous architectures mentioned in the novel “A Dream of Red Mansions”, and there are the Happy- Red Court, the Longcui Nunnery, the pear blossom court and the stone boat in the west part of the garden; there are the bamboo Hall, the Hengwu Court, the Smartweed Breeze Cot and the Rice-Fragrant Village in the east part of the garden. Besides, there are also 340,000 trees and bamboos of 250 species in the garden, including camphor trees, ginkgo trees, peach trees, osmanthus trees and bamboos. The garden is bestowed with the title of “One of the Top 10 Scenic Spot in Shanghai.”

Getting there:

It is located in No. 701, on the Qingshang Road in Qingpu District of Shanghai, and you can take a bus No. 4 to get there directly from Shanghai stadium; and you can also take Qiangsheng private tourism bus on the Jinling Central Road to get there directly, which operates at 7:00 am, 8:00 am, 9:20 am, 1:50 pm and 4:00 pm every day. The garden is open to the public from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm every day.