It is said that it was built in the 10th year of Chiwu, the Eastern Wu Dynasty in the Three Kingdoms (247 BC) and relocated to its present location in the 9th years Jiading in South Song Dynasty (1216 BC). It haas been restored several times since the Yuan Dynasty and was finally destroyed in TaiPingTianGuo with only Dafou Hall left. In 1921, the Hall of the Three Saints was added and the pre...
Hengshan Road, a famous cultural and entertainment street, has the reputation of 'the first business street in Shanghai " because of its thriving business activities in old Shanghai. Hengshan Road, connecting Baoqing Road in north, Tianping Road in south, has a length of 2410 meters. 415 French phoenix trees on both sides had accompanied the European style construction for half a century. Foreign...
Fuzhou Road, once one of the four roads in old Shanghai, is literally a" street of bookstore" which overflows with well-known professional bookstores like China Science Book Company, Fine Arts Bookstore, Music Bookstore. The biggest integrative bookstore-Shanghai Bookcity and large-scale integrative cultural shop-Shanghai Culture Mall are also located here. How to get there: Bus Routes: No.17,49...
Century park is the largest echo-city park with natural characteristics. It covers an area of 140.3 hectares and is designed by British LUC Company, which embodies the combination of eastern and western cultures, human and nature and with a feature of Chinese gardens. With large areas of grassland, forests and lakes as its main part, there are scenic spots like islands in the lakes, meeting square...
Yuyuan Garden is a traditional Chinese park complete with beautiful pavilions, miniature lakes, bridges and rock formations. This small park is located in the heart of Shanghai's old Chinese quarter and links to Yuyuan Market. Built in 1559 during the Ming Dynasty in the Suzhou style by a high official Pan Yunduan in honor of his father, the garden has maintained its classic beauty over the centu...
In the past century, Shanghai has gone through a course of many vicissitudes. Once a fishing village and then a metropolis infested with foreign adventures, now it has become one of the great cities in the east. This course of history is showed concentratively in one aspect in Duo Lun Road and its surrounding areas, which can be, in fact, summarized as they say:" Shanghai, a city of hundred years,...
It's a outside beach,after more than 100 years' constructing ,now the buildings here combine both modernistic and classic style.The Bund, which extends from Jinling Road in the south to the Waibaidu Bridge in the north, is a 1.5-kilometer-long boulevard on the western bank of the Huangpu River. Walking along Zhongshan Road, not only can visitors enjoy the scenery of Huangpu River but have a glimps...
Shanghai Museum has been famous for its large collection of rare cultural pieces. The museum now houses over 120,000 pieces of cultural relics in twelve categories, including Chinese bronze, ceramics, paintings and calligraphy, and artifacts. Shanghai Museum is especially well-known for its collection of brozen pieces. The 1,200 square meter exhibition room has displayed more than 400 beautifully...
