Yuyuan Gardens Photo 3

Yuyuan Gardens

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August 22nd 2008
Despite the heat of Thursday we decided to venture a bit outside our immediate neighbourhood and check out the Yuyuan Gardens. The gardens were built about 500 years ago by an aristocrat from Sichuan Province. It was an amazing collection of traditional Chinese architecture, art, water-eroded rock sculptures (which seem to be very popular decorative pieces here) and peaceful pools of koi (who I ... read more

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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more