Baicao Garden

This desolate garden, not only filled with piles of rubble and overgrown weeds, but also teeming with trees, vines, birds, insects, and animals, was a delightful place for children to play. As a child, Lu Xun and his friends often came here to play, picking purple-red mulberries and sweet-sour raspberries, catching crickets and playing with cantharides. Sometimes they dug up the tubers of Polygonum multiflorum, sometimes they picked the fruit of Magnolia vines. In the summer, they would cool off in the shade, listening to the cicadas' chirping, and in the winter, they would catch birds on the snowy ground. The flora and fauna of Baicao Garden offered something to see, hear, play with, and eat, offering a wealth of delight for children. Even though the "purple-red mulberries, sweet-sour raspberries, the smooth stone well rails, the tall soapberry trees..." are now hard to find, the rich sense of life captured in the text still evokes a rich imagination.

Baicao Garden, located within the Lu Xun Hometown Scenic Area, is the playful childhood paradise described in Lu Xun's novel "From Baicao Garden to Sanwei Bookstore." Originally the Zhou family vegetable garden, the garden retains the pristine, natural landscape of the Jiangnan countryside. Elements such as vegetable plots, stone wells, honey locust trees, and mulberry trees echo Lu Xun's descriptions. Centipedes and blister beetles still seem to hide beneath the low mud walls, while small creatures such as cicadas, wasps, and skylarks swarm among them. On summer nights, you can listen to crickets chirping, and in winter, birds peck at food, brimming with life as the seasons change. Today, the garden features a stone stele depicting Lu Xun's works and a cultural display area. Through scene restoration and textual displays, the garden recreates Lu Xun's childhood memories. Strolling along the bluestone paths, visitors can touch upon the real-life foundations of Lu Xun's literary world and experience the vivid images of "emerald green vegetable plots, smooth stone wells, and towering honey locust trees." Admission is free from 8:30 to 17:00 all year round, making it a great place for literature lovers to explore classic scenes from textbooks.

Lu Xun's most vivid memory was the Baicao Garden behind his home. To adults, Baicao Garden was a wasteland overgrown with weeds; to Lu Xun, it was a paradise. This paradise was filled with endless fun. Looking back today, it's just an ordinary vegetable garden, but the filter of childhood was truly beautiful and powerful: ... There were emerald green vegetable patches, purple-red mulberries, plump wasps, smooth stone well rails, and towering honey locust trees, a visual delight in all its hues of green, red, and yellow. There were also the chirping of cicadas, the melody of crickets, and the long hum of cicadas, a feast for the ears. The chirping of various insects was like a symphony. In this paradise, you could even play with cantharides. Pressing your finger on their spine would produce a snapping sound and a puff of smoke, a delightful experience. I often pulled up human-shaped Polygonum multiflorum, hearing adults say that eating it would make you immortal, but I never saw one, and it even damaged the base of the wall. During the process of picking Polygonum multiflorum, you will also have an unexpected harvest and pick delicious raspberries.

Behind Lu Xun's former residence, Baicao Garden, covering nearly 2,000 square meters, was once a shared vegetable garden for about ten Zhou families in Xintaimen. They grew melons and vegetables there during the winter and used them to dry grain in the autumn. This was Lu Xun's childhood paradise, where he often played, savored purple mulberries and sweet-sour raspberries, caught crickets and pulled Polygonum multiflorum from the low mud walls, enjoyed the cool of the garden in the summer, and hunted birds in the snow in the winter. These childhood memories left a deep and fond impression on Lu Xun, evoking fond memories even in his later years. After Baicao Garden, along with the Zhou family's Xintaimen property, changed hands, the north and south ends of the garden changed appearance, but the main part remained largely unchanged.

2023.7.18 Baicao Garden, the former residence of Lu Xun, was the highlight of our visit. It was really nice. The campus was quite large and it felt like Lu Xun had a very happy childhood.

The former residence of Mr. Lu Xun. It records the story of the Zhou family, from prosperity to decline.

Not to mention the emerald green vegetable plots, the smooth stone well rails, the tall honey locust trees, the purple mulberries...

"Not to mention the emerald green vegetable plots, the smooth stone well rails, the tall soapberry trees, the purple mulberries...just the area around the short mud walls is full of endless interest."



Baicao Garden, known as "From Baicao Garden to Sanwei Bookstore," is almost as famous as Lu Xun, thanks to the textbook "From Baicao Garden to Sanwei Bookstore." Lu Xun and his friends often played there as children. Although it was later sold, the main part remains largely unchanged from its original appearance.



Baicao Garden was actually a small, ordinary vegetable garden, approximately one acre in size. It was shared by the dozen or so Zhou family members living within the Xintaimen area of the Zhou family. They grew melons and vegetables during the winter and used it to dry rice in the autumn. Despite its small size, Lu Xun's descriptions of it were captivating and fascinating.

It is difficult to find the old traces, but the strong interest in life in the text still gives you rich imagination.

Baicao Garden is inside Lu Xun’s former residence. It is actually the vegetable garden where Lu Xun played when he was a child!

It is a garden similar to a small vegetable garden. People almost never stop and just walk through the garden.

Is it just a literary version of a vegetable garden? Hahaha, it looks really fun.

I love the bamboo in Baicao Garden. After taking photos of CC the cat there, I heard two women behind me notice him. Sadly, I took CC down and left. Now that I think about it, I missed my chance to chat with them.

It is on the same street as Lu Xun's former residence, so you can go shopping together.

The greatness of the literary giant lies in his ability to make an ordinary vegetable garden famous throughout the country.

Baicao Garden is not a big place, but it has a lot of contents.

If you are interested, you can also listen to an opera here.

Baicao Garden is actually a tourist attraction in Lu Xun's former residence. You don't need a ticket, just scan your ID card. There are several rockery and vegetable gardens inside.

Although this place is very famous, when you walk in you will find that it is actually just an ordinary vegetable field.

But this is his unique childhood memory, the softest and most innocent place in his heart. Therefore, he endowed Baicao Garden with agility and vitality in his writing.

The soapberry trees, mulberries, wasps, kingfishers, crickets, centipedes, blister beetles, Polygonum multiflorum, magnolia vines, and raspberries in the Baicao Garden, all seemingly ordinary little things, are particularly touching through his descriptions. Everything is vivid and interesting.

It's not as good as I thought. It's inside Lu Xun's former residence, but it's nice to visit.

Located in the former residence of Lu Xun, the commercialization of the former residence is too strong. Many vegetables are planted in Baicao Garden, which was the place of joy for Lu Xun in his childhood.

A must-check-in for strolling around. Although there are more people, the queue is relatively orderly. The environment inside is very good. You can review Uncle Lu Xun's From Baicao Garden to Sanwei Book House.

Despite its elegant name, Baicao Garden was actually just an ordinary vegetable garden, owned by the Zhou clan of Xintaimen, covering nearly 2,000 square meters. Lu Xun gave a vivid description of Baicao Garden in his essay "From Baicao Garden to Sanwei Book House."

You must go and see Baicao Garden. Having such a backyard at home is really a paradise for children.

"There is a large garden behind my house, which is said to be called Baicao Garden..." This is a sentence from Lu Xun's "From Baicao Garden to Sanwei Bookstore". It is very simple, but it can reflect the place where Lu Xun lived in his childhood.

Apart from the mention of Baicao Garden, I really can't see where Baicao Garden is. . . . It's also a small place to wander around.

Baicao Garden is actually a small garden where Lu Xun played as a child.

There is a stone with a slope, and everyone likes to lie on this slope to take pictures.

Passing through Xintaimen, you will arrive at the legendary "Baicao Garden", a vegetable garden covering an area of about 2,000 square meters. Built in the bustling downtown, it is a luxurious version of a private plot. Xun Ge'er, a "rich second generation" from a landlord's family, often played here when he was a child.

Baicao Garden still retains the scenes described in Mr. Lu Xun's articles - green vegetable plots, smooth stone well rails, tall soapberry trees and purple mulberries, as well as short mud walls.

Although the overall style of Baicao Garden appears simple and rustic, if it were not for Lu Xun's "celebrity halo", you might not come here specifically to visit, but in that era when there were no electronic games to invade childhood, nature was the most fun "Nintendo" for children.

At the end of Baicao Garden, there are several pavilions and waterside terraces, which were the stages for the Zhou family to have fun and listen to operas in the past. Together with the stone bridge and koi pond, they form a simple version of a small garden.

Such a leisurely environment turned the young Xun Ge'er into a naughty child who did all kinds of evil. He pulled out Polygonum multiflorum in Baicao Garden, destroyed mud walls, and threw bricks at the neighbors. He was so naughty that his family finally decided to send him to Sanwei Academy, the strictest private school in Shaoxing at that time, to receive education and reform.

Finally arrived at the Baicao Garden in the book, fulfilling my childhood dream

Baicao Garden, often mentioned in Lu Xun's works, is located behind his former residence. Originally a vegetable garden shared by a dozen or so Zhou families in Xintaimen, they grew melons and vegetables there during the winter and used it to dry grain in the autumn. This was Lu Xun's childhood playground, where he often played and frolicked.

There are still houses and some tools for processing crops in Baicao Garden.

As a child, Lu Xun and his friends often came here to play, picking purple mulberries and sweet and sour raspberries, catching crickets and playing with blister beetles. Sometimes they dug up the tuberous roots of Polygonum multiflorum and sometimes picked the fruit of Magnolia vines. In the summer, they would cool off in the shade of the trees, listening to the cicadas' chirping, and in the winter, they would catch birds in the snow. The flora and fauna in Baicao Garden offered something to see, hear, play with, and eat; it was truly a delight for children.

In Lu Xun’s hometown, I spent the longest time in Baicao Garden.

He walked and paced in the yard.

Try to remember the articles you have read in the past and reproduce them here.

I came to the legendary vegetable garden specially, and it really is a vegetable garden, haha

When I was studying Chinese in junior high school, I was captivated by the story of Lu Xun and Sanwei Bookstore. I came to read it in person to feel the atmosphere of the time and experience Lu Xun's life.

Needless to say, Mr. Lu Xun has said it very well. Coming here is to appreciate the knowledge you learned back then.

Baicao Garden is located in Lu Xun's former residence and is free to visit. If you want to understand the Baicao Garden mentioned in the textbook, you must go and see it.

On October 15, 2016, we visited the Baicao Garden and then the Sanwei Book House. We visited in the order from Sanwei Book House to Baicao Garden. It wasn't intentional; it just happened to be the route, haha. The plants in the Baicao Garden were flourishing. One tree so densely that it blocked out the sun, I couldn't even take a full-view photo from such a distance. There was also a honey locust tree, and next to it was a stone tablet with a text "Research." Ivy grew freely on the wall nearby. So many people were taking photos that I accidentally captured a modern-day, young Lu Xun.

The area of Baicao Garden is not very large, and I didn’t notice much about the vegetable garden. It might be autumn now, and there are just some random green seedlings planted there. It is far from the Baicao Garden I imagined.

Lu Xun spent his childhood here, reading with his teacher and having fun in the backyard.

Part of Lu Xun's former residence is now a vegetable garden.

Mainly due to Lu Xun's celebrity effect, it is a relatively ordinary garden.

Next to Lu Xun's former residence, there are vegetables that are not even in the elementary school textbooks, and I don't know what kind of vegetables are grown there.

There are no attractions, but there is a stage in the pavilion next to it where you can listen to Yue Opera by the water.

These are some free attractions that are jointly owned. I read related Chinese textbooks when I was a child, so I went in to take a look.

This place is no longer the Baicao Garden described by Lu Xun; it's essentially abandoned. What a dereliction of duty by the management! Such a valuable resource, yet it's not being properly utilized, is a cultural loss. However, Lu Xun's former residence is free to visit, and passing through this courtyard, I was quite disappointed, but it was also an unavoidable reward for my trip.

There were no Polygonum multiflorum, crickets, centipedes, etc., only mud walls. A small vegetable patch, as Lu Xun described it, felt like a park.

A must-visit place in Shaoxing, free of charge. You need to scan your ID card to enter each scenic spot, such as the vegetable garden.

Small bridges, flowing water, and houses, rich natural resources, outstanding people and beautiful scenery

Baicao Garden is where Lu Xun played when he was a child.

It was built exactly according to the Baicao Garden described by Mr. Lu Xun, except that some vegetables and flowers were planted.

The Baicao Garden behind Sanwei Bookstore left many beautiful memories of Lu Xun's childhood.

Our tour order was from Sanwei Book House to Baicao Garden. It wasn't intentional; it just happened to be the route, haha. The plants in Baicao Garden were flourishing. One tree so densely that it blocked out the sun, I couldn't even take a full-body photo from such a distance. There was also a honey locust tree, and next to it was a stone tablet with a textual research inscribed on it. Ivy was growing freely on the wall nearby, so I decided to take a photo.

From Baicao Garden to Sanwei Book House, there are a lot of people during Qingming Festival. The rape flowers are in full bloom. Walking along the classic street in Lu Xun's hometown, I can see what Lu Xun's life was like in the past.

Baicao Garden is a vegetable field with a large area of rapeseed flowers. It feels pretty good with the slightly dilapidated walls.

It is just a small vegetable garden, but it was the playground of Lu Xun when he was a child.

Admiring Lu Xun's literary level is actually just a small vegetable garden.

My first memory of this place was because of the article "From Baicao Garden to Sanwei Bookstore" when I was in school. When you come to Shaoxing, you must come and see Mr. Lu Xun's childhood paradise. Baicao Garden is not very big, but it has plants and rockery, which is very interesting.

It's become a vegetable garden! Take a look! Maybe it was like this before.

Baicao Garden is actually a small garden. It is not big. Now there are two rows of cabbages planted in it. It is quite different from what Lu Xun wrote in his article. Maybe our childishness has faded and we can no longer see the charm of this magical garden.

I have read in Chinese textbooks before, from Baicaowei to Sanweishuwu,

Despite its fame, the place is actually quite small, just a small courtyard. Backed by Sanwei Bookstore, it is a paradise for young Lu Xun.

Just take a look, it's very small, mainly to feel the culture

Behind Lu Xun's former residence is Baicao Garden, a small place with traces of Lu Xun's writings. The guide led us to see the leaves of Polygonum multiflorum. Most of the words the guide said were from Lu Xun's articles.

It's just an ordinary vegetable garden. It doesn't have the same feeling as when I read the textbooks as a teenager. I'm disappointed.

I really like this big garden.

Mr. Lu Xun must have had a happy childhood.

The coolness in the garden is fascinating.

Going there with a nostalgic heart, you'll still feel the memories of the past. It'll make you feel gentle and emotional. And there's also a super artistic wall that I call the "Supermodel Wall," hahahaha.

From Baicao Garden to Sanwei Book House, everyone has learned this text, and many tourists come here to admire it. But I just admire the writers who can write about an ordinary vegetable field in such an attractive way. This place itself is nothing special, but it is because it was Lu Xun's childhood paradise.

Readers who have read Lu Xun's "From Baicao Garden to Sanwei Bookstore" will be familiar with Baicao Garden. The scenery here was created based on Lu Xun's writings. It was transformed from an ordinary abandoned garden into the current Baicao Garden full of charm.

First post the picture, the picture, the picture, the picture, the picture hahahahahaha

I thought of the textbooks and Lu Xun's articles, which accompanied me throughout my childhood...

From Baicao Garden to Sanwei Book House. This is the real Baicao Garden, just a vegetable garden. A tidy vegetable garden. Nothing else. Haha.

Passing through Lu Xun's former residence, we arrive at Baicao Garden. "Not to mention the verdant vegetable plots. The smooth stone well rails, the towering honey locust trees, the purple-red mulberries... the surrounding short mud walls alone offer endless interest." Reading these catchy, familiar lines, I imagine what Baicao Garden must have looked like. However, as time passes, stepping into it today, the Baicao Garden seems vastly different from the scene Lu Xun described. The vegetable plots here appear lush and green after the rain, and the stone well rails remain smooth, though somewhat mottled by the erosion of time.

The garden might not seem big to today's children, and it might even be considered uninteresting. But in Lu Xun's time, only children from ordinary families could have such a place and opportunity to play, jumping up and down the smooth stone well railings.

It's just a stone and a vegetable garden. There's nothing much to see there. It's just for learning about history.

Although the scenery is really as described by Lu Xun, and there is nothing beautiful about it, one can still feel Lu Xun's love for the back garden in his childhood.

To be honest, Baicao Garden is just average. It's just a small place. Just see it.

A very ordinary vegetable garden with a field of golden rapeseed flowers