Fenhe Yanqiu Garden | Taiyuan's new landmark, experience Yuan Haowen's poetic and picturesque

Yanqiu Garden is a park full of history, culture and rich feelings. It is located on the east bank of the Fenhe Scenic Area, 800 meters south of the Chaixi Expressway Bridge in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province. The park was inspired by the artistic conception of Yuan Haowen’s “Mo Yuer • Yanqiu Ci”: “What is love in this world? It makes us promise to be together through life and death”, and designed with magnificent buildings and beautiful landscapes, becoming a new landmark in Taiyuan.
The scenic area covers an area of ​​about 5.84 hectares, including the Road to the Examination Corridor, the Good Questions
There are architectural pieces such as the Hall, Shuangfei Pavilion, Zhiying Pavilion, Zishan Pavilion, Kuangge Pavilion, as well as landscape greening and landscape paving. It is late autumn and the scenery is pleasant. It is a good season for outdoor travel. It is a good choice to come here for sports, fitness and walking!
Yuan Haowen (1190-1257), courtesy name Yuzhi and alias Yishan, was a native of Xiurong, Taiyuan (now Xinzhou, Shanxi). He was smart since childhood and was known as a "child prodigy". He was good at writing poetry, prose, lyrics and songs. His "Mourning and Chaos Poems" are particularly famous, and his lyrics are the best in the Jin Dynasty. During the Song, Jin and Yuan dynasties, he was the main representative of northern literature and was respected as "the literary master of the generation" and "the literary hero of the north".
🌈Highlights:
✅The scenic spot is in line with the journey of the young Yuan Haowen from Xinzhou to Bingzhou for the imperial examination. The surrounding mountains are majestic and the waterside scenery is charming. It has the meaning of "ten thousand miles of clouds and thousands of mountains buried in snow". There are also wild geese living there, which is full of poetic and picturesque scenery.
✅In the Yanqiu Garden, there is a screen commemorating Yuan Haowen's Yanqiu Ci and a hall showing Yuan Haowen's life experience, allowing visitors to understand the perseverance and feelings of this writer in difficult situations.
✅Haowen Tower is the main gate of Yanqiu Garden. The exterior of the building is antique and the shape of the nine-ridge hanging mountain is unique, giving people a sense of grandeur and magnificence. Climbing to the top of the building, you can have a panoramic view of the entire scenic area.
🎫Tickets: Free
🚘Transportation: Take bus No. 835

Post by CATHERINE MANN | Feb 8, 2024