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Shanghai Ancient City Wall

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Recommended sightseeing time:1-2 hours
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Dajing Road, Huangpu District, Shanghai 200010, ChinaMap
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Shanghai once had a garden called "Luxiang Garden", this garden is located near the Luxiangyuan Road in the old city of Shanghai, it is jointly called "the three famous gardens of Shanghai in the Ming Dynasty" with Yu Garden and Rishi Garden. It is recorded that the Luxiang Garden was built very early, and there was (earlier than Yu Garden) in Ming Jiajing, which was the compound of Jinshi people and the birthplace of the famous Ming Dynasty Guxiu. But in less than 200 years, it has been reduced from a scene of victory to a land of smoke and vines. The historical record of it is very limited, but it has left many legends. In the middle of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty, there was a man named Gu Mingru who bought land at the north of the city, a total of nine mu, built a private garden, called "Wanzhushanju", this place is also commonly known as "nine mu land". His brother Gu Mingshi test, also bought the land adjacent to his brother to build a garden, it is said that when digging the ground, he dug a Yuan Dynasty calligrapher Zhao Meng 𫖯 the book of "Luxiangchi" monument, so it is called Luxiang Garden. When the name of the world construction garden introduced the north excellent peach tree species, in the garden planting peach, production of peach, the "luxiang garden peach" produced by the "Shanghai peach" for a while. In addition, his Sun Xu Han Ximeng is good at painting, embroidery, its embroidery method from the inner palace, she split the silk thread into a single strand, and then dyed separately, the embroidery products and paintings are similar, so it is called "painting embroidery", because it is from Gujia, and is called "Gu embroidery". "Gu embroidery" is famous in the world, for the country's characteristics of one of the several embroidery. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Gu family gradually declined, and the Luxiang Garden was also "Taiwan gradually fell, and the garden was also abandoned". Later, until the Qingdao light year, Huang Mian, Zhixian County, Shanghai, mobilized the gentry to donate to renovate the Luxiang Garden. When the original "Wanzhushanju" was also incorporated into the park. During the Opium War, Shanghai set up the Gunpowder Bureau to strengthen sea defense, and the gunpowder warehouse was built in the Luxiang Garden. On April 18, 1842, the gunpowder warehouse suddenly exploded, and the Luxiang Garden was razed to the ground. In February 1911, Wanzhu Elementary School was built on the former site of "Wanzhu Mountain Residence" (Jiang Jingguo studied here in 1922), which is today's experimental primary school, which is also the first municipal primary school in Shanghai, and was identified as the key primary school in 1977. Luxiang Garden has a heavy historical accumulation, this legendary land, several times, and finally integrated into the historical light of the old city. And now the people are dead, the real thing will not be restored. Now Luxiang Garden has no traces except for the retention of a place name. The original population density of Luxiangyuan Road in the old city was very high. At the end of 2002, the demolition of Luxiangyuan plot was officially launched. Today's Luxiangyuan Road has become a high-end residential area, built a little exotic new building, and built a mansion named also "Luxiangyuan", perhaps to comfort the family, this was a mansion, today is still a mansion. But the street is deserted, the original crowded, doped, noisy city fireworks have disappeared, just at the intersection of Luxiangyuan Road People's Road, but also retained a section of the ancient city wall for tens of meters, maybe through close touch of the ancient city wall, To feel the historical imprint of the past and present life of the Luxiang Garden.

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