Yuyuan Garden at full moon night, Shanghai, China
Yuyuan Garden at full moon night, Shanghai, China (© zyxeos30/Gettyimages)
Mid-Autumn Festival
as drinking and feasting on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, enjoying the moon, eating mooncakes, looking at lanterns, enjoying osmanthus flowers, drinking osmanthus wine, and so on. The biggest and most characteristic symbol of the Mid-Autumn Festival is that people put their heart's good wishes on the bright moon. In addition, as the Mid-Autumn Festival coincides with the season of agricultural harvest, mooncakes and fruits are not only the ancient medium of offering sacrifices to the gods, but also a concrete symbol of people's celebration of the good mood of the harvest today.
Yuyuan Garden, built in the Ming Dynasty during the Jiajing and Wanli reigns, has a history of more than 450 years, covers an area of more than 30 acres, and LuXiangYuan, RiShiYuan is known as "the three famous gardens of Shanghai in the Ming Dynasty", ranked among the top five existing classical gardens in Shanghai, for the national AAAA level tourist attractions. Yuyuan Garden has a typical Jiangnan garden style, reflecting the southern gardens of the Ming and Qing dynasties, "quiet and beautiful, delicate and exquisite" artistic style, the garden also preserves a considerable number of ancient trees and furniture of the Ming and Qing dynasties, celebrities, paintings and calligraphy, clay sculpture brick carvings, plaques and couplets and other cultural relics, cohesion of a wealth of traditional Chinese culture and art of the essence. Shanghai Yuyuan Garden is one of the five gardens in Jiangnan, with unique artistic characteristics and research value. Yuyuan Garden is one of the u
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