Taoranting
Park or Joyous Pavilion Park is located in the southern part of the
city, north of the Beijing Southern Railway Station. Taoranting Park
covered the Black Dragon Pond in the east, Dragon Spring Temple in the
west, Nanheng Street in the north and the city wall in the south.
Taoranting
Park got its name after famous Tang poet Bai Juyis poem:
When the chrysanthemums turn yellow and wine is made,
Lo!
my dear friend,
Lets drink to our hearts content and be drunken away
In ecstasy.
Unlike
other parks and gardens of the city which were reserved for the emperor
and his family, the Taoranting Park was accessible to all. This explains
why the park was a popular meeting place for poets and literary men
during the Qing dynasty.
Two revolutionaries, Gao Junyu and his girl friend, Shi Pingmei, were
buried here.
History
Taoranting Park dates as far back as the 3rd century BC. The site of
todays Taoranting Park was the eastern urban district of the capital
city ( Dadu ) of the Jin Dynasty. Later this place became an attraction
for tourists from far away and those scholars who came to the nations
capital for imperial civil examinations. In the past century several
famous revolutionaries were closely associated with the Taoranting Pavilion. More information...
Architecture
and Lay Out
At the gate of the temple was a calligraphic work in gold of Taoran
by Jiang Zao and on the temple wall were inset with a rock carving,
Ode to Taoranting that sang in the last two verses. Most outstanding
of the gardens sights was the grotesque formation of Taihu Lake rocks
designed by Zhang Ran. More
information...
Chinatravelkey can add visiting of Taoranting Park on the following Beijing Tour Routes:
Photo of Taoran Park
  
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