Shanghai Zhong Shan Park 上海中山公园

Today, we visited the park called Zhongshan Park. This is a moderate size park. Entrance is free to public.

Zhongshan Park 中山公园 was established in 1914 by the Shanghai Municipal Council as "Jessfield Park". Before then it was a private garden owned by H Fogg, a British property developer. It was renamed in honour of Dr. Sun Yat-sen in 1944.

Map guide of the park can be found all over the park.

We entered through the entrance at Changning Road. There was quite a lot of people in this park. Majority came here for exercise, folk dance, tai-chi, etc. I guess it is quite a normal weekend actitivies for the locals staying near-by.

About some walking distance from the entrance, we came to a place where there is a building built with pillar like the European style. Here, there are quite a number of people practising folk dancing.

We came across a rose garden. Took quite some photographs of this garden.

In the park, there is a large field of green grass. Nearby, there is a lotus pond and there is a decoration of the park's name adorned with flowers. Since this is not yet the lotus season, the pond is practically bare.

Overall, we did not spend much time here except for 1.5 hours. Mainly our objective is not really to visit this park but more to get to an area close by so that we could have lunch in one of the restaurant nearby.