Caoxi Park

Caoxi Park

Caoxi park is adjacent to Caoxi road in the west, caodong Branch Road in the East, caodong 2nd Road in the north and caodong 3rd road in the south, covering an area of 31300 square meters. The southern half of the park was originally the ancestral Tomb of Cao Zhonghuang (Qiming), a cotton merchant in Shanghai before liberation, also known as Cao's garden. It was built in 1931 and completed in 1935. The total area of the cemetery is 18800 square meters, including 8800 square meters of green space, 7800 square meters of cemetery and 2200 square meters of parking lot.

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There are antique glazed tile buildings, Taihu stone rockery, water surface, fountains and well carved pavilions. The cemetery is to the east of the garden, and to the south of it is separated from Cao's ancestral hall by a powder wall. During the Anti Japanese War, the garden was occupied by the Japanese army, and the buildings, flowers and trees in the garden were seriously damaged. After the victory of the war of resistance against Japan, it was once planned to open tickets, but it didn't come true. On the eve of the liberation of Shanghai, Kuomintang troops were stationed in the garden, and the garden scenery was damaged again. After liberation, the garden became more desolate because of no management for a long time. On May 29, 1957, the Municipal Planning Bureau issued a document to establish the park. In October 1958, it was rebuilt by the Shanghai Municipal Bureau of landscape architecture and opened to the outside world, named Caoxi park.

In 1982, the garden was expanded to the East and the north, forming two gardens in the north and the south. In 1996, due to the need of municipal construction, the elevated road was built on humin road and Caoxi Road, and 7 mu of land was acquired.

Caoxi park is a natural park famous for peony in Shanghai. The park has beautiful scenery, small bridges, flowing water, winding paths, pavilions, corridors, waterside pavilions, simple and elegant, strange peaks and rocks, flowers and trees can be seen everywhere. There are 70 kinds of trees and 1590 flowers in the garden. Peony and peony are the main species in the South Garden, while Osmanthus fragrans and Chimonanthus praecox are the main species in the North Garden. Plants should be planted with the scenery, such as indoor bonsai, lotus in the pool, Chimonanthus praecox beside the mountain, osmanthus luteus beside the pavilion, and bamboo on the roadside. The peonies in the garden are well-known with a wide variety. The peony characteristic flower bed covers an area of nearly 1000 square meters. There are more than 60 kinds of local and Caoxian peonies and more than 600 trees. Among them, the famous peonies are five color peony and white peony. The flowers are large in shape and pure in color, with double petals, which is a legacy of Luoyang. The oldest is more than 120 years old, which is the only one in Shanghai. In order to enrich the color of the peony garden, the artistic technique of crowing the stars and the moon is used in the design, and various flower shrubs such as Begonia, camellia, crape myrtle, red maple, Magnolia, Rhododendron and so on are configured for the needs of tourists in the four seasons.

Main attractions

Garden pool

The garden pool is located in the west of Nanyuan. The ring pool is made up of twelve peaks of Taihu Lake stone. It looks like twelve Chinese zodiac animals watching fish, shrimp and lotus. It has different shapes (due to the incomplete elevated Caoxi Road).

Hexagonal pavilion

Linchi bridge, built in the middle of the bridge is a hexagonal leaning Pavilion, reinforced concrete structure, glazed tile save spire, Pavilion East to the octagonal turtle Pavilion.

Sifang Pavilion

The Square Pavilion is built on the top of a 40 square meter stone hill in Taihu Lake. It has double eaves and corners, colored glaze and a long ridge.

Big rockery

There is a large rockery in the northwest of the garden, which is about 15 meters high and covers an area of about 2700 square meters. On the top of the mountain, Changyuan Pavilion is 5 meters high, with reinforced concrete structure, colorful glazed tiles, sharp roof and angle. The pavilion is surrounded by stone benches and backrests, and a square stone platform is set in the middle. You can have a panoramic view of the whole garden from the pavilion. There is a three curved flat stone bridge in the south of the rockery. The small pool under the bridge is shaped like a treasure. Fish play in the pool. The rockery is surrounded by mosquitos, Cinnamomum camphora, Ligustrum lucidum, juniper, camellia, Osmanthus fragrans, Euonymus japonicus and so on.

Triangle longevity Pavilion

On the north side of the gate, the triangular longevity Pavilion is 10 meters long on each side. It is of reinforced concrete structure, covered with yellow flat glazed tiles, with a red round stone ball on the top.

Changyuan Pavilion

The octagonal turtle Pavilion is located in the east of the garden. It is of reinforced concrete structure. The glazed tile has a sharp top and the octagonal is raised. In the center of the pavilion is a huge granite turtle, which is lifelike in shape.

Peony Garden

In the southeast of tianjiudi garden, there is a peony garden covering an area of 744 square meters. In the east of tianjiudi garden, there is a plum shaped flower bed with an area of 18 square meters. There are more than 100 peonies in the flower bed. One of them is more than 120 years old and is grafted. It has a flowering period of more than a month and more than 100 flowers. On the east side of the flower bed, a hundred year old crape myrtle is about 3 meters high, with strong branches and vigorous posture. In the west of the peony garden is a group of flower beds, with three large flower beds arranged from north to south. The flower beds are rectangular in the north, oval in the middle, and round in the south, surrounded by flat iron railings. There are many varieties of peony in the altar, and there are Begonia, camellia, Michelia, crape myrtle, plum, grouper, Canary, red maple, Podocarpus, Photinia as a foil. There are Taihu stone peaks in all flower beds. One of them is 1.3 meters high at the bottom and 3 meters high at the peak. From a fixed angle, it looks like a statue of Venus.

Veranda

In the middle of the peony garden, there is a 54 meter long corridor with a mixed structure and flat roof. The eaves around the top are covered with chrysanthemum red tiles. The east side of the corridor is a leaky wall with lattice windows of various shapes, and the west side is equipped with stone benches between the pillars for visitors to rest.

Transportation guide

Address: No.203, Caoxi Road, Xuhui District, Shanghai

Bus route: 92, 703b, 953, 718, 92B, 218

Address: 203 Caoxi Road

Longitude: 121.43592658895

Latitude: 31.171711098981

Tel: 021-64380513