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2 unusual facts about Taoranting Park


Taoranting

Taoranting Park (陶然亭公园), city park in the former Xuanwu District, which is now part of Xicheng District

Taoranting Park

A former location for literati to get together, while most of Beijing's gardens were reserved only for imperial families during the Qing Dynasty, it gained its name from a poem by the Tang Dynasty poet Bai Juyi, "Wait till the chrysanthemums are yellow and home-made wine is ripe, (I'll) drink with you and be carefree."(更待菊黄家酿熟,与君一醉一陶然).



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