Grand View Garden

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The Grand View Garden is located in the southwest corner of Beijing, on Nan Cai Yuan Street to the southwest of Tian'anmen Square. Grand View Garden is a contemporary construction, based on a very well known Chinese novel called " The Dream of the Red Mansions" , written in the mid - eighteenth century.

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ID : 32
City : Beijing
English name : Beijing Grand View Garden
Chinese name : 北京大观园
Type : Ancient mansion,Traditional park,Ancient Garden,
Level : easy
Kids : Possible
Elders: Possible
Best season : All seasons
Visiting length : 1-3 hours
Distance to city center : 8 km

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Introduction of Grand View Garden

Grand View Garden Beijing is a large greenery garden dotted with pavilions, halls, temples and miniature gardens with a total of 125,000 square meters. The layout is exactly like that described in the novel. If lucky, you will have chance to see traditional ceremonies performed in the garden, always a fascinating sight.
The most interesting points to visit in the park are the Enjoyment Red Hall, with its beautiful and colorful paintings, the quiet and graceful Xiaoxiang Hall, the Fragrant Rice Village, the Fragrant Lotus Pavilion, the Reed Snow Temple, and the Green Hill Garden. Performances are given at the Xingqinxing Hall, which is also an attraction. During the Spring Festival every year, a gala party is held in the Garden to see in the Lunar New Year, at which the grand ceremony of "Lady Jia, the Imperial Concubine Visiting her Relatives Back Home" is rehearsed.

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Highlights of visiting Beijing Grand View Garden

Yihong Countryard, Xiaoxiang House, Hengwu House, Fragrant Rice Village, Fragrant Lotus Pavilion, Reed Snow Temple, Green Hill Garden

Helper to visit Beijing Grand View Garden

Address in English : No.12 Nancaiyuan West Street, Xicheng District, Beijing, China
Address in Chinese : 北京市西城区南菜园西街12号
Tel : +8610-63544993
Post code : 100044
Ticket time : 8:30-16:30
Open time : 8:30-16:30
Closing time : Null
Location : Beijing Grand View Garden is around 8 km to downtown Beijing

Transportation

Public bus:
- Bus 56, 59, 84, 122, 458, 474, 717, Special Line 3, Yuntong 102 (Daguanyuan Station)
- Bus 423 (Daguanyuan Ximen Station)
Private car is the best method to visit Beijing Grand View Garden with local tour operator.

Admission

high season : 30 RMB/person.
shoulder season : 30 RMB/person.
low season : 30 RMB/person.
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Hotel near Grand View Garden

5 star/duluxe hotel
Doubletree by Hilton Beijing
Guidu Hotel

4 star/superior hotel
Wanfangyuan Hotel Beijing
Chenmao Nanyueyuan Hotel

3 star/comfort hotel
Beijing Commercial Business Hotel

Construction of Grand View Garden
"The Dream of the Red Mansions" is considered to be the best to have been written during the Qing Dynasty and is rated as one of the four great classics of Chinese literature. Artists and scholars were engaged to research the novel in order that a large garden complex that would represent the luxurious villa of the Jia family should be as authentic as possible. Construction lasted five years and the typical courtyard complex has no less than forty inner gardens. Garden artists named it as "Garden of a Literary Masterpiece", while Hongloumeng scholars dubbed it "Another Dream Out of the Dream of Red Mansions".
Covering an area of 125,000 square meters, this classical garden has twelve distinct scenic spots and a total of forty attractions. The main buildings to be found here are Xiaoxiangguan (Bamboo Lodge), Yihongyuan (Cheerful Red Court) and the Daoxiangcun (Paddy Fragrance Cottage) but there are still more that add to the beauty of the garden.
In Grand View Garden, the features of every building and atmosphere of the surroundings are reflections of the character of the host or hostess who lived there. Today, the garden draws many visitors per year because of its colors, and the harmony between the buildings and grounds. The scene in each of these is unique with rock and ponds and an abundance of foliage. These provide a tranquil setting for the pavilions, rooms and corridors (traditional covered walkways) in which the drama of the novel could be brought to life. The result has proved to be a popular television series. For the visitor to the Grand View Garden, a stroll along the zigzag paths that wind through it is to experience a world of ancient Chinese dwellings from the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

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Grand View Garden
The Grand View Garden is located in the southwest corner of Beijing, on Nan Cai Yuan Street to the southwest of Tian'anmen Square. Grand View Garden is a contemporary construction, based on a very well known Chinese novel called " The Dream of the Red Mansions" , written in the mid - eighteenth century.
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About the novel "Dream of the Red Mansions"
The novel "Dream of Red Mansions", also known as "The Stone Story", is listed as one of the "Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese Literature." The author is Cao Xueqin . According to the novel, Grand View Garden was the residence of the wealthy Jia family. The leading male character of the novel was Baoyu. He and his two cousins and some other family members shared the home. Xue Baochai , one of Baoyu's cousins, was morally and intellectually superior to the others. Later she became Baoyu's wife. The other cousin, Daiyu was deeply in love with Baoyu until she died. The tragic love affairs among the three characters were the result of the feudal society. This amorous and sensitive couple is China's Romeo and Juliet.
The success of the novel is derived from the brilliant characterisation of the four hundred or so people who have their being in it. By capturing the grandeur of a lost era the novel still has the power to bring to life the nuances of family life as it affected those who lived during the Qing Dynasty.
The writer, Cao Xueqin, was born in early 1720s and lived for only forty years. He was born into a wealthy family whose status and fortune diminished when he was a child. Cao devoted the last ten years of his life to the writing of the novel "Dream of Red Mansions", which was not published until thirty years after his death.
It is interesting to note that Cao was ten years older than George Washington. When Cao was twenty, Montesquieu, Diderot and Voktaire had just started publishing their works. The steam engine was invented one or two years after Cao's death. The United States of America became independent about thirteen years after Cao's death. Cao wrote during the period of the Enlightenment. It was about the time China closed its door to the outside world and was increasingly controlled by the last feudal dynasty. The feudal kingdom was in its last stage of prosperity. It is interesting that in his novel, Cao used the quick bankruptcy of a family to indicate that the crisis - riven feudal society was already on its last legs and to foretell the final collapse of the Chinese feudal society.