Revisiting Taizhou's Mei Garden!

I visited Wanghai Tower and then walked along Yingchun Road to Mei Garden. Mei Lanfang, whose ancestral home is Taizhou, is the pride of Taizhou people. To commemorate the 90th anniversary of Mei Lanfang's birth, the people of Taizhou built Mei Lanfang Park in 1984. Entering Mei Garden, you are greeted by a large bust of Mr. Mei carved from white marble. In front of the bust is the Mei Lanfang Historical Exhibition Hall, a building with gray bricks, brown tiles, and upturned eaves. Inside, photos and artifacts from the master's life are displayed. In the back garden, there are rockeries, flowing water, pavilions, and an imitation ancient opera stage. The pentagonal pavilion on the west side of the stage is the "Mei Lanfang Memorial Pavilion," built in a typical Jiangnan garden style. Many plum trees are planted in the garden, dense and lush. Although the plum blossom season is over, you can almost still smell the fragrance of plum blossoms. Mei Garden is located on the north side of Taizhou's Fengcheng River Scenic Area, surrounded by water on three sides and facing the street on the other. I visited Mei Garden once before in the 1980s on a business trip to Taizhou, but my memory is hazy. Today, I revisit this place.