[2025 Shanghai Attraction] Travel Guide for Songjiang Square Pagoda (Updated Mar)

Fangta Garden is a comprehensive park integrating history, culture, and natural landscapes. The park preserves a large number of historical buildings and cultural heritages, and is a historical epitome of Songjiang Ancient Town. It is the perfect time for spring outings and flower viewing. The spring scenery in Fangta Garden is incredibly beautiful, attracting a constant stream of visitors for outings, flower viewing, and camping⛺️. Come and join us‼️ Great news‼️ From March 8th to 9th, Shanghai Fangta Garden offers free admission for female visitors. No reservation is required, just enter the park directly. 🌈Highlights: 🟣Most of the buildings here were relocated during the garden's reconstruction in 1974, retaining the original charm of each building while incorporating new garden elements, forming a unique blend of ancient and modern landscapes. 🟡The ancient wells, corridors, pavilions, and sculptures in the garden all tell stories of the distant past. This is not only an open-air museum but also a vibrant leisure resort where you can experience the weight of history while enjoying modern conveniences. 👍Recommended attractions: ✅Xingsheng Pagoda (Fangta): The most striking building in the park, originally built during the Northern Song Dynasty's Xining to Yuanyou years (1068~1094). It is a nine-story square brick and wood structure, 42.5 meters high, presenting the architectural style of the Tang Dynasty. It has survived thousands of years of vicissitudes and remains standing today. It was listed as a National Key Cultural Relic Protection Site in 2019. ✅Lanrui Hall (Nanmu Hall): A Ming Dynasty building. Although relocated from elsewhere, its nanmu beams and columns are still well-preserved. It now serves as a clean government education base. ✅Screen Wall: Built in the third year of the Hongwu reign of the Ming Dynasty, it was originally the screen wall of the Songjiang City God Temple. The brick carvings and relief work are exquisite, depicting patterns such as the Azure Dragon, White Tiger, and Gluttonous Beast, with profound meanings. It is an artistic treasure. ✅Tianfei Palace: Originally built in the ninth year of the Guangxu reign of the Qing Dynasty (1883), formerly known as Shunji Temple. It was relocated from the Suzhou River in 1980 and was once a sacred place for worshipping Mazu, the sea goddess, reflecting the ancients' reverence and dependence on the ocean. ✅Wangxian Bridge: A Ming Dynasty bridge spanning time. It is 7 meters long and 3.2 meters wide, and was an important bridge on the north-south main road in Songjiang City before the Qing Dynasty. ✅Chen Gong Ancestral Hall: A shrine dedicated to the memory of Chen Huacheng, originally built in the twenty-second year of the Daoguang reign of the Qing Dynasty (1842) and rebuilt in the thirty-fourth year of the Guangxu reign (1898). It was originally located at the end of Xita Lane in Songjiang District and was relocated to Fangta Garden in June 2000. ✅Helouxuan: A tea pavilion with a thatched roof, green brick floor, and moso bamboo pillars. Its name is derived from Liu Yuxi's "Loushi Ming" of the Tang Dynasty. The design blends the imagery of Shanghai's suburban four-bay houses with the Baroque style. 🎫Tickets: 12 yuan 🚗Transportation: Take metro line 9, transfer to Songjiang bus routes 26/33/17/11, etc. 💟Tips: At the Fangxin Post Station near Fangta, you can get 9 free stamps. Remember to bring your notebook‼️

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❤Recommendation: Mid-February to mid-March is the best season to appreciate plum blossoms in Shanghai. Come to Songjiang for a plum blossom viewing trip this weekend! ▽▽▽▽▽▽▽▽ 🕙Morning ✅Fangta Garden 📍Address: No. 235, Zhongshan East Road, Songjiang District 💰Tickets: 12 yuan/person, opening hours 06:00-17:00. 🌟Highlights: Over 80 plum blossom trees of various types, including green calyx plum, pink palace plum, and jade butterfly plum. The ancient tower complements the plum blossoms beautifully. 👍Recommended photo spots: 1. Riverside east of the tower wall: Capture the plum blossoms with the square tower, ancient bridge, and lake in the same frame. 2. In front of Chen Gong Ancestral Hall: Pair white plum blossoms with the ancient architecture backdrop to highlight the pure elegance. 3. By the Song Bridge: Use the stone bridge as the foreground and capture the reflection of the plum blossoms. 🕙Noon ✅Zuibaichi Park: 📍Address: No. 64, Renmin South Road, Songjiang District 💰Tickets: 12 yuan/person, opening hours 06:00-17:00. 🌟Highlights: Over 50 plum blossom trees are distributed in the outer garden lawn, double pavilions, and outer lake corridor, blending seamlessly with the Jiangnan gardens. 👍Recommended photo spots: 1. Outer lake corridor: Capture the plum blossoms with the pavilions and waterside scenery. Overhead shots or framing with the corridor pillars are recommended. 2. In front of the Yi Fang in the inner garden: A century-old wintersweet tree (a second-class protected tree in Shanghai). The golden flowers echo the classical architecture. 🕙Afternoon ✅Chenshan Botanical Garden: 📍Address: No. 3888, Chenhua Highway, Songjiang District 💰Tickets: 60 yuan/person, opening hours 08:00-17:00. 🌟Highlights: "Three Plum Blossom Variations" landscape group (Plum Garden, Plum Blossom Slope, Lakeside Plum Garden), with varieties covering red, pink, and white colors. 👍Recommended photo spots: 1. Meixi Xiangling: A large area of plum blossoms spreads like rosy clouds. Take low-angle shots of the flowers against the sky. 2. Meigong Tanmei Area: The century-old Plum King has a unique shape, suitable for wide-angle shots to capture the magnificent panorama. 3. Lakeside Plum Garden: Use the reflection of the lake to create symmetrical compositions. Dusk offers the best lighting.

Fangta Park is located at 235 Zhongshan East Road, Songjiang District, covering an area of 182 mu. It is a garden with historical relics and buildings as the main body. The park is full of cultural relics and historical buildings from the Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties, and is known as the "Shanghai Open-air Museum." The entire park is centered on the Xing Sheng Jiao Temple Pagoda (commonly known as the "Fangta," a national key cultural relic protection unit), surrounded by the municipal-level cultural relic protection unit Songjiang Fangta Park (composed of brick-carved screen walls, Wangxian Bridge, Lanrui Hall, Chen Huacheng Temple, and Tianfei Palace); district-level cultural relic protection units Songjiang Ming Dynasty Stone Statue and Zhang's House Front Hall; cultural relic protection points Zhuojin Garden Wulao Peak, Sun Garden "Beauty Peak," Dong Qichang's Lin Huaisu "Autobiography" Stele and Jiulian Temple Rulai Column, a total of 8 cultural relic protection units (points). The park also has landscapes such as Qichang Corridor, Helou Pavilion, Qiusheng Pavilion, Dujinlin, Wulao Peak, Beauty Peak, Tiedi Boat, Ancient Moat, and Yangde Pavilion. In the park, the lake water meanders, the tower shadows reflect on the waves, the bamboo forest is elegant, the ancient trees are tall, and the flowers and trees are lush, forming an interesting contrast with the ancient cultural relics and buildings. The entire garden is elegant, simple, quiet, and bright, with the charm of the Tang and Song dynasties and the atmosphere of modern gardens. Fangta Park is the late masterpiece of Mr. Feng Jizhong, a famous architect in China. It was planned in 1978, designed in 1980, and initially completed in 1981. Feng Jizhong was a classmate of I.M. Pei and a master architect known as "North Liang and South Feng" alongside Liang Sicheng. In 1978, Feng Jizhong received the task of designing Songjiang Fangta Park. At that time, the Fangta was like a remnant of winter, with only the Song Pagoda and the Ming Dynasty screen wall standing alone in a large wasteland. This land, with a total area of 11 square kilometers, was once the center of Songjiang Prefecture in the Tang and Song dynasties, where the county government, City God Temple, and Xing Sheng Jiao Temple were located. The Tang Dynasty city river passed through it, and it was once a prosperous scene. People hoped that Feng Jizhong would build a modern park that could accommodate a certain number of tourists. However, Feng Jizhong proposed a design of "new with the old," which put Fangta Park at the forefront of the times, and the construction process was quite bumpy. Under Feng Lao's "dedication and effort," this city park with the nature of an "open-air museum" eventually became a garden architectural work of epoch-making significance. In the eyes of many experts in architecture and gardening, it is "a measure of Chinese architecture," and the architectural history of China in the 1980s cannot bypass it. Professor Ling Delin, chairman of the Taiwan Landscape Society, once wrote: "Fangta Park is the best city park in mainland China." Pritzker Architecture Prize winner Wang Shu commented on Fangta Park: "In this field, I have not seen any work in China that surpasses Fangta Park. It has a faint Chinese traditional atmosphere, but the whole technique is greatly influenced by modern architecture. In the end, the two are combined into an imaginary realm, very simple and plain."

Songjiang was formerly known as Huaheng, and also has other names such as Yunjian, Rongcheng, and Gushui. It has a history of more than 4,000 years and is truly the "root of Shanghai." Fangta Garden is a must-visit place for treasure-hunting Songjiang. It was originally the downtown center of ancient Huating during the Tang and Song dynasties. With Aimin Street to the east and Sangong Street to the west, it is not only a gathering place for ancient literati, but also a miniature of Songjiang ruins. The screen wall in the garden is quite ancient and exquisite in Shanghai and even in the whole country. Fangta Garden in winter is a masterpiece of nature's art, forming a richly layered painting. The sunlight shines through the gaps between the branches and leaves onto the ground. The lake water ripples in the sunlight, contrasting with the green trees and blue sky, creating a warm and pleasant winter scenery. Over the years, Fangta Garden has been announced as a Shanghai cultural relic protection unit by the Shanghai Municipal People's Government. If you want to get to know Shanghai more deeply, you must visit Songjiang. ⛲️Square Tower Garden 📍Address: No. 235, Zhongshan East Road, Songjiang District 💰Ticket price: 12 yuan

In this small and exquisite garden, ancient Song Dynasty buildings and modern gardens complement each other, as if traveling through a thousand years. Here, there are not only towering ancient trees and many famous trees, but also rich historical and cultural heritage. It is a good place to escape the summer heat and go boating. 🚣‍♀️ 👀 Main attractions: ✅ Song Dynasty Square Pagoda The landmark building of Fangta Park 🏗️ was built during the Northern Song Dynasty (1068–1094), and has a history of more than 900 years. It is one of the ancient pagodas in Jiangnan that has preserved the most original components. ✅ Brick Carving Screen Wall One of the oldest, most exquisite, and best-preserved brick carvings in Shanghai. ✅ Tianfei Palace A Qing Dynasty building that was once a holy place for worshiping the sea goddess Mazu, and has been preserved to this day. ✅ Helou Pavilion The masterpiece of Professor Feng Jizhong of Tongji University, hidden in the bamboo forest, with water flowing around the bamboo pavilion, and different scenery in all four seasons. ⛲️: Fangta Park 🚇: Songjiang Sports Center Station on Metro Line 9, transfer to Bus 7 🚌 ⏰: 06:00–17:00 🎫: 12R/person

Fangta Park is quite a famous attraction in Songjiang. I've been thinking about it for many years, and now, taking advantage of the holiday and this rare good weather, I hurried to visit. 🌳Upon arriving here, I realized that all major scenic spots in Shanghai are crowded with people, but surprisingly, Fangta Park is uniquely quiet. Strolling within, it feels as if time has slowed down. 🏯Fangta was first built during the Northern Song Dynasty, which has a very historical background. The park also has a large brick-carved screen wall from the Ming Dynasty and a stone bridge from the Song Dynasty, each exuding an ancient charm. There's also a Mazu Temple called 'Tianfei Palace,' but unfortunately, it's currently under renovation and not open to the public. However, this gives us something to look forward to for our next visit. Not to mention the late work of the architect Feng Jizhong, 'Helou Pavilion,' which has now become a tea room for visitors to rest. Sitting here, sipping a cup of fragrant tea, one can feel the tranquility of time. 💧There are also lakes and grasslands here, and the natural scenery is quite pleasant. It's really suitable for a leisurely weekend stroll, to relax and enjoy this moment of peace. 💰The ticket is only 12 yuan, super cost-effective, isn't it?

Is there anyone who loves watching 'Romance in the Rain'? As the filming location, Songjiang Fangta Garden has recently become a popular summer resort. What exactly makes everyone feel so 'cool'? Let's take a look together. ✅ Speaking of Fangta Garden, the most important thing is that it is full of cultural relics and rich in humanistic atmosphere, with numerous historical buildings from the Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties. Some people say it is an outdoor museum. ✅ The masterpiece of architect Feng Jizhong, Helou Pavilion, is also in Fangta Garden. The design is unique, made of bamboo structure. Although it has no walls, it still moves people. ✅ There is also a Tianfei Palace in the garden, which is the only remaining Mazu temple site in Shanghai. If you want to follow your inner peace, you can come here to feel it. ✅ Lastly, there are large areas of bamboo forest in the garden. This super large bamboo forest is mainly located along the east gate entrance and around Helou Pavilion. The dense bamboo leaves form a green barrier, blocking the scorching sun. The verdant bamboo leaves emit a faint fragrance, making people feel refreshed and relaxed. How about it? Coming to Fangta Garden, not only will your body be calm, but your mind will also be at peace. How can you not feel cool? Just hearing the wind blowing through the bamboo forest makes it feel less hot. 🗺️ Address: No. 235, Zhongshan East Road, Songjiang District 💰 Ticket: 12 yuan ⌚ Opening hours: 06:00-17:00 (last entry at 16:30) 🅿️ Parking: Navigate to 'Fangta South Road Public Ground Parking Lot'

Songjiang, the city at the root of Shanghai's culture. In the thousand-year-old Fangta Garden, the Science and Technology Museum, and the Yunjian Cultural Center, one can see the inheritance of millennia-old culture, as well as the integration and exchange with modern culture and contemporary technology, clearly observing the cultural context and origins... Calm your mind, wander through them, and roam in the spaces, and you will deeply feel that infinite energy and the rich cultural atmosphere. Fangta Garden

When I arrived, it was getting late. Thanks to the staff, I was able to enter the garden (I am very grateful for the help of the staff). Perhaps because it was late, or maybe it was raining, there were hardly any people. I particularly like gardens with few people, so I can stroll around slowly. The garden is not particularly large, but it is still worth a visit. There is a large bamboo forest in the eastern part of Fangta Garden. There are stone paths in the forest, winding paths leading to secluded spots, and a thatched pavilion deep in the bamboo forest. However, the garden is mainly built around the square tower, with a lake circling around the tower. I saw many moored boats, and there is a large lawn opposite the tower. I think there would be more people camping here if the weather is good. The grassland lake, boating in the garden, the square tower and bamboo forest, it is a good place to go on weekends. Although this garden does not have the beauty of the five major gardens, its grassland lake is enough to attract attention. There are no rockeries and flowing water, but it has its own square tower corridor. Perhaps the Drunken Bai Pool (one of Shanghai's five major classical gardens) not far from Fangta Garden is too famous, which leads to few people here. It may also be that I came at the wrong time. Overall, this place is really worth visiting. The ancient cultural charm of Fangta Garden not only attracts many tourists who visit the ancient and seek the secluded, but also attracts many film and television workers who shoot historical themes. More than 10 TV dramas such as 'West Chamber', 'Peony Pavilion', 'Dou E's Grievance', 'Liao Zhai', 'Fengshen Bang', 'Ji Gong', 'Yang Naiwu and Little Cabbage', 'Zhu Zhishan Legend' have been filmed in the garden. The park ticket purchase time is 7:00-16:00, the ticket is 12 yuan, and you cannot enter after the time. Those who need to go can pay attention to the time... Address: No. 235 Zhongshan Road, Songjiang District, Shanghai

Fangta Garden is a small park suitable for a casual stroll on the weekend. It's not large, and the most beautiful scenery is around the square tower. Ginkgo, camphor, and red maple, casually photographed are very beautiful, and when the weather is good, you can also sit on the lawn by the river. It is also suitable for taking ancient costume photos, because there are few people, there will be no interference when taking pictures.

|Songjiang Fangta Garden. Fangta Garden is a garden in the ancient city of Songjiang with the theme of viewing historical relics. The garden site was originally the bustling center of the ancient Huating in the Tang and Song Dynasties, and can be said to be a miniature of the original site of Songjiang. The Fangta in the garden was originally the Xingguo Changshou Temple, which was converted from a mansion in the second year of Qianyou of the Later Han Dynasty of the Five Dynasties (949). It was renamed Xingsheng Jiao Temple during the Dazhong Xiangfu period of the Song Dynasty (1008-1016). The temple tower (commonly known as Fangta) was built during the Xining to Yuanyou period of the Song Dynasty (1068-1093). 🌟Highlights: The screen wall in the garden is the oldest, most exquisite, and best preserved large-scale brick carving art treasure in Shanghai and even the whole country. The main attractions in the garden include the Song Dynasty Wangxian Bridge, the Ming Dynasty Lanrui Hall (also known as Nanmu Hall), the Qing Dynasty Tianfei Palace, the Qing Dynasty Chen Huacheng Ancestral Hall, the imitation ancient corridor (with Dong Qichang Huai Su sticker), the ancient moat, He Louxuan, Ta Yingfang, Wulao Peak, etc. There is also an ancient ginkgo tree, which is particularly outstanding in autumn. 📍Detailed address: No. 235, Zhongshan East Road, Songjiang District 🕙Business hours: 6:30-17:00 💰Average consumption: Ticket price 12 yuan

Fangta is famous for its "exquisite beauty" in the southeast. It looks like a young girl in a long skirt and a slim skirt. The "Zhuzhi Ci" of the Songjiang poet Huang Wei in the Qing Dynasty is such a tribute to the Fangta: "The offshore floating figure 36, how is the square tower the most exquisite." Two sentences have vividly portrayed the artistic image of Fangta. The artistic treatment of the square tower is not limited to the tower body and the tower tower. It also has many special treatments, such as: for the beauty of the tower body, the tower is removed from the cumbersome body, and the stairs are designed in the tower body. . The connecting lines of the two corners of the tower to the nine corners are parabolic arcs, called "roll brakes". Its tower brakes are also different. Like the tower body, it is more slender than other towers. The front of the square tower is an S-shaped lake, stretching from west to east, the lake is flowing, showing Tower shadow, the scenery is very beautiful.

As long as many people mention Shanghai, they take it for granted that the history of the city is very short, from the beginning to the present, but it has been only two hundred years. However, do you know? Known as the "root of Shanghai", Songjiang District has a long history and has a long history. In Shanghai, there is even a saying that "10 years to see Pudong, 100 years to see the Bund, and millennium to see Songjiang". Two days ago, I went to visit Fangtayuan, one of the most historic spots in Songjiang Ancient City. I believe that if you have been here, you will never feel that Shanghai is a city with a short history. It is. Shanghai Fangta Garden is a kind of ornamental garden with many Chinese classical architectures centered on the national-level cultural relics Song Dynasty Fangta (formerly known as Xingshengjiao Pagoda). There are not only various Shanghai-level cultural relics units in the park. For example, there are many large-scale brick carvings in the Ming Dynasty, as well as many district-level cultural relic units in Songjiang District, such as the Wangxian Bridge in the Song Dynasty, the Lanrui Hall in the Ming Dynasty, the Tianzhu Palace in the Qing Dynasty, the Chenhuacheng Temple in the Qing Dynasty, and so on. Fang Tower was built in Xingshengjia Temple during the Song Dynasty from Xining to Yuanyou (AD 1068-1094), so it was originally called "Xingshengjiao Pagoda", which has a history of nearly a thousand years, from 1975 to 1977. Years of recovery and overhaul. The square tower is a brick-and-wood structure with a height of 42.5 meters and 4 sides and 9 levels. Because the plane of the tower is square, it is commonly known as the square tower. It is a large tower and a thin tower. It reflects the characteristics of the tower in the Tang Dynasty and is beautiful and unusual. People have been unforgettable for a long time.

Huating County in the Tang and Song Dynasties, today's Songjiang City in Shanghai, its most prosperous place is probably in today's Fangta Park area. The Fangta Garden is famous for its tower. This tower is very magical. It has been built in the Northern Song Dynasty for more than 900 years. It has escaped the bombing of the Japanese invaders and has not fallen, becoming the symbol of Songjiang. Opposite the Fangta Garden, there is also a quaint townhouse called the first floor of the Yunjian. This is the tower of the original Songjiang Prefecture Office. Now it is the school gate of Songjiang No. 2 Middle School. The tower was destroyed by the Japanese invaders and was later destroyed by the typhoon. Only some of the bases were left. The current tower was later built. The first floor of the cloud room can be visited, free of charge, but there is almost nothing on the tower, and two photos are taken down. Fangta Garden as a park, history is not too long, but the square tower is the building of the Northern Song Dynasty, has been more than 900 years. Before the Fangta, it used to be a temple. During the Five Dynasties, it was called Xingguo Changshou Temple. Song Dazhong Xiang Fu (1008~1016) was renamed Xingshengjia Temple. Fangta is the temple tower of Xingshengjiao Temple. It was built between Song Xining and Yuanyou (1068~1093), with brick and wood structure.