Songjiang Drunken Bai Pond

Songjiang Drunken Bai Pond is located on People's South Road, Songjiang District, Shanghai, covering an area of 5 hectares. It is known as one of the five major classical gardens in Shanghai along with Shanghai Yu Garden, Jiading Ancient Yi Garden, Autumn Xia Garden, and Qingpu Qu Water Garden. It is also the oldest garden among the five. Now, the Drunken Bai Pond has been expanded into a park, and the existing garden part was built by Gu Dashen, the main event of the Ministry of Works in the seventh year of Qing Shunzhi (1650 AD) on the site of the old garden of the Ming Dynasty. After more than 300 years, the Drunken Bai Pond still retains ancient buildings such as halls, pavilions, pavilions, boats, and pavilions, and maintains the style of Ming and Qing gardens in the south of the Yangtze River. Its curved railings and winding paths are antique. The predecessor of the Drunken Bai Pond was the private garden of Zhu Zhichun, a Jinshi in Songjiang during the Song Dynasty, named "Guyaoyuan". The name of the garden means that it is a famous garden in the hometown of Lu Ji and Lu Yun. Because Lu Ji once wrote a poem saying "It seems like Gu Shuiyang", saying that his hometown is in the sun of Gu Shui. Zhu Zhichun named the mansion garden after the name of the celebrity.