What's interesting about Sheshan in Shanghai?

Xishe Mountain Park is the scenic spot with the best environment and the largest area in Jiu Feng, Yun Jian. The splendid cultural landscape and beautiful natural scenery in the park have attracted many Chinese and foreign tourists. The ancient trees on the mountain are towering and cover the sky. Deep in the shade of the mountain top, there is an unusual red ochre building, which is the famous "First Cathedral in the Far East".

2. Notre Dame de Sheshan

Notre Dame de Sheshan is the same as Notre Dame de Rhode Island in France. It is also called Notre Dame de Far East. The church was founded by French missionaries in 187 1 year. Completed on 1935. It combines a variety of architectural styles and adopts a four-beam structure without wood, nails, steel and beams, which is a model of asymmetry. Since the 1940s, it has been a world-famous Catholic shrine and the most important pilgrimage site for Catholics in China.

Sheshan Hall was founded by French missionaries in 187 1 year, rebuilt and expanded in 1925, and completed in 1935. The main hall is 56 meters long from east to west and 25 meters wide from north to south, with a building area of 1400 square meters. The building plane is Latin cross. The height from the temple base to the top of the cross is 38 meters, including 17 meters to the vault and 22 meters to the glazed tile. The main venue has 1000 seats and can accommodate about 1500 members.

This Roman transitional church is called "four noes", that is, no nails, no wood, no steel and no beam, which is a model of asymmetric architecture. Colorful stained glass varies in size and shape. The architectural form is long in the south and short in the north, wide in the east and narrow in the west, with a round inside and a pointed outside, with stones inside and bricks outside.

3. Sheshan Observatory

Sheshan Observatory is located at the top of Sheshan Mountain, a famous historical mountain in the southwest suburb of Shanghai. 1872, Catholic Jesuit missionaries in Paris set up Xujiahui Observatory in Shanghai to observe and forecast meteorology, astronomy and geomagnetism.

/kloc-in 0/900, a new observatory was built in Sheshan, and 40cm binoculars were installed. At that time, it was the largest astronomical telescope in Asia. In the last century, it spent countless sleepless nights with several generations of astronomers in China and the West, and took a lot of precious photos of celestial bodies. It was not until the 1980s that the Shanghai Observatory designed and manufactured the more advanced 1.56m astrometric telescope, and this "century telescope" gradually withdrew from the scientific research.

In addition to the cultural relics exhibition hall, the Shanghai Astronomical Museum also has a memorial stone tablet on the top of Sheshan Mountain, a bedrock point on the top of Sheshan Mountain, and an international longitude joint survey base point.

4. Dongsheshan Garden

Dongsheshan Garden is 74 meters above sea level and has a mountainous area of more than 800 mu. There are beautiful mountains, lush trees and Jiu Feng. This mountain is rich in animal and plant resources. Here, bamboo shoots from mountainous areas are famous for their fragrant orchids. Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty gave the word "Sun Lanshan" during his southern tour, and named this bamboo shoot "Lan Bamboo Shoot". As early as the Ming Dynasty, there were ten scenic spots on the mountain, such as Sui Gaoyuan, Baishi Villa and Meigong Fishing Rock. Xu Xiake, a great tourist, visited Sheshan three times, and his trip to Wan Li began here.

Returning to nature, taking bamboo as the scenery, taking bamboo as the camp and taking bamboo as the victory is a major feature of the park, creating a quiet and peaceful atmosphere in the park. More than 30 restored and newly built scenic spots and entertainment places are dotted on the north and south peaks. The seasons here are like spring, flowers are fragrant and birds are singing. There are more than 50 species of nearly 10,000-feathered birds in the Woodbird Park. Dongshe Mountain Park has become a popular science education base for young people in Shanghai.

The "Double Ninth Festival" held on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month in China is a special program suitable for the elderly, which is very popular with them.

5. Chen Shan Botanical Garden

Chen Shan Botanical Garden has plants to see all year round, and the mine garden built on the original site of the quarry is a highlight of the park. With ingenious planning and unique landscape, the whole park group has become an unforgettable attraction in Shanghai. The park consists of four functional areas: central exhibition area, plant protection area, five continents plant area and peripheral buffer area. There are 26 characteristic gardens in the central exhibition area, including rose garden, xerophyte garden, rare botanical garden, mine garden, aquatic botanical garden, exhibition greenhouse, ornamental grass garden, rock medicine botanical garden and Gui Huayuan. The exhibition greenhouse consists of tropical flower and fruit museum, psammophyte museum and exotic plant museum, which is the largest exhibition greenhouse in Asia, among which psammophyte museum is the largest indoor psammophyte museum in the world.

6.Moon Lake Sculpture Park

Focusing on the lake, the lake is divided into four seasons: spring, summer, autumn and winter, showing four distinct seasons. The children are playing at random on the beach by the lake. Behind the beach is the "Old Giant Wood" tree house. Gu Teng's artificial roots on the tree house are supplemented by natural vines, which makes people unable to tell the truth from the false, as if they were in a fairy tale world. Qiu 'an Art Museum has a unique shape, most of the buildings are hidden underground, showing a double helix landscape, and the fine works of art from various countries are exhibited irregularly in the museum. The only advanced landscape dining facility on the lake in Shanghai-"Autumn Moon Boat" is located on the autumn bank. On the winter shore, there are long lakeside wooden plank roads, exquisite pavilions, pavilions in the lake, Yuehai (restaurant on the lake), water dance (music fountain) and Yuehu Club. This is a comprehensive facility that can accommodate thousands of people and integrates catering, accommodation and business meetings.

7. Dongsheshan Garden

Dongsheshan Garden is 74 meters above sea level and has a mountainous area of more than 800 mu. There are beautiful mountains, lush trees and Jiu Feng. This mountain is rich in animal and plant resources. Here, bamboo shoots from mountainous areas are famous for their fragrant orchids. Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty gave the word "Sun Lanshan" during his southern tour, and named this bamboo shoot "Lan Bamboo Shoot".