Is there any interesting place in Meihua Valley?

Meihua Valley is located at the southern foot of Zijin Mountain outside Zhongshan Gate in Nanjing. Plum planting in Nanjing began in the Six Dynasties and has a history of 1500 years.

Meihuashan Meiyuan was founded in 1929, covering an area of 1533 mu, with nearly 400 varieties of 13000 plum trees. Known as "the first Meishan in the world" and "the first Meishan in China", it is also known as "the four largest Meiyuan in China" with Shanghai Dianshan Lake Meiyuan, Wuxi Meiyuan and Wuhan Donghu Moshan Meiyuan. Meihuashan Meiyuan is famous for its unique varieties. Tourists come here to enjoy plums, and there are hundreds of thousands of them every day in the peak season. Nanjing Meihua Mountain attracts more and more tourists from home and abroad with its unique natural and humanistic advantages, and gradually becomes the national plum blossom cultural center.

Plum blossom is the city flower of Nanjing (1982 adopted at the second meeting of the Eighth Nanjing People's Congress). Appreciating plums is a folk custom in Nanjing. Nanjing has a long history of planting and appreciating plums, which has gone through six dynasties. According to historical records, Meiling in the south of the city and Meihuawu at the foot of Zhongshan in the north of the city are all good places to plant and enjoy plums. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Xu Wei painted plum blossoms in Zhongshan, depicting the landscape of "Longpan Resort, Plum Blossoms in Spring Breeze". Now Pearl Spring Tourist Resort (Wan Zhu Mei Hai) and Gulin Park (Meiling) all have beautiful scenery, among which Meihua Mountain, one of the four largest plum gardens in China, is the best. When plum blossoms are in full bloom in spring, ten thousand plum blossoms are in full bloom in Meihua Mountain, and clouds are steaming and the mountains are full of flowers and a sea of fragrance. As many as 400,000 to 500,000 people came to visit and enjoy plum blossoms. The management office of Sun Yat-sen Cemetery planted a large number of plum blossoms in Meihua Mountain. After 1958, more than 100 mu of barren hills were opened up, and a large number of precious varieties were planted, such as orangutan red, bone red, shining water, palace powder, jumping branches, chiba red, long branches, rouge, jade plate and spring delivery. Among them, "Biejiao Evening Water" is the only one in China, which is particularly precious. In spring, when plum blossoms are in full bloom, they are everywhere, and the fragrance of flowers is floating in Wan Li. The tourists who come here to enjoy the plum blossoms are shoulder to shoulder, and the climax season is more than 100 thousand every day. For the convenience of tourists, the cemetery management office 1982 built a new tourist restaurant in the northeast of Meihua Mountain, and named it "Dark Fragrant Pavilion" after Lin Bu's poem "Yongmei". The restaurant is a two-story building, and you can enjoy the intoxicating scenery of Meihua Mountain by the window when dining. There are Yongmei Zhai, Shuying Hall and Zhichun Pavilion downstairs, which are connected by winding corridors, with a total construction area of about 1.540 square meters.

From 1992, the management office of Sun Yat-sen Cemetery opened a new plum garden on the east side of Meihua Mountain. Xinmeiyuan is a continuation of Meihua Mountain and a self-contained natural landscape Plum Garden. The whole park covers an area of 72,309 square meters, with more than 2,500 newly planted plum trees, which together with the original Meihua Mountain constitute a thousand plum trees in the thousand-acre garden. At the same time, Xinmeiyuan also planted ornamental plants such as cherry blossoms, Albizia Albizzia, and Taxodium ascendens. And pave the lawn to make up for the gap caused by seasonal changes, so that the whole garden is beautiful in all seasons. The park has also opened up 6672 square meters of artificial water surface, which is divided into several small ponds to form a unique waterscape. There are also incense pavilions and cold incense pavilions in Linchi, which are decorated with colored paintings and covered with yellow glazed tiles. According to historical records, Meihua Mountain was originally the location of Sun Quan's tomb in Soochow. In order to commemorate this historical site, 1993, the cemetery built a new Sun Quan Story Garden at the eastern foot of Meihua Mountain. At the same time, Sun Quan Story Garden introduced more than 100 Japanese plum varieties, which provided rich variety resources for plum blossom research. At present, Meihua Mountain covers an area of 420 mu, with more than 200 plum varieties and 0/kloc-0.3 million plum plants. Nanjing Meihua Mountain is attracting more and more tourists from home and abroad with its unique natural and humanistic advantages, and has gradually become the national plum blossom cultural center.