Confucius Temple in Jiading

It is one of the best conserved county-level Confucian Temple architectures in China. It has gone through several repairs in the past 800 years.Confucius Temple in Jiading District was built in 1219, always known as the number one temple in this area of the country. The temple has exhibition halls displaying articles related to the traditional imperial examination system and three high stone tablets, representing people's respect to education and Confucius.Jiading Confucius Temple has been ... View Detail

Thousand temples

In a remote western corner of this metropolis is an old elevator factory that has not so much been renovated as reincarnated.The compound, which had stood abandoned for years, will reopen this weekend as the new Wanfo Buddhist Temple, becoming the first development of its kind in China. Instead of yellow walls and upturned eaves, two of the most distinguishing characteristics of traditional Chinese temples, Wanfo has whitewashed walls and simple dark green tiles. However, the lotus pond, ... View Detail

Square Tower

Square Tower has a history over 900 years. in 949 a.d, a temple named the Xingsheng was constructed here. Later, the square tower was built in this temple in Song Dynasty (1068 a.d.-1094a.d.)this square tower was built of wood and brick. it is 48.5 meters high with 9 storeys of square. following the architecture style Tang Dynasty, its most structures are well kept as their original form.Scenic SpotsScreen WallIt is an old wall (built in the Ming Dynasty) standing close to the square tower. ... View Detail

Confucian Temple

Shanghai Confucian Temple is the only ancient architectural complex combining temple and school in downtown Shanghai to worship China's great thinker and founder of the Confucian culture, Confucius. It is a sacred place for profound Confucian culture. Since its establishment in 1294, the temple has existed for more than 700 years, during which it was moved several times. The current site was chosen in 1855, occupying an area of 1.13 hectare. It is a municipal site for protecting cultural relics ... View Detail

Department of Longtan

Hulongtan Park lies at Tacheng Road, Jiading town; it is next to Confucian Temple. The name of Huilongtan was derived from Huilongtan pond (pond of convergent dragons) in front of the park. The pond was dug in the Wanli period of Ming Dynasty (1588) that was 400 years ago. Rumor had it that five streams converged in this place, and the situation just like five dragons stretching with winding sharp; and there is an island called Yingkui Hill in the center of the pond, green water surrounds the ... View Detail

Waibaidu Bridge

Waibaidu Bridge, which spans over the Suzhou creek, has been well- known since it was built in 1907. It is 52.16m in length and 18.3m in width and has been acknowledged as the best bridge of steel construction for its elegant structure and grand looks on No. 1 East Zhongshan Road. It got the name for it was the place where the passengers were berried across the river without paying.The Waibaidu Bridge, called The Garden Bridge in English, is the first all-steel bridge, and the only surviving ... View Detail

Chuansha ancient city wall

Chuansha ancient city wall is located on Sichuan Road, Hai Chuansha new 171 Mission Hills Primary School (formerly Chengxiang primary school), founded in 1557, was for the people of Chuansha built to resist the Japanese invasion, by virtue of Chuansha ancient city wall, the success of the people of Chuansha Repelled the Japanese invasion of many, the unyielding wall of the Chinese nation against foreign aggression of physical evidence. The ancient city wall was built during the Ming Dynasty, so ... View Detail

France and China Tower

Fa Hua Pagoda was called Jin Sha Pagoda when it was built in 1205~1207. In its long history, it was damaged and rebuilt quite a few times. During one of its reconstructions in 1608, the local officials funded a lot and the pagoda became a lot more beautiful. "Jin Sha Under Sunset" had been a famous attraction of Jia Ding Town for a long long time. It was renamed to Fa Hua Pagoda in Ming Dynasty by a famous Calligrapher.In 1996, it was reconstructed again and lots of efforts were put ... View Detail

Qushui Park

Located in the northeast of Qingpu District, the Qushui Garden is one of the top five classical gardens in Shanghai. First constructed in 1745 of the Qing Dynasty, it was originally a garden attached to the Town God Temple. Originally known as the Lingyuan Garden, its name was later changed to 'Qushui Garden' literally meaning zigzagging channel in Chinese. Qushui Garden derived its name from the line: "Cups float along a zigzag channel", in the Preface to a Collection of Poems ... View Detail

Nanxiang pagoda

Nanxiang Twin Pagodas is the only one of the oldest brick pagoda in the structure of Chinese pavilions.The twin pagodas located by the side of the main street in Nanxiang Town of Jiading District, were built in the Five Dynasties period (907-960).A beautiful story is about Nanxiang Temple. When a farmer was digging the land he suddenly exposed a piece of stone. And ever after it he often saw two cranes standing on it. At that time Buddhism was on vogue and so it was deemed something wonderful as ... View Detail