As a national intangible cultural heritage, the Yuyuan Lantern Festival has become a landmark Spring Festival cultural event in Shanghai since its inception in 1995. For 30 years, the Yuyuan Lantern Festival has remained vibrant and relevant. Rooted in the heart of Shanghai's old city and the Yuyuan area, the cultural heart of Shanghai, this lantern festival has grown alongside the city. From lantern making, intangible cultural heritage preservation, technological innovation, and humanistic stories, it tells Chinese stories of Eastern aesthetics to the world, evolving from a traditional folk lantern festival into a culturally vibrant IP, creating a national and international Yuyuan Lantern Festival. More than just Yuyuan, more than just lanterns, more than just Shanghai.

Yu Garden is the most ancient Jiangnan garden in Shanghai. It was originally built by Pan Yunduan, an official in the Ming Dynasty. It took 18 years to build. The name of the garden is taken from the meaning of "pleasant old relatives", "Yu" and "Yu" are similar. However, Pan Yunduan's father died before Yu Garden was fully completed. In fact, Yu Garden later became Pan Yunduan's entertainment place.

Yu Garden has a history of more than 400 years from the Ming Dynasty to the present. It originally covered an area of ​​more than 70 acres and has undergone many renovations and reconstructions. It is now one of the must-see attractions for many people visiting Shanghai. It is rare to have such a large Jiangnan garden in the highly modernized urban area of ​​Shanghai.

If you take the subway, get off at Yuyuan Station on Shanghai Metro Line 10, and walk to Yuyuan in less than 10 minutes, which is very convenient. The area around Yuyuan has become a huge business district. Yuyuan Shopping Mall is full of antique Chinese buildings, which are uniformly planned and tall, and look very gorgeous and imposing.

There are many restaurants and snacks in the mall, and Nanxiang Steamed Bun Shop and Lvbolang are the most famous. The queue at Nanxiang Steamed Bun Shop is surprisingly long. Soup dumplings, glutinous rice balls, rice cakes and spareribs, spiced beans and pear paste candy, these famous Shanghai snacks and snacks are also available everywhere, making it very convenient to have a meal or buy souvenirs.