[2025 Hefei Attraction] Travel Guide for Fuzhuang (Updated May)

📍【A Jiangnan Dream in the City】 ✨🌳 Tucked away in downtown Hefei lies a "branch of Suzhou Gardens"! The Floating Village in Bao Park is a paradise for ancient-style lovers—layered blue bricks and black tiles, pavilions reflected in emerald waters. Wear Hanfu and stand on the stone bridge, and you'll instantly feel transported to the set of "A Dream of Splendor"🎎 ▫️ 1️⃣ Zhenbo Bridge ▫️ A bluestone arch bridge with willow branches brushing the water—turn sideways and capture the moment your hair flutters in the wind for a cinematic vibe! ▫️📸Tips: The softest light is at 4 PM, and framing the scene through the bridge arch is absolutely stunning! 2️⃣ Linliu Pavilion's Upturned Eaves ▫️ Vermilion railings and soaring eaves—shoot from a low angle to capture a minimalist composition of sky, architecture, and branches. Your friends will bombard you with questions asking if you're at the Forbidden City! 3️⃣ Lotus Breeze Pavilion ▫️ When lotus flowers bloom in midsummer, wear light-colored Hanfu and hold an oil-paper umbrella for a backshot that's downright divine! ▫️ 👘【Outfit & Prop Guide】 ✅ Prop checklist: Oil-paper umbrella, round fan, bamboo scroll, lantern (for night visits) ✅ Makeup: Willow-leaf eyebrows + pearl face dots, with a jade hairpin in your bun for full classical vibes ▫️ 📌【Handy Tips】 ▫️🎫 Free admission! ▫️⏰ Recommended visit: 2 hours. Early morning or dusk offers fewer crowds and magical lighting. ▫️🚇 Take Exit A from Bao Park Station on Metro Line 1, then a 5-minute walk to reach.

🌿 **Bao Gong Park | A Thousand-Year Cultural IP of an Honest Official, Unlock Your Hefei "Judge Bao" Themed Citywalk Guide** **🌟 Highlights** ✔️ **Bao Gong Theme Universe**: China's largest Bao Zheng cultural park, featuring a quartet of shrine/tomb/pavilion/alley that brings the Northern Song Dynasty's legal legacy to life ✔️ **Garden Aesthetics**: Summer lotus flowers featured on CCTV, 40 mu of lotus blossoms complementing dark tiles and vermillion railings ✔️ **Immersive Role-play**: NPCs dressed as court officers conduct trials, families with children can collect "Little Zhan Zhao" task cards **🗺️ Must-Visit Route** Bao Gong Shrine (see the original Dragon Head Guillotine) → Fuzhuang (photograph lotus in Hui-style garden) → Bao Gong Tomb (explore underground palace stone carvings) → Qingfeng Pavilion (view old city skyline from the top) **📸 Perfect Photo Spots** 1️⃣ **Nine-bend Bridge at Lotus Pond**: Wear Hanfu with a folding fan, wait for dragonflies to land on lotus buds 2️⃣ **Top floor of Qingfeng Pavilion**: Use telephoto lens to capture modern buildings framed with ancient pavilion, creating magical dialogue between past and present 3️⃣ **Red walls of Bao Gong Shrine**: Capture silhouettes in dappled light for maximum justice vibes **🚗 Transportation Tips** ▫️Subway: Exit D of Daoxianglou Station on Line 5, cross Galaxy Park to arrive ▫️Drive: Navigate to "Bao Gong Park South Parking Lot", 6 yuan/hour (arrive before 9am on weekends) **🍜 Culinary Justice** √ Bao Gong Pastry: Black sesame filling "Black-faced Bao Gong Pastry", 10 yuan/box as creative souvenir √ Red Bean Soup: From mobile stalls at park entrance, 5 yuan/bowl, better when chilled √ Li Hongzhang Hodgepodge: 15-minute walk to Ningguo Road, taste Hefei's famous dish **⚠️ Tips to Avoid Pitfalls** 🔸Combined ticket 50 yuan (includes 4 attractions), more expensive if bought separately 🔸Lotus season (June-August) enter before 8:00 for a private fairyland experience 🔸Qingfeng Pavilion elevator for elderly only, need to climb 7 floors of spiral stairs to reach top **✨ Poetic Touch** "When the guillotine's cold gleam reflects across the lotus pond, the pavilion's bronze bells still ring with the winds of the Northern Song Dynasty. This is not an illustration from a history book, but China's thousand-year dream of justice." 🔔 **Follow me to measure cultural DNA with your footsteps!**

On our second day in Hefei (Thursday, February 6th), we visited Bao Park - Hefei Health Theme Park, a place where our elderly family members once worked, studied, and lived. After leaving Nanqili, the Tiesiju Agency Compound, and the East Campus of the University of Science and Technology of China, and enjoying lunch at the unforgettable Lu Family Kitchen, a local restaurant hidden in the old streets, we went to Bao Park, located at 72 Wuhu Road, Baohe District. Bao Park is a National AAAA-level tourist attraction and health theme park. It stretches from Ma'anshan Road in the east to Huizhou Avenue in the west, borders Wuhu Road in the south, and faces the ring road in the north. It mainly consists of the Bao Gong Ancestral Temple, Bao Gong Tomb, Qingfeng Pavilion, and Fuzhuang. Bao Park is conveniently located and boasts a beautiful environment. The southeast corner of the park features a fitness area equipped with complete fitness facilities for residents' daily exercise. The 1,400-meter main road along the south bank of the Bao River also serves as a health trail. Along the way, various signs and markers promote "Three Reductions and Three Healths," mental health, moderate exercise, tobacco control, and disease prevention, fostering a healthy park culture and disseminating health knowledge. This provides citizens with a natural and relevant health education experience while they enjoy the park. Figures 1-2: Qingfeng Pavilion in Bao Park; As a landmark building in Bao Park, Qingfeng Pavilion attracts citizens to climb and enjoy the distant view with its simple and elegant design and magnificent appearance. Ascending to the top of the pavilion, one can enjoy a panoramic view of Hefei's cityscape and the entire Bao Park. Figures 3-9: Bao Gong Ancestral Temple in Bao Park; The Bao Xiaosu Ancestral Temple is a shrine dedicated to Bao Zheng, a famous upright official of the Northern Song Dynasty. It has a history of nearly a thousand years since its initial construction. The existing Bao Gong Ancestral Temple was restored by Li Hongzhang in 1882, with funding from his silver donations. After liberation, it underwent several renovations by the government and was designated as a "Key Cultural Relic Protection Unit" of Anhui Province in 1961. The Bao Gong Ancestral Temple houses a large number of precious cultural relics and historical materials related to Bao Zheng and his family. The temple currently includes a classical courtyard-style main hall, east and west side rooms, as well as Lianquan Well, Liufang Pavilion, the Bao Gong Story Wax Museum, and Huilan Xuan. Figure 7: Liufang Pavilion in Bao Gong Ancestral Temple; Liufang Pavilion was where Bao Zheng studied, rested, and played as a child. Later generations built the pavilion to admire Bao Zheng's noble character and praise his lasting fame. The three characters "Liufang Pavilion" were written by calligrapher Ge Jieping. Figure 8: Huilan Xuan in Bao Gong Ancestral Temple; Huilan Xuan uses various techniques such as Ou sculpture, inscriptions, calligraphy and painting, embroidery, and colored gold wood carving to depict Bao Zheng's life in detail, truly recreating his historical image, and showcasing the lineage of Bao Zheng's paternal ancestor Shen Baoxu and his family. Figure 9: Lianquan Well in Bao Gong Ancestral Temple; Lianquan Well, originally named Bao Gong Well, was renamed during the Guangxu reign. Li Guoheng's "Xiang Huadun Jing Ting Ji" records that a governor suffered from a severe headache after drinking water from this well. It was later discovered that he was a corrupt official. Therefore, the well was renamed Lianquan Well, meaning "the well of integrity," to express admiration for honest officials and disgust for corrupt officials. Figures 10-19: Various scenes in Bao Park; Figure 20: Entrance to Bao Park.

Fuzhuang is one of the landscapes of Baohe Park, located on the eastern islet of the park's waters. It consists of a classical garden landscape built with teahouses, winding pavilions, and pavilion bridges along the water. From a distance, the whole looks like a willow leaf floating on the water surface, and the buildings on the island resemble an ancient village, hence the name Fuzhuang. It was originally the Bao Gong Academy and was rebuilt in 1983.