Park
Grand View Garden
12 Nan Cai Yuan Jie, Xi Cheng Qu, 100054
Full-scale garden recreated from an eighteenth-century novel, with over forty courtyards, pavilions and bamboo groves.
This guide to Grand View Garden in Beijing follows the two-hundred-year gap between fiction and stone: the garden was first imagined by Cao Xueqin in his 1750s novel Dream of the Red Chamber, then built for real in 1984 when Chinese television needed a set to film it. You'll walk past the Enjoyment Red Hall and Bamboo Lodge, homes in the story to its two best-known characters, and hear how the production crew's bricklayers worked straight from the novel's own descriptions.
Audio guides are written and narrated by AI.