Baihuatan Park
Flower-and-bonsai garden centered on a legendary pond where a monk's washed robe is said to have bloomed into lotus blossoms.
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This guide to Baihuatan Park in Chengdu opens with a Song-dynasty legend: a sick, filthy wandering monk arrives at the door of a poor young woman named Ren, who agrees to wash his robe in the creek that runs past her home. It follows what happens in the water as she works the cloth, and how the pond and creek here came to carry their names. The guide then turns to how Chengdu remembered Ren herself, a woman said to have armed the city's defenders against a rebel general in the year seven hundred sixty-eight, and to a shrine that still stands in her honor near Du Fu's Thatched Cottage.
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