Tazishan Park

This guide to Tazishan Park in Chengdu traces the hill's decades as a working tree nursery, opened in nineteen fifty-six to grow seedlings for the city's new streets. It follows how off-duty workers began cooking over open fires among the seedling beds through the nineteen seventies, turning a production ground into Chengdu's oldest recorded picnic spot. You'll hear how the city eventually had to decide whether the hill belonged to plants or to people. Listen for the story of nursery workers who claimed this ground long before anyone called it a park.