Wangjianglou Park
Riverside bamboo garden of over two hundred species built around a Tang dynasty poet's memorial pavilions and a well long, wrongly, credited to her.
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This guide to Wangjianglou Park in Chengdu centers on a stone-marked spot called Xue Tao Well, named for a Tang dynasty poet, one of the four most celebrated women writers of her age, who supposedly drew water there to make delicate paper for her verses. It traces her life in Chengdu around the turn of the ninth century, entertaining governors and poets, being exiled over bribe money, and writing her way back into favor. You'll hear why the legend around this well may not be as old as the sign suggests, and wander the riverside garden's more than two hundred species of bamboo that she genuinely loved. Look closely at the carved name before you decide how much of it to believe.
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