Taiziwan Park
Riverside gardens on dredged lakeside land, favored by newlyweds for wedding photos amid springtime tulips.
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This guide to Taiziwan Park in Hangzhou asks why couples in Hangzhou choose this patch of grass, beneath a windmill imported in spirit from Holland, to promise forever. It follows the ground beneath it from a Southern Song burial bay for two young princes, through decades as a dumping site for lake silt dredged between 1952 and the 1970s, to the summer of 1988, when landscapers reshaped that silt into lawns. You'll hear how the park opened the following year and quickly earned a reputation as Hangzhou's earliest wedding park, with a church built purely for photographs and a post office for letters to the future. Watch for a bride adjusting her train near Wangshanping Grassland, where the photographers gather.
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