Guyi Garden
Ming-era garden of bamboo groves and ponds, with a pavilion deliberately built missing one corner in protest.
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This guide to Guyi Garden in Shanghai starts with a small pavilion that looks unfinished, missing one of its four corners, and traces why local carpenters left it that way sometime in the 1930s. From there it goes back to the 1520s, when a Ming dynasty magistrate named Min Shiji hired the bamboo carver Zhu Sansong to lay out the grounds, and follows the garden through later owners who renamed and expanded it, including a merchant named Ye Jin in 1746. Listen for the ponds and teahouses near the pavilion, added by the residents who later took over the garden.
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