Where to Play in Shanghai in Winter

Speaking of Shanghai, everyone knows that there are many places to visit in this city, not only scenic spots but also amusement parks. Now that winter has arrived, where is the best place to play in Shanghai in this cold winter? Today, the editor will share with you some good places to play in Shanghai in winter!

1、Yuyuan Garden

Shanghai Yuyuan Garden is a typical and famous classical Jiangnan garden. The Yuyuan Lantern Festival is a characteristic of Yuyuan’s winter tourism. From the middle and lower half of the twelfth lunar month every year to the middle and lower half of the first lunar month of the next year, the annual grand “Yuyuan Lantern Festival” will be held for nearly a month. During this period, it includes the Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Valentine’s Day, etc. The Yuyuan Spring Festival Folk Art Lantern Festival has been included in the national intangible cultural heritage project, becoming the most famous and influential traditional folk cultural event in Shanghai during the Spring Festival, and also the place with the most Chinese New Year flavor in Shanghai every year during the Spring Festival. The theme of the lantern festival is different every year. The beautiful lanterns, lanterns of various shapes, and lanterns from the Sui, Tang, Song, Ming, and Qing dynasties, let you experience the characteristics of lanterns from different dynasties. In addition to the beautiful and magnificent lantern exhibition, guessing riddles and enjoying folk customs are indispensable, allowing tourists to experience folk customs for the Chinese New Year.

Address: Yuyuan Old Street, Huangpu District, Shanghai

2、Shanghai Botanical Garden

The Shanghai Botanical Garden holds several large-scale flower exhibitions with different themes every year. Every winter, there are winter New Year’s flower exhibitions, spring flower exhibitions, winter plum blossom exhibitions, etc. The Shanghai Botanical Garden is a frequent visitor to flower viewing throughout the year. As the earliest blooming flowers in the year, wax plum is the earliest place in Shanghai where you can see the most beautiful plum blossoms. The Shanghai Botanical Garden has not only a large number of wax plums, but also the most varieties in Shanghai. There are more than a dozen varieties of wax plums, with different postures and fragrant aromas. The best time to enjoy wax plums is from December to January. In addition to wax plums, the Botanical Garden has a rich variety of plum blossoms, including 60 varieties such as palace powder, cinnabar, Longyou, and green calyx. For example, “Jade Butterfly Longyou Plum” with peculiar branches, “Jin Hong Hanging Branches” of hanging branches of cinnabar plum, “Double Green Hanging Branches” of green calyx, the best viewing time is from January to February. There are also cross-year flower exhibitions, spring flower exhibitions, cold orchid exhibitions, etc. at the beginning of the year.

Address: 1111 Longwu Road, Xuhui District, Shanghai

3、Shanghai Century Park

Century Park has a plum blossom scenic area covering nearly 50,000 square meters, with more than 3,000 wax plums, making it one of the largest plum blossom viewing destinations in Shanghai. The wax plums here include red plum, green plum, pink plum, white plum, straight plum, vertical plum, Longyou plum, and other 30 or so varieties of wax plum. Moreover, most of them are fine varieties grafted by humans, which are very ornamental! The best time to enjoy the flowers is from December to January. In addition to wax plums, the “Xiaoyudie”, “Gongfen” and other early plum varieties in the Century Plum Garden, the early spring red plum is also in bud, presenting the beautiful scenery of “double plum vying for beauty”. Especially during the Spring Festival, more than 4,000 plum blossoms in Century Park will bloom in competition, bringing a spring visual feast for tourists. The best time to enjoy the flowers is from February to March. In the Winter Garden of the park, every winter, the park is full of kumquats, wax petals are fragrant, Daphne odora is luxuriant, Symplocos paniculata is prosperous, Ardisia crenata shows the beauty of four seasons, camellia contains five-color flowers, especially pine bones, bamboo rhyme, and plum wind are all present.

Address: 1001 Jinxiu Road, Pudong New Area, Shanghai

4、Guyi Garden

Guyi Garden is one of the five classical gardens in Shanghai. For dozens of days after New Year’s Day every year, it is the best time to enjoy wax plum in Shanghai Guyi Garden, lasting until the beginning of February. As the saying goes, “Ordinary window moon, there is plum blossom is different.” The plum blossom first opens, and the faint fragrance that emerges from the cold wind is refreshing and slightly sweet. Take slow steps on the stone path inlaid with plum blossoms, stand thoughtfully in front of the plum blossom hall with vermilion doors and white walls, and trace the past and present in the five-curved corridor of the plum blossom stele gallery. Every winter, Guyi Garden will hold New Year’s Garden Party, spring welcome activities, such as plum blossom exhibition, orchid exhibition, New Year’s Temple Fair, New Year’s folk activities, Lantern Festival riddles and other wonderful activities.

Address: 218 Huayi Road, Nanxiang Town, Jiading District, Shanghai