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Dongpo Park

 Right next to the Jiu Hua temple is Dongpo Park. This was an added bonus of our day excursion as we didn't know it was there.  

It was a wonderful little park and thankfully very shaded because it was so hot.

What we did there:

Explored rock formations

Watched pictures being taken then took a few ourselves

Visited the 'Pavilion of Expressing Feelings to Moon' and gave our regards to the moon the best we knew how....

 Visited the Ink Stone Washing Pool: These are poems written on stone circa 1080 AD by Su Shi and preserved in stone overlooking a small secluded pool. 

Google doesn't work especially well in China.  Not because it doesn't work, but because it's not available for the Chinese to use it, so the availability of information of local attractions is very limited.  From what I can tell this man, Su Shi, traveled China and made a couple of stops in Changzhou and wrote these poems.  They don't translate well to English, but they must be really grand in Chinese! 

And once we got home and started looking for more about that little park, we learned that we only saw part of it and what we missed had some pretty cool features, so we may have to go back sometime.

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  1. AnneMarieJuly 6, 2022 at 10:55 AM

    Great bonus to your adventure. I hope you do get to go back :)

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