Renmin Park - An Ideal Stage to Know Chengdu Local Leisure Life

Drink Tea Like the Locals

In fact, for most tourists (including domestic tourists), a must-do in Renmin Park is ordering a cup of tea and spend one afternoon in the park, just have peaceful time in doing nothing but relaxing. This is the perfect place to experience the local life of Chengdu people, and until you spend some time in here, you’ll understand why Chengdu is called the “Land of Ease”. There are many tea houses in the park, and you can enjoy a cup of green tea at a good price. Among all the tea houses, Heming Tea House (鹤鸣茶社) is the most famous one. Heming Tea House is the best-preserved and largest tea house in the park, and it has a history nearly a hundred year. Besides drinking tea, you can also play Mahjong and enjoy traditional Ear Treatment. The tea house will also serve famous snacks of Chengdu to customers, like Zhong Dumpling and House Special Pancake.

Watch Virous Local Daily Activities

Renmin Park often serves as a free and open place for local seniors to enjoy leisure. It's really interesting and novel to see men and women doing lots of featured amusements, soak in the ambient by watching aunts dancing and singing, the old playing Tai Chi, chess, Qigong, cards, Mahjong, musical instruments, painting on fans, etc. Try the traditional ear cleaning if you are interested in. Another character of Renmim Park is the "Chinese Matchmaking Cornor" where the old post photos and bios of their unmarried son/daughter to find his/her soulmate. They use this old way, instead of online date app to look for right person. A perculiar phenomenon might be only seen in China!

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Get to Renmin Park by Our Private Tour (Top Recommended)

If you want to get rid of hustle of public transportation, troublesome navigation and language communication, you can book a private tour package from China Discovery which covers sightseeing, dining and transfer from us. Our local tour guide and driver will escort you to Renmin Park and other attractions with speed and convenience, and take care of all the details. You just need to focus on sightseeing.

The short distance and convenient transportation makes it's popular to visit the downtown scenic spots together with Renmin Park. By which, you can view different types of sites and better know the local culture and history.

Kuanzhai Alley: It is a famous tourist attractions consisting of three historic paralleled alleys from Qing dynasty. A quiet old-style block amidst bustling city center. You can see ancient style buildings, local Chengdu life, taste delicious Sichuan snacks, exquisite Sichuan handicrafts and other representative cultural elements there.

Jinli Old Street: Jinli is something like Muslim Quarter in Xian, where locals and tourists assemble to eat multiple local snacks and food. When lighting the lamps, the night view is very beautiful. Here you can also find gift shops and souveniors.

Du Fu Thatched Cottage: The cottage is the former residence of China's great poet, Du Fu, a notable realistic poet of Tang Dynasty. In this four year's living here, he wrote more than 240 poems and added fresh vitality to Chengdu's culture. Visiting the cottage helps you learn more about Chinese poetry in a serene idyllic house.

Jinsha Site Museum: As a national museum, Jinsha Site Museum displays fantastic cultural relis revealing Chengdu's long history and brilliant civilization.

Chengdu is most known as "the Land of Abundance" in China, with three most representative brands: Giant Panda, leisure life and delicious food. Actually, there are more charm hidden in and around Chengdu, including the "Three Kingdom Culture", Sanxingdui civilization, brilliant UNESCO World Herigates. Once you come to Chengdu, you don't want to leave after you really into it.

During your Chengdu city tour, you can visit the Chengdu Panda Base in the morning to see the cute pandas, and visit other attractions in downtown, such as Jinli Old Street, Kuanzhai Alley, Jinsha Site Museum, Chunxi Road, etc. Like local experience? Try a afternoon tea time in Renmin Park, or watch a Sichuan Opera Show in Shufeng Yayun Opera House, enjoy a cooking class in Sichuan Cuisine Museum. Your Chengdu tour can be interesting and relaxing.

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√ 1 Day Chengdu Panda Tour

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With more time, travel beyond the city center to nearby Leshan to watch Leshan Giant Buddha and hike the Mount Emei, even you can go further to northwestern Sichuan to Jiuzhaigou Valley and western Sichuan for less-tourist but amazing beautiful scenery. China is vast and rich land, which offers a great variety of great destinations to travel with Chengdu. Therefore, you can expand your trip to Beijing - capital of China, Shanghai - modern metropolis, and Xian - time-honored ancient capital to have a deeper understanding of China.

★ Recommended Tours including Chengdu:

√ 7 Days Sichuan Discovery Tour (Chengdu / Leshan / Emei / Chengdu / Jiuzhaigou)

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