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Beijing Grand View Garden is a classical garden built by the contemporaries
and modeled on what is described in the famous Chinese literary
classic "Hongloumeng" (A Dream of Red Mansions).
Garden artists named it as "Garden of
a Literary Masterpiece", while Hongloumeng scholars dubbed
it "Another Dream Out of the Dream of Red Mansions".
Covering an area of 125,000 square meters, the Garden embraces
12 scenic spots with 40 scenic attractions in total. Its main
buildings include Yihongyuan(Cheerful Red Court), Xiaoxiangguan(Bamboo
Lodge), Daoxiangcun(Paddy Fragrance Cottage) etc.
During the Spring Festival every year, a gala
party is held in the Garden to see in the Lunar New Year, at which
the grand ceremony of "Lady Jia, the Imperial Concubine Visiting
her Relatives Back Home" is rehearsed.
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