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Best cafes to be found during coffee festival

The Changning Coffee Culture Festival will officially start on April 28. This year’s Coffee Culture Festival brings a variety of activities to citizens and tourists, including flea markets, band performances, coffee story series activities, coffee drama festivals, and the second “Treasure Café” selection. At that time, there will be an interesting combination of “coffee” and “travel”.

The Changning Cultural and Tourism Bureau has hosted two Changning Coffee Culture Festivals since 2021, creating a characteristic session of “Treasure Café”. 

By combining online and offline methods, the first “Top 10 Treasure Cafés” with their own characteristics and charm have been selected, enriching the unique coffee culture atmosphere in Changning.

The Changning Coffee Culture Festival this year looks forward to more “coffee enthusiasts” to experience the coffee culture genes of Changning together.

Peony Carnival features Kunqu Opera, Hanfu cosplay

The Peony Carnival in Zhongshan Park officially kicked off on April 8, attracting many people. Visitors enjoy the charm of Zhongshan Park in the Peony Garden, admiring flowers, visiting the garden, listening to Kunqu Opera, and strolling the flea market.

According to Xing Jianhua, a gardener of Zhongshan Park, the peonies in Zhongshan Park bloomed earlier this year and are currently in full bloom, and with a flowering period of about two weeks. 

In addition to admiring peonies, the garden party also has many exciting activities that make visitors linger and forget to return. In the Peony Garden, the excerpt from Kunqu Opera “Peony Pavilion” is one of the highlights of this event. 

“Watching the performance of “Peony Pavilion” in the Peony Garden is really a pleasure, and this kind of activity is really good,” said a visitor surnamed Wang, a citizen. “I came early today to experience the charm of Kunqu opera on site,” Wang added.

A woman surnamed Sun, who lives in Gubei, invited two neighbors who are also Hanfu (traditional clothing of the Chinese Han majority) enthusiasts to visit the park together. 

They wore different styles of Hanfu and meticulously put on representative Han (206 BC–AD 220) and Tang (AD 618-907) makeup, transforming into the most beautiful “peony fairy” in the Peony Garden.

Purple cloud alike wisteria flowers in full bloom

Spring and sunshine are beautiful, and wisteria flowers bloom in the ecological greenway to the west of the Outer Ring Road in Changning. Clusters of wisteria flowers hang down, looking like a purple cloud from afar, adding a touch of brilliant color to spring.

Two more complexes to lead city trend

On the former site of Shanghai Feilo Acoustics Co Ltd, WYSH翡悦里 is expected to open to the public later this year. 

With the theme of “music, art, and trend”, the commercial complex will be an innovative lifestyle landmark in the city. 

It will introduce businesses with innovative concepts and great potential, and at the same time, hold periodic art themed exhibitions to bring about the cross boundary between the art industry and commercial culture, building a platform for creative ecology.

Not far away, a boutique complex that integrates hotel, commerce, and office will appear at the intersection of Changning Road, Yuyuan Road and Dingxi Road, next to the interchange of Metro Line 2, 3 and 4, and on the opposite of the centennial Zhongshan Park.

Cultural square highlights Changning’s night

The landscape lighting project of Haisu Cultural Square is completed.

Haisu Cultural Square, as an important cultural, commercial, and artistic gathering place in Changning District, connects public venues and transportation hubs such as the Liu Haisu Art Museum, Haisu Green Space, Tianshan Park, and Metro Line 3 and 4. 

In the overall night scene design, combined with the facade design of Haisu Cultural Square, with the meaning of mountains and stones, it echoes with the Liu Haisu Art Museum to jointly build a cultural landmark with “undulating mountains.” 

The highest brightness is on the roof of the building, followed by the entrances and exits, and the lowest brightness is on the green landscape. Landscape lighting is used to maximize the coordination and integration of all blocks.

Edited by Shanghai Daily