Lingnan Park

　　    The site was originally farmland. In 1984, it was developed as a park to complement the construction of the eastern section of Pengpu New Village. The overall planning and design were overseen by Zhuang Wei from the Shanghai Landscape Architecture Design Institute, and the construction was carried out by the Shanghai Landscape Engineering Company. On March 9, 1989, when the then Secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China visited the construction site to participate in a tree-planting event, he inscribed the name of the park. It officially opened to the public on October 1 of the same year.

　　    The park adopts a naturalistic layout adapted to the local terrain, with slight modifications to create varied topography. The entire park features lawns as the main element, utilizing existing ponds and water systems to form streams, along which teahouses, zigzag bridges, and waterside pavilions are built. The water surface is divided by small islands and peninsulas, while the land is segmented and framed by vegetation and platforms.

　　    The Twin Pavilion Flower Stand is located outside the southwest gate of the park. The flower stand measures 13 meters in length, 12 meters in width, and 1 meter in height, covering an area of 156 square meters, with retaining walls made of brick and coated with cement. The stand is planted with five-needle pines, podocarpus, fatsia, Chinese redbud, and palms, interspersed with scarlet sage at the base for contrast. The southern side is covered with a large expanse of calendula flowers, edged with dollarweed turf. At the center of the flower stand is a small white structure resembling a pavilion but not quite, entirely constructed from reinforced concrete. The pavilion stands 4.6 meters tall, roofless, formed by four pillars supporting three staggered layers of square frames, creating a unique design.

　　    The Platform Sculpture is situated inside the main gate of the park. The trapezoidal platform is 1 meter high, and 25 meters long by 22 meters wide, with steps on all four sides for access. The platform floor is paved with granite, as are the surrounding walls. At the center of the platform is a flower bed measuring 6.2 meters long, 5.5 meters wide, and 0.10 meters high, planted with ornamental flowers. Within the flower bed stands a sculpture of the emblem of the Architectural Society, a bronze upward-pointing cross with a square candleholder (0.38 meters per side) at the center and at each of the four tips. The sculpture is 1.4 meters tall, resting on a yellow ceramic tile-faced base that is 0.42 meters high. Seven sets of cement benches are arranged on the east, west, and north sides of the platform. Flower stands are built around the platform, planted with junipers, phoenix junipers, boxwood balls, dwarf boxwoods, camellias, and roses.

　　    The Large Lawn is located in the central-southern part of the park, connected to the platform to the southwest and adjacent to the stream to the north, covering an area of about 6,800 square meters. The lawn slopes naturally from south to north toward the stream and is planted with tiger grass. Six tree stands surround the lawn, featuring evergreen trees such as cedar, dragon juniper, palm, camphor, photinia, osmanthus, bayberry, boxwood balls, and camellia, with scattered silk trees along the edges. The southwestern side of the lawn features a cedar tree stand with a row of tall, north–south aligned cedars.

　　    The Floral Season Pavilion is located in the central-western part of the park, bordering the stream to the east and connecting to the large lawn to the south. The pavilion is constructed from reinforced concrete, square in shape with a flat roof, featuring a protruding drainage trough at the center of the eaves. It covers an area of 25 square meters. The four corners of the pavilion are supported by trapezoidal stone slabs faced with red stone, each 1.2 meters wide at the bottom and 3.25 meters wide at the top, fanning outwards in a V-shape. The interior floor is paved with alternating layers of honed granite and flamed granite, with the outer ring inlaid with white terrazzo and copper strips. Four low white terrazzo seats are arranged in an arc. To the east of the pavilion, by the stream, there is a set of circular stone tables and benches. The western side of the pavilion is planted with metasequoia, ligustrum, and deutzia. To the south are crape myrtle and boxwood balls.

　　    The Moon Pavilion is located in the northwest part of the park. The pavilion is white, of mixed construction, with a flat roof, covering an area of 112.8 square meters. To the north of the pavilion is a 1.3-meter-high reinforced concrete wall, and in the middle of the pavilion is a 1.8-meter-high curved wall with a round lattice window. To the east is a platform extending over the water, surrounded by metal railings. Three sets of tables and benches are placed on the terrazzo floor of the platform. To the west of the pavilion is a mixed forest of ligustrum and camphor.

　　    The Park Lake and Fitness Island: The park lake consists of two pools, north and south, connected by a 25-meter-long stream. The southern pool is located in the central part of the park, wider in the east and narrower in the west, covering an area of about 5,000 square meters; the northern pool is in the northwest corner, roughly elliptical, covering about 1,500 square meters. Between the two pools, a peninsula is formed in the western part of the park, planted with metasequoia, Japanese cryptomeria, cherry blossom plum, lilac, deutzia, hibiscus, China rose, and hydrangea shrubs. A stone arch bridge spans the stream in the northeastern part of the peninsula, connecting it to the opposite bank. The Fitness Island is located at the western end of the southern pool, dumbbell-shaped from east to west, covering an area of about 400 square meters. The island is encircled by stone embankments and planted with weeping willows, along with metasequoia, narrow-leaved mahonia, cherry blossom plum, and China rose.

　　    The Zigzag Bridge is located on the eastern shore of the southern pool. The bridge is right-angled in shape, made of reinforced concrete, 20 meters long and 2 meters wide. There are three diamond-shaped concrete frames on the bridge, each 4.5 meters high. At the north end of the eastern side of the bridge is a roofless pavilion, made of reinforced concrete, 4 meters high, consisting of four pillars and four beams forming a pyramidal open-top structure. The northern end of the bridge connects to a polygonal platform extending into the pool, edged with metal railings. On the platform is a square pavilion with a pointed roof, made of reinforced concrete, covering an area of 8 square meters. There are three cement benches between the pillars, with a square stone table in the center. Behind the platform are planted crape myrtle, crabapple, and roses.

　　    The Children’s Playground is located in the southeastern part of the park, covering an area of 1,080 square meters. The playground is equipped with amusement facilities such as electric motorcycles, rocking horses, and mini trains. Additionally, there are 10 pedal cars for use on a 400-meter-long elevated track, and 20 electric toy boats in the pool.

　　    The Teahouse is located behind the platform on the eastern shore of the southern pool. Its layout resembles two overlapping irregular geometric shapes, built with mixed construction, in a creamy yellow color, covering an area of 372 square meters. The interior has a glass ceiling, making it spacious and bright. The surrounding outdoor area is planted with cedar, camphor, magnolia, podocarpus, palm, Distylium racemosum, lilac, osmanthus, St. John's wort, and hydrangea trees and shrubs.