I Found a Chinese Garden That Looks Like a Lost Imperial City | Hualin Garden

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Recorded in August 2026.
Hualin Garden in Dezhou, Shandong
Hualin Garden, officially known as Quancheng EuroPark Hualin Garden Scenic Area, is located in Qihe County, Dezhou, Shandong Province, beside the Yellow River and close to Jinan.

Opened to the public on April 22, 2026, Hualin Garden is a newly developed cultural tourism destination combining traditional Chinese architecture, classical gardens, cultural exhibitions, traditional arts, and immersive performances. The project reportedly took around ten years to develop.

What makes Hualin Garden particularly interesting is that it is not simply a traditional-style theme park. Instead, it attempts to bring together architectural styles from different periods of Chinese history in one enormous garden.

A Journey Through China's Architectural History

One of the highlights of Hualin Garden is its collection of reconstructed historical buildings.

Visitors can see buildings inspired by different periods, including the Lingyun Terrace from the Cao Wei period, the Yongning Temple Pagoda from the Northern Wei Dynasty, the Linde Hall and Hanyuan Hall from the Tang Dynasty, the Ming Hall associated with Empress Wu Zetian, and palace buildings from the Song and Yuan dynasties.

In this sense, Hualin Garden can be viewed almost as an open-air museum of traditional Chinese architecture.

Instead of looking at historical buildings only through photographs, paintings, archaeological remains, or textbooks, visitors can walk around large-scale reconstructions and experience their proportions, roofs, courtyards, terraces, corridors, and surrounding landscapes.


🔻Chapters:
00:00 Highlights
02:17 Entrance Gate
05:34 View from the City Wall
11:30 Minghuang Summer Palace
23:48 Seventeen-Arch Bridge
26:33 Baojin Tower & Yongning Temple Pagoda
29:58 Water Heart Hall
34:16 Daqing Hall
42:28 Zongzhang Ming Hall
49:11 Daqing Hall
57:05 Linde Hall
01:00:42 Daming Hall
01:07:21 Five-Dragon Pavilions
01:09:51 Hanyuan Hall
01:23:55 View from the City Tower
01:26:45 Five Hundred Arhats Hall

🗺️Map:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/i1izhyM4i6NpW...

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📷 DJI Pocket 4P