People's Park

This is a refreshing urban green space and a key hub for local social life. The park features peaceful Chinese-style pavilion, a large sparkling pond, gentle hills, colorful gardens, and sculptures. The Local Scene: Locals gather here daily to socialize and relax, enjoying tea, or even participating in group exercises, including line dancing and choreographed performances, contributing to the park's lively, bustling atmosphere. Major Highlight: Heming Teahouse The Heming Teahouse is essential for experiencing local, slow-paced tea culture. For an extra cost, visitors can watch the tea-pouring shows, where tea masters skillfully pour tea using long-spouted teapots from impressive angles. It's an one of its kind cultural demonstration. Spoiler alert: Hidden Gem: The Chengdu No.1 Air-Raid Shelter This is a hidden gem that often overlooked by most. This historical war museum originally built for civil defense, the shelter maintains a consistent 25°C year-round, making it a quiet and cool place to learn about wartime history. Accessibility: The park is easily accessible via People's Park Station on Line 2. Turn RIGHT at Exit B; the North Entrance is just a short walk away.

We spent 10 days in Chengdu as part of a international delegation showcasing basketry at the Intangible Cultural Heritage Festival. As such we had not much time to explore the city at all but on our last morning, before our transfers back to the airport we wanted to go out and spend some time in a "green" area. The Peoples park looked interesting and close to a subway station so we choose this one. It was a very hot day and as soon as we entered one of the lovely paved walkways the temperature dropped a few degrees. As "western" people we loved the way the whole park is centered around the big lake but also offers shaded bamboo groves, and even a wonderful Bonsai Garden. There were plenty of stalls to buy a refreshment and even tea gardens. There is also a kind of "marriage" grove were people can pin their classified ads on fences with their details and hope for love. Rather fascinating. We spent about 2 hours there and loved every minute.

Great place to walk and people watch. The park itself is beautiful, bustling with activities of all sorts; various performances, old people dancing, boating at the lake, etc.. The tea house was packed and unfortunately, we couldn't find a table so we just explored other areas. It was interesting to see the area where they post personal details on boards of men and women looking for a partner. Our guide translated some of them and the details include things like annual salaries, their properties, cars and some even have pictures on them. To be fair, according to our guide, most of the details are posted by the parents without the knowledge of their children 😀

Beautiful and living parc, you can see dances, playing people or just some parents looking after someone for their child, by marital ads. I'd recommend to test a tea house there, we were quite lucky to see different dancers in a show.

Very large parks with 2 tea house. Would recommend getting a long spout tea dance at one of the tea house. Tasty tea and a fun little show. The park was very busy when we visited, so maybe not as relaxing as it could be. But worth a visit

I really enjoyed spending a couple of hours in peoples park. A pretty lake, nice paths to walk around with some landmarks and a bonsai garden. Lovely to spend a couple hours in the Heming Tea House and have some tea by the water.

We came in the evening and it was raining. The lanterns looked very pretty. There were a few street sellers selling tea and other snacks.

Interesting place , so local feel, if you are not rush for other places, can spend a relax afternoon here.