Title: Looking at the three bridges!
[There are so many bridges in the Water Expo Park coming from all over the country. Due to various reasons, the bridges were to be demolished. The Expo Park did a good thing by purchasing stone bridges, transferring them here, and rebuilding and installing them to restore their original appearance.]

It is a key tourism project in the suburbs of Shanghai City. It is located at No. 3805 Jiangchuan Road, Minhang District, Shanghai City. It is a water ecological garden built by 3000 villagers in Pengdu Village, Maqiao Town, Minhang District to protect the safety of Shanghai's drinking water intakes. It covers an area of 400 acres and is adjacent to the Huangpu River.

It is an ancient bridge museum, a protected area for ancient trees, and a rare classical garden in Shanghai that gathers water, bridges, pavilions, terraces, buildings, pavilions, trees, flowers, grass and wood. On March 7, 2013, we came to this park. What a lot of emotion. Browse the thoughts of the Youshui Expo Park left by other netizens online. Unexpectedly, I found that many messages were related to "mood". For example:
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1/I heard a friend talk about this place, but I never had time to come here. I saw this place on the Internet last time, and I also saw some pictures and information about it. I felt very good. It was a place worth visiting. I came here with my friends on weekends when I had nothing to do. The place was not very big, and not many people came here. It was antique, with bridges, pavilions, and rivers. In general, it was a place with a Jiangnan flavor. The air was clear and the environment was beautiful. If coming here when you are in a bad mood is really a good choice...
2/There are quite a lot of attractions here. The environment is quite good. I really like to hang out here. I often accompany my girlfriend here for a walk. I also like to come here when I am unhappy. Walking alone, I feel relaxed and enjoy it quite quietly.
3/I really like the scenery here and occasionally come here to relax. There are many attractions here, and each attraction has a historical story, so it is quite attractive. Walking around, I feel like a small bridge and flowing water. Looking at the slowly flowing water, my mood will become relaxed and I feel very free and relaxed. There was also a pavilion and attic for us to visit. I always felt very artistic. When I returned to the costume drama, the feeling of playing the piano and composing poems in the pavilion was really poetic.
When I read the above words, I became suspicious: When will I be "in a bad mood" and when will I be "unhappy"?
Of course, there will be times when I am in a bad mood or unhappy mood, but those are fleeting things and I don't need to go to a secluded place with beautiful scenery to slowly relieve myself.
There are few tourists wandering around the Water Expo Park. It is indeed a good place where you can straighten your thoughts and think far ahead. The Water Expo Park consists of an ancient ecological park, an ancient cultural park and a rural sightseeing park. The ancient ecological park has rivers, ancient bridges, ancient trees, landscape stones, and antique buildings as its main components, and has a simple, natural and wild style. There are more than 600 ancient trees over a century old in the park, and 25 relocated ancient bridges. There are also two popular science venues built in the park. The ancient cultural park focuses on the excavation and display of Huangpu River water culture, Maqiao ancient culture and Maqiao historical and cultural celebrities. It has built the Maqiao Ancient Cultural Site Simulation Museum and Dong Qichang Painting Academy. The rural sightseeing park has modern agricultural sightseeing, display of farm life and local culture along the Huangpu River, and farm leisure and entertainment as its main functions. It has an agricultural ecological display area, a river bank village exhibition hall, an aquatic cash crop park, a fruit tree planting area, a fishing area, and shopping and leisure. Eight major projects including street, farm resort, and agricultural science and technology exhibition hall.

When we walked into the ancient ecological park, which had been basically completed, we saw patches of ancient trees in the forest, some towering, some old, or new branches, ginkgo, camphor, crape myrtle, papaya, golden osmanthus, and double-section white wax, red beech, white beech, melon seeds and boxwood, each leading the way and complementing each other, forming a vigorous, deep and vibrant ancient ecological picture.

Accompanied by the ancient trees are huge rocks with vivid images, various shapes, taken from different regions, weighing dozens of tons or hundreds of tons: Taihu Lake Stone, Sanjiang Red, Stalactite, Volcanic Stone, Lingbi Stone. Some are like majestic peaks, some are like fairies reading in the morning, some are like Tathagata meditating, some are like great roc wings, and some are more like sails on a long voyage, giving people a sigh of extraordinary craftsmanship.

Nearly 50 ancient and antique bridges are gathered or scattered in various corners of the park. The five-hole Hanxiang Bridge, the single-hole Xiangjing Bridge, the three-hole Xingshi Bridge, as well as the cross-beam flat bridge, curved bridge, covered bridge, each bridge has a history and a story, making people seem to be accompanying history and walking with the ancients in the garden. The promenades and pavilions between small bridges and flowing water in the park are all made of gray bricks and black tiles. The vermilion carved wooden lattice doors and windows and the green brick floor demonstrate the brilliance of traditional buildings everywhere.

The lake water in the entire ancient ecological park is closely related to the ancient bridge, the ancient bridge is connected to the pavilions, the pavilions are interdependent with ancient trees, and the ancient trees are accompanied by flowers and plants. It is a simple, harmonious and wild garden scenery. If you are in it, you can sit by the window in the teahouse by the lake, sip the fragrant tea and enjoy the spring scenery of the lake, or you can stroll in the bamboo forest, rest in the pavilion, and fish on the shore. How comfortable it is. Enjoy. The ancient cultural park consists of the Maqiao Ancient Cultural Site Simulation Hall, the Huangpu River Historical and Cultural Exhibition Hall, the Dong Qichang Painting Academy, the Huangpu Stone Forest, the local historical and cultural celebrity memorial hall, and the clan ancestral hall as the main components. The Maqiao area is the location of the Maqiao Ancient Culture Site. The Maqiao Ancient Culture began 3900 years ago and ended 3200 years ago. It is distributed in the area around Taihu Lake and is an important historical material for studying Shanghai's history. The simulation museum will truly show the lifestyle of the ancestors of Maqiao Culture and the geographical features of the Maqiao Site through imitation methods. The Huangpu River is Shanghai's mother river. The Huangpu River has a history of more than 2000 years from its excavation during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Period to its basic formation during the Yongle Period of the Ming Dynasty. The Huangpu River History and Culture Exhibition Hall will systematically introduce the formation of the Huangpu River and its governance. Historical figures who have made outstanding contributions and historical events, documents, cultural relics, etc. related to the Huangpu River water system, including memorials to the emperor by historical celebrities such as Fan Zhongyan, Hai Rui, and Lin Zexu at that time. The inscriptions on the governance project and lyrical poems and prose show people the depth of history and the wisdom of our ancestors, remembering our ancestors and warning future generations. The ancient cultural park will be equipped with ancient trees, ancient bridges, and antique buildings to create an atmosphere of ancient culture, restore the space of ancient culture, and allow excellent traditional culture to continue and carry forward. The rural cultural and leisure park will use the Jiangan Village Exhibition Hall, farmhouse leisure resort, fields, orchards, and fish ponds as spaces, traditional festivals as carriers, and folk customs, folk customs, and folk art as content, allowing visitors to experience the traditional farmhouse pastoral life and fully experience the local customs and farming culture of the river bank. It has a deep meaning and joy.

During the process of visiting the Water Expo Park, it was not difficult for us to touch the concept and ideas of building the Water Expo Park, and we were excited and moved by it. Backed by 5,000 years of history, with the purpose of exploring, inheriting and continuing the long history and culture of the Chinese nation, and by searching and gathering specific objects that contain cultural connotations and bear historical imprints, we will strengthen the connotation, implement retrogression, and create an ecological garden with ancient customs and ancient charm. This is the park building concept of the decision makers of the Water Expo Park. In other words, taking history as the axis, going backwards, and forwards, gathering thousands of year-old stones, thousands of year-old ancient trees, and century-old ancient bridges in the Hanxiang Water Expo Park in a way of protection in other places, and through them to show people The vicissitudes of time, the magic of nature and the depth of traditional culture. In this sense, retrogression is a kind of progress, a kind of return and inheritance, and an effort and exploration to retrieve the lost natural ecology and traditional culture.