Follow the ten "most Shanghai" cultural relic-themed trails to experience the city's highlights during the Dragon Boat Festival holiday

This year's Dragon Boat Festival holiday coincides with China's Cultural and Natural Heritage Day. The Shanghai Municipal Culture and Tourism Bureau has deeply explored Shanghai's historical and cultural resources and linked up cultural relics, buildings, famous attractions, intangible cultural heritage experiences, etc. based on the type of cultural relics, value characteristics and geographical location. Lines and beads are strung into chains to create the first batch of ten cultural relic-themed trails with distinctive themes and characteristics.

Following these ten cultural relic-themed tour trails, citizens and tourists can explore the earliest birthplace of Shanghai, taste the "most Shanghai" classic architecture, and experience the most exciting and diverse urban culture. During the Dragon Boat Festival holiday, choose a few themed trails that interest you, invite your family and friends, and go for a walk together!

Introduction: Shanghai, with a history of six thousand years, has transformed into a modern international metropolis through historical vicissitudes and cultural exchanges and mutual learning. Only when you look back at history can you travel far. This journey of finding your roots will take you through six thousand years.

Route: Shanghai Songze Site Museum → Qingpu Museum → Zhujiajiao Ancient Town → Fuquanshan Site → Qinglong Town Site

Introduction: Take an outing in Shanghai, visit old buildings that carry historical memories, and learn about the city’s most profound heritage. This trail is especially suitable for the spring and summer seasons. The classical gardens are full of greenery and the trail is full of flowers, giving it the most Jiangnan charm.

Route: Jiading Confucius Temple → Guyi Garden → Zuibai Pond → Fangta Garden

Introduction: Enter the origin of Shanghai city, taste the city’s past, and interpret the code of urban development; enter the old city of Shanghai and look for the Shanghainese’s urban customs and emotional memories. This route has old buildings, Shikumen, and full of childhood memories.

Route: Yu Garden → Shanghai Concert Hall → Big World Amusement Park → Shanghai Sports Building → International Hotel → Shanghai History Museum → Zhang Garden

Introduction: Check out Shanghai’s classic red attractions, experience the history and development of red culture, and relive the party’s struggle. Let’s work together to create a better future and measure the city’s most glorious red road with our footsteps.

Route: Memorial Hall of the First Congress of the Communist Party of China → Zhou Mansion → Sun Yat-sen’s Former Residence → Yuyangli → Memorial Hall of the Second National Congress of the Communist Party of China → Mao Zedong’s Former Residence

Introduction: The campus, which has been tempered and baptized by hundreds of years, is still full of vitality, cultivating generations of students. This route is especially suitable for big hands holding small hands. The memories of a generation’s schooling will be passed down continuously during the stroll back to campus.

Route: Historical buildings of East China University of Political Science and Law → Changning District Children’s Palace → Yuyuan Road Historical and Cultural Reserve → Qian Xuesen’s former residence → Shanghai Federation of Literary and Art Circles office building → China Welfare Association Children’s Palace

6. The most Shanghai, from industrial rust belt to life show belt

Introduction: The glorious industrial heritage is revitalized. Everywhere on both sides of the river is feasible and beautiful. The historical memory of a century-old industrial civilization is once again activated. The factory built on the water has been transformed into a fashionable district, lighting up your riverside trip.

Route: Former site of Yesong Shipyard → North Bund → Former site of Huangpu Wharf → Maoma Warehouse → Yangshupu Water Plant → Oriental Fisherman’s Wharf → Green Hill

Introduction: Suzhou River and Huangpu River are the most important spatial carriers of Shanghai’s cultural life and humanistic emotions. Feel the city’s feelings by the waterside. Every great city rises from a river. Although this route is familiar, it always yields novelty and surprises in every stroll.

Route: Oriental Pearl Radio and Television Tower → Rock·The Bund → Shanghai Bund Building Group → Waibaidu Bridge → Shanghai Tower → Shanghai General Post Office → Riverside Building → Former Site of Shanghai General Chamber of Commerce

Introduction: As time goes by and times change, the roar of machines has gone away, but the industrial heritage everywhere remains new and empowers regeneration. This route takes you to touch the deep texture of urban development and feel the city's heavy industrial accumulation.

Route: Shanghai Yuan Dynasty Watergate Site Museum→Shanghai Mint Museum→Dayang Jingdian·Tianan Thousand Trees→M50 Creative Park→Shanghai Textile Museum→M Mali Creative Park→Tonglefang

Introduction: The tall sycamore trees cast mottled shadows. While walking around the city, you can appreciate and feel the turmoil and shocking legends of the past, and experience the ordinary and simple happiness of the present. This is the most pleasant neighborhood in Shanghai where you can stroll or ride. The buildings full of stories guide people to explore the past and present of the city.

Route: Early buildings of Shanghai Jiao Tong University → Wukang Building → Soong Ching Ling’s former residence → Ke Ling’s former residence → Zhang Leping’s former residence → Blackstone Apartment → Shanghai Symphony Orchestra Concert Hall → Shanghai Arts and Crafts Museum

Introduction: The combination of historical buildings, modern commerce and modern culture brings a new landscape and lifestyle to the city. This is a treasure route tailor-made for architecture enthusiasts and an excellent way to explore the perfect blend of history and modernity in Shanghai. Route: Green Tile Building of Shanghai Sport University → Yangpu District Library → Shanghai Tap Water Science and Technology Museum → 1933 Old Field → Shanghai Ministry of Industry Building → Shanghai Exhibition Center → Shangsheng New Institute