The Grand View Garden is located in the southwest corner of Beijing, on Nan Cai Yuan Street to the southwest of Tian'anmen Square.

Grand View Garden is a contemporary construction, based on a very well known Chinese
novel called " The Dream of the Red Mansions" , written in the mid - eighteenth century.
This novel is considered to be the best to have been written during the Qing Dynasty and is
rated as one of the four great classics of Chinese literature.

According to the novel, Grand View Garden was the residence of the wealthy Jia family.
Artists and scholars were engaged to research the novel in order that a large garden
complex that would represent the luxurious villa of the Jia family should be as authentic as
possible. The whole construction lasted five years and the typical courtyard complex has no
less than forty inner gardens.

Grand View Garden is a large greenery garden dotted with pavilions, halls, temples and
miniature gardens with a total of 125,000 square meters. The layout is exactly like that
described in the novel. If lucky, you will have chance to see traditional ceremonies performed in the garden, always a fascinating sight.

The most interesting points to visit in the park are the Enjoyment Red Hall, with its
beautiful and colourful paintings, the quiet and graceful Xiaoxiang Hall, the Fragrant Rice
Village, the Fragrant Lotus Pavilion, the Reed Snow Temple, and the Green Hill Garden.
Performances are given at the Xingqinxing Hall, which is also an attraction.

In Grand View Garden, the features of every building and atmosphere of the surroundings
are reflections of the character of the host or hostess who lived there. Today, the garden
draws many visitors per year because of its colors, and the harmony between the
buildings and grounds. The scene in each of these is unique with rock and ponds and
an abundance of foliage. These provide a tranquil setting for the pavilions, rooms and
corridors in which the drama of the novel could be brought to life.