The long stairway
With its carved ramp.
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A Qing-era hall on a high platform on the site of the Northern Song imperial palace, from the years after 960 when Kaifeng was China's capital under the name Dongjing, the «Eastern Capital», a thriving city of perhaps more than 400,000 people whose life the painter Zhang Zeduan captured in his famous scroll «Along the River During the Qingming Festival». Visitors climb a long stone stairway, its centre carved with dragons, to the yellow-roofed hall, which looks out over Longting Park, its lakes and the old city, and every autumn the park hosts Kaifeng's best-known chrysanthemum show. Tickets cost CNY 40 in season and 35 at other times, rising to 55 during the chrysanthemum show, and the park is open from 8.30 am to 6.30 pm in summer and 9 am to 4 pm in winter, per visitor guides.
With its carved ramp.
Over lakes and city.
Every autumn.
Longting Park, north of the old city, Kaifeng
Millennium City Park (Qingming Riverside Park)A cultural park that brings Song-dynasty Kaifeng back to life, modelled on Zhang10 minutes walk
Iron PagodaA tower of glazed brick built in 1049 under the Northern Song dynasty, when Kaif24 minutes walk
Kaifeng East Mosque (Dongda Mosque)Kaifeng's best-known mosque and the first of its thirteen historic mosques, once24 minutes walkEvery autumn, when Longting Park fills with chrysanthemums and its ticket rises to CNY 55, per visitor guides.