The name Xi Hua Garden in Kunming got the name because the western location of Kunming and the flowers in the garden. If the foreign students who study in qualified Mandarin program in the city of Kunming ever been there, they can see the main architectural style in the garden is that of Bai people’s residential houses in Yunnan, three houses with one screen or four courtyards with five patios. There are many delicate carvings on the wooden structure, showing the unique ethnic features.
Since the construction of Xi Ha Garden, it has been famous for the orchid planting in the garden. In recent years, after the direction of Pan Guanghua, the leader of the National Association of Orchids, the park has formed into an orchid planting base with large scale in Yunnan province. Besides, it is functioned as the base for orchid breed aquatics and trade, collecting many famous species of orchids in the whole China.
The orchids exhibitions held in every spring and autumn attract numerous people who love orchids from Japan, Korea, countries in the southeast Asia and Tai Wan and Hong Kong. During the exhibition, they exchange the experience about orchid planting, building a bridge of friendship. When foreigners come to learn to speak Chinese in Yunnan, they may be told that Xi Hua Park has been regarded as the first choice for leisure and recreation because of the unique entertaining style in Kunming city.
You can enjoy various sceneries in all the four seasons. In spring, all kinds of flowers are in full blossom, especially the Chinese flowering crabapple. The tourists can also feed the pigeons and fly kites in the garden. When it comes to summer, you can take boat in the garden as well as swim. The water fitness center provides special and exciting entertainment items such as water surfing, water skin and massage bath. The most beautiful flower in this reason should be the lotus in the center of the water.
Even in the autumn and the winter, you can enjoy the peaceful and quiet environment in the garden where you can spend the leisure time with your family. The foreign students who are learning Mandarin Chineseshould realize that Xi Hua Park is so attractive because it is isolated from the hustle and bustle world to provide a perfect place for relaxing the tourists with the accompany of the fragrant orchids.