The North Gate Street that is located in the northeastern of the Green Lake and the west of Yuantong Mountain was famous street in the Republican period because the existence of Tang Garden and North Gate Bookshop, which the foreigners who study in China may know. Tang Garden built in North Gate Street was the private garden of the largest scale and the most elegant environment at that time. When you study in China, you should know the Tang Garden was very popular in 1923 when Tang Yu came back Kunming to be in power for the second time.

Besides, the library named Donglu Library was built in the Tang Garden. When you learn Chinese in China, you may hear that the citizens could go there freely for enjoying the garden on weekends at that time. The most attractive was the fifty sakura planted in the garden presented by Japanese consulate. If you ever been there when you study in China, you could see two-storied red brick building and of Chinese and western style. There are 20 rooms in the theater building.