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two pages; The highlight of Unveiling Ceremony of the BCI Cooperation Center at Shuyang was the display of bonsai of all types including a section with trees laden with fruits, which was very appealing and drew the attention of the large number of visitors.
displayed their skill and artistry in creating fabulous single tree bonsai, rock penjings and suihan penjings. We were later taken to the famous Yuji Cultural Garden. It is an open air garden with a museum which depicts selected ancient scholar’s poems written for Yuji, a legendary beauty and concubine of Xiangyu, the King of the Western Chu Kingdom. We also visited the Shuyang Art Museum. e nal destination of our sightseeing trip was an Old Chestnut Wood grove in
Shandang Village with more than thousand really old Chestnut trees, many of them over a 100 years old. e trees were laden with healthy chestnuts and the locals o ered us fresh chestnuts to eat.
On the nal day of our stay in Shuyang we were witness to the Unveiling Ceremony of the BCI Cooperation Center at Shuyang, an event conducted with great fanfare. The inaugural area included a section with a beautiful display of western style ower arrangement and ikebana as well as a succulent plants display area. e highlight was the display of bonsai of all types and designs including a section with trees laden with fruits of all kinds and colors which was very appealing and drew the attention of the large number of visitors.
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