On Ninghui Road in Yu Garden Mall, Kaede and her friends from Tokyo, Japan experience Hanfu photography in Yu Garden. The pictures in this article are all pictures of The Paper reporter Li Jing

On the spring solstice, 2025 Shanghai Yu Garden Mid-Spring Flower Festival has also kicked off, ushering in many Chinese and foreign tourists.

The surging news (www.thepaper.cn) reporter learned from Yuyuan Mall that starting from the Mid-Spring Flower Festival, the upgrade of the light and shadow show of Yuyuan Garden and the integration of national style performing arts was officially opened. During the Flower Dynasty Festival, accompanied by five groups of Chinese style music, Yu Garden will use the core buildings of the Central Square, Jiuqu Bridge and Golden Square as the background, and use dynamic floodlighting to show the scene of the Spring Flower Dynasty.

Recently, the reporter visited Yu Garden and found that when night fell, the dynamic light and shadow in the garden blended with the scene of the flower dynasty and the swaying posture of the national style performance. Whether it is in Ninghui Road, which is known as the "ceiling of Chinese aesthetics", or in the central square and golden square where national style dance and ancient music are performed from time to time, tourists wearing Hanfu can be found everywhere. Regardless of nationality or language, they not only blend in with the immersive Chinese scenery in the park, but also become the scenery in the lens of other tourists.

On Ninghui Road in Yu Garden Mall, Kaede and her friends from Tokyo, Japan experience Hanfu photography in Yu Garden.

Kaede, from Tokyo, Japan, was on Ninghui Road, taking pictures with her friends under the guidance of photographers. In order to experience Hanfu photo, they made a special trip to Yu Garden on the fourth day of their trip to Shanghai, Kaede told reporters that she found a store in Yu Garden that could rent clothes, and she liked the pink Hanfu she wore on her body. Under the guidance of the photographer, Kaede and her friends were dressed like ladies from ancient paintings, and many tourists raised their cameras when they saw them.

Tomoka and Kiran from Kanazawa, Japan, pose for a photo in front of the central plaza of Yu Garden Mall.

Tomoka and Kiran, from Kanazawa, Japan, are high school classmates and friends who graduated from college together this year and chose Shanghai as the destination for their graduation trip. They rented Hanfu in Yu Garden, walked around after curling their hair and makeup, and took pictures of each other. They had already planned their main itinerary before coming to Shanghai, and they were going to visit Shanghai Disneyland afterwards.

Also on her graduation trip to Shanghai was Han Ruzhen, a Korean girl from Cheongju University. Han Ruzhen also wandered around with her friends and took pictures after renting hanfu. She told reporters that she learned about Shanghai Yu Garden on overseas social networking sites, and was attracted by the scene and classical culture here, so she made a special trip to take pictures and experience it this time.

薇薇安則是一名在上海生活的自由職業者，3月20日晚，她和自己的朋友一起來豫園拍照。“哪裡好看去哪裡。”薇薇安告訴記者，自己是攝影愛好者，也是博主，在攝影愛好者的圈子裡，大家會分享一些適合拍照的地點。這次花朝節剛開幕，她就來豫園了。薇薇安盤著發、戴著簪花，笑說自己穿的不算嚴格意義上的漢服，算是“新中式”服裝。

Yuelian, a Hanfu model from Nanjing, and Dina, a Moroccan singer, and her friends met by chance on the side of the Jiuqu Bridge in Yu Garden.

"There are very modern things here, but also themed pavilions that are in line with traditional Chinese culture. Compared with other cities, I think it (Yu Garden) is more colorful and fashionable. So if we want to shoot something like Sino-foreign communication, or some creative and innovative content, it is very suitable here. Yue Lian told The Paper reporter that she is a junior majoring in English at Nanjing Normal University, and she is also a Hanfu model and blogger.

On the night of the opening of the Yu Garden Flower Dynasty Festival, Yuelian was dressed in the costume of the peach blossom god and came to shoot with the makeup girl. "I think it does a good job of combining the light show with the Flower God Festival, and it has a sense of color. So it's a new birth, digging something new out of something old and then blending it together nicely. Yuelian thinks that how to bring out the traditional garden and cater to the trend of the new era is also something that other cities should learn.

Moon Ripple teaches Dina to pose in various poses suitable for taking pictures

It is worth mentioning that when Yuelian was filming in the central square, she attracted the attention of two other foreign friends dressed in Hanfu, one of whom was Dina, a Moroccan female singer and blogger with many fans in China. Moon Ripple also lent Dina a lantern and taught her to pose properly, and the three of them formed a special scenery in the central square. Yuelian told reporters that this encounter was completely accidental and an unexpected surprise.

According to Yuyuan Mall, Shanghai Yuyuan Garden has held 3 consecutive Flower Dynasty Festivals. This year's Flower Dynasty Festival not only retains the rituals of worshipping the god of flowers, hairpins, and appreciating red, but also transforms the one-way cultural display into a multi-dimensional participation experience through scene reconstruction, rejuvenation, and cross-border linkage, and pays more attention to the dialogue with young people in the continuous iteration and upgrading. Through the spring narrative that integrates Chinese and Western cultures, Yuyuan Mall hopes to provide a more international consumer service experience for tourists at home and abroad, so that foreign friends can immerse themselves in the aesthetics of oriental life, and also integrate traditional culture into the life of the public.

During the Mid-Spring Flower Festival, visitors wearing traditional Chinese costumes can be seen everywhere in the Yuyuan Garden Mall.