Beijing's free 3A scenic spot is popular: the romantic flower valley is dazzling and fascinating.

Ritan Park, located at No. 6 Ritan North Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, is now a national 3A tourist attraction. The park covers an area of 20.62 hectares, with a green coverage area of 16.5 hectares and a water area of 4,700 square meters. The Ritan (also known as Chaoritan) in the park is one of the famous cultural relics and ancient sites "Five Altars" in Beijing. It was built in the ninth year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty (AD 1530) and was the place where the emperors of the Ming and Qing Dynasties worshipped the sun god. In May 2006, it was approved to be included in the list of the sixth batch of national key cultural relics protection units. Recently, the "Garden City Beautiful Chaoyang" 2024 Ritan Park Autumn Garden Fair is being held in Ritan Park. This garden fair includes various forms of experience such as flower viewing, lantern viewing, exhibition viewing, light and shadow performances, and fireworks markets. Among them, the main exhibition area (exhibition and performance area) includes tens of thousands of pots of chrysanthemums, thousands of shapes, hundreds of high-quality chrysanthemums, ten designer gardens and five major historical theme scenes, fully embodying the theme of "thousands of households in the prosperous world". The night flower sea exhibition area presents an immersive garden experience of flower sea lantern viewing under the colorful lanterns such as "Shan Hai Jing" and "Dragon's Nine Sons", combined with ancient and modern performances. In addition, the garden fair has four themed parades every day, various scene performances (tea ceremony performances, flower ceremony performances, water sleeve performances) and interactive improvisational comedies, and there are more DJ live shows, jazz duets, band performances, crosstalk, and Peking opera in the evening. Various performances will bring you a wonderful and diverse audio-visual feast. In addition to the main exhibition area (tickets need to be purchased to enter) and the series of themed activities of the garden fair, the chrysanthemum valley under the Ritan Qinghui Pavilion is also very beautiful and worth checking in! In addition, the park also has the following main attractions: Chaoritan, West Heavenly Gate, North Heavenly Gate, Shenku Shenkitchen, Zai Shengting, Ju Fudian, Sacrifice Day Mural, Southwest Water Scenic Area, Qu Chi Sheng Chun, Yu Xin Garden, Peony Garden, Qinghui Guanri Scenic Area. Among them, the southwest water scenic area integrates the lake and mountain scenery of the Jiangnan courtyard and the simple and elegant northern garden scenery. There are antique water pavilions, painting boats, and ancient pavilions on the lakeside. The north and south of the lake are covered with curved bridges and arch bridges. There are winding paths around the lake, with beautiful scenery and quite Jiangnan charm. At present, the daytime discount ticket price for the main exhibition area is 29.9 yuan. The main activities of this Autumn Garden Fair will continue until October 13, and the best viewing period of Chrysanthemum Valley is expected to continue until mid-month. Friends who want to visit the garden, check in, and take pictures of chrysanthemums should hurry up!