Liuyin Park (柳荫公园)

Liuyin is one of Beijing's most picturesque parks, with a duck-and lotus-filled lake surrounded by weeping willows and pavilions. The park is built with four different natural landscapes for the four seasons of the year, namely Spring Garden, Pray for Spring Island, Summer Garden, Autumn Garden and Winter Garden to embody natural and simple landscape features.

Kids like the electric cars, trampoline, bumper cars, paddle boats and more. Visit the charming outdoor tea garden on the island, it's like Houhai---without the traffic and crowds. The park is renowned for the large number of willow trees of more than ten varieties. Every spring, groups of wild ducks flock here, live and breed in the wild duck island accompanied by night herons, magpie, squirrels.

It is a rare piece of green in the busy and noisy city. The rural amorous feelings of the park, was praised as "City Village". Linyin Park is the only idyllic park located inside the urban areas of Beijing. It covers an area of 17. 47 hectares, where 7 hectares are occupied by water, and its original name was “Jiu Da Hu or Old and Big Lake”. It is said that during the Ming Dynasty of ancient China, there were imperial treasures stowed in this area, and so some came and began excavating.