Garden of dreams – A visit to Dream of the Red Chamber’s filming locations

Grand View Garden is the setting of Jia Yuanchun's first visit home as an imperial concubine.

Footprints of new edition

The 50-episode new edition of Dream of the Red Chamber has already aired some 20 episodes on provincial TV stations. Most of the scenes were filmed in a studio, specially built for the new series, in Huairou District. The crew also filmed scenes in Shanghai’s Grand View Garden, but seldom used Beijing’s garden that dominated the old version.

With an exorbitant budget, the new edition had many outdoor scenes in Wuzhen, a historic scenic town in Zhejiang province, as well as Yangzhou and Suzhou in Jiangsu province, which is the hometown of the heroine Lin.
Fanatics of the novel can head for the above places to follow the filming crew’s footprints.