Learn Chinese with Travel: Shanghai's Yuyuan Garden

Welcome to my channel,

today, my wife and I—

this is my wife,

and we are in Shanghai together.

This is Shanghai.

We are at Yu Garden in Shanghai.

We came here today to do some sightseeing,

well, not really 'traveling' as such,

because we live in Hangzhou,

which is very close to Shanghai.

It's a very short distance,

so we just came to Shanghai for a quick visit.

This is Shanghai's Yu Garden.

Yu Garden is a very beautiful place.

You can see, in my hand—

this is my hand,

my right hand.

Over on my right-hand side,

here is a map.

You can see this is a map of Shanghai,

and here is a map of Yu Garden.

You can see on the map,

there are all kinds of buildings here.

Buildings, buildings, buildings, buildings.

If you want to go here,

you can just look at the map

and find the path you need to take.

Here is a path,

here is another path,

and here is another.

This one goes horizontally,

this is a horizontal path.

A horizontal path.

This is a vertical path.

Vertical, vertical, horizontal, horizontal.

Let's go.

We were just over here,

the vending machine.

This is a vending machine.

Just now, from the vending machine,

we bought a bottle of water here.

We just bought a bottle of water.

You can buy water from the vending machine

and drink it when you are thirsty.

*Gulp, gulp, gulp*—drinking water.

This is water.

Behind me,

there are many buildings here.

Lots of buildings.

It's a very old style of architecture,

ancient buildings.

Here is a road.

This is a road.

A road is where people can walk,

and cars can also drive.

It's called a road,

or a street.

This is the street.

By the side of the street,

there are some shops.

These are shops.

This one sells gold.

This is a gold jewelry store,

a shop that sells gold.

These are some ancient buildings,

you can see they have very Chinese characteristics,

some ancient-style architecture.

In this building on my left,

they also sell jewelry here.

This place sells jewelry.

On my left here, this is called a display window.

This is the display window.

This bangle is so big!

This bangle is huge.

This is a bangle.

This is a necklace,

this is a necklace,

and this is a bangle.

They are all made of gold,

solid gold.

This... this one is an earring.

Right?

These are earrings.

This looks like a ring.

Why is the ring so big?

This is a ring.

And this is a bracelet,

this is a necklace,

they are all jewelry.

This is a display window.

Display windows are used for exhibitions,

so when people walk by,

you can look inside the display window.

Here is an intersection.

She said this is really pretty,

this hairpin.

This is a hairpin.

So delicate!

A hairpin.

It's what ancient Chinese women wore in their hair.

A hairpin is inserted right around here,

like this.

A hairpin.

This is the hairpin that you insert into your hair.

When Chinese people get married,

the groom buys five pieces of gold jewelry for the bride, called 'Wu Jin'.

Then you should buy them for me too!

The groom buys the five gold items for the bride,

which means when you get married,

when you get married,

the groom has to buy some gold for the bride.

It's a tradition,

and it has been this way for many years.

Here is an intersection.

See, this is the street.

You can go this way,

you can go that way,

or you can go this way.

An intersection has four directions—

one, two, three, four.

An intersection with four directions.

You can see these are buildings,

some ancient buildings.

And there are many shops here,

lots of shops here.

Most of them sell jewelry,

many of them are jewelry shops.

This is a tourist spot,

so there are lots of people here.

This is a tourist attraction,

a tourist attraction.

So you can see many people from—

people from many different countries are traveling here.

There are many tourists from other countries visiting China.

If you want to come to China,

to visit Shanghai,

you can come take a look at Yu Garden.

This is Yu Garden.

I think it's really beautiful.

It's very pretty here.

You see, here are display windows as well,

with many colors.

This is red,

this is yellow,

this is silver,

and some look like gold.

Ah,

gold,

yellow.

These are display windows.

This is a pillar,

this is a pillar.

Below the display window, there are steps.

You see, these are steps, steps.

You can walk up the steps.

My wife runs so fast!

She is already far ahead of me,

she is way ahead of me.

So now I have to catch up with her.

I need to catch up with her,

so I have to run.

I need to run, run, run, run, run.

I am running.

I caught up to her.

She is right next to me now.

Turns out she was taking pictures here.

She has her phone in her hand,

she has her phone in her hand.

She was just taking pictures.

You see, she took a photo.

She took some photos with her phone.

This is a photo.

With this photo, you can zoom in with your fingers,

or zoom out.

This is zooming in,

this is zooming out.

This is a photo.

And she took a really nice shot.

You took a great photo.

It looks really nice.

There are many tourists here,

so you can see these two people.

Here are two people pulling suitcases,

these are suitcases.

Two people pulling suitcases, walking forward.

Here is a shop,

this is a shop.

This is called a signboard,

this is the signboard.

The sign says,

'Old Shanghai Flavor Snack Town'.

This means there is a lot of food here,

snacks—

like snacks,

or non-main course foods.

There are many snacks.

You can go into Snack Town

and buy lots of things to eat.

Wow.

You can see there are many shops here.

These are pan-fried dumplings,

these are pan-fried buns,

and all kinds of pastries.

This is dessert.

It's so crowded here!

Oh,

these are crabs, crabs.

Look, there are also wontons.

These are wontons,

these are wontons.

But I'm not hungry yet,

I'm not hungry.

We are going to—

we aren't eating here.

We are going to find somewhere else to eat.

There are also grilled meat skewers,

they have grilled skewers here.

And this is Tanghulu, candied hawthorns.

Old Shanghai iced Tanghulu.

This Tanghulu is very delicious.

If... if you come to China,

I suggest you try China's Tanghulu,

especially the ones in Beijing, which are particularly delicious.

Because my mother is from Beijing,

I had some incredibly delicious ones when I was a kid.

The Tanghulu I ate was in Beijing.