Step into the Grape Grand Garden and experience a unique journey through grape culture

  By the Ziyang Lake at Dazeshan, Chang Yunjun has built a "Grape Grand Garden" covering more than 200 mu. Here, grape varieties and grape culture are like a grand feast, leaving a deep impression. Among the vineyards of Dazeshan, the Grape Grand Garden stands out uniquely, endowing the grape industry with poetry and human warmth, with a distinctive charm.

  Photo: Chang Yunjun leads everyone as the garden tour begins

  Walking into the Grand Garden, the history corridor on the right draws everyone to stop and linger. The legends about Dazeshan grapes are fully expressed in the verses: "Taizong bestowed the name Lion's Eye, the beauty of Zeshan grapes is spread far and wide, in golden September comes the Grape Festival, gathering the finest in the Grand Garden." The owner has a poetic and richly meaningful passion for grapes.

  Photo: Taste a "Golden Finger", sweet as honey

  Photo: Eating grapes under the grape trellis, taking the sweetness into your mouth and putting happiness into your heart

  The Flavor Corridor is a novel scenic spot in the Grand Garden, a grape corridor that Chang Yunjun built with care. "The farther in you go, the more you feel this is a magical place!" The companions all said that the Flavor Corridor is full of fun. The magic lies in the fact that along the several-hundred-meter corridor, every 10 meters there is a grape with a unique flavor, including mango flavor, osmanthus flavor, red wine flavor, lychee flavor...... At the end of the corridor there is also durian flavored grape, meaning "so delightful that one lingers and forgets to leave." Speaking of the red wine flavored grape variety, Chang Yunjun said with a smile: "Others harvest grapes to make wine; I grew the wine out, wine grown inside the grape." Tasting a grape with lychee aroma, "If she had been born a few hundred years earlier, why would anyone have needed to send lychees a thousand li!" What good fortune this is; even Yang Guifei could not have been more envious.

  Photo: The Flavor Corridor is full of surprises

  Up the hillside stands a Moon Worship Pavilion, resembling a dragon's head pointing east, with the dragon's tail extending along the Flavor Corridor and the History Corridor to Ziyang Lake. Beside the Moon Worship Pavilion, overlooking the entire Grand Garden, rows of grape trellises are neatly arranged and lush and green. At Dazeshan, generations of residents have planted grapes, and for generations they have built a sweet and steadfast dream.

  Photo: Old Chang introduces the whole park to everyone

  What is even more delightful and astonishing is that in the Grape Grand Garden, Chang Yunjun has built with care a grape museum that gathers the finest highlights. In the museum, everything from grape derivative products and medicinal value to grape packaging, cultural relics, and awards received is displayed one by one. Each item represents the growth or transformation of the grape industry, and the story of each stage is a brilliant embellishment in the history of the Dazeshan grape industry. Continuing deeper into the visit, there are also calligraphy works, paintings, and other artworks related to grapes. The cultural heritage comes vividly before your eyes, and one cannot help but deeply admire that such a quiet and peaceful small town could have such a profound and thought-provoking industrial cultural connotation.

  Photo: A corner of the grape museum

  Walking out of the museum, there is a stone stele at the entrance engraved with "Three Auspicious Treasures." Chang Yunjun explained that here there is a grapevine formed by three kinds of grapevines intertwined and growing together, and on the trellis are three grapes of different flavors: Longyan, Muscat Hamburg, and Zexiang. There are still many interesting highlights. The Grape Grand Garden is like a cultural journey and also like an exploration, always offering unexpected and interesting surprises, leaving people wanting more!

  Photo: Three grapevines of different varieties join together as one family

  Photo: Standing at the Moon Worship Pavilion, the scenery of the Grape Grand Garden is fully in view

  Chang Yunjun's path of building the museum is still continuing. The wine bar, tasting room, and outdoor leisure area in the museum are all still under construction, so that the Grape Grand Garden will welcome even more visitors to sightsee and experience Dazeshan grape culture. Having appeared on CCTV's "My Chinese Dream" program and Hunan TV's "Day Day Up" program, Chang Yunjun has already become somewhat well known, yet he himself is sincere and unassuming, using his focus and dedication to the grape industry to let its cultural roots sink deep into the heart. With the continuous improvement and progress of the industry and the accumulation of culture, the Dazeshan grape industry has a more solid foundation. What a beautiful Dazeshan, with its outstanding mountains and waters, and what a magical and interesting Grape Grand Garden.