The origin of the name "Huxin Pavilion"

Huxin Pavilion

The Huxin Pavilion was built by Pan Yunduan, Chief Secretary of Sichuan during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty. It is one of the interior scenes of Yuyuan Garden and is named Fuyi Pavilion. In the 19th year of the Qianlong reign of the Qing Dynasty (1784), cloth merchants Zhu Yunhui, Zhang Fuchen and others raised funds to rebuild the former site of Fuyi Pavilion into a Huxin Pavilion as a place for cloth merchants to gather and discuss business. The teahouse was opened in the fifth year of Xianfeng in the Qing Dynasty (AD 1885), making it the earliest teahouse in Shanghai. The original name was also Xuan, then it was changed to Wanzaixuan, and now the old name of Huxin Pavilion has been restored.

The Huxinting Tea House can accommodate more than 200 people for tea tasting. The simple and elegant equipment layout is full of traditional ethnic characteristics; it supplies a variety of famous teas (with matching tea food), and the water quality has been purified and mineralized to make it clear. Sweet and unusual. The teahouse has a professional tea art performance team. Every Monday afternoon, you can also enjoy the beautiful music of Jiangnan Sizhu. Drinking tea and admiring the scenery in the pavilion is a unique experience. The teahouse attracts a large number of Chinese and foreign tourists every day, and has also hosted many heads of state and Chinese and foreign celebrities such as Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom. The small teahouse has become a unique place in Shanghai for receiving state guests at the head of state level, and its popularity is well-known at home and abroad.

Nowadays, it is mostly used as a name in various novels, especially in martial arts