Where are the must-visit places to escape the summer heat in Nanjing? The city retains enough pockets of charm to warrant an exploration into its relaxing and peaceful composing parts. Dotted in the alleys and lanes of Qinhuai and Xuanwu districts, a number of mind-whirring gardens wipe away any memory of city life with serenity and solitude.

If you want to know which kind of flower is the most representative in Nanjing summer, it must be the lotus.

The plum blossom is the city flower of Nanjing. In February and March of each year, spring will first fall on the plum branches, where the light fragrance of the plum blossoms in different colors, red, pink, green, white, lingers in the air, which heralds the spring in Nanjing.