Chinese Cultural Garden

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The Chinese Cultural Garden is located in the Overfelt Gardens park in San Jose, California, USA. The addition of the Chinese Cultural Garden to Overfelt is primarily the work of Chinese immigrant Frank Lowe, and his wife Pauline, who, as of 2005, still serves as park docent, and Dr. Chen Li-Fu of Taiwan.

Features include an ornamental Friendship Gate, the Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hall, Chiang Kai-shek Pavilion, a large statue of Confucius, the Plum Pavilion, a sundial, and a carved, 15 ton black marble stone, mined and shipped from the Republic of China, donated by San Jose's sister city, Tainan, Taiwan.

Every year it holds an event called the Chinese Moon Festival. It is primarily an event to showcase Asian performing arts, and there are arts and crafts for kids and promotional booths from nonprofit organizations, such as Cityteam or the San Jose Police Department.

[edit] References

• City of San Jose Department of Parks, Recreation and Neighborhood Services Overfelt Gardens brochure, March 2001 revision
• Chinese Cultural Garden Website

[edit] External links

• Map of Overfelt Gardens and the Chinese Cultural Garden, and the surrounding neighborhood