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River View Pavilion Park (Wangjianglou Gongyuan) overlooks the Jin River (Jin Jiang, or "Brocade River"), with the four-story Qing-era pavilion extending 30 meters above a pleasant landscape featuring numerous thick stands of bamboo. It's an exceedingly pleasant spot. When the wind rustles the bamboo, it creates an eerily beautiful music of rasping leaves and clacking, groaning stalks that sway and strain against one another. At such times, it's easy to imagine the Tang poet Xue Tao, in whose memory the pavilion was built, composing her verses in the shade of her beloved bamboo. Today, there are over 150 varieties of the poet's favorite plant scattered around the park, from potted delicate miniatures to massive, tree-like giants.