The Daguan garden belt in Nanchuan District is known as the Twelve Golden Flowers, a stretch of farmland where a different flower opens every month and fruit waits on the trees for picking. The stays here are farmstay courtyards run by local families, with the origin-point hotel of Daguan Origin as the anchor of the belt. It is the district’s soft, rural counterpoint to the mountain resorts and the lake town.
The Twelve Golden Flowers name comes from the rotating bloom across the seasons, so a visit in any month meets some flower at its peak. Between the beds are orchards where guests pick fruit straight from the branch, and the farmstay courtyards give onto vegetable plots and open sky. Meals are plain and local, cooked from what the yard grows that week.
Daguan Origin is the anchor that gives the belt its shape, a hotel built at what locals call the origin point of the garden country. From here the flower fields and farmsteads spread out, and the hotel acts as the meeting place and the largest rooms in the area. The surrounding courtyards stay small and family-run, so the belt feels like a village that flowers rather than a resort that was built.
Daguan is for travellers who want to slow to farm time. The stays are courtyards and a single anchor hotel, and the pleasure is picking fruit, walking the beds and eating what the season gives.
Words and Names
- Daguan (大观) — a garden belt and township in Nanchuan District, Chongqing.
- Twelve Golden Flowers (十二金钗大观园) — the name for the Daguan garden country where a different flower blooms each month.
- Daguan Origin (大观原点) — the origin-point hotel that anchors the garden belt.
- Farmstay courtyards (农家小院) — family-run courtyard lodgings among the fields and orchards.
- Nanchuan District (南川区) — the district of Chongqing that contains Daguan.
What the Locals Know
Locals know the belt by its calendar more than its map. Ask which flower is out and they will name the month, because the Twelve Golden Flowers really does rotate through the year, and each visit shows a different colour. They will tell you to come when the fruit is ripe, since picking it yourself is half the point and the orchards change with the season.
The farmstay courtyards are where the real local food lives. Families cook from their own plots, and a meal in spring is not the meal you get in autumn. Regulars book a courtyard with a kitchen so they can buy from the roadside stalls and cook the day’s vegetables themselves.
Daguan Origin is the natural base, but the locals say the smaller courtyards are the warmer stay. The hotel gives you the lobby, the view and the largest rooms; the courtyards give you the dog, the vegetable patch and the host who tells you which row to pick. Staying in the belt means you are already in the garden when it opens at first light.
Price. Rooms generally run from family farmstay courtyards to the mid-range anchor hotel; confirm seasonal rates when booking, as flower festivals and fruit seasons draw crowds.
Address. In the Daguan garden belt of Nanchuan District, around Daguan Origin; no invented door numbers.
Rooms. Farmstay courtyards with private yards, plus hotel rooms at the Daguan Origin anchor.
Getting there. From Nanchuan district seat the Daguan belt is a short drive of roughly twenty minutes; from Chongqing allow around one and a half to two hours by road via the expressway.
flowcloud would say that the Twelve Golden Flowers is where a different bloom opens every month of the year.
Where to stay: These stays are in 南川区 / Nanchuan District, Chongqing, in the Daguan garden belt of the Twelve Golden Flowers. All checked October 2026.