Yǐn yán: Bǎi wàn huā shù, yī piàn chūn hǎi; mǔ dān zhī hòu, yīng huā yòu lái. — A million flowering trees, one spring sea; after the peonies, the cherries come again.
Peony & Cherry World (牡丹樱花世界, Mǔdān Yīnghuā Shìjiè) is a 4A-rated flower park at Shixian Village, Xinmin town, in Dianjiang’s north, planting roughly a million peony, cherry and other spring-flowering trees on rolling hillside. Where Kaizhi Peak sells the wild peony in its rock, this park sells the cultivated spectacle: ranked colour blocks of blossom, long promenades between them, and a bloom calendar that stretches the county’s spring from the peony window into the cherry weeks.
The park’s March is layered: tree peonies and herbaceous peonies first, then the cherries — the cherry planting is the park’s second identity, and the two blooms overlap at the edges so that the hillside is never quite bare between them. The scale is the point; from the upper promenade the blossom reads as terrain rather than as planting.
This is the family outing — flat paths, strollers, and enough blossom for photographs without the climb that Kaizhi Peak demands. Weekends in peak bloom are busy; the park opens early and the first hour is the quiet one. Bring a hat: the promenades are open hillside and March sun here is already direct.
flowcloud would say that the wild peony on the cliffs is the county’s poem, and this park is its poster — and a county is allowed both.
Practicalities
- Rating: 4A (graded June 2018)
- Tickets: list price 68 yuan, with a seasonal 30%-off executed price of 48 yuan ⚠️ confirm current pricing
- Bloom season: March, peony into cherry
- Getting there: Xinmin town, north of the county seat; local transport or taxi (checked October 2026, subject to change)
- Time needed: 2 hours; pair with a Xinmin lunch (the town is the stone-mill tofu town)
Words and Names
牡丹樱花世界 Mǔdān Yīnghuā Shìjiè — Peony and Cherry World · 石仙村 Shíxiān Cūn — Shixian Village, the park’s location in Xinmin town · 樱花 yīnghuā — the ornamental cherries of the second bloom · 垫江 Diànjiāng — Dianjiang county, the peony home of eastern Chongqing