Yu Garden and Chenghuang Temple are not the same place.
Shanghai City God Temple and Yuyuan Garden are not the same place. The City God Temple is a Taoist temple, Yuyuan Garden is a garden, and Yuyuan Garden is located in the north of the City God Temple. Known as the "urban mountain forest" and "the wonder of beauty lies in the southeast", Yuyuan Garden is located in the north of Chenghuang Temple. It is a famous Jiangnan classical garden in Shanghai with a history of more than 4 years and belongs to the national key cultural relics protection unit.
Yu Garden and Chenghuang Temple, built in the thirty-eighth year of Jiajing in Ming Dynasty, are a famous garden that combines the garden art of Ming and Qing Dynasties in China. Created by Pan Yunduan, chief secretary of Sichuan Province, for filial piety, Yu means "peace" and "antai", so it is named "Yu Garden", which means "to please parents and support their old age".
The Old Town God Temple in Yu Garden has a great position and influence in Shanghai. The City God Temple is the protector of the city in Taoism. It is said that during the Yongle period of Ming Dynasty (early 15th century), Zhang Shouyue, a magistrate of a county in Shanghai, transformed the Jinshan Temple on Fangbang Road (also known as Huo Guang Xingci) into the City God Temple we see today.
rebuilt in p>1926, the hall is 4.8 feet high and 6.33 feet deep, with reinforced concrete structure, while the painted rafters and green tiles and bamboo eaves have greatly increased in scale. After the Anti-Japanese War, in order to distinguish it from the Xincheng God Temple (the original site is at Lianyun Road, Jinling West Road), it is called the Old Town God Temple and the Old Town God Temple Art Competition Hall, which contains folk arts such as cockfighting performance, acrobatic performance and thunderbolt calligraphy.