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Nanjing Plum Blossom Festival in Nanjing
Plum Blossom Hill on Purple Mountain's southern slope holds more than 40,000 plum trees across roughly 400 varieties, ranked among China's Four Great Plum Gardens. The Nanjing Plum Blossom Festival runs each year from late February into mid-March, timed to the sequential bloom, with the modern garden's 1929 origins tied directly to the nearby Zhongshan Mausoleum.
Plum Blossom Hill sits on the southern slope of Purple Mountain in Nanjing's Xuanwu District, holding more than 40,000 plum trees across roughly 400 varieties, a scale that has earned it recognition as one of China's Four Great Plum Gardens and the informal title of the world's foremost plum blossom mountain.