Wuhan Cherry Blossom Festival

Wuhan University's Cherry Blossom Avenue, planted from 1939 with trees later supplemented by a 1972 China-Japan diplomatic gift, draws large spontaneous crowds each March despite the university stating it organises no official festival, making it a working campus attraction rather than a managed event, distinct from Wuhan's separately organised East Lake park festival.

Japanese soldiers occupying Wuhan planted the first cherry trees along what became Wuhan University's Cherry Blossom Avenue in 1939, and after diplomatic normalisation between China and Japan in 1972, then-premier Zhou Enlai received a further gift of a thousand cherry trees from Japanese prime minister Kakuei Tanaka, planting several dozen on the same campus where Zhou himself had once lived.