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- Detail of Main Gate to Yu Yuan</font><br>
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- <td align="left" valign="top"><FONT size="-1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">To show his appreciation and as an act of filial piety, Pan Yunduan decided to build his father, Pan En, a garden in Shanghai where he could study, contemplate, and write. He hired Zhang Nanyang, a famous landscape artist, to design the garden and lay out the buildings. The work began in 1559 and took about 19 years to finish. </FONT>
- <p><font size="-1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">In the frieze above, Ming soldiers are victorious over the Mongolian Yuan in battle.</font></p>
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