Rain Flower Terrace and Martyrs Memorial (Yuhua Tai Lieshi Lingyuan)

Rain Flower Terrace and Martyrs Memorial (Yuhua Tai Lieshi Lingyuan) Review

The terrace gets its name from the legend of Yunzhang, a 15th-century Buddhist monk who supposedly pleased the gods so much with his recitation of a sutra that they showered flowers on this spot. The site was used for a more grim purpose in the 1930s, when the Nationalists used it to execute their left-wing political enemies. The site was transformed into a memorial park with massive statues of heroic martyrs, soaring obelisks, flower arrangements of the hammer and sickle, and a moving museum that uses personal objects to convey the lives of some of those executed here.