If you plan to visit Shanghai Zoo during the Qingming Festival holiday, give it a second thought!
A young tiger named “Hong Tang” has become a rising star at Shanghai Zoo recently. On Friday, the first day of the Qingming Festival holiday, the zoo received over 38,000 people under the craze of the tiger. People needed to queue one hour to watch it with a limit on visitors.
The zoo is overcrowded on Friday.
The tiger
With its adorable appearance, movements resembling those of a golden tabby cat, and natural charm in front of the camera, it has quickly gained popularity, becoming the zoo’s latest female celebrity.
Hong Tang, literally translated into brown sugar in Chinese, is a young tiger with golden fur and reddish-brown stripes. She has bright, clear eyes, round ears and face, and a patch of white fur shaped like a heart behind her left ear.
The tiger in her childhood
Big crowds at Shanghai Zoo
She’s a typical and beautiful female Bengal tiger and was born last summer.
Parks across the city saw big crowds as well on the day.
The Gongqing Forest Park had 70,120 visitors, and Shanghai Expo Culture Park received 73,000. The Chenshan Botanical Garden welcomed 46,206.
Chenshan Botanical Garden has big crowds on Friday.
A flower sea at Chenshan Botanical Garden
Big crowds at Chenshan
People take photos.