The Nature Life Festival, with the tagline "Everything is Shining", kicked off on April 25 as a highlight of the 2025 Shanghai International Flower Show.

The festival is unfolding across two major venues: Sinan Mansions and Fuxing Park, aiming to create new urban natural living scenarios through more than 100 activities.

The event encompasses various segments, including an ecological art exhibition, a natural living market, a music festival, and a floral yoga festival.

The natural living market creatively embraces the five Chinese elements: metal, wood, water, fire, and earth. The metal area highlights the fusion of intangible cultural heritage crafts and literature; the wood area offers an urban forest healing space; the water area emphasizes orangutan conservation efforts; the fire area promotes low-carbon lifestyles, and the earth area showcases the wisdom of plateau nomadic civilizations.

The market features a diverse range of debuting brands, featuring innovative products and experiences from handmade jewelry and eco-friendly merchandise to AI-customized health teas and intelligent E-bikes.

In Fuxing Park, the organizers have launched the Blossom & Breathe Festival, inviting 20 yoga instructors to lead 15 professional activities, resulting in the park's first-ever large-scale yoga event.

The event also boasts seven stages hosting over 40 music performances, with the Shanghai Culture Square offering a special immersive workshop for the musical The Blade and Flower of the Secret Service Agent.

This year's festival will also feature two nature-themed dialogues and literary exchange activities.

During the May Day holiday, the Sinan indoor and outdoor floral exhibitions will be open to the public, offering a five-day holiday music performance series in a retro television set at Sinan Square, spanning genres such as jazz, opera, musicals, and folk.

Additionally, the Sinan Living Circle has launched the Natural Tales: Spring Mystery Boxes Experience event, running from April 18 to June 6.

Sources: Shanghai Observer, WeChat account of the publicity department of the CPC Huangpu district committee