Good luck prosperity and longevity are the likely fortunes of San Luis Obispo’s newest public park, spearheaded by Cal Poly’s retired Landscape Architecture professor Alice Loh.

Although the Board of Chinese Gardens of  San Luis Obispo wanted to name the Park after Alice Loh, Alice prefers to dedicate this park in memory of her parents .Their philanthropy and noble thoughts and deeds have inspired many of their children, relatives and friends, and certainly made a profound impact on their daughter. Alice provided both an English name for the park and a Chinese interpretation of the name, as follows :

English Name LC YC Cheng Park (the names of Alice’s father and mother)

Chinese  Xiao Ci Yuan *SR is a place to memorialize and respect one’s loving parents .

Xiao means fidelity to natural obligations, loyalty . (Confucius’s teaching - `man ‘must respect, devote and be loyal to his parents .)

Ci means loving, kind.

Yuan means park or garden, a place for meditation, reflection, passive recreation .

Stop by for some serenity!