He Ming Teahouse (People's Park)

He Ming Teahouse sits inside People's Park in Chengdu's Qingyang District, occupying a shaded lakeside courtyard that has served as one of the city's best-known open-air teahouses for decades. Rather than a spa in the conventional sense, it represents the Chengdu tradition of relaxation through tea culture: rows of low bamboo armchairs and small square tables spread across the terrace, where visitors settle in for hours over refillable glasses of jasmine or Sichuan green tea. Waiters in traditional dress move through the crowd with long-spouted copper kettles, pouring tea from a distance as a practiced flourish rather than a formal treatment. The signature draw for many visitors is the itinerant ear-cleaning service, performed tableside by practitioners using traditional metal tools passed down through a specific Chengdu craft guild, alongside occasional snippets of Sichuan opera face-changing (bianlian) performed by wandering artists. There is no fixed treatment menu or therapist roster; service is entirely walk-in, with tea and snacks ordered directly from staff circulating the courtyard, and ear-cleaning or shoulder-rub vendors approached and paid individually. Facilities are limited to open-air seating around the park's central pond, with no pools, saunas, or private treatment rooms. The setting is unmistakably public and social rather than secluded, making it a distinctly local counterpart to Chengdu's more clinical spa offerings.