Qingming Shanghe Park is a large historical and cultural theme park in Kaifeng, China's famous ancient capital, located on the west bank of Longting Lake, which is beautiful in Kaifeng City. It is based on the famous Northern Song Dynasty painter Zhang Zeduan's heirloom work "Qingming Upper River Map", forming the largest imposing ancient building complex of the Song Dynasty in the Central Plains. Qingming Upper River Park not only reproduces the "Qingming Upper River Map" with magnificent momentum, but also uses ingenious creativity to activate history, so that tourists enter the park, as if through the time and space tunnel into a historical picture of activities, often making people have the feeling of "stepping into the picture scroll, dreaming back to the millennium" of time.
The journey began with the "Map of the Upper River of the Qingming Dynasty".
"Qingming on the River" is the only surviving fine painting of the Northern Song Dynasty painter Zhang Zeduan, with a width of 24.8 centimeters and a length of 528.7 centimeters, colored on silk, belonging to the first-class national treasure, one of the top ten famous paintings in China. The "Map of the Upper River of the Qingming Dynasty", which is now in the Palace Museum in Beijing, is recognized by most experts and scholars as the authentic work of Zhang Zeduan.
In the form of a long scroll, the composition method of scattered perspective is adopted, and the complex scenery is included in a unified and changeable picture scroll, which is mainly divided into two parts, one part is the countryside and the other part is the market. There are more than 550 people in the painting, more than 50 livestock, more than 20 boats, more than 30 houses and buildings, 13 cars, 14 cars, 17 bridges, about 180 trees, different clothes, different looks, lifelike, interspersed with various activities, pay attention to the plot, the composition is dense, rich in rhythm and rhythmic changes, pen and ink chapter method is quite skilled.
This painting depicts the prosperous scene of the Life of the Northern Song Dynasty in the city of Beijing, a witness to the prosperity of the Northern Song Dynasty, and a portrayal of the economic situation of the Northern Song Dynasty, vividly depicting the daily social life and customs of the Capital City of the Northern Song Dynasty. Through this painting, we can understand the urban appearance of the Northern Song Dynasty and the lives of people of all walks of life at that time, which has high historical value.
It records the face of urban life in China in the 12th century, which is unique in the history of Chinese and even world painting.
Kaifeng Qingming Upper River Park, based on the "Qingming Upper River Map", concentrates on reproducing the original map of the scenery, and is a key supporting project for the national Yellow River tourism line.
Qingming Shanghe Park covers an area of 600 acres, with more than 50 large and small ancient boats and more than 400 Various Song-style houses. The whole scenic spot is full of herbs, ancient sounds, bells and drums, forming a lifelike ancient style charm of "silk willows want to blow the face, scales reflect silver sails, wine flags are spread with the wind, and cars are like chains".
The main buildings of Qingming Upper River Park are the City Gate Tower, Hongqiao, Street View, Shops, River Channel, Wharf, Boat Yard and so on. According to the original layout of the "Qingming River Map", the park concentrates on the on-site production of song dynasty restaurants, tea shops, pawnshops, embroidery, official porcelain, New Year paintings, etc.; folk entertainment, juggling, pan drum performances; divine fortune telling, gambling, cockfighting, dog fighting and other Kyoto styles.
Zhang Zeduan ,字正道,also spelled Wenyou(文友), a native of Dongwu (present-day Zhucheng, Shandong), was an outstanding realist painter at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, who served at the Hanlin Picture Academy during the reign of Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty, specializing in painting. Most of his works have been lost. The "Qingming Upper River Map" was originally a tribute to Emperor Huizong of Song and has a history of more than 800 years.
The large relief of "Qingming Upper River Map" is currently the largest cyan marble relief in China. The total length of the relief is 32.07 meters, the width is 1.53 meters, and the material used is 120 tons. It is carved by enlarging 6 times on the basis of the original picture.
The theme square of the park. Floating in the pond water in the center of the square is a simple Song Dynasty wooden boat with towering masts and high cloud sails, symbolizing the busy transportation and superb shipbuilding technology of the Song Dynasty.
Tokyo Docks: Recreate the scene of the Song Dynasty boats gathering and busy water transportation.
Hongqiao is an important creation in the history of ancient Chinese bridges, listed as one of the top ten famous bridges in China, and a major landscape in the Qingming Upper River Park.
It crosses the "Bian River", its momentum is like a rainbow, you can walk over people on the top, and you can carry goods and boats on the bottom.
Beihe River: 1,800 meters of Beihe River, an exhibition and a half of the garden full of blue waves.
The waterwheel park covers an area of 1.2 acres and is composed of three groups of water wheels.
The waterwheel has a long history and a peculiar appearance, and is the oldest irrigation tool along the ancient Yellow River.
The largest water wheel with a diameter of 17 meters is unparalleled in the world.
Another slightly smaller than it is the passive water wheel, which is also up to 12 meters in diameter and can be used to drive water mills and other machinery.
Pingqiao fish viewing. The colorful carp under the bridge is a species specially imported from Japan, because they have a bright pattern on their bodies, so they are called koi.
Shangshan Gate, it is a landmark building depicted in the "Qingming Upper River Map". People praised it as "a painting of beams and a magnificent atmosphere". After passing through the city gate, you can really enter the city.
The hotel with the prosperous business and the high embroidery flag is called "Sun Yang Zhengdian", which is another finishing touch in the "Qingming River Map". The decoration in front of the building is "Huanmen Cai Lou", which is equivalent to today's neon lights. Sun Yang Zheng's restaurant is fully equipped with catering facilities, concentrating the essence of the food in the Northern Song Dynasty.
Zhao Tai Cheng family, "Tai Yi Cheng" is the name of the Song Dynasty court medical palace, then Tokyo Kaifeng is the national medicinal material distribution center, known as "Fragrant Mountain Medicine Sea". Most of the high-class medicine shops were opened by the families of officials and eunuchs or court doctors.
Fun Garden is a paradise where children can play freely and where adults can rejuvenate their children. Here you can throw darts, archery, rope climbing, drill circles, swing, slide, indulge in fun, and experience the fun of Song Dynasty games
Xuande, Xuanhe Hall: The two halls are the same shape, integrated, from a distance like a city tower, up close as a palace, the architectural structure is fine, and it is painted. The two halls are respectively performed royal shadow puppet plays and chimes Qingming Shanghe Garden night scene music and dance, wonderful.
The Great Song Dynasty. "Tokyo Dream" is a large-scale water live performance with an investment of 135 million yuan in the Qingming Upper River Park Scenic Area.
The whole drama is 70 minutes long, with more than 700 actors participating in the performance, which is another masterpiece of Chinese live-action performances. The whole live-action performance uses a large number of scientific and technological elements to create a fantastic mood and pull people's thoughts back to the prosperous Song Empire a thousand years ago.
The eight classic Song words and a picture of the "Qingming River Map" are connected to include the carefully selected impression of the Northern Song Dynasty to evoke a nation's thinking about the rise and fall and the passion for its rise.
Unfortunately, there were no performances on the day of our tour, so we had to shoot the venues for these performances.
