Chinanews.com, Beijing, February 6 (Reporter Xu Jing) The Spring Festival of the Year of the Dragon is approaching, and on February 6, in the North Tianmen of Beijing's Temple of Heaven Park, the red lanterns hanging on the ginkgo trees add festive colors to the Spring Festival. On both sides of the road, 24 smart and lovely IP images "rumble" are decorated, showing tourists and citizens the culture of the central axis, Spring Festival folk proverbs, and the national intangible cultural heritage of the Temple of Heaven.
Spring Festival landscape of Temple of Heaven Park. Photo by Xu Jing
The reporter learned from the Temple of Heaven Park that during the Spring Festival and Lantern Festival this year, the Temple of Heaven Park relied on its own cultural connotation to create a rich and colorful "Temple of Heaven Brand" series of Spring Festival cultural activities, and 21 activities in three categories: "cultural performances, popular science experience, and online live broadcast" ran through February 3 (the 24th of the lunar month) to February 24 (the 15th day of the first lunar month), accompanying tourists to celebrate the New Year online and offline.
For the first time this year, the Temple of Heaven Park has created a special Spring Festival garden party of "Intangible Cultural Heritage Gathering for the New Year", inviting tourists and citizens to experience the unique cultural heritage of the Temple of Heaven in the strong atmosphere of the Year of the Dragon, and harvest the blessings of the Year of the Dragon from the Temple of Heaven.
Zhonghe Shao music used to be used for major state events such as national sacrifices, pilgrimages, and banquets. This year's Spring Festival (the first day of the Lunar New Year), the inheritors of the National Intangible Cultural Heritage Temple of Heaven Divine Music Department and Shao Music will perform for the first time in the form of a marching performance, allowing visitors and citizens to experience the charm of traditional Chinese music up close while visiting the park. In addition, visitors can also experience traditional Chinese intangible cultural heritage items such as paper-cutting, Taiping Yan, windmills, Peking Opera masks, woodblock New Year paintings, and knots at the "Intangible Cultural Heritage Gathering for the New Year" garden party, and learn about the wonderful story of the "Legend of the Temple of Heaven" intangible cultural heritage of the Temple of Heaven under the guidance of the docent.
During the Spring Festival and Lantern Festival in 2024, the Temple of Heaven Park will arrange a total of 4 landscape sketches, more than 3,000 lanterns of various types, more than 130 Chinese knots of various types, 120 road flags, and 50 hard decorations, so that visitors can feel the joyful and festive Spring Festival atmosphere and the cultural characteristics of the Temple of Heaven during their visit to the park. In order to enrich the festival culture, the park specially presents the magnificent and grand scene of the ceremonial guard in the form of props, and displays 100 pieces of various props on the Danbi Bridge.
Temple of Heaven Park. Photo by Xu Jing
On the first day of the Lunar New Year, visitors can follow the footsteps of the Temple of Heaven to visit the altar of the emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties, learn about the rituals of the ancient emperors to pray for blessings, look for the figure of the "dragon" in the Temple of Heaven, and go on a cultural journey to the Temple of Heaven in the Year of the Dragon. From February 2 to February 24, the Temple of Heaven Park will hold a "Celebration of the Festival" special cultural and creative market in the square in front of the blessing banquet, where tourists and citizens can choose their favorite cultural and creative products with the characteristics of the Temple of Heaven and special foods limited to the festival.
Spring Festival landscape of Temple of Heaven Park. Courtesy of Temple of Heaven Park
Focusing on "Spring Festival customs, Temple of Heaven architecture, and ecological culture", the park will also carry out 7 popular science activities, such as "Lingbo Fairy Shi Fandel", "Dragon Hunting and Treasure Exploration of the Temple of Heaven", and "Exploring the Temple of Heaven", which will be carried out in the form of offline recruitment and online live broadcast to attract more enthusiasts to participate.
During the Spring Festival, the Temple of Heaven Park launched a variety of cultural and creative products with special features for the Year of the Dragon and limited drinks. Among them, the Dragon Fortune refrigerator magnet is designed with the Chinese zodiac dragon loved by Chinese, and the design idea of Tiantian Ruyi combination refrigerator magnet is derived from the central axis of the Temple of Heaven; the special limited drink of the Temple of the Dragon integrates the "dragon" element into it, including "Fortune White Moonlight", "Fortune Lucky Dragon", "'Lion' to Run" Lion Awakening Latte, etc., inviting visitors to come and taste.
"Lion" to run the lion latte. Courtesy of Temple of Heaven Park
It is reported that in order to meet the needs of tourists as much as possible, the Temple of Heaven Park will study and analyze the changes in the structure of tourists during the holiday period in advance according to the number of tickets sold during the holiday, monitor the number of tickets in the ticket pool and the performance verification in real time during the holiday, dynamically adjust the ticket pool volume, and return the unfulfilled tickets to the ticket pool in time for tourists to purchase;
The number of comprehensive service windows in the Temple of Heaven Park will be increased to 16 during the Spring Festival holiday, and the number of ticket inspection channels in the whole park gate area and scenic spots will be increased to 30 to minimize the waiting time of tourists. In addition, more than 300 diversion queue railings and more than 80 temporary signs have been added to the park to ensure that tourists visit in an orderly manner. The tourist service center has increased water dispensers, and as always, it will provide tourists with free hot water, rest stools, power bank rental, emergency medicine kits, AED and other services. (ENDS)