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Sichuan News Network-Home News Chengdu, April 24 (Reporter Xu Yuke, Xie Chuanxia Photo Report) Exercise trails with handrails, rehabilitation training facilities with increasing difficulty, and rehabilitation training bars...... All these equipment and facilities that seem to be incompatible with the word "garden" come from the healthy garden area of the 2024 Chengdu World Horticultural Expo Lvkang Garden.
Lvkang Garden
In fact, this is a venue for outdoor activities and fitness. "These facilities are mainly designed for people who are physically frail and need to exercise their limbs with the help of external forces, and psychologically need the healing of external environments such as gardens and plants to relieve stress. Weng Xufeng, research assistant at the Green Therapy and Health Landscape Research Center of the School of Architecture of Tsinghua University, introduced.
Weng Xufeng said that the Lvkang Garden is the only exhibition park with the theme of "health" in this year's World Horticultural Expo. The design concept is derived from the latest hypothesis of human "green genes" proposed by Professor Li Shuhua of the School of Architecture of Tsinghua University. The "six functional zones" and five healing perception paths are set up to activate the "green gene" of the human body through the five senses experience of garden users, gardening operations and other activities, so as to achieve the ultimate goal of improving and promoting physical and mental health.
Exercise trails
At the entrance of the exhibition park, the turquoise landscape is used to create a quiet space to create a visual image with oriental charm, and the exterior wall of the building with a height of nearly 4 meters is used to simulate the indoor and outdoor boundaries of different places, and handrails are set up near the window to assist in standing or exercising.
High and low planting beds
In addition, in the horticultural operation area, many participatory activity scenarios can be offered. For example, high and low plant planting tables and movable planting beds are convenient for people of all ages to carry out gardening experiences such as planting, weeding, leaf picking, watering, flower picking, and fruit picking. "Through participatory plant cultivation and horticultural operations, there can be positive effects on the physical, mental and social levels of people. Weng Xufeng said.
Stimulation zone for the five senses
In the Green Health Garden, the most eye-catching is the five senses stimulation area. According to Xiang Pengtian, a doctoral student at the School of Architecture of Tsinghua University, the five senses stimulation is the basis of horticultural therapy, the human body perceives things through the five senses, sight, smell, taste, hearing, and touch, and the color, shape, sound, smell, taste and texture of plants will produce strong five senses stimulation to people, thereby stimulating the potential of the body and enhancing the perception of the human body.
For example, the visual experience area is characterized by an ecological landscape wall built by landscape stones and volcanic rocks, with a variety of dendrobiums planted on the wall, such as ferns, cold water flowers, etc., and plants such as paving cypress, flowering and leaf stones, creeping thyme, etc., are planted on the ground schist combined with fog spray, bringing a unique visual impact to people.
Medicinal and edible homologous plants
"The garden selects 20 authentic medicinal materials from Sichuan such as white peony, asparagus and Chuanxiong, and nearly 100 kinds of medicinal and edible plants such as yam, hawthorn and cassia seed, which can not only help users understand Chinese herbal medicine, but also carry out gardening operations on related themes and improve the cultural literacy of traditional Chinese medicine. Xiang Pengtian said that to create this "healing" garden, it is hoped that everyone can enter the natural environment and relax by contacting a variety of plants. In the future, such garden health and horticultural therapy demonstration gardens may appear on community street corners, nursing homes, hospitals and other places, so that people can enjoy a more comfortable life.