The full text is 1733 words, and the reading time is about 4 minutes
"Go to the park! ""Sit outdoors for 20 minutes, and engage in some 'mental fast charging' ......" Recently, on major social platforms, the "20 minutes in the park" effect has become popular.
This effect, originally published in the International Journal of Environmental Health Research, mainly said that spending 20 minutes a day in a park or a place where you can get in touch with nature, even without any exercise, can improve an individual's mental state.
Can just 20 minutes really make a significant difference to people's well-being?
According to research, being in the natural environment can significantly reduce the level of cortisol (stress hormone) in the body. At the same time, the natural environment helps to relax and rest the control center of the brain, the prefrontal cortex. (Source: Xinhua Daily Telegraph)
Escaping from the "steel forest" and taking a break from the trivial daily life, such a 20 minutes is a "mental recharge" and an episode of fast-paced urban life. It presents the relationship between people, nature and public space in urban life. We can't help but ponder: how to build an "exit from nature" in the urban landscape to make people live a happier urban life?
In Qujiang, there may be an answer to this question.
In the urban landscape, the real nature is "transplanted".
"After being in the cage for a long time, I can return to nature. "Spending 20 minutes in the park is the most direct way to take a break from the hustle and bustle of life. The way to relieve the pressure is simple: the sky, the breeze, the birdsong, a green area or a few lush trees, and a bench for people to pause for a moment.
In the final analysis, it is to "transplant" a "habitat" between man and nature in the busy "urban landscape" of busy traffic and high-rise buildings.
In Qujiang, there are many natures that have been "transplanted" and "rooted" in the city. Whether it's the soft wind, the bright flowers, or the green forest, the snow...... Nature's favor, there are good places to go in Qujiang at all times.
Spring flowers, there are tulips in Xingqing Palace, peonies in Daming Palace;
Tulip diagram of Xingqinggong Park
Peony flower map of Daming Palace National Heritage Park
In summer, there is a leisurely and rippling hibiscus lake, a curved river pond painted with layers of lotus flowers, and a moat where water ducks tread waves;
Tang Paradise Lake Tour
Summer lotus flower picture of Qujiangchi Ruins Park
Duck picture of Qujiangchi Ruins Park
Autumn leaves, there is a dense forest of fallen leaves in the Qin II Mausoleum Ruins Park, and the bright golden ginkgo in the Tang Da Cien Temple;
Qin II Mausoleum Ruins Park Golden Autumn Ginkgo Diagram
Ginkgo biloba map of Tang Da Ci'en Temple Ruins Park
Stepping on the snow in winter, there are snow-white pavilions and pavilions in the Hibiscus Garden, and the "boundless" grassland with snow falling in the Duyi Ruins Park......
Snow scene of Tang Paradise
Snow scene of Duyi Ruins Park
In addition, there are many interactions between "people and nature" that are full of vitality. The little girl who flies a kite in Duyi Ruins Park, the elderly who play tai chi and chess in Qujiang Youth Park, the young man who plays ball in Qujiang Cultural Sports Park, and the uncle who plays the piano in Huancheng Park......
At this moment, people are no longer the "screws" of the urban system in the field of nature, but have become concrete and intimate individuals.
Ring Park on the banks of the moat
Running, playing the piano, relaxing, hiking, people go to the park for different purposes, but they all come to the same end. Obviously, the explosion of "20 Minutes in the Park" is not a trend of the Internet, but a desire for people in busy cities to experience the real nature and simple life.
In Qujiang, this desire has the soil to grow. As an urban landscape, the park has "transplanted" the real nature to the greatest extent, and has also become the "spiritual outlet" of urban life.
Xingqinggong Park
In the "natural public space", an "immersive" life is constructed
The nature that is "transplanted" into the city actually constitutes a kind of natural urban public space.
In the park of Qujiang, people share the blue sky and clear water, jointly create the humanistic atmosphere of the public space, and also feel the feedback of nature in it, so as to form an interactive "ripple", and the natural urban public space has become an "immersive" scene that wraps people's hearts.
In other words, the park blurs the "distinct" boundary between the city and nature, and gives people a "healing prescription" for the "healing" experience with an "immersive" experience. So, how can such a park be more "immersive" in Qujiang?
On the one hand, it's a little closer, a little closer to everyday life. The green space around the community, the garden in the shopping complex, the cherry trees next to the traffic arteries, the square under the viaduct...... "nature" embedded in the city, the park has become a fluid form of space, ubiquitous.
On the other hand, it is "free pleasure". "Fortunately, the sunshine is free, and you can sit under the big tree for an afternoon ......" Compared with staying in a homestay, hiking, and traveling, flying kites in Duyi Ruins Park and enjoying green willows by the Qujiang Pond are obviously less financially burdensome. The free and open park attracts people, and the people who walk through it become part of the "immersion", and the vitality of the park is born from this.
In addition, the integration of garden design and urban design is also indispensable. With the human senses as the scale, where to smear green, where to point red, the flow of water waves, and the winding of the path, it is not only the collision of humanity and nature, but also the "dream machine" to build an "immersive" natural life in the city.
From this, imagine a weekend of Qujiang life: only take the key to go out, walk into the park in ten minutes, find a bench to "be in a daze for 20 minutes", the wind shakes the trees, the sky is blue and the grass is green, if there is still a warm sun with a pool of clear water, who can not sigh "the sun is strong, the water waves are gentle"?
Cities become parks, connecting people with nature
In recent years, more and more cities have begun to explore "natural urban public space", which may be a realistic basis for the explosion of the "20 minutes in park" theory, but what is more about to emerge is the redevelopment of urban civilization: from seeing nature to seeing people.
People need parks and "natural urban public space" in order to better connect with the city and then invest in social life, while cities need parks in order to build a better urban life, and invisibly, with nature as the background, to reconcile the unique urban humanistic feelings.
Just like the red wall and white cherry blossoms on Qujiang Chixi Road in early April, and the ginkgo biloba under the Big Wild Goose Pagoda in mid-November, Qujiang's urban temperament is constantly brewing in the process of connecting people and nature, and then blending in the image of "Chang'an" where modern and ancient constantly collide, forming a unique urban temperature, which is not only close to nature, but also warms people's hearts.
At this time, the park is no longer a "fragment" of the city, and the city has become the park itself, which has also silently given the answer of "making people live a happier urban life", and has become an excellent answer sheet for building a national garden city and promoting the development of urban ecological civilization.
If you have time, take a 20-minute break in the park in Qujiang, stretch your body, let your spirit breathe, and feel the connection and interaction between the city, nature and people. And a green, harmonious and flexible picture of Qujiang city life starts from the "20 minutes" of you and me, and slowly unfolds.
Editor: Ling Wei Proofreader: Rose Preliminary Review: Wang Lei Final Review: Wenjing Xi'an Qujiang New Area Financial Media Center Production