[Source: Beijing Daily]
Reporter Zhu Songmei
The Yuan Dadu City Wall Ruins Park is demolished and the greenery is revealed, and 28 varieties of begonias are competing to bloom. Photo by reporter Pan Zhiwang
On the bank slope of the river that transports the tide, the orchid blooms into a sea of purple flowers in February. Photo by reporter Fang Fei
Xifu Haitang
After years of water control, Wangjing Ditch has restored the clear water and green banks, and the Begonia Flower Creek has become a popular scenic spot. Photo by reporter Deng Wei
In the spring of Beijing, you can see flowers everywhere you go.
This year, there are 132 cherry blossom viewing areas in the park alone, with a total viewing area of more than 44 million square meters. The mountain peaches in the Summer Palace, the peonies in Jingshan, and the tulips in Zhongshan Park have been red for decades, and they are naturally on the list. The cherry blossoms in the green heart of the city, the February orchid in Jiangfu Park, and the iris in Higashi-Koguchi Urban Leisure Park have become the new top stream.
The "Blossom Beijing 2024 National Blossom Viewing Season" will also be launched, and a flower-viewing map will be released to the public and a recommended flower-viewing strategy will be released.
Xia Xiaoyun takes his family to enjoy the flowers almost every weekend, bringing food, setting up a tent, and soaking in nature for a day, refreshing from the inside out. "The ancient poem says: I have nothing to do in the spring to be busy with flowers. We are usually busy with work, so we have to take a break to look at the flowers to relieve stress. She laughs.
This is the "20-minute effect in the park", which has been very popular recently. It comes from an authoritative study that states that a 20-minute walk in the park can lead to a better mental state even if it is a brief encounter with nature. Many young people choose to go to the park to take a break and get off to a better place.
Xia Xiaoyun was born in the 80s of the last century. In her childhood, "visiting the park" specifically referred to going to the Summer Palace and Beihai historical gardens. Whether it is a spring outing organized by the school or a family outing by relatives, it is a very grand event. Children are so excited that they can't sleep, and they plan in advance what dresses to wear and what snacks to bring, which is very ritualistic.
It's different now. There are several parks on your doorstep, so you don't need to plan ahead, you can reach it on foot. According to statistics, the total number of parks in the city has reached 1,065, not including those small and exquisite parks in residential areas and villages.
Attentive people will notice that many parks have also torn down fences. They are no longer distinct from the neighborhoods, and a touch of new greenery is seamlessly integrated with the city, transparent and amiable. Since 2022, 109 "unbounded parks" have been built in Chaoyang and Haidian districts alone, including Haidian Park, Qingfeng Park, and Yuan Dadu Chengyuan Ruins Park.
Changchun Fitness Park is also an unbounded park, surrounded by a number of residential areas such as Everbright West Park and Wancheng Huafu Shangyuan, with many residents. In the past, residents liked the park downstairs, but they also inevitably complained: the straight-line distance between the community and the Indifactory bus station was only 100 meters, but a circle of iron railings blocked the road, and everyone had to detour more than 400 meters.
In the autumn of 2022, Changchun Fitness Park implemented the "Tear Down the Fence and Reveal the Green" project, and also replanted many flowering trees and flowering shrubs. Nowadays, residents can get off the bus and walk directly into the park, through the winding forest trail to the doorstep, on a good day, it is as beautiful as Miyazaki's animation, and is called "the most beautiful way home" by many office workers.
Parks are not only integrated into the city in form, but also become an important carrier of citizens' lives in terms of function, no longer simple green spaces and gardens. This spring, many parks hold cultural fairs to provide more options for visitors to enjoy the flowers.
Side Park is a beautiful garden, embedded in the city's first foreign-related business district - Lido business district. The garden lawn is green, the lake is clear, and the path is surrounded by trees and begonias, and more than 2 million visitors enter the park every year. Not long ago, an art exhibition was held on the shores of the lake, surrounded by flowers and trees.
"When people come here, they can not only eat, drink, and watch exhibitions, but also buy jewelry, illustrations, clay sculptures and other beautiful and interesting objects at home. The children also have to play and can be the head of the workshop. Tan Ying, the director of the park, said that the three-day event will integrate art, lifestyle and business into nature, bringing visitors a more interesting experience in the park.
The Garden Festival in Ritan Park, the Image Season in Jiangfu Park, the Paper Airplane Contest in Longtan Middle Lake, and the Infinite Music Festival in Urban Green Heart Forest Park...... This spring, because of one wonderful event after another, Beijing's parks "lived", creating more vivid scenes for the garden city.
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