No one denies that visiting the zoo is something with nostalgia and fairy tales. In an era when entertainment was relatively scarce, everyone's childhood memories included a zoo where we had our first impressions of nature.
Yellowed photos record the laughter and laughter of the past, and now the Tianjin Zoo has undergone years and changes, but it is also an irreplaceable existence in the memory of Tianjin people.
West Gate of Tianjin Zoo
The older generation of Tianjin people when they were young saw animals not in the current zoo, but in the People's Park.
After the completion of the People's Park in the 1950s, tigers, bears, wolves, monkeys and other animals were introduced in the park, and more than 100 kinds of animals were developed in less than ten years, becoming the largest zoo in Tianjin at that time. There is also a golden leopard that was given to china by an African country in 1953.
The predecessor of People's Park " Rongyuan "
Later, in 1975, the construction of the current Tianjin Zoo began, and in 1980 the zoo moved to the side of the water park and officially opened on January 1.
The zoo is dotted with animal houses, with round, square, hexagonal, fan-shaped, and curved shapes. Looking at the map now, I may not think that there is much place, but when I was a child, I felt that there were really many animals, and I couldn't finish looking at it every time.
At that time, the ticket price of the zoo was not 30 yuan, and how many people still had the ticket stubs they had to throw away.
Source @ Intoxicated Green Trees and White Clouds
At that time, the most impressive thing was Shihu Mountain. When I was a child, I always had the illusion that I couldn't get out after entering the "big mouth" of the big tiger. Obviously scared to death, or have the courage to go in and see the big tiger to be satisfied.
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At that time, the indispensable part of visiting the park was to buy officially sold feed and snacks to feed the animals, and take a wave of intimate group photos.
The big crocodile in the rare amphibian museum, the giraffe in the giraffe hall eating green leaves... I'm afraid I'll never see it again if I miss it once.
Of course, in addition to watching animals, walking in the forest, and boating on the water, you can also play for a long time in the amusement park next to it, bumper cars, rotating flying chairs, animal carousels, coffee cups and other projects, as long as you can play once, you are particularly satisfied.
The trees in the garden are lush, the green grass is green, the sky and water are colorful, and the scenery is beautiful. At that time, I liked to paddle on the lake in the park, and the Dinosaur Square I passed was undoubtedly the most ample scenery.
Dinosaur Square @ Pumpkin in Leo
The signs in the park also witness the passage of time, and the peeling notice paper is also the standard "year after year, and the seams are patched for another three years".
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After 40 years, a batch of rare animals have entered the Tianjin Zoo, and many old Tianjin people have witnessed the changes in the zoo, and this zoo is also known as a city business card, and many tourists who like animals will come to visit.
At that time, after passing through various animal sculptures in the park, the children could not help but take a few nostalgia when they met.
At that time, the most important thing I wanted to go to was the Panda Pavilion. If you can find the opportunity to take a photo with the national treasure giant panda in the crowd, you can be happy for several days.
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Counting the history, Tianjin Zoo has had giant pandas since its official opening in 1980, when a total of four were raised. Two of them, Rong Rong and Zhaizhai, also participated in the 1981 World Exposition in Japan. With the passage of time, four giant pandas have successively "died", and the longest-lived village died in 1999.
In October 2015, the "Hot Girl" Joy, who was born in the Sichuan Panda Base, became the eighth giant panda to stay at Tianjin Zoo since its opening. The panda Gege, who then settled in, is also about to become a new partner of Joy.
Nowadays, Tianjin Zoo is a "net red animal making machine".
For example, some time ago, a "bungee bear" video became popular on the Internet, only to see this brown bear crouching next to the ladder, shaking its head and twisting its posture like bungee.
Netizens have joined the discussion camp:
@ I want to go to the beach: Good hi yo! I felt like my bear had reached its peak.
@Lulu Sauce Sauce Sauce: Only I swing the most...
@Flying Bright: True joy
@Nightmare-Hao: The magic of love turns in circles
@Yam Lamb Chop: Zoo can sell night tickets
@EaSy_TeaLife: Whatever the objective factors... It's still good to exercise
@Left-handed Maniac: The rhythm is strong!
In fact, this is a 3-year-old Tibetan brown bear, there is this performance because the spring and summer estrus is more exciting, the video has been accelerated processing, so it is easy to be understood as "bungee".
In March last year, there was also a "monkey with a human face" that became popular on Weibo overnight, making the Tianjin Zoo catch fire again.
This star is the "Black Hat Hanging Monkey"
Look at this confused little look
Simply the strength to interpret what is called "a face of confusion"
Another wave of "dislike of the three consecutive"
"Look,
Haven't you seen a handsome monkey?! ”
According to the nursery, the monkey was born in 2000. Like this black hat hanging monkey, the zoo also has 3, but the "national character face" This is the monkey king, the appearance is a little strange.
Netizens have left messages, and even suspect that this "human-faced monkey" is a zoo staff pretending!
During the 2012 European Championships, a "prediction emperor" alpaca was fired in tianjin zoo - big fat.
"Big Fat" is famous for its magical prediction record of 12 guesses and 10. During the European Cup, "Big Fat" participated in the prediction of 12 games, including 7 group matches, 5 knockout matches, and finally guessed 10 games, of which 6 were group stages, 4 were knockout matches, and the probability of accurate prediction of 10 games was less than 1 in 10,000. Shoulder to shoulder with the octopus "Paul".
"Big Fat" accurately predicts the Czech Republic's 1-0 victory over Poland
However, when it comes to the stars of Tianjin Zoo, in fact, the oldest is indispensable to a "hundred-year-old" hippopotamus.
The data shows that the maximum life expectancy of hippopotamus under artificial breeding conditions is 40 years, and the "seven children" who are 40 years old at that time are equivalent to nearly 100 years old. Since the birth of the first child on October 20, 1985, until May 2016, the "seven sons" known as the "heroic mother" have given birth to a total of 20 children, ten men and ten women, which just make up ten "good" characters, which can be described as perfect and blessed.
If the star animals of Tianjin Zoo have ever made movies, can you believe it?
In the 1980s, beijing film studios shot the stereo color widescreen stereoscopic film "Happy Zoo", which is now a 3D film, in which the peacock opening shot was filmed at the Tianjin Zoo.
Jiang Kun and Li Wenhua participated in the filming, as well as circus actors, clowns and zoo keepers from circuses in Beijing, Shanghai, Suxian and other places. The film features wonderful scenes such as orangutan dancing, pandas eating Western food, tiger taming, and people fighting with dogs and bears, which constitute the image memory of the zoo in the 80s.
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At that time, the first time I saw the peacock open the screen, the first time I saw the lion beast, the first time I saw the giraffe grazing, the first time I fed the sika deer... Many of the experiences full of novelty are unique memories given by the zoo.
Nowadays, in order to put an end to uncivilized feeding behavior, the free-range area of the zoo has been built with protective facilities, and there is almost no chance of intimate contact between tourists and animals, so the original experience is so precious to think about.
Once upon a time, our reverie about animals came from the animal world, and being able to come to the zoo to see animals once was enough to excite us for a long time.
Nowadays, with more developed online information, children have more ways to entertain, and animal knowledge is no longer through park signs, this traditional zoo is becoming more deserted.
Each of us will pass the age of seeing animals, and we will also go farther and farther on the road to losing our innocence. The once familiar buildings are gone, and will the animals that grew up with us see each other again?
In any case, the zoo has carried the childhood fun of generations, and if you have time, you may wish to come back and check it out.