Yuantucheng Ruins Park

Yuandadu City Wall Ruins Park

synonym

Yuan Tucheng ruins park generally refers to Yuan Dadu ruins park

The Yuandadu ruins park is built on the Yuandadu ruins (national key cultural relic protection unit, batch number VI - 1). It starts from Mingguang Village, Xueyuan South Road, Haidian District in the west, reaches huangtingzi in the north, and turns to Madian and Qijiahuozi in the East. The national 4A tourist attraction is a modern urban heritage park with cultural and historical connotation, which integrates the protection of historical sites, leisure and recreation of citizens, improvement of ecological environment, disaster prevention and emergency refuge.

As the witness and physical remains of the development of Beijing's urban civilization, Yuandadu site is an important trace to study the changes of Beijing's urban site, which is of great significance to the exploration and development of Beijing's cultural history. And it is the first Humanistic Olympic Landscape built in Beijing.

Historical development

In 1266, Kublai Khan decided to rebuild the new city in the northeast of the former central capital, and construction began in 1267. With Qionghua Island (now Beihai) as the center, the palace city, Imperial City, temple and so on will be built. It was named Dadu in 1272 and completed in 1284 with a circumference of 28.6 km

. In the first year of Hongwu (1368) of the Ming Dynasty, after conquering the capital of the Yuan Dynasty, the northern city wall contracted southward for about five li

It is the remains of the city wall more than ten meters high, commonly known as "Earth City".

In 1957, "Tucheng" was listed as a key cultural relic protection unit by Beijing Municipal People's government.

In order to protect the Yuandadu ruins, the Tucheng greening team was set up in Chaoyang District on September 25, 1974. The park was officially approved by Beijing Municipal People's Government on March 10, 1988 and named "Yuandadu Ruins Park"

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In September 1989, the district government set up a stele named "Yuandadu city wall site" on the north side of the west end of Jian'an East Road. The stele is 2.5 meters high, 4 meters wide and 1 meter thick. There are more than 600 words of "Dadu Fu" on the east side of the tablet and the inscription of "Yuandadu city wall site" on the west side of the tablet, which briefly introduces the vicissitudes of the city wall of Yuandadu in the past 700 years

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In order to protect the Yuandadu ruins and cooperate with the Olympic landscape construction, Chaoyang District Greening Bureau carried out the overall transformation of Yuandadu Ruins Park in 2003. After the transformation, the Yuandadu Chengyuan ruins park is the largest of four in Beijing and the first in China: the largest urban belt park, the largest outdoor sculpture, the largest constructed wetland, and the first pilot park to complete the construction of emergency shelters in Beijing. Therefore, Beijing has become the first city in China to carry out the construction of emergency shelters and hang "emergency shelters" signs. For Beijing to create a "people-oriented, green as the body, water as the line, history as the soul, the combination of disaster" classic garden

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On May 25, 2006, the site of Yuandadu city wall was announced as the Sixth Batch of national key cultural relics protection units

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Main attractions

Yuandadu city wall ruins park is a narrow strip with a total length of 9 kilometers, across Chaoyang and Haidian districts. The five nodes in the park, namely "Jimen Yanshu", "Dadu Jiandian", "Guyuan Xinyun", "Dadu ShengDian" and "Longze Yuyue", connect the Chaoyang section with the Haidian section, and show the development of Dadu in the Yuan Dynasty for more than 700 years

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Haidian section

There are ten scenic spots in the yuantucheng ruins park within the boundary of Haidian District, which are: Chengyuan reminiscence, Jimen tobacco tree, Tieqi Xiongfeng, jicao Fenfei, Yinbo Deyue, crape myrtle painting, Dadu Jiandian, Shuiguan Xinyi, Anshan Shengshi, Yanyun pastoral

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"Jimen tobacco tree" node is the most Western starting point of Yuandu park. The scenic spot is particularly beautiful in spring, and spring is also the starting point of the year. "Jimen tobacco tree" symbolizes the early stage of the development of the ancient city of Beijing, and symbolizes the bright future of the city with the vigorous vitality of spring. According to legend, Tucheng is an ancient Jizhou site. The old buildings and halls were abandoned, but there are many trees beside the tufu in the gate. This is the "Jimen tobacco tree" in the eight scenes of Yanjing. There is an existing Qianlong Yupai, in which the poems describing "Jimen tobacco tree" are carved into murals to increase the humanistic connotation.

"Dadu Jiandian" and "Dadu grand ceremony" echo each other, reappearing the construction scene and prosperous scene of Yuandadu

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Chaoyang section

Located on the East and west sides of Zhongzhou Road and the south side of the Olympic Park, Yuandadu Ruins Park (Chaoyang section) is the largest belt park in Beijing. It has a total length of 4.8 km, a width of 130 m to 160 m and a total area of 67 hectares. It includes three first-class scenic spots, namely Yuancheng Xinxiang, Dadu Dingsheng and Longze Yuyue, and six second-class scenic spots, including shuangdu xunxing, Sihai guests, Haitang Huaxi, Anding Shenghui, Shuijie Huadeng and Jiaolou ancient charm

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"Shuangdu touring" scenic spot: the relief wall reflects the scene of the Yuan emperor's return in spring and autumn and the welcoming and seeing off of a hundred officials, so that tourists can not only understand the prosperity of the Yuan Empire, but also know the characteristics of the combination of grassland culture and Central Plains culture, as well as the political ruling characteristics of both Dadu and Shangdu

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"Friends and guests from all over the world" scenic spot: located in the south of the Chinese nation park, this scenic spot reflects the political characteristics of Yuan Dynasty, which was an open country, courteous and courteous to the world. The sculptures of "Qinghua porcelain", "arrow and shield" and "copper wall and iron wall" on the three sunken horse face squares on the north side of the scenic spot reflect the artistic and military achievements of the Yuan Dynasty.

"Haitanghuaxi" scenic spot: located in the east of panda ring Island, it has been preserved after renovation and improvement. There are many kinds of Begonia trees planted in the scenic spot, such as Xifu Begonia, tiegeng Begonia, Jinxing Begonia and chuisi Begonia. It is the largest Begonia forest in Beijing.

"Dadu heyday" scenic spot: it is located in the east of Xiaoguan intersection of Anding Road. The group sculpture of "Dadu heyday" and the large-scale mural with a total length of 80 meters, together with garden sketches such as horse, stone sheep and wooden pavilion, represent the characteristics and outstanding achievements of Yuan Dynasty in politics, economy, military, science and technology, culture and life, and show the rough and heroic characteristics of the original text. It is the largest outdoor group sculpture in Beijing.

"Longze Yuyue" scenic spot: at the easternmost end of the park, the urban light rail and Xiaoyue River intersect obliquely to form a triangle shaped like a dragon's head, covering an area of about 17000 square meters, forming a natural wild wetland park with countryside scenery, becoming the largest constructed wetland in the urban area of Beijing

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Environmental construction

The green coverage rate of Dadu Ruins Park in Yuan Dynasty reached 73%. Xiaoyuehe River crossed the park. On the south side of the park is the protection area of Tucheng ruins, and on the north bank is the construction area of green scenic spots. Xiaoyue river is the main water scenic area. Seven aquatic plant areas are planted with lotus, reed, calamus, scallion and other aquatic plants, and a hydrophilic viewing platform is built. Along the Xiaoyue River, five wooden boat docks and six river crossing bridges with different shapes were built to connect the beautiful scenery of different styles on both sides. Shallow water, planting iris, scallion and other aquatic plants

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In the Yuandadu Ruins Park, there is haitanghuaxi, which is planted with Xifu Haitang, tiegeng Haitang, Jinxing Haitang, chuisi Haitang, etc. The park's Begonia Festival is one of the three major spring flower festivals in Beijing, which is known as the Peach Blossom Festival in Xiangshan botanical garden and the Cherry Blossom Festival in Yuyuantan. It has been held since 1998. During the activity, visitors can enjoy the Begonia flower while listening to the soothing background music in the park

. As of the 15th Begonia festival in 2012, 28 varieties and more than 5000 plants of Begonia have been planted in Chengyuan ruins park of Yuandadu City, which is the largest variety and quantity of Begonia Garden in Beijing

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Traffic routes

Public transport:

1) Take bus No.407, anzhen Xili, and get off at once;

2) Get off at 653, 409, 380, 849, TE2 Road, 515 Anzhen Hospital North Station;

3) Get off at Beitucheng station of Metro Line 10 and arrive at the station;

Self driving route:

1) Anhua bridge on the Third Ring Road North to Tucheng East Road, turn right (East) about 100 meters to the south;

2) Anhui bridge on the Fourth Ring Road South to Tucheng East Road, turn right (West) about 500 meters to the south.

Address: Beitucheng West Road, Haidian District

Longitude: 116.36276252568

Latitude: 39.975295410815

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