Wu Culture Park

Located in xigaoshan, 10km away from the northern suburb of Wuxi City, it is the first cultural garden founded by folk funds in China. With Wu culture as its connotation, the park has 17 Museum areas, including daofengwei, sericulture lane, chuanqiao History Museum, traffic Museum, Jiangnan style garden, education Museum, humanities Museum and student education camp. With rich materials, objects, pictures and audio-visual image means, it shows the magnificent pictures of Wu's production, Humanities and folk customs in the past four thousand years. The park was built in the spring of 1984. It is a rare and unique cultural construction project in China. The Park focuses on the integration of natural landscape and cultural landscape, takes thousands of years of Wu history and culture as the longitude, takes each section of the big culture as the latitude, and integrates excellent national culture and local conditions education. Wu garden has 18 pavilions and 16 scenic spots with Wu culture as its connotation. There are 18 Museum areas, including daofengwei, Yanli farmhouse, Taohua Village Hotel, sericulture lane, Wudi chuanqiao History Museum, Xishan Transportation Museum, Wuxi academician Museum, patriotic stele Gallery, Xishan Education Museum, Wudi development history hall, Wudi celebrity hall, teacher mountain, Wudi Buddhist culture hall, Wudi folk belief culture hall, Wudi 360 line exhibition hall, Jiangnan style garden, Fushou villa, and God of wealth Pavilion. Wu Zhaohui and other 16 scenic spots. By means of abundant materials, objects, pictures and audio-visual images, it shows a magnificent picture of Wu's production, culture and folk customs for 5000 years. The theme of patriotism education is formed: educating people with strong local feelings, inspiring people with human culture, inspiring people with national spirit of resisting aggression, and edifying people with colorful folk culture. Wu culture is the soul of Jiangnan. Wu garden is also equipped with student camp service area, Wu Street Business District, wanjuan Lou research service area, doctor's building reception area, koutianlou administrative area and believers' dormitory area to provide high-quality services for tourists. In September 1996, the park was named "national patriotism education base for primary and secondary schools" by six ministries and commissions of the central government, designated as Wu culture branch by China Agricultural Museum, designated as patriotism education base by Propaganda Department of Jiangsu provincial Party committee, Wuxi Municipal Party committee and Xishan municipal Party committee of the CPC, and one of 11 landmark spiritual civilization construction units in Wuxi. The park has always adhered to the two-way development of social and economic benefits. It has become a big classroom for the education of local conditions, a cornucopia for the development of tourism resources, and highlights the four functions of education, culture, garden and tourism. The third phase project of Wu Culture Park will prepare to build the first building in the south of the Yangtze River "Longguang Pavilion", with an area of 10000 square meters. It looks like a bright red mountain flower blooming in the west mountain. Wu Culture Park is close to the prosperous area of Yanqiao town. To the north of him is the factory of Zhao Hanqing, the richest man in Yanqiao town. There are rhinoceros in Wu Culture Park. There is also a historical story about this. In recent years, the western mountain where Wu Culture Park is located has been opening up, and the area of the mountain has been decreasing. On one side of the west mountain, after being mined, villas are under construction for commercial use. At the same time, in Wu Culture Park, there is a very famous hotel in Yanqiao Town, Huayan villa. Wu Culture Park has a "360 line, line out of the champion" Museum, which has a great educational impact on local students. Under its influence, a number of talents have been cultivated. Yang Zhenyu, a doctor studying in the United States, works at the American Academy of Sciences.....

Wu Culture Park

Wu Culture Park is the first cultural garden in China, which was founded by folk funds. There are 17 Museum areas, including daofengwei, sericulture lane, chuanqiao History Museum, traffic Museum, Jiangnan style garden, education Museum, humanities Museum and student education camp. With rich materials, objects, pictures and audio-visual image means, it shows the magnificent pictures of production, humanities and folk customs of Wu in the past four thousand years.

In February 2020, in order to express our gratitude to the medical staff, we will implement the free admission policy for medical workers and their spouses and children from the date of the resumption of the park to December 31, 2020.

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Wu Culture Park, also known as Wu Culture Expo Garden, is called Wuxi folk village by tourism circles. Wu Culture Park is located in the west mountain of Yanqiao Town, Huishan District. It is the first large-scale cultural garden funded by farmers in China. At the beginning, there were only three retired teachers. Facing a barren mountain, they had no office space, no funds and no materials. They started from scratch. So far, there is no second park in China in terms of its cultural connotation, scale and popularity at home and abroad.

The goal of the founding of the people's Republic of China is to "build a large classroom for the education of local conditions and develop a cornucopia for tourism economy" and to "awaken the national soul" and "improve the humanistic quality of the whole nation". The park takes the regional culture as the connotation, develops the local cultural resources, forms a large-scale comprehensive cultural garden, has the very bright Wu culture theme characteristic. In September 1996, Wu Culture Park was named "national patriotism education base for primary and secondary schools" by the State Education Commission (Ministry of Education), the Ministry of civil affairs, the Ministry of culture, the State Administration of cultural relics, the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League and the General Political Department of the people's Liberation Army.

The main gate of the park is a grand archway with flying eaves, brackets and exquisite carving. Five powerful gold characters of "Wu Culture Park" are engraved on the front of the main gate, which is inscribed by the famous mathematician Su Buqing. Qigong, a famous calligrapher, wrote "pregnant Wumen". Su Juxian, a 110 year old poet and calligrapher, wrote the plaque of "Fushou mountain" and the couplet of "Fushou mountain is a famous scenic spot, so there is no need to look for it; people come here, and their body and mind are from Er Kangning", which is called "the first square in the south of the Yangtze River". Walking into the park, there are black tile walls, small bridges, flowing water, and a Jiangnan style painting.

There are 19 pavilions in Wu Culture Park, including 6 pavilions in material culture area: daofengwei, Yanli farmhouse, Taohua Village Hotel, sericulture lane, Wudi chuanqiao Museum, Xishan Transportation Museum; 7 pavilions in human culture area: Wudi Development Museum, Wudi celebrity hall, teacher mountain, Wuxi Academy Museum, patriotic monument, Xishan Education Museum, Xishan qiaoweng Guyu bailing hall; There are six pavilions in the folk culture area: 360 clay sculptures in Wu area, Fushou villa, Jiangnan style garden, God of wealth Pavilion, Wu belief culture center and Wu Buddhism culture center. In the exhibition area, there are five treasures preserved as cultural heritage, namely 3, With 70000 square meters of imitated Ming and Qing ancient buildings, 9 steles, more than 300 inscriptions, more than 1000 couplets and plaques written by famous domestic writers, more than 1000 sculptures of various materials, and more than 1000 folk production and living utensils, the collection has protected and displayed a variety of artistic treasures in Wu, enriched the people's cultural life, and had a positive impact on society. By means of abundant materials, objects, pictures and audio-visual images, the park presents a magnificent picture of Wu's production, culture and folk customs for 5000 years.

The first one to be built and opened is the Wu Culture Museum [New Year's day, 1990], which shows the historical development of Wu culture. There are a lot of pictures and models in Wu Di development history museum, among which the most striking one is the statue of Taibo. The enlightenment and development of Wu culture are inseparable from Taibo. The Museum of history shows the audience the meritorious figures and achievements in the development of Wu land in various historical periods since Taibo went south. Display the historical sites of Taibo, Zhongyong, Jizha, Helu, etc. in developing Jiangnan, display the fishing, hunting and farming scenes of jingman ancestors in prehistoric times, and show the achievements of Dayu, Taibo, huangxie and chenxun in water control. In the hall of talent cultivation, the records of Jinshi and the list of top scholars in Wu area are displayed, the children's examination, the local examination, the joint examination and the palace examination are introduced, and the statues of educational celebrities and local sages are displayed to reflect the outstanding people in Wu area. In the hall of fame, there are 51 ancient and modern celebrities, such as Gu Kaizhi, Ni Zan, Li Shen, Gu Xiancheng, Hu Yuren, Tang Wenzhi, Hua Yanjun, Yang Yinliu, Qin bangxian, Rong Zongjing, Rong Desheng and Sun Yefang, all of whom are in high spirits. The hall of all trades and the 360 rows of profiles show all the living beings of workshops, small business owners, craftsmen and individual traders in Wu area, where all trades and professions have flourished since Fan Li went into business, such as rice market, cloth wharf and smelting. The main hall of Wuxi County is a part of the local government in the old days. Fushou mountain and Jiangnan style garden show the wedding and funeral customs of Wu.

In May 1995, the two pavilions of daofengwei and sericulture Lane in Wu Culture Park were designated as Wu culture branch by China Agricultural Museum.

Daofengwei shows the production characteristics of Wudi, the history of rice culture and water conservancy culture. On the right side of the entrance is the "rolling cage" where poor peasants lived in the old society. Inside, there are tree stumps as benches, urn and bed, reflecting the hard life of peasants at that time. On the walls of the hall are the distribution map of Neolithic sites in the Taihu Lake Basin, the photos of the sites and the unearthed carbonized rice, and the route map of rice farming in ancient China. When you enter the rice custom hall, you can see a group of clay sculptures, which vividly depicts the whole process of rice cultivation, such as soaking, plowing, digging, planting, raising, ploughing, scooping, harvesting, threshing, hulling, pounding and storage. In the hall, there are some ancient farm tools, such as water rickshaw, cattle water rickshaw, mud farming boat, rice bed, Mulong, wooden rice mortar, stone mortar, stone mill, windmill and bamboo screen. Visitors can participate in the operation and experience the life scene. Outdoor small bridge water, peach willow shore, a school of Jiangnan pastoral scenery. On the north side of the exhibition hall, pictures, models and objects are used to show the development of agricultural technology and tools innovation in the past dynasties, and the whole process of productivity development from stone, bronze to iron farming. Entering the outline of water conservancy, along with the Jiuqu outline, it shows the development history of water conservancy in Wudi, including the utilization of groundwater, the formation of Hangou, the opening of the ancient canal, the evolution of the reservoir and so on, which reflects that water conservancy is an economic development

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