Daming Palace National Heritage Park

Daming Palace of Tang Dynasty is the most magnificent building complex among the "three great Nei" (Taiji palace, Daming Palace and Xingqing Palace) in Chang'an city of Tang Dynasty. It was built in the eighth year of Zhenguan reign of Emperor Taizong of Tang Dynasty. There are more than 40 sites such as halls, platforms, pavilions and so on. The present ruins park is restored and rebuilt on the Daming Palace site. The sites of Hanyuan hall and Linde hall in the park are now open to the public.

Daming Palace National Heritage Park

Daming Palace National Heritage Park is a world cultural heritage and a national key cultural relics protection unit. Located in Taihua South Road, Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province, Daming Palace is located in the north of Ancheng. It was built in the eighth year of Emperor Taizong's Zhenguan reign (634), with a slightly trapezoidal plane.

Daming Palace is the most magnificent palace complex of the Tang Empire, and also the largest palace complex in the world at that time. It is the national symbol of the Tang Dynasty. It was first built in the eighth year of Emperor Taizong's Zhenguan reign and destroyed in the late Tang Dynasty, covering an area of 3.2 square kilometers.

Daming Palace site is one of the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units announced by the State Council in 1961. It is a major site protection project with world significance determined by the International Council on ancient sites. It is an important part of the Silk Road's overall application for world cultural heritage. Daming Palace National Heritage Park is a key project for Xi'an's urban construction, protection and improvement of people's livelihood. Xi'an's "Urban Central Park" makes the protection of Daming Palace Heritage area a growth pole for Xi'an's leading, balanced and scientific development, an ecological foundation for Xi'an's future urban development, the most important human symbol, and a symbol of the world's ancient civilization Important support to further enhance the urban characteristics of Xi'an.

On June 22, 2014, at the 38th UNESCO World Heritage Committee meeting held in Doha, Qatar, the Daming Palace site in Chang'an city of Tang Dynasty, as one of the sites in the "Silk Road: road network of Chang'an Tianshan corridor" jointly applied for World Heritage by China, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, was successfully included in the world heritage list.

In February 2020, from the date of resumption of operation to December 31, 2020, the policy of free visit will be implemented for all medical workers throughout the country. Medical workers with valid certificates (doctor's certificate or nurse's certificate) can enjoy free visit to key tourist attractions and museums.

Brief introduction of the site

architectural composition

Daming Palace National Heritage Park is located in Taihua South Road, Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province. Daming Palace Heritage Park is the most glorious and magnificent building complex in the "three great Nei" (Taiji palace, Daming Palace and Xingqing Palace) of Chang'an City in Tang Dynasty. It is located on the longshouyuan in the north of Chang'an city. It was built in the eighth year of Zhenguan reign of Emperor Taizong of Tang Dynasty. Its plane is slightly trapezoidal and covers an area of about 3.2 square kilometers. The perimeter of the original palace wall is 7.6 km. There are 11 gates on all sides. There are more than 40 proven sites such as Dian Tai Lou ting. The southern part of Daming Palace is the former dynasty, which is composed of Hanyuan hall, xuanzheng hall and Zichen hall from south to north; the center of inner court in the north is Taiye pool.

Development orientation

With the protection and transformation of Daming Palace site and the display of the culture of the prosperous Tang Dynasty as the characteristics, we will build a new urban area with international standards integrating culture, tourism, commerce, residence and leisure services.

General idea

Guided by cultural planning and advanced planning, driven by the construction of Daming Palace National Heritage Park, led by organizing large-scale city operators to participate in the first-class land development, guaranteed by "overall demolition and overall construction", and aimed at improving the living standards of the people in the region and improving the quality of the city, Xi'an will strive to build a demonstration new area of humanity, vitality and harmony, and explore the great heritage It is a new model of site driven urban development, opening up a new path of protection and utilization of large sites, and accumulating new experience of urban overall demolition and development.

Construction target

We should build a world-class cultural relics protection demonstration project, build a world-class National Heritage Park, improve the living environment and create an international model of planning and construction, realize the harmonious integration and coordinated development of history and modernity, economy and society, cultural relics protection and urban construction, promote the great development of culture and tourism industry, and realize regional scientific development, accelerated development and innovative development Exhibition, harmonious development.

Planning pattern

The Daming Palace National Heritage Park will be built into the "Urban Central Park" of Xi'an in the future, so that the protection of Daming Palace Heritage area will become the urban growth pole of Xi'an's leading, balanced and scientific development, the ecological foundation and the most important cultural symbol of Xi'an's future urban development, and the important support of the world's ancient civilization capital, so as to further enhance the urban characteristics of Xi'an .

In spatial form, the basic pattern of "one heart, two wings, three circles and six districts" is formed

Two wings: the north square of the railway station as the axis, along the Longhai line to form two major urban transformation plates; one heart: Daming Palace National Heritage Park; the other side: the north square of the railway station as the axis;

Three circles: the formation of Weiyang Road, Taihua Road, North Second Ring three business circles;

Six areas: planning and construction of cultural tourism area, business service area, business core area, transformation demonstration area, central residential area, centralized resettlement area and other six functional areas.

Historical evolution

Cooperative development

On July 17, 2007, Qujiang special session of 2007 Hong Kong Xi'an investment promotion conference was successfully held in Hong Kong. Leaders and guests attending the signing ceremony included sun Qingyun, member of the Standing Committee of the Shaanxi provincial Party committee and Secretary of the Xi'an municipal Party committee, Jing Junhai, member of the Standing Committee of the Xi'an municipal Party committee and director of the Management Committee of the high tech Development Zone, Duan Xiannian, assistant mayor and director of the Management Committee of Qujiang New Area, senior executives of CNOOC, as well as celebrities from the business and financial circles of Hong Kong.

At the promotion meeting, Xi'an Qujiang New Area and Hong Kong China Overseas Development Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as CNOOC) signed the overall cooperation and development framework agreement of Daming Palace project. CNOOC will spend more than 20 billion to participate in the construction of Daming Palace National Heritage Park and the reconstruction of surrounding areas. After the completion of Daming Palace National Heritage Park, it will become a world-class cultural tourist attraction comparable with the National Central Park of the United States. This indicates that Xi'an has entered a new historical stage in the construction of harmonious coexistence of historical and cultural heritage protection and urban modernization, and that Xi'an's public cultural construction will enter the international advanced ranks.

This strategic cooperation is an important milestone for CNOOC to fully participate in the urbanization construction of Xi'an, and will play an important role in promoting the development of Xi'an city. This is also a major achievement of the development strategy of building a humanistic, dynamic and harmonious Xi'an.

International bidding

On January 24, 2008, the "Xi'an Tang Daming Palace site protection demonstration park and national heritage park concept design international competition scheme review meeting" jointly held by Xi'an Municipal Bureau of cultural relics and Xi'an Qujiang Daming Palace site protection and reconstruction office was solemnly held in Xi'an. Ten masters of cultural relic protection and architectural planning at home and abroad, including giola sola (treasurer of ICOMOS), Luo Zhewen, Zhang Jinqiu, Guo Zhan, and an Jiayao, carefully evaluated the scheme. Finally, the design works of alilahamimov architects in Israel and Daniel pini architects in Italy won the second and third prizes respectively.

After the international competition, IAPA Design Consulting Co., Ltd. of Australia finally decided to take the winning scheme as the implementation scheme, and the company was responsible for the deepening of the overall concept scheme and the detailed planning of the park.

International competition

The international conceptual design competition for the demonstration park and National Heritage Park of Tang Daming Palace in Xi'an started on October 28, 2007. In just three months, 29 well-known design institutions participated in the competition. After layer upon layer selection, the design schemes from eight design institutions including China, the United States, Italy, Japan, Australia, Norway and Israel passed the preliminary selection and entered the review meeting. The eight participating units are all top design institutions in the world, representing the main schools of world ancient ruins architecture. At yesterday's review meeting, representatives of the participating units went to the front desk to introduce the characteristics of the design scheme to the experts and the public, showing their different planning concepts and design styles. Giola sola (treasurer of ICOMOS), Luo Zhewen, Zhang Jinqiu and other experts carefully reviewed the competition scheme, and asked questions on cultural relics protection, architectural form, feasibility of the scheme and other aspects. Experts from the team of participating units answered their questions one by one.

At yesterday's judging meeting, the experts expressed their own opinions on each entry, and the discussion was extremely intense. After strict evaluation, the works of alilahamimov architects in Israel won the second prize, and the design works of Daniel pini architects in Italy won the third prize, the winning prize and the first prize. Experts agree that the four winning works have their own characteristics, which can be called the world-class design scheme.

At the same time, experts believe that the protection exhibition of Daming Palace site reflects the Chinese model and the oriental cultural heritage protection model, making the cultural industry demonstration project centered on Daming Palace National Heritage Park a model and model that can be promoted to the international cultural heritage protection field. As the best conceptual design work, it requires not only the continuation of the original emptiness of Daming Palace site in design In addition, in the functional layout, the historical and modern atmosphere should be combined

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