Peach Blossom Land and Dongting Lake Represent Beauty of Hunan

The Hunan Exhibition Garden of Beijing Expo 2019 will adopt the theme of“Gathering onPeach Blossom Land”, using the typical scenery and imagery in Hunan Province, such as DongtingLake, Peach Blossom Land andHibiscus, to guide the visitorsinto the depth of Hunan culture.

“The Hunan Exhibition Garden will focus on creating landscapes such asWuling Mountains, Dongting Spring, Peach Blossom Land, Purple Curtain of Crape Myrtle, Dunyi’s Teaching and Xiang Village House, linking them with rocks, waters, fields and gardens, and displaying the beauty of Hunan Province via the change of space and the diversity of paving materials and plants,”said the designer Xiao Jie.

The entrance to the Hunan Garden is the Wuling Mountains where the rockery resembling the WulingMountains inZhangjiajiestandswith Wuling pine trees andChinese fringe flower stumps. Layers ofrocks are embraced by verdant and luxuriantvines.Walking through the rockery, the Peach Blossom Land gives you a pleasant surprise. Next to the meandering limpid water,the visitors walk on,pass the breeze pavilion and thecrape myrtles, walk leisurelyinto the splendid peach blossoms sprawling hundreds of steps across, where you can breathein the fragrance of peach blossoms and immerseyourselves inthe beauty of the landscape.Walking out of the Peach Blossom Land,the visitors will enterDongting Spring.The small lake symbolizes the beautiful Dongting Lake where the meandering water falls into. Mountain, water, forest, field and lakeappear one after another.Walking along the lake, you will go through the Purple Curtain of Crape Myrtle, a corridor of crape myrtle flowers. Along the water bank, many native Hunan plants, such as Xiang bamboo,osmanthus, hibiscus,azalea, Xianglotus, crape myrtle and magnolia, will come into you sight.Crossing the stone bridge, you will come to“Dunyi’s Teaching”where playful koi are chasing each other in the limpid lake water and the swaying lotus flowers remind you of the beautiful Chinese verses - "Out of mud, not defiled; washed bywater, not voluptuous”.Walking towards the north,you will come to the Xiang Village House featured with a cabin, a courtyard and a vegetable field.It is a place of quietude and peace. Passing through the courtyard, you will come to the Colorful Pepper Field where azaleas are the intervals of the peppers of different colors. Together with the rocks, they form a sea of colors, with layers upon layers of flowers.