Refreshing Horticultural Trip

Route

No.1 Gate——Gansu Garden——China Pavilion——International Pavilion——Joint Pavilion of Pacific Island Countries——Living Experience Pavilion (with an estimated travel time of two hours and 10 minutes)

Introduction

No.1 Gate

No.1 Gate, themed on “rites and music,” features a main structure that is 90 meters wide and 12 meters tall. The rite and music culture has penetrated through the millennia-old history of Chinese civilization. Throughout history, rites and music have been used to enlighten people. Music may inspire one to seek self-improvement and understand the law of nature. Rites can make one modest, polite, majestic and orderly. The gate themed on “rites and music” demonstrates China’s grandeur as a great nation of ceremonies and decorum. 

Gansu Garden

The winding Yellow River, the splendid ancient Silk Road and the gorgeous Dunhuang culture...Gansu, the ancient and mysterious western region of China is famous for the ancient Silk Road due to its colorful legends and romantic appeal. The Dunhuang culture is the most dazzling partof the Silk Road culture. It is a precious treasure bestowed by Gansu upon the whole world. The Gansu Garden of Beijing Expo 2019 will represent the symbols of Dunhuang culture, such as“an apsara playing the pipa behind her back”and“the nine-floored building of Mogao Grottoes”, by using artistic means to show the colorful and gorgeous picture of the Silk Road.

China Pavilion

One of the main pavilions of the International Horticultural Expo is the China Pavilion, which combines static display with dynamic interpretation according to the exhibition concept of “Living and Splendid China”, matches physical flower art with virtual artistic conception, pursues the long history of Chinese horticulture, watches the brilliant masterpieces of China’s horticulture, and appreciates the rhythm and vitality of mountains, rivers, forests, fields and lakes. It focuses on Chinese ecological culture with horticulture as the carrier, gathers the achievements of horticultural industry, ecological civilization construction in 31 provinces and municipalities of China and the frontier achievements explored by scientific research institutes, displaying the flower arrangement art of China’s intangible cultural heritage, creating a display platform for the development achievements of China’s horticultural industry and high-tech achievements, creating a demonstration window for the beautiful achievements of China’s construction in the new era, and building China’s horticultural ecological culture inheritance and innovation of communication space.

The exhibition area of the China Pavilion is 15,000 square meters, which is divided into four major exhibition areas, including China’s ecological and cultural exhibition area, China’s provincial and municipal horticultural industry achievement exhibition area, China’s horticultural universities and scientific research institutions’ scientific research achievements exhibition area, and China’s intangible cultural heritage flower arrangement art exhibition area.

International Pavilion

One of the main pavilions in the International Horticultural Expo is the International Pavilion, which takes the concept of “blending and blooming” as the exhibition concept. It adopts the multi-dimensional way of “object plus Multimedia plus interaction plus atmosphere” to describe the global horticultural culture stories such as the stories along “the Belt and Road” and assemble unique horticultural achievements and contributions from all over the world. The official exhibitors display their unique horticultural features and regional culture, and hold seven kinds of special international flower contest exhibitions, such as the 2019 World Flower Contest, city flower rose and chrysanthemum, show the development level of horticultural industry, and build a bridge of “openness and inclusiveness, win-win cooperation, inheritance and innovation” in the world through horticulture.

The exhibition area of the International Pavilion is 12770 square meters. It is divided into four major exhibition areas, including sunken square, preface hall, national (regional) and international organization exhibition area, special international contest exhibition area for the indoor flowers.

Joint Pavilion of Pacific Island Countries

The Joint Pavilion of the Pacific Islands is called “Pearls Sprinkled on the Pacific Ocean”．The design aims at displaying the beautiful regional features and vegetation’s ecological environment of the Pacific region， introducing the local horticultural features and humanistic features， and promoting the concept of marine environmental protection， so as to draw closer the friendship between China and the people of the region， and to promote the bilateral cooperation in economy， trade， tourism， culture and education． In order to highlight the vegetation characteristics and ecological vegetation growth environment， the garden takes the “pearl” melting and inclusive form as its design idea， combines the characteristics of vegetation， irregular shape of islands and multi－faceted streamlines of oceans， and embodies the concept of “harmonious development of oceans， islands and human beings”． The garden is represented by tropical vegetation， reflecting green vegetation， blue ocean， white beach， glossy pearl and other contents， creating a very marine exhibition space．

Living Experience Pavilion

As one of the main pavilions of the Internaitonal Horticultural Expo, the Living Experience Hall, according to the exhibition concept of “love gardening, love life”, combines several ways, such as static display, dynamic display, vision, hearing and interactive experience, centres on the plant diversity, coffee, tea, and traditional crafts so that visitors can experience gardening in clothing, food, housing, use, entertainment and health, and makes them experience that horticulture lets life become better. In the Living Experience Pavilion, visitors can also experience the herbal culture, understand the regional characteristics and industrial achievements of Yanqing, the host city, experience the interrelationship between meteorology, aerospace, and horticulture and life, experience the novelty and fantasy of horticulture encountering science and technology, and design our own horticultural living space by ourselves. With horticulture as the medium, people are guided to respect, conform to and protect nature.

The exhibition area of the Living Experience Pavilion is 9400 square meters. It is divided into four major exhibition areas, including preface hall, popular science horticulture exhibition area, living horticulture exhibition area and special horticulture exhibition area.