4. Chang'an Park

In order to display the unique history, culture, and geographical characteristics of Shaanxi Province, the 2011 Xi’an Horticultural Expo built three Parks including Chang'an Park, Qinling Park, and Poetic Landscape in Chang’an Park. Chang’an Park has a design theme as “interpretation of new concepts of green, ecology and Chinese style”. It has Space Plants & Space Science Education Exhibition Zone, Bamboo Culture Exhibition Zone, Herb Culture Exhibition Zone, Cultural Water Front Exhibition Zone, and Peonies Exhibition Zone.

1) Space Plants & Space Science Education Exhibition Zone

Space plants and space horticultural varieties are displayed in this Zone. It carries out the space science education by applying a narrative design of the landscape and symbolism, interpreting the history of human understanding and exploring the universe.

Layout of the Space Plants & Space Science Education Exhibition Zone

2) Bamboo Culture Exhibition Zone

It is the interpretation of new concept of Chinese Style. The entrance, sculpture, bamboo corridor, bamboo plank road, bamboo house, teahouse, and other landscape elements with rich Chinese characteristics are made by weaving bamboos slices in the traditional way. Listening to the sounds of bamboo flute from the bamboo house, sipping tea in the teahouse, enjoying the beautiful scenery, and watching rustling tall bamboos, you will calm down and forget all your worldly troubles.

Bamboo Culture Exhibition Zone

3) Herb Culture Exhibition Zone

This zone is shaped by layers of terraces，fresh and natural. When seeing people farming here, you will thinking of “While picking asters beneath the Eastern fence, My gaze upon the Southern mountain rests”-the verses of Tao Yuanming, a poet of the Jin Dynasty (AD 265-420).In the bamboo cottage, a famous doctor wearing a white beard is curing patients. Chinese traditional culture of the unity of human and nature is perfectly interpreted and presented here.

Herb Culture Exhibition Zone

4) Cultural Water Front Exhibition Zone

Reed, lotus pond, trestle bridge, spring, stream, painting cottage, and a green island together constitute a rich poetic ink-and-wash landscape painting. There is a painting cottage beside the lotus pond, where two paintings are hung. Opening the window, you will find an amazingly perfect blended view through the window juxtaposed to the paintings.

Cultural Water Front Exhibition Zone

5) Peonies Exhibition Zone

Bypassing the bamboo forest, you will find a garden appear in front of you, full of beautiful tree peonies and herbaceous peonies. Xu Ning, a poet in the Tang Dynasty (AD 618-907), wrote in a poem, “Who do not love the peony? Its beauty surpasses that of all other flowers in the city.” Jiang Kui, a poet of the Song Dynasty (960-1279), affectionately asked, “For whom should the peonies near the bridges grow red from year to year?” In the garden, besides the blooming peonies, you can also find flourishing fern-leaf hedge bamboos, and bees and butterflies flying among the peonies.