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Urban living museums + urban tourist attractions6 Cultural Precincts + 3 Heritage Pillars & Museum+2 Cultourism Destinations + 1 Living Experience Ecosystem
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1The discovery of the city's living museum

On June 2, 2024, Zhang Bo – former Deputy Director of China's National Cultural Heritage Administration, President of the Chinese Museums Association, and current CPPCC National Committee member – led a national expert team to conduct an on-site inspection at YiYuan Museum in Sichuan Province for its upgrade project.

The expert team conducted thorough inspections of key cultural sites, including the Ancient Shu "Golden Ox Dam" historical complex, Sichuan-style landscape art museums, and Sichuan Opera Heritage Park. They highly praised YiYuan Museum's innovative "Traditional Neo-Garden" concept developed by Luo Zhewen, affirming: "This 16-acre living museum uniquely integrates six thematic zones – tangible/intangible cultural heritage and natural legacy – representing China's most comprehensive heritage preservation paradigm."

This vision resonates with President Xi Jinping's call to "revitalize cultural relics housed in museums, heritage sites across the land, and wisdom preserved in ancient texts," positioning YiYuan as an exemplary model of new-era urban living museums that dynamically integrate heritage preservation with modern urban ecosystems.

2Workshop opens

Amid the accelerated evolution of cultural tourism, urban living museums – as paradigm-shifting synergistic models blending heritage preservation and experiential tourism – are poised to emerge as a strategic priority within global cultural discourse, redefining civic engagement through "heritage-tainment" innovations.

Living museums emphasize the integration of cultural heritage with modern life, and allow visitors to better understand and feel the charm of culture through display, experience and interaction.

The opening of the new era of new "urban living museum" seminar will lay a good foundation for the innovation and development of the museum.

3Definition of the Living Museum of the City

Revitalization of exhibits

The human culture of heritage

Villagization of exhibition halls

Experientialization of the scene

Exemplary conservation and utilization of cultural heritage

Convergence of new scenarios and businesses in cultural tourism

4Basic Characteristics of YiYuan's "Living Museum of the City"

It is a 6+3+2+1" urban living museum. That is, six theme venues + three major cultural heritage + museums and tourist attractions two cultural and tourism scenes + a cultural and tourism integration of new business ~ living experience industrial park.

Diversity of content in the exhibition park

Breaking through the limitations of exhibition space

Exhibit Living Life Variability

Compatibility between tradition and the times

Exemplary conservation and utilization of cultural heritage

Convergence of new scenarios and businesses in cultural tourism

Six themed venues
  • Gujiniu Dam, a dam in the Heilongjiang province, at mouth of the Ussuri River opposite Khabarovsk
  • landscape art
  • the art of bonsai
  • painting and calligraphy
  • Sichuan opera
  • The Art of Wedding

Historical and Cultural Heritage of the Ancient Jinniu Dam

       On October 15-17, 2024, the first seminar on "Urban Living Museums in China's New Era" was held at the Yi Yuan Museum in Chengdu City, Sichuan Province. Sichuan local experts, related cultural and exposition associations and units, on the city of living museums, the ancient Shu Jinniu Road and Jinniu Dam history and culture, discussed the definition of the city of living museums and determination criteria, back to the ancient Shu Jinniu Road of the cultural lineage and its historical significance. Famous Ba Shu cultural scholars Tan Jihe, Qi Hehui, Zhang Xingyu and other experts interpreted the intrinsic connection and historical significance of Jinniu Dam and the ancient Shu Jinniu Road when tracing back the historical lineage of the ancient Shu Road, the ancient Shiyu Road and the ancient Jinniu Road. It is believed that the ancient Jinniu Dam on No.8 Jinquan Road in Chengdu is the representative cultural symbol of Jinniu Road, the first road of the ancient Shu Road, the beginning of the long historical lineage, the indispensable and irreplaceable historical and cultural heritage of the ancient Shu Jinniu Road, and the Ancestral Memory of the Ancient Shu Jinniu Road and the Cultural Landmarks.

Three cultural heritages
  • Cultural heritage

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    Cultural heritage

    As China's national garden art museum, easy garden in addition to the collection of cultural relics of value of painting and calligraphy, precious classical furniture, ancient stone carvings, each building on the antique fine carving of cultural relics to build, the State Administration of Cultural Heritage Cultural Relics and Ancient Buildings Expert Group Leader Mr. Luo Zhewen on the easy garden of ancient construction garden assessment, the whole "easy garden is a building by the cultural relics of the ancient building relocation and cultural relics parts of formation Up, now should be regarded as a unit of cultural relics protection", and praised "YiYuan is a model of cultural relics protection and utilization".

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  • natural cultural heritage

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    natural cultural heritage

    Old and valuable trees throughout the Yi Park, the annual cycle can be up to several hundred years or even nearly a thousand years, the largest diameter of up to 2.5 meters. They are mainly from the project "Live Protection and Transplantation of Old and Valuable Trees" in the Three Gorges Reservoir area of the Yangtze River. Ancient and famous trees is one of the main elements of the success of the Yi Garden, because of these ancient and famous trees, rocks, removed ancient buildings and cultural relics to build buildings, making the Yi Garden has become a century-old garden. And when savoring these old trees, we will know that each old tree has a vicissitude of the history of legend and touching stories.

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  • intangible cultural heritage

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    intangible cultural heritage

    Sichuan Opera Performance and Inheritance
    Sichuan Bonsai Technique and Non-Genetic Inheritance
    Non-legacy Culture-Traditional Wedding
    Yiyuan Sichuan Cuisine and Tea Ceremony Intangible Cultural Heritage

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Easy Garden Ten Must See

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The Six Must-Sees

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A look at the cultural intent

The Yi Garden has established a cultural and creative system based on the "Aesthetics of Yi Theory" as its creative concept. For this reason, the name of the garden, the name of the courtyard, the name of the building, the door, the room, the attractions, the road, the dishes and the name of the tea are all based on the Yi system of cultural creativity, and based on the cultural creativity of the spatial pattern of the garden is planned. And to Yi's "to hide for show, to hide for show" "from here to there, from near and far" philosophical ideas and "want to raise the first suppressed" approach to build " Garden in the garden" "courtyard in the courtyard" plus the front and backyard, peaks and turns to the effect of "room".

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Second look at the spatial pattern

First, the overall presentation of the I Ching the first eight trigrams and five elements of culture as the four sides of the big pattern of positioning; second is to the garden, courtyard, hall, pavilion to the formation of the landscape between the "garden in the garden, courtyard in the courtyard," in the pattern of positioning; third is to the courtyards, halls, corridors, pavilions, pavilions, Xuan to the yin, yang, gray, three-space positioning of the small pattern of a room.

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Three look at the architectural features

Classical Chinese architecture: the Tang, Song, Ming and Qing Dynasties dominate the country, with Xi'an, Kaifeng, Beijing, Suzhou and Hangzhou each leading the way. Yiyuan, on the other hand, has achieved excellent results by creatively utilizing its unique Shu Han Que Lou architecture culture in Sichuan. The whole complex includes three large gate towers, a Daosheng Hall Art Museum, two large ponds, three large stone bridges, a large wall, a two-hundred-meter wall, water features, flower beds, flower tanks, stone lanterns in the courtyard, etc. It is a systematic and highly contemporary architecture. It is a systematic neo-classical Han-style architectural project with contemporary features. It shows the masculine beauty of "Shu Han style".

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Four look at the craftsman's handiwork

The whole project is a perfect blend of tradition and era, inheriting the traditional Chinese culture and creating a classic project of the times. It not only perfectly inherits the three core elements of Chinese classical architectural systems, materials and techniques, but also innovatively carries forward the core elements of Chinese classical architecture, which is a rare modern Han-style classic architectural complex in China, and has become a landmark architectural complex on Jinniu Avenue. In order to reflect the yin and yang of the Ideology and the harmony of rigidity and flexibility, the central axis reflects the masculinity with the hall building of "Shu Style and Han Charm", while the side garden reflects the femininity with the asymmetrical "Chuan Yuanzi" landscape courtyard.

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Five look at the natural ecology

The concept of "unity of man and nature, conformity to nature" of Yi Garden can best reflect the way of nature of Qingcheng and the Shu water culture of Dujiangyan.

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Six look at the ripples of the curved water

The concept of "unity of man and nature, conformity to nature" of Yi Garden can best reflect the way of nature of Qingcheng and the Shu water culture of Dujiangyan.

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Seven look at the ancient trees and stones

The old and famous trees of Yi Garden are one of the main elements of the success of Yi Garden, because of which the young Yi Garden can be made to look like a century-old garden from the appearance.

Stones throughout the park, from all over the country, there are far from Anhui Lingbi stone, Taihu Lake stone from Zhejiang, Shandong granite and so on. Large more than a hundred tons, small can play in the palm, there have been many writers and writers for this "stone record" and "YiYuan read stone" and other monographs, is a beautiful stone landscape.

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Eight look at cultural relics and monuments

As China's national garden art museum, Yi Garden in addition to the collection of cultural relics of value of calligraphy and painting, precious classical furniture, ancient stone carvings, each building on the fine carving of cultural relics to build, China's academic authorities in the industry, the whole "Yi Garden is a cultural relics from the parts of the move up now should be treated as a unit of cultural relics protection! ". China's ancient architecture master Mr. Luo Zhewen after visiting YiYuan, praised "YiYuan is a model of cultural relics protection and utilization".

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Nine look at the wedding sedan chair

Yi Garden is a specialized venue for "Chinese Wedding" ceremonies. It is a modern and traditional wedding ceremony designed for the people of China, where "wedding is the first of all ceremonies". It is a perfect process to celebrate the milestone of a new marriage. Ancient Chinese wedding "six rites", began in the Zhou Dynasty, including Nacai (marriage negotiation, propose marriage), ask the name (to ask for the eight characters of the body, the family, position, appearance, health, etc.), Naji (divining the auspiciousness, also known as the betrothal, now known as the betrothal), Naji (to send the bride price, the bride price), please period (to discuss the date of the wedding, also known as the choice of auspicious, send the day, the day of fixing), (the man goes to the woman's home to personally marry), has been gradually completed before the wedding ceremony. The last exciting ceremony must be done in the most beautiful environment. YiYuan Pear Garden is equipped with a full set of traditional wedding ceremony equipment, sedan chair, phoenix crown, head covering and so on. So that the new couple, in the "first worship of heaven and earth God blessing, two worship the high hall of grace as high as three worship honored relatives and four worship guests, husband and wife to worship the reunion. Cave flowers and candles cover lift, love and affection for ten thousand years." The sound of wishing and the laughter of friends and relatives leave unforgettable memories for a lifetime.

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Ten to see the Dragon Lantern Sichuan Opera

Yi Garden Dragon Lantern Sichuan Opera The dragon lanterns of Yi Garden are called the four spirits with traditional dragon, phoenix, unicorn and turtle, which are beautifully shaped, colorful, with rigid and flexible lines, shining with unique luster of non-material heritage. The Sichuan Opera in the Yi Garden Hall Meeting is the grand finale of the traditional art, and the Hall Meeting chapter is appreciated by both the common and the common people, and it is a place for the owner of the garden to appreciate and sing operas with friends and family members.

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The Four Essentials of Ease of Parking
a fine piece of bonsai
second-rate calligraphy and painting
Three kinds of Sichuan cuisine
the Four Pints Tea Ceremony
Easy Garden Video

Yi Garden is located in Jinniu Dam, No.8 Jinquan Road, Jinniu Avenue, Jinniu District, Chengdu. It is a new type of Sichuan garden art exposition garden created with the philosophical and aesthetic thought of Zhou Yi, with the history of Jinniu Dam in ancient Sichuan as the foundation, and with the goal of "bearing the cultural lineage of Huaxia and creating the classics of the times".

Yi Garden is a Chinese ancient garden master Luo Zhewen recognized and guided the creation of the domestic Xinhua style "traditional new garden". Because of its deep understanding of Luo Zhewen's traditional new garden of the true meaning of both North and South gardens in one furnace, with a combination of all the beauty, the technique of adopting the strengths of the north and south gardens, taking its northern garden of the "atmosphere", the Jiangnan garden of the "culture", Sichuan and Sichuan gardens of the "fairy breath". "It is a non-state-owned national garden art museum and "urban living museum" in China. It is a spiritual home where everything has a spirit and returns to nature. It enjoys the reputation of "Literary victory in Sichuan after Li Du, garden name Jinli match Suzhou and Hangzhou" and "Ancient history of the garden in Jiangnan, now look at the Chengdu Yi Garden made". It is the example and benchmark for the new era of Sichuan-style gardens to go out of Sichuan and to the world.

Yi Yuan Scenery

Yi Garden is located in the west of Jincheng, the ancient Jinniu Dam, which has been the best feng shui place in Chengdu since ancient times. Close to the metropolis and overlooking the Yubi Mountain, it has the idyllic landscape of "not out of the cache, open to the countryside" and the favorable environment of the State Guesthouse. It is an ideal place for "urban and rural happiness". It is the ideal environment of "making a hut in the people's realm without the clamor of vehicles and horses" pursued by Tao Yuanming, a Chinese reclusive literati.

Live Experience

The living experience of Yi Park is just like a flowing scroll of the I Ching, skillfully interweaving the spiritual charm of nature with humanistic philosophies, and weaving the millennium cultural lineage and contemporary life into an immersive cultural theater. Stepping into the park, every step of the path is a link in time, connecting the codes of ancient Shu civilization with the atmosphere of the marketplace. The sound of gongs and drums startles the koi carp in the pool, and the interpretation of Sichuan Opera on the stage forms a marvelous intertext with the young boy sketching, and the traditional art completes its modern translation in the flow of light and shadow. The apricot blossoms kiss the branches in spring, the shade of the trees falls on the green stone bridge at the summer solstice, the maple leaves are colored by the frost in autumn like a noblewoman's hairpin, and the evergreen pines and cypresses stand proudly in the snow after the winter solstice, all of which show the rhythm of life in the change of the four seasons.