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The Beijing Botanical Garden, located at the foot of the Western Mountains in Beijing, has attracted the attention and favor of more and more people in Beijing over the years with its unique tourism resource advantages. Not only that, among the increasing tourists every year, foreign and overseas tourists have also begun to account for a considerable proportion. I remember that on April 21, 2005, 15 years ago today, the reporter visited here during the "17th Beijing Peach Blossom Festival and World Famous Flower Exhibition" held by the Botanical Garden.
Spring Brilliant Botanical Garden (Photo: Feng Ganyong)
just arrived outside the south gate of the Beijing Botanical Garden, I saw that the vehicles coming to visit blocked the door. Tourists flocked to the park like a tide, and in addition to the many individual visitors, there were also some neatly lined up primary and secondary school students. After the reporter entered the park with the crowd, a colorful garden world suddenly appeared in front of people. Especially on both sides of the road in the park, the colorful tulip flowers in full bloom are particularly dazzling.
South Gate of Beijing Botanical Garden (Photo: Feng Ganyong)
reporter had been here more than ten years ago, but the scene he saw now was very different from what he remembered at that time. At that time, Zhao Shiwei, then deputy director of the Beijing Botanical Garden, told reporters: "The Beijing Botanical Garden was established in 1956 and has gone through nearly 50 years, but in fact, the main development has been in the past ten years. The total planned area of the Beijing Botanical Garden has now reached 400 hectares. Among them, there are 200 hectares of tourist areas and 200 hectares of nature conservation pilot areas. It is a large-scale comprehensive botanical garden that collects, displays and preserves plant resources in North China, Northeast China and Northwest China, and takes into account tropical and subtropical plants. It is mainly composed of a plant exhibition area, a scenic spot tourist area, and a cherry gully nature conservation experimental area. "
Walking into the Botanical Garden (Photo: Feng Ganyong)
Zhao Shiwei also told reporters: "In recent years, the number of tourists visiting the botanical garden to enjoy flowers has increased day by day, reaching more than 2.5 million last year. Relatively speaking, spring and autumn have the most tourists. Especially during the warm spring season every year, the proportion of tourists can account for about 50% of the whole year. "
One of the tulip flowers (Photo: Feng Ganyong)
"Meanwhile, chrysanthemums and autumn leaves in autumn are another peak season that attracts visitors to the botanical garden. The tropical plant exhibition greenhouse in the park is warm all year round, bringing together plants of various families from all over the world, some of which are even rare and rare varieties. Even during the 'Spring Festival' Golden Week, it can set off a small climax of tourism. "
Tulip Flower No. 2 (Photo: Feng Ganyong)
reporter learned in the interview that the open area of the botanical garden was very small in the past, but in recent years, the development of the botanical garden has undergone earth-shaking changes. The open area alone has reached 3,000 acres. Some landscapes such as the Reclining Buddha Temple, Cherry Gully, Cao Xueqin Memorial Hall, and Liang Qichao's tomb have been integrated into the open scope of the botanical garden. At the same time, 11 gardens within gardens have been built in the park, including peony garden, bonsai garden, begonia garden, rose garden, peach orchard, lilac garden, magnolia garden, peony garden, plum garden, and bamboo garden. Visitors can enjoy different flowers in each season.
Red Peach Blossom (Photo: Feng Ganyong)
The reporter roamed the Beijing Botanical Garden and saw that more than 10,000 peach blossoms of 60 varieties such as red, pink and white Yunlong peach, spotted leaf peach, chrysanthemum peach, and mountain peach blossom series were open. Since 1989, the Beijing Botanical Garden has held the Peach Blossom Festival every April.
White peach blossoms (Photo: Feng Ganyong)
There are nearly 10,000 peach blossoms in the whole garden, forming a peach blossom forest, a peach blossom slope and a peach blossom path. More than 20 kinds of spring flowers such as spring welcome, forsythia, elm plum, begonia, cherry blossom and peach blossoms bloom together, lined with green pines and green willows, forming a gorgeous landscape. In particular, the fragrant Baihuashan peach is the first new variety of artificial hybridization completed by the Beijing Botanical Garden, and the flowering time of the pink flower mountain peach fills the gap between the mountain peach and the peach blossom.
Pink Flower Mountain Peach (Photo: Feng Ganyong)
on both sides of the corridors leading to some scenic spots, green lawns undulate according to the terrain, like huge carpets constituting another pleasing natural landscape of the botanical garden. It is understood that the botanical garden has currently paved 900,000 square meters of lawn. Walking into the depths of the botanical garden, what keeps hitting people's eyes is a spring scene, with lush trees, gorgeous flowers, green grass, beautiful mountains and rivers, clear mountains reflecting clear water, what a natural beauty.
A corner of the botanical garden (Photo: Feng Ganyong)
there is a saying that there is no water that cannot be a scene. Although the former Beijing Botanical Garden was picturesque with flowers and trees, it lacked water features, and today's Botanical Garden is not what it used to be. It is understood that the lake landscape of the Beijing Botanical Garden, built in 2002, has a water area of about 10 hectares and a water storage of more than 100,000 cubic meters. Standing on the incense burner peak of Xishan Mountain, you can clearly see the scenery of the three layers of clear water.
Green mountains and clear waters (Photo: Feng Ganyong)
Looking at the lake, the lake water is crystal clear, surrounded by green grass and flowers, and aquatic plants are numerous; At the end of the "Three Pools and Clear Water", the designers made full use of the original terrain characteristics to arrange the water system, and took advantage of the terrain drop to cleverly use natural methods such as stacked dams, streams and shallow pools to connect the three lakes into one. Make the lake winding and natural, and change the scenery with each step.
The stream is gurgling (Photo: Feng Ganyong)
On the basis of the original plant configuration around the lake area, a large number of new trees, shrubs, vines, flowers, etc. have been planted, and aquatic and hygrophytic plants have been added. The rich plant configuration and unique landscape art make the completed lake area rich in layers and colors.
A view of the lakeside (Photo: Feng Ganyong)
On this basis, in 2003, in order to restore the original style of the Cherry Gully Natural Scenic Area, the Beijing Botanical Garden carried out the second phase of the Beijing Botanical Garden's water system project, which made the green mountains and green trees appear a rare scene of eight lakes competing for beauty and flowing water. In particular, the famous scenic spot in western Beijing, Cherry Ditch, which has been cut off for many years, has reproduced the beautiful scene of gurgling water and birds competing to call this fairyland on earth, forming a beautiful water feature with a combination of movement and stillness, different sizes and rich changes in space such as lakes, pools, pools, waterfalls, stacked waters, and streams. Here, waterfalls and springs, ancient trees towering, small streams and water, winding plank roads, and all kinds of flowers and trees around are competing for beauty, so that tourists can truly appreciate the endless charm of spring.
Quiet Cherry Gully (Photo: Feng Ganyong)
Beijing Botanical Garden Science Museum is the Beijing Youth Science Education Base. It was built in 1996 and opened to the public in 1998. The museum makes full use of a variety of modern technologies to show visitors the basic knowledge of plant form, classification, and function and biodiversity conservation. It aims to enable everyone to understand some basic plant knowledge, understand the living environment of plants, and understand the common sense of biodiversity conservation after the visit, so as to arouse everyone's awareness of protecting plants and caring for the environment. Experts are often invited to give special reports to the public and publicize plant knowledge in various forms.
Science Museum (Photo: Feng Ganyong)
The tropical exhibition greenhouse of the Beijing Botanical Garden has a wide variety of plant species and is famous at home and abroad. Although the original greenhouse has many plants, the area is not very large. After an investment of 260 million yuan, the tropical greenhouse has now become one of the top ten buildings in Beijing in the 90s, with a total construction area of 17,000 square meters and a total area of 5.5 hectares. The architectural design of the tropical exhibition greenhouse is undertaken by the Beijing Architectural Design and Research Institute, with the concept of "green leaves and memories of roots" as the design theme, and the sloping glass ceiling intertwined with "rhizomes" is uniquely designed, as if a green leaf is falling at the foot of the western mountain. Comrade Jiang Zemin personally inscribed the three glittering characters "Wanshengyuan" for the tropical greenhouse.
Exhibition Greenhouse (Photo: Feng Ganyong)
The Tropical Exhibition Greenhouse mainly displays plants and their landscapes from tropical and subtropical regions, providing a base for biodiversity conservation, science education, scientific research and ornamentation. It is divided into four main exhibition areas: tropical rainforest landscape, four-season garden landscape, desert plant landscape, orchid pineapple and carnivorous plant exhibition room. A total of more than 4,100 species of plants and more than 60,000 (including varieties) were collected and displayed. It is an important popular science education base for people to understand plants, feel nature, and learn plant knowledge, and it is also an important place for plant resource protection and scientific research.
A corner of a tropical greenhouse (Photo: Feng Ganyong)
tropical rainforest exhibition room covers an area of more than 1,000 square meters, showing the unique phenomena of the tropical rainforest such as single tree forests, sky gardens, multi-layer structures, vine entanglement, plate roots, dripping leaf tips, strangulation phenomenon, old stems and flowers, old stem fruiting, and large-leaved ground cover. Stepping into the tropical rainforest exhibition room, you can feel the rich plant species here, high and low between plants, sparse and dense.
The largest Wulun pillar (Photo: Feng Ganyong)
many tall and novel plant landscapes are displayed in front of tourists here. People can see the largest strangled plant in the greenhouse, a nearly 9-meter-tall yellow kudzu tree is strangling a 16-meter-high Iraqi candied jujube tree, Huangkudong with its developed aerial roots tightly wrapped around the Iraqi candied date tree, and competed with it for sunlight, moisture and nutrients, seriously affecting the normal growth of the Iraqi candied date tree, maybe one day, the Iraqi candied banyan tree died and rotted due to the strangulation of the yellow kudzu tree, and at that time, people will be able to see a yellow kudzu tree that looks like a pig cage and grows independently. Let everyone feel that plants are in a cruel competition for survival in nature.
Phalaenopsis orchid (Photo: Feng Ganyong)
The magical mysterious fruit is a small shrub of the Oliveaceae family, which bears fruit all year round and is native to West Africa and the Congo. Its biggest feature is that when you eat the mystery fruit, you can eat other extremely sour and bitter foods such as lemon, and the taste will become sweet and delicious. In addition, you can enjoy linden trees, worry-free flowers, bay leaf palms, etc., which are closely related to Buddhist culture.
hot poinsettia (Photo: Feng Ganyong)
The tropical desert plant exhibition room on the top floor, also known as the cactus and polysucculent plant room, covers an area of 1,200 square meters, planting and displaying more than 1,000 species of cacti and polysucculent plants (including varieties), mainly native to tropical and subtropical arid and semi-arid areas.
Desert Plants Exhibition Hall (Photo: Feng Ganyong)
these plants are highly drought-resistant, with cacti native to the Americas and pulp plants found in Africa, Asia, and the Americas. This exhibition room is extremely hot, like a desert area with high temperature and little rain, and the reporter is already sweating profusely after staying for a while, and the sweat has soaked his heart.
Giant cactus (Photo: Feng Ganyong)
this exhibition room is divided into polysucculent plant area, Euphorbia plant area, Sansevieria area, pillar area, strong thorn area, variety area, pineapple area, aloe vera area, agave area, cloud area and so on. Strange plants growing in the long yellow sand are the main features of the plants in the exhibition room, with a diameter of 80 cm, a giant pillar with a height of 5.5 meters, and a unique scarecrow all showing the novelty of this indoor plant.
Cactus (Photo: Feng Ganyong)
desert roses and ephemeral flowers are the plants of this exhibition room. Tequila, which blooms only once in a lifetime, is also on display in this exhibition room. Agave has the longest flower in the world, but it can only bloom once in its life, and the plant will die after flowering. The peculiar bachelor tree is called "milk tree" in English, which belongs to the Euphorbiaceae family and is native to the tropical arid regions of Southeast Africa and eastern India. It is a fleshy tree with a peculiar shape and no thorns and leaves, so it is called the "bachelor tree". The white milky juice inside its stem is poisonous, but it can be used to produce petroleum. Although it has no leaves, it can still rely on green shoots for photosynthesis. In addition, a large number of novel plants such as cacti, euphorbiaceae, and sedum are planted here.
Lush arrow bamboo (Photo: Feng Ganyong)
orchid, pineapple and carnivorous plant exhibition room covers an area of 500 square meters. Through artificial landscaping such as small bridges and flowing water, dead trees and strange flowers, it shows people a gorgeous and mysterious tropical garden scene. This exhibition room mainly displays tropical epiphytes represented by orchids and pineapples, and also arranges and cultivates interesting carnivorous plants and ferns and other plants. The display includes orchid plants such as cattlewean, phalaenopsis orchid, whelan orchid, dendrobium orchid, and Wenxin orchid, as well as a variety of bromeliads such as fruit vine pineapple, Lisuo pineapple, shy pineapple, and light calyx lotus pineapple. In addition, the most noteworthy thing here are the bizarre carnivorous plants. Several exotic plants that feed on insects, such as pitcher plants, flytraps, and sarraces, will show you the wonders of nature.
Bromeliad (Photo: Feng Ganyong)
The Four Seasons Garden exhibition room is located in the center of the exhibition, and in its 3,500 square meters exhibition room, it is divided into two parts: the central garden and the palm plant area. The central garden is centered on a giant fountain, surrounded by tall ornamental trees, planted with a variety of seasonal flowers, and the layout is constantly changing, showing the beauty of flowers in all seasons with rich colors, and visitors walk into it like walking in a sea of flowers. The palm plant area focuses on palm plants with different postures and tropical scenery.
Bird of Paradise (Photo: Feng Ganyong)
Banyan trees with trunks like flower baskets, delicate fire cranes, poinsettia, Kalanchoe, chic ground spring nasturtiums, lotus lanterns, etc. can all be enjoyed here. The world's rare plant sea coconut displayed here is a national treasure of the Republic of Seychelles, which is known as a magical love fruit, and its shape resembles a girl's body to show everyone the magic of nature.
Four Seasons Garden (Photo: Feng Ganyong)
A variety of unique garden scenic spots are not only an important part of the Beijing Botanical Garden, but also a good place for tourists to enjoy all kinds of flowers. For example, the largest rose garden in China is planted with more than 100,000 roses and more than 1,000 varieties. A new colorful musical fountain built in 2003 is located in the center of the circular rose garden. The reporter saw at the scene that more than 100 water column fountains gushed out with the ups and downs of the music melody, and the children were happy in the water flow and music, which became a happy world for children, and they fully demonstrated the vitality of children in the spring botanical garden.
Carnival in the Musical Fountain (Photo: Feng Ganyong)
Peony Garden was built in the early 80s and covers an area of 4.7 hectares, making it the largest peony garden in the north. More than 8,500 peonies and more than 580 varieties have been planted. "Wei Zi", "Yao Huang", "Dou Green", "Da Hu Hong", "Pear Blossom Snow", "Oolong Lying Ink Pool", etc., during the flowering season, red, white, blue, green, purple, yellow, colorful colors; Thousands of postures, charming and fragrant. The terrain in the garden is undulating, planted with beautiful trees, "Qunfang Pavilion" and "Mandarin Duck Pavilion" are hidden in it, the "Peony Fairy" sculpture lies diagonally in the flowers, and there are large murals with the theme of "Liao Zhai Zhi Yi" and "Ge Jin", adding interest to tourists.
Bonsai Garden Scenic Area (Photo: Feng Ganyong)
magnolia garden has dignified and elegant white magnolia and lilac magnolia that attract tourists to stop and watch. Begonia Xunzi Garden has planted more than ten varieties of begonias with bright flowers and beautiful shapes such as "diamond", "gemstone" and "snowball", and more than a dozen varieties of begonias from the United States and other countries and more than 200 excellent varieties such as weeping begonia and Xifu begonia compete with each other. Oyama cherry blossoms, weeping cherry blossoms, etc. convey Japanese customs; There are also fragrant and brightly colored spring flowers such as iris and bauhinia showing their own style. In addition, like several other gardens within gardens, they also have their own characteristics, attracting a large number of tourists every year.
Little flowers on the side of the road (Photo: Feng Ganyong)
Beijing Botanical Garden has a large number of cultural landscapes in addition to rich natural landscapes. For example, the thousand-year-old temple Reclining Buddha Temple, which has been encircled in the scenic spot in the park. The Reclining Buddha Temple was built during the Zhenguan period of the Tang Dynasty and was repaired in the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties. The correct name is "Shifang Pujue Temple", because the temple contains a bronze statue of Shakyamuni Nirvana cast in the first year of the Yuan Dynasty (1321), so it is commonly known as the "Reclining Buddha Temple".
reclining Buddha statue (Photo: Feng Ganyong)
The reclining Buddha is 5.3 meters long, 1.4 meters high on the side, and weighs 54 tons, making it the world's largest copper solid reclining Buddha and a treasure of the motherland's culture. The temple has a quiet environment, ancient cypresses, ginkgo biloba, and the ancient plum tree with more than 1,300 years in front of the Tianwang Hall is even more famous, and it is also a flower viewing spot in Beijing in the middle of winter and early spring.
Cao Xueqin Memorial Hall (Photo: Feng Ganyong)
due to the large area of the botanical garden scenic area, due to time constraints, the reporter did not go to the Reclining Buddha Temple and Cherry Gully Garden and other places. However, in order to explore the birth of the masterpiece "Dream of Red Mansions", the reporter went to the Cao Xueqin Memorial Hall located in Huangye Village in the park. The memorial hall was built in 1983 and expanded in 1996 and covers an area of 1.8 hectares. This courtyard composed of several country houses is located in the botanical garden of Nuoda, which has a bit of a paradise charm.
Memorial Hall photo (Photo: Wang Jue)
According to the research, the great writer Cao Xueqin lived and wrote in the area of Xiangshan Reclining Buddha Temple in his later years. In order to commemorate this great writer, according to the artistic conception described in the poems of Cao Xueqin's friends Duncheng and Zhang Yiquan, in the southwest of the Beijing Botanical Garden, Cao Xueqin's living environment in his later years - Huangye Village is artistically reproduced.
A corner of the memorial hall (Photo: Feng Ganyong)
village has opened up vegetable gardens and medicine gardens, set up arrow fields, ancient piers, and wine shops, and there are scenic spots such as "River Wall Smoke Willow", "Xueluo Gate Alley", "Bamboo Fence Thatched Shop", and "Chai Feng Evening Smoke" in the village. In addition, cultural landscapes such as Liang Qichao's tomb in the park and the 12.9 Memorial Pavilion in the depths of Cherry Gully are also worth visiting.
Memorial Hall courtyard (Photo: Feng Ganyong)
during this "Beijing Peach Blossom Festival and World Famous Flower Exhibition", with the passage of time, all kinds of beautiful flowers in the bulbous flower exhibition area dominated by tulips have opened. Nearly 1 million kinds of balls such as tulips, hyacinths, fritillaries, and large flowers planted in the exhibition area will be opened one after another, decorating the bulb display area into a sea of flowers. In particular, a large number of foreign new and excellent varieties have been introduced in this exhibition, such as ice cream tulips, large onions, nearly 10 varieties of fritillary, etc., all of which are rare flower varieties in China. In addition to a large number of beautiful bulbous flowers, the exhibition also planted a large number of aromatic plants, so that tourists can smell the unique fragrance of aromatic plants far away from the flower display area.
Flowers bloom (Photo: Feng Ganyong)
At the end of the collection, Deputy Director Zhao Shiwei finally told reporters: "People who have lived in cities with environmental pollution such as noise and exhaust gas for a long time will feel extremely fresh and happy when they come here, and can fully relax their tense body and mind. While enjoying the flowers and scenery, you can also receive some education in popular science knowledge. It is especially beneficial for young parents with children. We hope to make the Beijing Botanical Garden a famous Beijing tourist attraction integrating science popularization, visits, scientific research and plant resource protection and development. Warmly welcome tourists from home and abroad to visit the Beijing Botanical Garden. "I haven't been to the Beijing Botanical Garden for many years, but the reporter believes that if I revisit the Beijing Botanical Garden, it must be a more pleasing sight. (Photo: Feng Ganyong)
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