3. Qinling Park

Qinling Park is one of the self-built Parks of 2011 Xi’an Horticultural Exposition. It locates on the Little Zhonnanshan Mountain, theming “presenting natural scenery, rare animals and plants which are characteristic of Qinling Mountain”. The Park has four gardens and eight sceneries in accordance with the concepts of subtlety and “being like nature itself”, showing the nature landscape, culture, animal and plants of Qinling Mountain. The Park is created with the aim of providing the visitors a best garden space for tourism, sightseeing, and recreation.

The scenic spot of landscape and culture

The Park displays and recreates the rich historical relics, religious culture and the tradition of poetry of Qinling Mountain. Rockwork and water management are arranged in the Park according to the actual geography. All sceneries are built basing on the real landscape of Qinling Mountain. They are at once open and deep, giving expression of the loftiness and elegance of Qinling. Each scenery has a special inventive mind and is presented without artificial traces.

On the Little Zhongnanshan Mountain, there are many stone tablets and cliffs inscribed with poems describing the landscape of Qinling written by people from ancient times. These poems create profound landscape culture of Qinling Mountain. The quiet Taoist temple in the Park, together with the Chang’an Tower and one of the Five Major Horticultural Scenic Spots -- Colorful Plants from Qinling Mountains, creates the unique religious culture atmosphere of Qinling. It beings to the visitors the tranquility as described in the ancient line “looking into the traveling clouds around the North Ridge, I, as a hermit, can taste the sweetness of joy myself” (Meng Haoran) and the easiness as described in “birds fly high, and the only piece of cloud in the sky moves around as nothing bothers it.”

The merry animal world

Aiming at displaying the bio-diversity of Qinling Mountain and appealing to the public to love nature and protect animals, the Xi’an Horticultural Expo introduces to the exhibition the “Four Treasures of Qinling”, the unique Shaanxi animals including panda, takin, crested ibis, and golden monkey, for the first time.

In order to show the harmony between human and nature, the design of animal cages and exercise yards in the Qinling Park are skillfully done according to the actual land shape, following tightly the principle of merging into the environment.

Visitors can go to the Panda Valley to see the charmingly naïve pandas or go to the Lack of Crested Ibis to see the dance of the “Oriental Ruby”. They can also sit in the mountain and watch golden monkeys playing around. Close contact with the “Four Treasures of Qinling” can bring to people the experience of harmonious coexistence of human and animals and the magic beauty of nature.

Luxuriant rare plants

To show the rich varieties of plants in Qinling, the Qinling Park will plans over 30 threatened plants such as Kingdonia uniflora, Paeonia rockii, and Cercidiphyllum japonicum, and over 40 conservative plants of Shaanxi Province such as Saruma henryi, Callianthemum taipaicum, and Aristolochia manshuriensis.

The Qinling Park is a grand oxygen bar in city and a garden with rear animals and plants with lush green trees, bright mountain flowers in full bloom, soft green grass carpeting the ground.

Layout of Qinling Park

With unique landscape, history, religion, animals and plants, the Qinling Mountain has not just nurtured the numerous rear animals and plants, but also the splendid Chinese civilization. The Xi’an Horticultural Expo will present the beauty of landscape and rich culture of Qinling by the replicated sceneries in Qinling Park.