Visit Qingming Shanghe Park
Located in Kaifeng, the Qingming Riverside Garden is the reproduction of the famous painting "Qingming Riverside Map" in the Song Dynasty.
On a rainy day, you can see a lot of antique umbrellas, and if you meet a woman wearing Hanfu, it is like a reunion across a thousand years.
Right now, it's the Kaifeng Chrysanthemum Festival. At this time of year, the entire Kaifeng City seems to be filled with chrysanthemums.
There used to be a movie "Chrysanthemum Terrace", the entire palace was full of chrysanthemums, and in Kaifeng, there is only this season every year, which seems to be completely in line with the scene of Chrysanthemum Terrace.
Stroll in the Qingming Shanghe Garden and reminisce about how prosperous Bianjing was back then. When it comes to Kaifeng, people prefer Kaifeng's old name: Tokyo (Northern Song Dynasty).
Everyone who comes to Kaifeng hopes to find the relics of the Song Dynasty from it. Just as people like to go to the Terracotta Warriors and Horses of the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang in Xi'an, and like to go to the Longmen Grottoes when they come to Luoyang, because they are all relics of the Han and Tang dynasties and are historical relics.
The former Chang'an City and Luoyang City have long been prosperous, and Xianyang, the former capital of the Qin Empire, has become a ruin, only Kaifeng, we can experience the life of the people of the Song Dynasty up close, yes, it is in the Qingming Shanghe Garden.
Although the Qingming Shanghe Garden is newly built, the Qingming Mountains and Rivers Map, the predecessor of the Qingming Shanghe Garden, was written by the Northern Song Dynasty painter Zhang Zeduan, and has been a national treasure since its inception, known as one of the top ten famous paintings in China.
After the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, it has been inherited for thousands of years, and is now collected in the Palace Museum in Beijing. It is the Qingming Riverside Map, outlining the glorious moment of Kaifeng.
Although compared with the Han and Tang dynasties, the Northern Song Dynasty was far inferior in terms of territory and national strength, and Kaifeng was far less atmospheric than Chang'an and Luoyang, but at that time, it was also the most prosperous city in the world, and its prosperity was still too much compared with Chang'an of the Han Dynasty and Luoyang of the Tang Dynasty.
The most important thing is that we can restore the life of people at that time through the Qingming Riverside Map. Now in Kaifeng, Qingming Shanghe Park has become a must-choose place for many people to come to Kaifeng.
Unlike the Forbidden City in Beijing, the Forbidden City shows the majesty of the Imperial Forbidden City, while the Qingming Shanghe Garden is a replica of Bianliang Tokyo, where you can see the life of the common people of the Northern Song Dynasty, the prosperity of the market, appreciate the defense of the Great Song Dynasty in the Water Margin, and directly face the feat of shelling the city of Tokyo.
You can even learn from the heroes in the Water Margin, and order three bowls of liquor and a few catties of beef in the street wine shop.
Some people say that coming here is like returning to Song Zhibianliang. Indeed, after all, Bianliang, as the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty, has only been prosperous for more than a hundred years, and it has only been a few decades.
Zhao Cui and Li Juan strolled in the Qingming Shanghe Garden and saw many performances, including some stilt walking and fire-breathing performances, as well as water battles, reproducing the Jingkang Kaifeng Defense Battle of the year.
Of course, there are also Wu Dalang baked cakes, one costs 10 yuan, after Zhao Cui saw it, he bought one for Ma Xiaoliang, and then said to Ma Xiaoliang: "Here, eat a Wu Dalang baked cake." Ma Xiaoliang broke it and gave Zhao Cui half of it: "Come on, you can eat one too." Zhao Cui smiled and said: "Let me eat Wu Dalang baked cakes, and you won't be afraid that one day I will become Pan Jinlian." Li Juan couldn't stop laughing when she heard this: "Brother Xiao Ma is not a short and thin Wu Dalang. Zhao Cui looked at it and sighed: "How tall is it, it's only 1.7 meters, as for whether it's thin or not, it's not right to be fat." ”