During the May Day holiday, the popularity of cultural and museum tourism in Jincheng Lanzhou continued to soar. Walking into the museum to watch special new exhibitions, participate in immersive historical research, and check in multicultural feasts has become the first choice for the general public and tourists to travel. The popularity of the city's major cultural and museum venues is high, the passenger flow has surged, and the exhibition halls in many places have been intimately delayed and optimized for convenient services; Special exhibitions of exotic civilizations and special exhibitions of local Longyuan culture have been launched in turn, and red sitcoms, ancient style research experiences, and historical interactive activities are wonderful. The cultural and museum journey with both fireworks and historical heritage makes this "May Day" holiday long and full of novelty.
Parents and children enjoy cultural exhibitions together
On the first day of the "May Day" holiday, Lanzhou's major museums ushered in the peak of visitor flow, with tourists in the museum full of tourists and full of popularity, and there was an endless stream of tourists traveling with the whole family, parent-child check-in, and studying together, and the popularity of cultural and leisure travel has been rising.
It is reported that during this year's "May Day" holiday, the Gansu Provincial Museum received a total of 61,984 visitors, including 27,202 tourists from within the province and 34,782 from outside the province, and received 14,105 visitors in a single day on May 2, setting a peak for holiday passenger flow. Lanzhou Museum received more than 30,000 visitors during the holiday; The memorial hall of the Lanzhou Office of the Eighth Route Army received 21,000 tourists during the holiday, and cultural and museum travel continued to be popular.
Many parents said frankly that popular scenic spots are crowded with tourists, and it is easy and comfortable to walk into the museum at their doorstep with their children. Everyone can not only relax and enjoy the holiday, but also broaden their horizons and increase their knowledge, so that children can feel history and harvest growth in immersive exhibitions.
Warm-hearted and convenient services escort holiday travel
In order to adapt to the needs of tourists for in-depth tours and off-peak travel, during the "May Day" period, a number of key cultural and museum venues in Lanzhou optimized their operation arrangements, extended their opening hours, launched delayed closing services, and continuously improved the visiting experience.
The opening hours of cultural venues such as the Gansu Provincial Museum, the Lanzhou Municipal Museum, and the Lanzhou Battle Memorial Hall have been adjusted to 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., closing one hour later than usual, leaving sufficient time for citizens and tourists to visit the exhibition. The services of Jinchengguan Cultural Expo Park have been fully upgraded, and the opening hours have been extended to 20 o'clock, and the ultra-long period of opening can help tourists visit the park at night and read the majestic and heavy Yellow River culture.
A series of humanized and heart-warming measures effectively dispersed the flow of concentrated passengers during the day, alleviated the congestion of visitors, so that tourists did not have to rush, calmly taste cultural relics and treasures, trace the urban context, and protect the high-quality holiday cultural travel of the masses in an all-round way.
Blockbuster new exhibitions were unveiled
During the "May Day" holiday, Lanzhou's major cultural and museum venues carefully planned and prepared a series of new special exhibitions, which were full of highlights.
The Gansu Provincial Museum launched the "Golden Dust of Time: Kuwait Royal Collection Exhibition", with 130 pieces (groups) of top royal cultural relics. Exquisite gold and silver ornaments and ancient exotic crafts are quietly displayed, comprehensively reproducing the folk customs, artistic aesthetics and spiritual beliefs of ancient West Asia. Tourists can encounter exotic customs and feel the unique charm of the collision and integration of different civilizations without leaving Long.
On the first day of the "May Day" holiday, the "Great Medical Sincerity Longyuan Liufang - Gansu Traditional Chinese Medicine Cultural Archives and Cultural Relics Special Exhibition" was officially launched at the Lanzhou Museum. Based on the regional advantages of Gansu's "Millennium Medicine Township" and "Natural Medicine Bank", the exhibition systematically sorts out the thousand-year development process of Longyuan traditional Chinese medicine through physical specimens, historical pictures and texts, and handed down medical artifacts, vividly displays the cultivation of medicinal materials, intangible cultural heritage processing skills and medical achievements of past dynasties, and shows the long-standing cultural heritage of Longyuan medicine. Many students stopped to watch and identify Chinese herbal medicine, combined what they learned in class with physical exhibits, and gained a more intuitive and profound understanding of traditional Chinese medicine culture.
The late Qing Dynasty masterpiece "Range Rover of Jincheng" exhibited at the same time was highly favored. The painting meticulously depicts the urban landform of Lanzhou in the past, the pontoon bridge in Zhenyuan, the ancient waterwheel and other urban landmarks, which is a precious historical material for studying the changes in Lanzhou's urban construction and the development of transportation and water conservancy, and leads the viewer to look back at the changes of the ancient city over the years. Gansu Bamboo Slip Museum launched the preview of "Ancient Melody - Henan Unearthed Music Cultural Relics Exhibition", 190 ancient ceremonial music instruments and cultural relics are connected to the thousand-year-old Chinese ritual and music civilization with traditional eight tones as the context, allowing the audience to listen to the sound of ancient music and appreciate the unique romance of the endless Chinese cultural context.
The fun social education experience is new
This holiday, creative and diverse forms of cultural and social education interactive activities have been carried out, and ancient style travel, archaeological exploration, handmade creation, and plot breakthrough have been launched in turn, which are deeply loved by young people.
The historical narrative experience of the popular event "Hansai Long Song" of the Gansu Bamboo Slip Museum opened as scheduled. The event relies on real bamboo slips and historical materials to create an exclusive plot, which is different from conventional entertainment games, and leads children to start a journey through time and space as Han Dynasty border witnesses. The participants were divided into two camps, guards and scribes, to experience special projects such as armor wearing, border archery patrol, ancient simplified archaeology, bamboo slip pen and ink writing, and ancient coin market conversion, and immerse themselves in the Han Dynasty's border defense and the Silk Road trade style. At the end of the event, the original drama "Silk Road Song" was staged wonderfully, based on historical materials and experience, allowing young people to jump out of the perspective of bystanders, personally understand the history of the border and inherit the spirit of the Silk Road.
Lanzhou Museum simultaneously launched a series of activities with the theme of "May Day Elegant Collection, Cultural and Museum Enjoyment", the Ming Fenghua Ancient Style Market was opened, and the five characteristic research classes were held every day, attracting thousands of citizens and teenagers to participate in it in five days. The ancient style market reproduces the style of the Ming Dynasty, bringing together intangible cultural heritage handicrafts, traditional entertainment, and national style interaction, and is full of atmosphere. The research course revolves around faience ornament painting, intangible cultural heritage ancient rubbing, classical fan creation, bronze pattern tracing, and roof beast coloring. An exclusive theme classroom every day truly realizes edutainment and education, so that everyone can understand the beauty of traditional culture in hands-on practice.
The special exhibitions are wonderful, the heart-warming service is meticulous and thoughtful, the cultural activities are full of creativity, and the colorful cultural and museum formats light up the "May Day" holiday in Jincheng. Cultural travel has become a new holiday trend, and more and more tourists prefer to walk through the exhibition hall, touch cultural relics, read history, feel the profound urban heritage of Lanzhou in the blend of ancient charm and new style, and enjoy high-quality poetic holiday time. (Reporter Zhou Yanwen text/photo)