Near the Big Wild Goose Pagoda, Tang Paradise is located in the
Qujiang Resort, southeast of the Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province. It is a
newly opened tourist attraction in April, 2005. Tang Paradise covers a
total area of 1000 mu (about 165 acres) and of which 300 mu (about 49
acres) is water. This tourist attraction not only claims to be the
biggest cultural theme park in the northwest region of China but also
the first royal-garden-like park to give a full display of the Tang
Dynasty's (618-907) culture. Altogether, twelve scenic regions are
distributed throughout Tang Paradise to provide visitors with the
enjoyment of twelve cultural themes and a perfect exhibition of the
grandness, prosperity and brilliance of the culture of the Tang Dynasty.
What makes Tang Paradise incredible is that it is no longer the
garden mode of only water and mountains in the Chinese traditional
sense. The outstanding designers of the magnificent Tang Paradise have
integrated almost everything representative of the Tang Dynasty, such as
the poetry, the songs and dance, the marketplaces, the food, the
women's lifestyles, and science into every site using cultural themes,
thus endowing every place with its own story and its own place in the
tapestry of Tang Dynasty culture.
In the large number of buildings at Tang Paradise, one may see
almost all architectural types of characteristic of the Tang Dynasty. In
addition there are establishments for relaxing and song and dance shows
about the civilization of the Tang Dynasty. Strolling in Tang Paradise,
you are assured to get a full enjoyment, making you feel as if you were
in a fairyland.
Many firsts are created here: the first and largest scale of
buildings modeled on the Tang style in China, the first and most
considerable groups of sculptures to show the poetic culture in the Tang
Dynasty in China, the first and biggest single architecture modeled on
the Tang style throughout China, the first theme park in China to cater
to the five sense (vision, hearing, smell, touch and taste), the
grandest fragrant project of the outdoors in the world, and the most
spectacular water film on earth. Tang Paradise is praised as 'Garden of
History', 'Garden of Spirit', 'Garden of Nature', 'Garden of Human
Culture' and 'Garden of Art'.
The most special and amazing feast in Tang Paradise is taste. The
word 'taste' here does not refer to the delicious smell of food, but
means that the whole Tang Paradise, like a fair lady, is full of aroma.
Unbelievable, isn't it? But definitely true! You may wonder why. The
secret is that there are incense burners here. Every few meters on both
sides of the paths in Tang Paradise, there is an incense burner which
looks like a street lamp. It is only 1.5 meters (about 5 feet) tall with
incense coils burning inside. It is this fragrance that makes the whole
place seem like mysterious Xanadu. Thus wherever you walk in Tang
Paradise, assuredly, you can be embraced by its faint redolence.
In Tang Paradise, another surprising man-made wonder is the water
film which claims to be the foremost in the whole world. The screen of
the movie is a film of water; thus it can create a special kind of
optical effect which makes the frame tridimensional. When watching the
movie, you can witness that the beautiful night and the fan-like water
surface become an ingenious integration. Every time the figures in the
movie appear on the screen, it seems that they are flying to the sky or
coming down from the heaven which throws you into a wonderful and
illusory feeling that you were personally on the scene. Splendid,
indeed! |
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