As soon as the Spring Festival approaches, there are all kinds of wonderful lightings waiting for us to play here, so the long-awaited annual Chengdu Jinsha Sun Festival is here again, let's take a look at what kind of excitement will be waiting for us in this year's Chengdu Jinsha Sun Festival!
2019 Chengdu Jinsha Sun Festival Basic InformationWhen: February 3, 2019 (Lunar 29) to February 20, 2019 (the sixteenth day of the first lunar month)
Venue: Chengdu Jinsha Ruins Museum (No. 2 Jinsha Ruins Road, Jinniu District, Chengdu)
Admission Guide:
I. Opening and Closing Hours: 8:00-22:00 (Ticketing Hours: 8:00- 21:30)
II. Tickets
Price: 40 yuan/visit.
Ticket reductions and preferential provisions:
(a) the scope of exemption:
1. Children aged 6 years and under or under 1.3 meters tall (including 1.3 meters) are exempted from admission;
2. Senior citizens aged 70 years and above are exempted from admission with valid documents;
3. Chengdu senior citizens holding the Chengdu senior citizens with Chengdu Senior Citizen Privilege Card are exempted from admission (except during the Spring Festival Golden Week);
4. Retirees, active-duty military personnel, and people with disabilities (including disabled military personnel) are exempted from admission with a valid ID.
(2) the scope of concessions
1.7 years (including) to 18 years (including) of age (including) of young people, full-time undergraduate and undergraduate students with valid documents to implement half-price concessions, i.e., 20 yuan / person;
2.60 years (including) to 70 years of age, with valid documents to implement the elderly Half-price discount, i.e., 20 yuan/trip;
3. Chengdu senior citizens with the Senior Citizen's Certificate of Privilege during the Spring Festival Golden Week (New Year's Eve to the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, from February 15 to February 21) half-price discount on tickets, i.e., 20 yuan/trip;
(c) Visitors holding the annual card of Jinsha Ruins Museum, the sub-card, half-yearly card, and the family card are required to purchase a ticket for admission to the museum.
Three, visit the map
Four, transportation guide
Transportation: Jinsha Ruins Museum is located in the Qingyang District, Chengdu City, Jinsha Ruins Road No. 2, No. 227, Qingyang Avenue, is located in the northwest of the city of Chengdu, the second and third ring road, the transportation is convenient.
There are many public ****transportation ways to reach our museum directly, 7 Road, 82 Road, 83 Road, 100 Road, 111 Road, 123 Road, 142 Road, 147 Road, 163 Road, 175 Road, 209 Road, 211 Road, 1043 Road, 1123 Road, and Community Bus 1029 Road.
Metro: Line 7 is located near the east and south gates of the Jinsha Ruins Museum; Line 2, Yipin World Station is only 300 meters away from the Jinsha Ruins Museum; Metro Line 4, Cultural Palace Station is only 200 meters away from the south gate of the Jinsha Museum.
By car: the museum has three entrances: the south gate is located at No. 2 Jinsha Ruins Road, Qingyang District, Chengdu; the east gate is located at No. 227 Qingyang Avenue; and the north gate is located at No. 3 Jinbo Road. Both the south and north gates have parking lots for motor vehicles.
The Jinsha Ruins Museum is about 25 kilometers away from Chengdu's direct airport: Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport (passenger)
IntroductionNearing the Spring Festival, the annual "Chengdu Jinsha Sun Festival" will meet the public as scheduled, following the series of civilizations of the world, such as Ancient Rome, Ancient Egypt, Pompeii, and so on, have met the audience at the previous Sun Festival, and this year's Sun Festival will be held at the same time. After ancient Rome, ancient Egypt, Pompeii and a series of other world civilizations have met with the audience at previous Sun Festivals, this year's "11th Chengdu Golden Sands Sun Festival" will have a close relationship with the Maya, a famous Mesoamerican civilization.
Between February 3, 2019 (the 29th day of the Lunar Calendar) and February 20, 2019 (the 16th day of the first month of the lunar calendar), the Sands Sun Festival will offer a series of Chinese New Year cultural activities such as exhibitions of the world's civilizations, themed light displays, garden florals, and culinary performances, to create a "Year of Culture" in the museum for Chengdu people.
Colorful lanterns
The 2018 Chengdu Jinsha Sun Festival, based on the three major sections of sun worship, ancient Shu civilization, and traditional folklore, will take the "Roots of Tianfu Culture" as a new theme, and show Chengdu's important position in the history of the world's civilizations by using traditional lanterns: the Forbidden City, the Pavilion, the Pavilion of the World's Civilizations, and the Pavilion of the World's Civilizations. The important position of Chengdu in the history of world civilization is demonstrated by traditional colored lanterns: the Forbidden City, the Parthenon, the glass pyramid, the Colosseum and other world-famous cultural heritages are gathered here, and the Chengdu City Tower drawn in the map of "Sichuan Victory" stands among them.
In addition, around the Jinsha Ruins Museum's inaugural exhibition, "Pompeii: Moment and Eternity - Pompeii Unearthed Artifacts Special Exhibition," this year's Festival of the Sun lanterns will also recreate the splendor of the ancient city of Pompeii, with its bustling Pompeii marketplace filled with stores and its golden palace inspired by ancient Roman architecture.
As an outdoor extension of the Pompeii exhibition, the Sun Festival also uses light sculptures in the sunken plaza next to the exhibition hall to outline the scenes of Pompeii's life: sailing, driving, praying, playing music, brewing, and the corner of the city's life is brought to life.
This year's Sands Sun Festival is the largest in its 10-year history, using more than 50 sets of lights, five extra-large sets more than 15 meters high, more than 5,000 strings of tree decorations, and more than 10,000 square meters of ambience to light up the Sands into a beautiful world of light and shadow.
At the same time, it is also the first time to try to lighten the exhibition hall as a whole, creating a distinctive museum building at night.
Pompeii
The ancient city of Pompeii, located on the Mediterranean coast, was founded in the 6th century B.C., and was incorporated into ancient Rome in 89 B.C.
The Pompeii Museum is the first of its kind in the world.
The pleasant climate, fertile land and convenient transportation, attracted countless Roman aristocrats stationed in Pompeii, magnificent temples and the Colosseum were built one after another, the Grand Theater and the public **** baths, wine shop and other lively public **** place to accommodate more than 10,000 Pompeii people's daily leisure life, all over the city's stores show a wide variety of goods
Soon, Pompeii has become the The city was soon to become a place of smoke and willows, a place to enjoy life, a place where tomorrow was uncertain, a place of pleasure and relaxation, as they say in Pompeii.
However, in 79 AD, Pompeii was buried within hours of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius: there was no more life, and with it all the memories.
The catastrophe killed the city of pleasure in an instant, but also gave it another sense of eternity - deep underground, unchanged for thousands of years. In the more famous ancient cities of Rome, Athens or Alexandria, the materials supplied by the old buildings were always used to build new ones, or applied to new purposes.
It is for this reason that Pompeii has also preserved many of the monuments that were not preserved in Rome: from sumptuous private gardens and baths, to a wealth of wet frescoes, to the shape of a loaf of bread freshly baked in the oven
The special exhibition, "Pompeii: Moment and Eternity - Pompeii Excavations", which is to be inaugurated during this year's Festival of the Sun, is organized by the Italian Cultural Heritage Agency (ACA). Special Exhibition," a collaboration between the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Events and Tourism and the Jinsha Ruins Museum, will feature 120 pieces/sets of fine artifacts from the collection of the National Archaeological Museum of Naples, Italy.
Including frescoes, marble statues, plaster casts, bronzes, gold, glass, pottery, etc., and combined with a large number of 3D modeling, multimedia video and other high-tech restoration means of display, to lead the audience to travel through space and time, back to the eve of the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in a brand new perspective, to reproduce the real appearance of Pompeii, and to explore the state of civilization of the ancient city at that time, and to feel the residents of Pompeii's The Pompeii residents' daily life.
Jinsha Flower Market
This year's Sun Festival Jinsha Flower Market introduced tulips, large-flowered Huilan, colorful calla lilies, Xidejuan, Eucalyptus and other high-grade flowers, and more than 100,000 pots of various types of flowers to create a romantic ancient Roman town, the Sun Festival for the previous years in the biggest investment, the most artistic and beautiful one. The beautiful flowers in the garden create a romantic town built with flowers for visitors.
European glass buildings are entwined with various colors of flowers and vines, due to its use of Italy's world-famous color firing technology, stained glass in the sunlight refractive light, as a piece of translucent crystal; budding succulents spelled out into a miniature Italy, flowers and iron outline the volume of the Roman Castle of 400 cubic meters;
Spectacular Vesuvius transformed into the aesthetic and dreamy flower volcano, which is a romantic town built by flowers. Fade away the sadness and shadow of history; flower market center of the circular stage from Pompeii's famous building - amphitheater, with smooth curves and flowers decorated, meaning "cycle and eternity", elegant violin, saxophones, beautiful duo dance in the Elegant violins, saxophones and beautiful duo dances are performed here.
Boutique cultural creations
The Sun Festival is the most invested in and the most artistic and beautiful of all the previous years. Beautiful flowers in the garden, for visitors to create a romantic town built of flowers: European glass buildings entwined with various colors of flowers and vines, due to its use of Italy's world-famous color firing technology, stained glass in the sunlight refractive light, as a piece of translucent crystal;
Cute and budding succulents spelled out into a miniature Italy, flowers and iron sketches out the volume of 400 cubic meters of the Roman Castle; spectacular! Vesuvius is transformed into a beautiful and dreamy flower volcano, fading away the sadness and shadows brought by history;
The circular stage in the center of the flower market is taken from the famous building in Pompeii - the amphitheatre, which is decorated with smooth curves and flowers, implying "circulation and eternity", and elegant violins are used. The stage is decorated with smooth curves and flowers, suggesting "circulation and eternity", and elegant violins, saxophones and beautiful duo dances are performed here.
Style Performing Arts
The Jinsha Food Street, with all kinds of traditional Chengdu snacks and Italian food, creates a food paradise for visitors to eat while strolling. In the "Pompeii Market" created with light sets at the sunken plaza of the exhibition hall, there are Italian restaurants providing original pizza, sparkling wine and other traditional Italian meals on site, so that the audience can taste the food after watching the Pompeii exhibition, leaving a wonderful "Pompeii Memory".
At the same time, this year's Sun Festival will also have *** counting 300 performances wonderful presentation of the traditional performing arts to play a "new style": a large number of holographic video, light and shadow interactive multimedia technology and traditional song and dance combined to provide the audience with a more fashionable, novelty shows; performing arts content is also very creative.
Through song and dance, magic, musical situational drama and video interactive show and other forms of programs, not only to show innovation and creativity, inclusive of the Tianfu culture, but also to express the classical and romantic Mediterranean style, but also to present the ancient Shu Jinsha's mysterious and distant.
In addition to the main stage, there will be parades, flash mobs and other forms of interactive performances in various parts of the Sun Festival Park, bringing surprises and touches to visitors. The grand "Ritual Ceremony", which is held regularly every year on the sand of the Memorial Sculpture, a symbol of China's cultural heritage, will also be revamped to lead the public to pray for the New Year.
This year's Golden Sands Sun Festival in Chengdu is very rich in activities, so if you come to Chengdu during the Spring Festival, don't miss this wonderful Golden Sands Sun Festival!