Culture Square to the center line of the new Democracy Street road to the center of the main building of the Geological Palace Plaza for the north-south axis, the central axis is 429 meters long, from south to north in order: the main entrance to the Culture Square, the north-south main road. The center of the central square is the sun bird sculpture, the north is the open-air music altar, across the east-west main road is the 10,000 square meters of the main building of the forecourt plaza, the northernmost for the main building of the Geological Palace. The whole central axis is paved with natural granite, giving people a natural, solemn and heavy feeling. The central square to the main entrance on both sides of the square green land and garden road land, a total area of 40,000 square meters, but also raised 3,000 square pigeons, for the whole square to add interest.
Culture Square was built in August 1996, is the largest urban leisure plaza in Changchun, which is located in the center of the city. It is located in the center of the city, from East Democracy Street in the east, Jiefang Avenue in the south, West Democracy Street in the west, and Chaoyang Campus of Jilin University in the north, covering a total area of 20.5 hectares, making it a larger leisure square in the domestic city.
Cultural Square formerly known as the Geological Palace Square, the history of the Geological Palace Square was the capital square of the pseudo-Manchu Kingdom, was built in 1933, called "Imperial Palace Square", "Shun Tian Square", after the founding of the country, the Geological Palace Square as the city's large-scale After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Geological Palace Square as the city's large-scale assembly plaza, has an irreplaceable role in the city's political life. In the early eighties, the eastern half of the square was transformed into an urban public **** green space.
The history of the Geological Palace, along with the Cultural Square in front of it, dates back to 1938. After the establishment of the pseudo-Manchukuo, the Japanese set about planning Changchun. Soon after, they designated the area north of today's Jiefang Da Lu, between East and West Democracy Street, as "palace building land".
Geology Palace is located in the "eight" building center - the northern end of Xinmin Street, Changchun University of Science and Technology (formerly Changchun Institute of Geology) teaching building, Geology Palace was once the seat of the new Palace for the Japanese pseudo-new Palace. Geological Palace is as Puyi's official "Palace" to build. 1938 September construction, due to the outbreak of the Pacific War, financial constraints and stopping, only the completion of the underground part of the palace, and the glorious Palace Department was completed in the 50's. 1953, on the basis of the original construction of the green tile roof, palace-style building, building area of three The building covers an area of 30,000 square meters. Because it is the teaching building of Changchun Geological Institute, so it is called "Geological Palace". The Geological Palace is a typical ancient Chinese architectural style with a square of 180,000 square meters in front of the gate, which is called the Cultural Square. Geological Palace is equipped with a geological museum, from a variety of precious diamonds, minerals to a variety of paleontological fossil specimens, dinosaur fossils, such as mineral specimens, gemstones and ivory, fossils, and dinosaur fossils, the content of 70% of the real bone. There are also ancient trilobites and dinosaur skeletons. Inside the display gives a feeling of ancient vicissitudes. There will make people feel immersed in the long river of history. There is no luxurious decoration, red wooden floor, plain display cases, but every collection is precious. It is one of the six natural sciences, geoscience resorts.
The lawn square in front of the palace can accommodate more than 500,000 people to gather. Standing on the central axis of the palace looking south, a straight 80-meter-wide Xinmin Street extends straight to the South Lake Park, the center line of flower beds for the pine, cypress, lilac tree landscape and both sides of the poplar trees can be drilled high in the sky to form a 1500-meter green corridor, the pseudo-State Council and subordinate "eight" offices are all situated on both sides of the street, forming a diamond-shaped scenic area, the building has its own characteristics, never the same.
Early 1996, approved by the municipal government, the Geological Palace Square will be renamed Culture Square, May of the same year opened the prelude to a complete transformation of the square. Changchun Municipal Government of the remodeling project of the Cultural Square as one of the city's people in 1996 to do twelve practical things. Song Chunhua, mayor of Changchun City, the fourth session of the Tenth People's Congress of the government report made it clear that: to build the Geological Palace Square into a lawn-based, reasonably equipped with plants for landscaping of the Cultural Square. In order to make the square reconstruction project has a high starting point, high level of planning control, for the whole country to collect the transformation of the planning program, a lot of famous universities and colleges, planning and design institutes, the reconstruction of the Geological Palace Plaza showed great interest and high enthusiasm. After the fierce competition of the elite and the final evaluation of the experts to determine the Tsinghua University's design program as the main to the Changchun Planning Institute, Changchun City Landscape Management Office of the program as a complement to the Tsinghua University to complete the program of comprehensive work.
Remodeled square breaks the east and west over the years, "divided and ruled" pattern, to take the central axis of symmetry of the approach to make the whole square as one. Square to the center of the new Democracy Street road to Changchun University of Science and Technology main building for the north-south axis. The axis is 420 meters long, from south to north in order: the square entrance 3500 square meters of the main entrance to the distribution area, and then 35 meters wide 100 meters long north-south main road to the center of the lot. North of the main road connects 16,000 square meters, can accommodate tens of thousands of people in the central square. The center of the square has a 37-meter-high main sculpture "Sun Bird" (in ancient Chinese mythology, the sun said that there is a three-legged bird or a bird with a human face and a feathered image of the sun's image of the legend, the author borrowed the content of the legend of the apotheosis, the use of modern artistic expression to create the image of the Sun Bird, in order to express the praise and the yearning for light to the sun of mankind). (The praise of the sun and the yearning and pursuit of light)
The remodeling project of the Cultural Square started on May 20, 1996, and the main project was completed on August 21, which lasted three months, completing the first phase of the project, and was officially put into use. Ninety-seven second-phase project, the cultural square tree planting and made further additions, planted a large number of northeastern red bean cedar, black pine, Phellodendron Bark, Luanzhi and a dozen other species of trees and shrubs, and planting of flowers for coloring. At the same time, from 1998-2003 successively on the square east, south, west and north of the main entrance to set up a character stone sculpture, respectively, on behalf of the four seasons of the year, spring, summer, autumn and winter. 2000 in the celebration of the 200th anniversary of the founding of the city of Changchun, the Cultural Square in the city's lightening project to update the installation of a variety of main lights more than 10 kinds of lights, of which: the square south of the main entrance to the east-west arrangement of the seagulls with a light of 20; the main axis of the two sides of the Road There are 22 crystal lamps; center square south adjacent to the east and west lawn were equipped with electronic lanterns 5; center square north section of the east and west sides of the north and south arrangement were equipped with a full star lights each 4; stage on both sides of the east and west arrangement were equipped with a color laser spotlight each 5; the square north section of the east and west of the main road with a swallow tail lamp 18; square periphery east and west sides were equipped with 3 high-pole lamps, as well as the U-shaped road and square around the pedestrian walkway, Tree coloring and other lighting count 173 base 2077.
Cultural Square since its opening, the average daily reception of tens of thousands of visitors, the peak can reach more than 100,000 people. Provincial and municipal major events, such as Changchun Film Festival, Changchun book market, science and technology exhibitions, the Asian Arts Festival, the National Automobile Rally, as well as celebrating the return of Hong Kong and Macao, to commemorate the bicentennial of the founding of the city of Changchun, the major expositions and other large-scale celebrations are held here every year, large and medium-sized performances of hundreds of cultural performances, the mass of spontaneous self-entertainment and self-exploitation activities can be found everywhere, with a colorful sound. Every year, major events and cultural performances in the square are colorful and fascinating, which greatly enriches the spiritual and cultural life of the public and builds a unique cultural landscape of the Cultural Square. Culture Square has become the political and cultural center of Changchun, for the construction of spiritual civilization in Changchun and the urban environment has played a huge role.