Old Beijing Mini Landscape Park
Introduction
The Old Beijing Mini Landscape Park located at Nankou some 40 kilometres away from the city the Old Beijing Mini Landscape Park is a joint venture of the America Shi Tai Group Stock Co. Ltd Changping Foreign Economic Relations and Trade Corporation and Changping Nankou town Industrial Enterprises Corporation. Construction of the park lasting only 16 months first began on April 18 1993 and was finished and opened to the public on August 18, 1994. The total cost for building the park was 2.4 million US dollars, covering an area of 132.5 acres of land, the Old Beijing Mini Landscape Park includes old Beijing scenes, its traditions and folk life and a reception and administrative quarter. on a scale of 1:15, the park brings to the public the Beijing of the Ming and Qing dynasties-its rigrous arrangements grand styles strewn skyline and natural adornment.
Highlights
Apart from more than 100 fine and vivid miniaturized spots the park offers eight performance areas for imperial and folk arts and Beijing-style services. The park also provides photographic and video service. It supplies wheelchairs and carriages for disabled children. There are many choices open to the tourist who is looking for a suitable vehicle to ride around the park: super dragon wagon, old-fashioned car, Western carriage, tri-cycle, mule carriage and rickshaw. The park also provides dwarfhorses, camels, imperial carrages and sedans carried by two, four and eight people. The park in addition provides VIP and exhibition rooms that display Beijing's historical development.
The aim of miniaturizing ancient Beijing is to bring back the city as it had been in the past. Publicizing the cultures and traditions over the past thousands of years will surely give both chinese and overseas visitors the opportunity to see what Beijing once looked like and how people lived during the times of the ancient dynasties.
More than 40 construction companies were involved in building this park, using more than 30 million bricks in all. Many vividly recreated scenes from ancient life are featured in the park. For example, cricket fighting is arranged for visitors. Cricket fighting was once popular in the imperial palace as well for visitors. Cricket fighting was once popular in the imperial palace as well as on Beijing streets. Ancient Beijing had special cricket fighting places for the upper, middle and lower classes, and what a fascinating scene it is!
Traffic
Bus 919 from Desheng men, bus 345 to Changping, change bus 357 or bus 376
Drive from Madian bridge to Badaling highway
The Old Beijing Mini Landscape Park Fee and opening hours
Admission 45yuan
Opening hours：8:00~17：00 (summer)； 8：30~16：30(winter)
Tips
1.The park also has a bird market, a children's paradise as in the old days, an open-air tea house and puppet shows.
2.Film shows about life in old Beijing will surely cultimate the tourist tour of the park.
