Ancient Capital Relics in Beijing Yuan Dynasty Dadu Relics

Yuan DynastyDaduCityWallRelicsPark was successively listed as Beijing and national key cultural relics protection unit in 1957 and 2006. It was divided into nine scenic spots after the overall renovation in 2003. With New Look of the Yuan City Wall, Heyday of Dadu, Dragon Pond as the first class sight spots, Emperors Travel in Two Capitals, Guests from the World, Chinese Crabapple Blossoms, Light of Peace, Lights on Water Street and Turrets as the second class spots, Yuan Dynasty Dadu City Wall Relics Park becomes an modern urban relics park featured by humanity, landscape, waterscape, history, recreation and shelter.

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Dadu Bar Street in Lights on Water Street and Dragon Pond scenic spots is located on both sides of Huixin East Street. It is geared to the needs of white-collars, high-level professional managers, foreign nationals, celebrities and undergraduates inhabited in Beijing. Most of operators are from cultural circle. They run the bar to achieve their own ideal and sustain some culture, but not to pursue economic interest. For these purposes, the Bar Street is characterized by elegant brand positioning with strong culture characteristic. Since 2004, the bar s popularity has being increasingly growing through newspaper, magazine, TV, internet and a series oftheme activities, such as Opening Ceremony , Christmas Carnival Night , Romantic Valentine's Night , One-year Dadu Bar Celebrate the 56th Anniversary of the Founding of China , Dadu Bar Romantic Carnival Night , etc. Guests from the World scenic spot is located in the south of Chinese Ethnic Culture Park. This scenic spot reflects certain features of Yuan Dynasty then: open-minded, courteous to the wise and condescending to the scholarly, and other countries at the time successively came to worship or have an audience or intercourse with Yuan. Three sculptures of Blue-and-White Porcelain , Arrow and Shield and Bastion of Iron on the sunk HorseFacePlaza in north of scenic spot reflect the achievement in art and military.

Chinese Crabapple Blossoms scenic spot is located in the east of Panda Roundabout. It was reserved through overall arrangement and renovation. With approximately 2,000 crabapples, such as midget crabapple, chaenomeles speciosa, venus crabapple, malus halliana, etc, it becomes the biggest crabapple forest in urban area.

Heyday of Dadu scenic spot is located in the east of Xiaoguan crossing of Anding Road. This scenic spot is magnificent and impressive: Heyday of Dadu group sculptures and 80-meter large-scale mural with fine horse, stone sheep, wooden kiosk and other garden ornaments show the world for its unique artistic charm and vividly reproduce the characteristics and outstanding achievement of Yuan Dynasty in politics, economy, military, technology, culture and life. All features make Yuan DynastyDaduCityWallRelicsPark become a large-scale OutdoorArt Museum . It is the largest outdoor sculpture group.

Dragon Pond scenic spot is in the easternmost of the park. Urban light rail and XiaoyueRiver intersect with each other and form a delta, which looks like a dragon head with an area of 17,000 km². It becomes a nature and interesting wetland and is the largest artificial wetland in the city.