Summer vacation is just around the corner.
Before the children enter the new semester, a good summer trip can not only release the child’s innocence, but also let the whole family take a break from the stressful rhythm, and in the common exploration to nourish the family and broaden their horizons.
So why not take a trip to Jinan? Jinan is not only a city of springs in the textbooks, but also a fertile cultural land with family feelings and poetic poems written by Li Qingzhao and Xin Qiji, and a modern city with a strong sense of science and technology.
In mid-summer, bring your friends and family to Jinan and start a summer vacation!
“The springs are silent, and the shade of the trees loves the water.” Jinan’s summer, is a spring ding dong cool poetry.
Baotu Spring “three water” rise up in the air, Heihuquan’s tiger-like water deafening, five dragon pool crescent spring in the moonlight silver glow …… each spring tells the story of the city and water symbiosis.
Children can experience the sweetness of “drinking spring water directly”, play with water in “Qingquan Stones” in Wulongtan Park, and feel the vitality of the word “Quancheng” in the textbooks.
If spring water is the soul of Jinan, then mountains and lakes are her bones. Thousand Buddha Mountain is full of green mountains, and the ancient legend of Shun’s cultivation of Alexandria is hidden among the morning bells and evening drums; Daming Lake is full of rippling water, and the boat show “Night Dream of Ming Lake – A Journey in the Painting” combines Li Qingzhao’s lyrics and Xin Qiji’s passion into the dancing and movement, turning the scene of “lotus flowers and three willows on the four sides” into a touchable and sensible immersive theater.
When children talk to Er’an by the lake and search for the reflection of Foshan in the mountains, they will not only read about the scenery, but also about the ecological wisdom of Jinan’s “mountains, springs, rivers, lakes, and cities” as an integrated whole.
What’s even more surprising is that Jinan’s summer cultural tourism products have long since broken through the old pattern of “going to see the flowers”. In the OCT Joyful Aloe, children can talk to the bronzes in the “National Treasure” digital exhibition area, and travel through 4.6 billion years of the earth in the “National Geographic” theme hall; this summer, the “Double Defendant” staged in the Performance Hall of Poly – Shandong Provincial Congress Theater will move the courtroom into the theater space, and the audience will be randomly admitted to the theater space. This summer, the Double Defendant at the Poly-Shandong Provincial Congress Theater will move the courtroom into the theater space, and the audience will randomly receive a “juror identity card” when they enter the theater, and the occupational backgrounds on the card will unlock the clues to the rights. This kind of “scene-based immersion” allows nature and humanity to move from ‘addition’ to “integration”, making every landscape in Jinan a three-dimensional cultural classroom.
Jinan’s old neighborhoods harbor the most authentic summer flavors.
In the Baihuazhou Historical and Cultural District, girls wearing hairpins and Chinese dresses can be seen everywhere on the green stone road, stopping at stalls of colorful gourds and Jinan shadow puppets, while children gather around the clay rabbit king’s handiwork stall to make their own “mascots of Quancheng” out of colorful clay.
Every weekend, the ancient colorful magic show in Mingshui Ancient City will always be surrounded by spectators, magicians use spring water as props to change the “mirage”, Li Qingzhao’s solo dance “Soyu Lyrics” was staged on the ancient stage, as if the tourists traveled to the bustling market of the millennium merchant port, “wearing Chinese clothes to tour the ancient city! The “tour of the ancient city in Chinese dress” has become a hot topic on social media.
A more contemporary experience is hidden in Jinan’s commercial district. In the Jinan Commercial Culture Museum, children can “travel” to the opening of the commercial port in 1904 through holographic projection, and feel the city’s “dare to be first” open gene; in the Jiaoji Railway Museum, the roar of the old steam locomotive hides the code of Jinan’s modern industrialization; and in the “Republican Post Office”, which integrates the old commercial port, children make postcards with movable type printing. In the Jiaoji Railway Museum, the roar of the old steam locomotives hides the code of Jinan’s modern industrialization; and in the “Republic of China Post Office”, which is a fusion of the old trading ports, children use movable type printing to make postcards with the postmarks of the old Jinan, and send them to their future selves.
The old streets and old shopping centers are Jinan’s “time capsule”. When the children measured the shadows of the Fatong trees on Jingwei Road with their feet and touched the aroma of the herbs in the old pharmacy of Hongjitang with their fingertips, they touched the grain of a city’s life. This kind of “fireworks immersion” makes the old streets no longer a background for photographs, but a scene of life that can be participated in, which is more vivid than any textbook.
This year marks the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People’s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War. Jinan in the summer is also a vivid classroom for red education.
Jinan Museum launched the “Great Contribution – China and the World Anti-Fascist War Theme Photo Exhibition” and “The Great Incident that Opened Up the Sky and Earth – The History of the Founding of the Communist Party of China”. The History of the Founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC)”, through a large number of historical pictures and cultural relics, vividly demonstrates the great history and important contributions of the CPC in leading the Chinese people in the revolutionary struggle.
Heroic Hill scenic area of the “red footprints – hiking card line” is the education into the movement; Quancheng Park, “build up the Red Currency Great Wall of the war of resistance” thematic exhibition, through the display of currency artifacts during the War of Resistance, so that children understand the history of the struggle on the economic front. This kind of “immersion red education” breaks the traditional didactic mode.
In addition, in the Jiefang Pavilion, children can climb the landmark building to commemorate the victory of the Jinan Battle, through the AR technology “return” to the 1948 siege; in the Laiwu Battle Memorial Hall, panoramic painting gallery of the sound of gunfire seems to bring people back to the era of the flames; in the Dafeng Mountain Revolutionary Base, to retrace the “Red Trail”, the “red trail”. In the Dafeng Mountain Revolutionary Base, the “Red Trail” study activities, let the youth in the experience of understanding “the last ration of food as military food, the last piece of cloth as a military uniform,” the military and the people fish and water love. This “red + technology” “red + art” innovative model, so that history is no longer dusty books, but can be touched, can feel the spirit of the torch.
The summer charm of Jinan also lies in the collision of tradition and modernity.
In the Jinan Film Illusion City’s Republic of China neighborhoods, the bell of a yellow cart and the sudden outbreak of a street “gunfight” to build a multi-dimensional sound field, children wearing VR equipment to enter the “five veins of the trial” virtual chamber, the dome astrological changes and geomagnetic effects to bring a sense of real adventure; and the “Big Critics Please Take Your Seat”. In the “Big Shot” program, the whole family puts on costumes to shoot a microfilm, and the professional director guides them on the spot, so that a “martial arts blockbuster” of their own is instantly generated; the “Ultimate Flying Ball” program of OCT Joyful Aloe makes the children feel like they’re in the middle of the action. The “Ultimate Flying Ball” project of OCT Happy Aloe will make children screaming: riding on the dynamic seats, leaping over the Amazon rainforest, overlooking the Arctic glacier in the giant ball screen, and completing the “global travel” in 10 minutes.
In addition, Thousand Buddha Mountain National Summer Camp, Midsummer Festival, opera performances; the zoo’s animal birthday party, keeper experience, themed science studies; Quancheng Park, Botanical Gardens, nature observation, forest camping, insect night observation; Hero Mountain, Forest Park, science walk, book club, creative handicrafts; Hundred Flowers Park’s bubble show, natural science workshops, lawn book club, flea market … … The carefully planned activities of major parks and scenic spots cover culture, ecology, popularization of science, socialization and entertainment, so that the summer vacation is full of laughter and new knowledge in the lush greenery.
This summer vacation, Jinan has prepared an immersive growth gift that integrates the ancient and modern, through the cultural lineage, and is full of surprises. Come to Jinan with your friends and family! In the coolness of the springs, the depth of culture, the weight of history and the pulsation of the times, children will have an unforgettable vacation that relaxes the mind and body and nourishes the soul, increases knowledge and enhances family ties, and leaves a shining imprint of Spring City on their path of growth.
Next stop, Jinan, welcome!
