A piece of green land, a tent, a table of food, three or five friends talk together and taste delicious food. Although the beginning of autumn has passed, the heat has not gone away. At the Tianmu Mountain Lawn Camp Base in Xinchang, Shaoxing, a tent has been set up to support “poetry and distance”, and people enjoy the poetic life.
Tianmu Mountain is a shining pearl on the “Road of Tang Poetry in Eastern Zhejiang”. The sea of clouds and sunrise, the starlight camping, and the mid mountain homestay… With the roaring of high-speed trains, Tianmu Mountain, once “hidden in purdah”, opened its arms. From the Tianmu Hidden Land, the Grand Lawn, to the Cloud Terrace, the Gold and Silver Terrace, the poetic landscape becomes real and the dream landscape becomes beautiful. Li Bai’s “land of sleepwalking” is gradually becoming a “real landscape” that can be heard, seen, toured and photographed.
A map of Shilu planning
Create a “Li Bai Dream”
Tianmu Mountain is located in the southeast of Xinchang County, and there is a provincial cultural relics protection unit “Tianmu Ancient Road”. In the eyes of Chinese Taoist scholars and writers of all ages, Tianmu Mountain is a famous cultural mountain towering in the east of Zhejiang Province and a “holy mountain” of the Qing Dynasty in the history of Taoism. More than 400 poets, including Xie Lingyun, Li Bai, Du Fu, Meng Haoran and Wang Wei, have come to “punch in” one after another, and have found a “road of Tang poetry in the east of Zhejiang Province” in the hills of the east of Zhejiang Province, which has lasted for more than 1000 years and has flourished so far.
In 2018, the work report of Zhejiang Provincial Government put forward the strategic deployment of “actively building the road of Tang poetry in eastern Zhejiang and the road of Tang poetry in Qiantang River” for the first time, and officially sounded the march of the cultural revival of the road of poetry. As the essence and initiative of the road of Tang poetry in eastern Zhejiang, Xinchang takes the lead in preparing the Strategic Plan for the Road of Tang Poetry in Eastern Zhejiang in Zhejiang Province, focusing on exploring the “activation” path of the poetry road culture.
After years of repeated research and discussion, in 2020, Xinchang County Party Committee and Government will establish a department level institution – Xinchang County Tianmu Mountain Cultural Tourism Development Center, which is responsible for the construction, development, operation and building of the scenic spot, and entrust China Urban Planning and Design Institute to be responsible for the preparation of the overall planning of the cultural tourism area. In the same year, the Overall Plan of Xinchang Tianmu Mountain Tourist Area, the “Road to Tang Poetry in Eastern Zhejiang”, was released in the Great Hall of the People of Zhejiang Province, laying a planning foundation for high-level construction of Tianmu Mountain Tourist Area.
The overall planning of Tianmu Mountain Tourist Area takes “Poetry and Painting Scenery · Taibai Tianmu” as the theme goal and “Famous Mountains in the South of the Yangtze River · Pearl of Poetry Road” as the image orientation, to build a tourism spatial structure of “One Belt, Five Areas, One Ring, Six Lines, and Two Cores and Seven Stars”. The planned investment is about 6.1 billion yuan. Through 3-5 years of construction, the poetic scene of the poetry immortals “singing and leaving” will be restored to the scene, Create an immersive experience tourism destination that combines the essence of the essence in eastern Zhejiang with poetry and landscape, and improve the overall quality of the cultural tourism industry in Xinchang County.
Poetic Conception Activates a Painting
Draw a picture of “poetry road”
“Tianmu Mountain is not only a mountain and a scenic spot, but also a cultural landmark. The brilliant poems left by Li Bai and other poets have given us enough inspiration. This year, we will focus on building the peak area into the destination and core area of Tianmu Mountain tourism.” Wang Huiying, director of the Tianmu Mountain Cultural Tourism Development Center in Xinchang County, said that relying on Li Bai’s “Sleepwalking Tianmu Singing Farewell”, Tianmu Mountain tourism planning and layout “Ten Views of Tianmu”. Through the “activation” of dreams and the reproduction of poetic landscapes, the inheritance of landscape scenery and cultural context, cultural revitalization and industrial development, a “poetic road picture” was drawn at the top of Tianmu.
The gold and silver platform, located at the main peak of Tianmu Mountain, is in line with Li Bai’s poem “The sun and the moon shine on the gold and silver platform”. “The tower body is made of brass. The golden light shines in the sunlight, and the precious gas is dense in the moonlight.” According to the relevant person in charge of the project, the Jinyin Platform will present different scenes with the change of time and space. In addition to the completed Jinyin Platform and Cloud Platform, there are also Tianji Platform, Xingyue Platform, Bamboo Forest Mystery, Azalea Valley and other scenic spots under construction, and Tianmu Poetry Academy, camping service area and other projects will also be started.
The infiltration of poetry road culture not only gives designers enough inspiration, but also gives Tianmu Mountain a unique charm. “In order to facilitate tourists to enter the mountain, we have built a new tourist center and opened a new scenic road. After tourists come to Tianmu Mountain, we hope they can slow down and slowly experience the poetry and charm of Tianmu Mountain.” Wang Yicheng, head of the Planning Section of the Tianmu Mountain Cultural Tourism Development Center in Xinchang County, said that in order to facilitate tourists to capture the beautiful scenery of the sea of clouds, they also set up a cloud monitoring probe on the top of Tianmu Mountain, relying on live broadcast, cloud prediction and other technologies to online cloud observation points, and jointly released the cloud index with Xinchang Meteorological Department.
In ancient times, poets came to Tianmu Mountain by logging. Now, Tianmu Mountain Tourist Area has entered the era of high-speed rail. On August 10, the title train of “Poetic Zhejiang Poetic Xinchang” high-speed railway was officially opened. “We will seize the new opportunities coming from the era of high-speed rail and mass tourism, and let more passengers travel to Xinchang by high-speed rail to find poetry and distance in Tianmu Mountain.” Wang Huiying said that the Hangzhou Taiwan high-speed railway, which was just opened in 2022, has linked up 24 scenic spots in eastern Zhejiang, and Tianmu Mountain is one of them.
Poetic transformation of a poem
Compose a volume of “Poetry and the Distance”
When young, go spring outing; When you grow up, come camping. When camping and Tianmu Mountain meet, they collide with each other.
“If you can’t travel far, you can set up a tent for a picnic with your friends and children. I heard that you can see the sea of clouds even if you are lucky!” On the evening of August 13, Sheng Weiying, a citizen of Xinchang, was setting up a tent at the Tianmu Mountain Lawn Camp Base. The children ran wildly on the lawn and enjoyed themselves. It was getting late, and some tents were also lit with colorful lights. From time to time, music floated out, and the atmosphere was suddenly full.
The “Grand Lawn” is the first completed project in Tianmu Mountain Tourist Area, located near the main peak of Tianmu Mountain, and is also one of the core experience projects around the peak camp. In 2021, the Tianmu Mountain Cultural Tourism Development Center of Xinchang County will renovate and upgrade the original lawn, expand the area to 30 mu, completely open the view from the top of the mountain to the mountains, and add experience projects such as camping, watching the stars at night, and shooting the sunrise cloud sea.
In June 2022, the opening of the Tianmu Mountain Tourist Area and the cultural season of the Tang Poetry Road in eastern Zhejiang Province, “Seeking the Poetry Road to Meet Tianmu”, was officially launched, and the tent camping and leisure festival became the most eye-catching activity. “Since its official opening in June this year, the park has received more than 9000 tourists.” According to the relevant person in charge of the operation department of Xinchang Tianmu Mountain Cultural Tourism Development Center, in order to enhance interaction, they also launched offline experience activities such as concerts, martial arts screenplay killings, fraternities, etc. In the future, more and more people will call friends to camp on the lawn to “punch in”.
Ying Yiming was a photography expert and a camping expert. On the evening of August 12, when he and his friends hurried to the lawn, it was already dusk. “I wanted to come here to watch the sunset, but I felt a bit sorry that I came a little late. However, I can still watch the sunrise tomorrow morning.” He smiled and told reporters that he had been to Tianmu Mountain many times, but every time a new friend came, he always volunteered to be a “local companion”, because each time he came, he could see different landscapes and experience different charm.
(Editor in charge: Ye Binde, Wang Liwei)
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