Introducing the China Pavilion and the Guangdong Pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo

China Pavilion

Theme of the Pavilion: Chinese Wisdom in Urban Development

Design Team: Designer He Jingtang; Chief Exhibition Designer: Pan Gongkai, President of the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA); Exhibition Designer: Huang Jiancheng, Professor, Director of the Center for Research on Urban Visual Culture, CAFA; Creative Director: Yao Kaiyang, a renowned planner from Taiwan; Director of Exhibition Video Art. Director Lu Chuan

National Pavilion Day: October 1

Location of the Pavilion: Area A

Overview

The architectural appearance of the Pavilion is based on the conceptual theme of "The Crown of the Orient, Dignity of China, Breadbasket of the World, and Abundance of the People," which expresses the spirit and temperament of Chinese culture. The display of the pavilion is based on the main line of "search", leading visitors to walk in the "Oriental Footprints", "Journey of Search" and "Low Carbon Action". The pavilion takes visitors on a journey through the three zones of "Oriental Footprints", "Journey of Seeking" and "Low Carbon Action", where they can discover and realize the Chinese wisdom in urban development through "Seeking". Starting from the contemporary era, the pavilion reviews the process of urbanization in China over the past three decades, highlights the scale and achievements of urbanization in China over the past three decades, and traces back and explores the heritage and traditions of Chinese cities. Subsequently, a long "wisdom journey" guides visitors to the future, to realize the future road of urban development based on Chinese values and development concepts

The exterior of the National Pavilion rises up from the center of the pavilion, cascading out of the pavilion, and adopts the red "Dou Guan" shape, which is rich in Chinese architectural and cultural elements, with a floor area of 46,000 square meters, and a total area of 1.5 million square meters.

The National Pavilion rises in the center, cascades out, and adopts the red "Dou Guan" shape which is very rich in Chinese architectural and cultural elements, with a floor area of 46,457 square meters and a height of 69 meters, consisting of one underground floor and six aboveground floors; the Regional Pavilion is 13 meters high, consisting of one underground floor and one aboveground floor, and the surface of the outer wall is covered with "stacked seal characters", which unfolds horizontally to form the building's stable base and the construction of the urban public **Activity space.

Contents of the exhibition

The first exhibition area: Exploring the "Footprints of the East". Through several different styles of exhibits, it focuses on the wisdom of China's urban development concepts. One of the multimedia exhibits shows a film that tells the story of China's self-improvement in urbanization over the past 30 years of reform and opening up, and the Chinese people's enthusiasm for building and their expectations for the future. The national treasure painting "Qingming Riverside" is artistically reproduced in the gallery, conveying the wisdom of classical Chinese cities.

The second exhibition area: "Journey of Discovery". Using a railroad tour bus, visitors can enjoy the wisdom of Chinese city planning in the shortest possible time by dialoguing between the past and the present, completing a tour experience full of motion, surprise and discovery.

The third exhibition area: Gathering "Low Carbon Action". The third area: Gathering "Low-Carbon Action", which focuses on China's future urban development with low carbon as the core element, demonstrates how the Chinese people can meet the challenges of urbanization in the future through the "modern pursuit of learning from nature", and provides a "Chinese answer" to the realization of global sustainable development.

Highlights:

Chinese red, carefully selected from hundreds of red material samples

The Chinese red that adorns the National Pavilion was selected from hundreds of red material samples, and consists of a combination of seven types of red. The red color is a combination of seven different colors. The color of the pavilion body from top to bottom in order from dark to light, can be in the daytime different sunlight refraction and nighttime light projection and different visual height and other conditions, the formation of a unified with a calm, classic visual effect of red. In addition, the China Pavilion red plate selection of metal materials, the use of corduroy-like texture program, not only for the China Pavilion put on a more texture "coat", but also for the original flamboyant, jumping red gives the impression of stability, atmosphere.

National treasures will be present? The 100-meter wall reproduces "Qingming Riverside Drawing"

In the northern part of the 49-meter layer of the most central and highest exhibition area of the China National Pavilion, the entire 100-meter-long wall will be covered by the famous painting "Qingming Riverside Drawing" of the Song Dynasty, which has been enlarged hundreds of times. The original of the national treasure, "Qingming Riverside Drawing," will also appear in the China Pavilion during the Expo.

The "New Jiuzhou Qingyan"? inspired by the Yuanmingyuan? Depicting the typical landscape of China

In the China Pavilion on the roof platform of the Regional Pavilion, 27,000 square meters of urban sky garden "New Nine Continents", will be the China Pavilion to take up the evacuation of people, public **** recreation and many other functions. The new nine continents in the quiet, not only concentrated in the traditional Chinese gardens and modern landscaping technology, but also contains the Chinese wisdom and oriental charm. Each small continent will have a representative of the typical landscape arrangement of the Chinese land. Visitors will be able to walk through these landscapes as if they were walking on a miniature version of China's land, and see all the natural creations, and the long culture and rich landscapes they display are also an important part of the theme of the China Pavilion, "Chinese Wisdom in Urban Development".

Transmitting the Chinese flavor? Seal Script Walls Compose the 24 Seasons

In addition to the National Pavilion's styling, which integrates elements of traditional Chinese architecture and culture, the Regional Pavilions are also designed to convey Chinese flavor, drawing on many traditional elements from ancient China. On the external walls of the regional pavilions, the designers used the ancient Chinese script, seal script, as decoration. The "stacked seal script" decorates the surface of the building of the Regional Pavilion, conveying the human geography information of the 24 solar terms.

The endangered "Three Chopping Axes"? The average width of every 1 centimeter to be chopped 7 knives

Seemingly simple steps of the China Pavilion contains countless wonders, its **** 76 steps, quality, craftsmanship is comparable to the Great Hall of the Great Hall of the People's grand staircase. At the same time to regain the endangered folk art "three chopping axe", a 1-meter-square stone, chopping axe up to tens of thousands of knives, the entire China Pavilion Grand Staircase adds up to more than 54 million knives. China Pavilion steps are made of granite "Huaxia gray", showing the visual effect of black and white.

Qinling painted bronze carriages, such as half the size of the real carriages, because of the exquisite shape, craftsmanship and complexity, known as "the crown of bronze". The loan to the Chinese Museum on display, is a bronze carriage. It is a double wheel, single yamen, team of horses driving, with imperial hand, umbrella cover, *** by more than 3,500 parts and components, weighing about 1040 kilograms, of which more than 3,000 grams of gold ornaments, silver ornaments of more than 4,000 grams, the car and horse body is decorated with color painting, exquisite. This 20th century archaeological history of the discovery of one of the most important works, will be the newest as the China Pavilion "treasure of the pavilion" to show the five thousand years of civilization of the Chinese nation's brilliant glory.

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The Guangdong Pavilion closely follows the theme of the Shanghai World Expo, "Better City, Better Life".

Guangdong Pavilion, with the theme of "Golden Cavalcade, Green Life" as the theme of the display, the use of modern high-tech means of "Made in Guangdong, Guangdong creativity, Guangdong innovation", focusing on displaying Guangdong's past, present, and future pursuit of a better green life and practice.

The appearance of the Guangdong Pavilion "Golden Cavalcade" is based on the traditional characteristics of the Guangdong Cavalcade as a prototype, a combination of Chinese and foreign, drawing on the craftsmanship of the Chaoshan paper-cutting, abstracted from the combination of simple and complex delicate patterns. The pavilion is divided into three exhibition areas: "Green Life", "Green City" and "Green Myth". The "Green Life" exhibition area is based on the prototype of Guangdong's mounted markets, and is replicated in equal proportions, presenting the original Lingnan mounted market style, with the main features of "Raining Bananas", "City Life", "Urban Life", "The Little City", and "The Little City" under the Lingnan sky. The main exhibits include "Raining Basho" under the Lingnan sky, "Urban Life", "Bird Paradise" and "I am a Star". The "Green City" exhibition area allows visitors to feel as if they were on an "intercity train" speeding across the land of Southern Guangdong, and through the windows on both sides of the carriages (LED screen) to appreciate Guangdong's achievements and natural scenery in urban construction, industrial development, environmental protection, as well as green planning, greenway construction, and so on. The "Green Myth" is an exhibition of Guangdong's achievements in urban construction, industrial development, environmental protection, green planning and greenway construction. The "Green Myth" exhibition area is a 5D motion picture, which conveys the good wishes of protecting the environment and pursuing a green world through the heart-shaking effect of the encounter of two birds.

The Guangdong Pavilion has five main highlights: a golden riding tower, recreating the legend of traditional Guangdong architecture, which is located under the China Pavilion and is very distinctive; a market with riding tower, showcasing the living scenery of Lingnan characteristics; a big banyan tree, embodying the wonder of green life in Jiangmen's Birdie Paradise; a high-tech movie, experiencing the mind-blowing Green Myths; and a high-tech inter-city express line and high-speed railroad, reflecting Guangdong's central city of Guangzhou. Embodying the Pearl River Delta one hour living circle with Guangzhou as the center city, this is also a high-speed train car specially set up in the Guangdong Pavilion for the implementation of the "Outline of the Plan for the Reform and Development of the Pearl River Delta".