What's on display at the World Expo?

The British Pavilion of the Creative Pavilion consists of a large number of tentacles extending in all directions, each with a tiny colored light source at the top, which looks like a luminous box. All building materials can be recycled, and the carbon emission of the whole building will be zero.

The Spanish Pavilion is made of thousands of wickers and looks like a basket with a unique shape. The interior of the exhibition hall mainly uses bamboo and translucent paper as materials, and the top uses solar energy to save energy.

The curtains outside the Swiss Pavilion are mainly soybean fibers, which can generate electricity and degrade naturally. The top floor of the exhibition hall will be covered with green grass and dandelion. Visitors can smell dandelion when they reach the top of the mountain by cable car.

The French Pavilion named "City of Perception" looks like it floats on the horizontal plane, which complements the Huangpu River. The scheme applies high technology in energy, and the exhibition hall will realize energy self-sufficiency.

Finland Pavilion has a beautiful name "Curling", which looks like an island standing in the water from the outside.

The Danish Pavilion of "Dream City" looks like two overlapping and inclined rings. In the sunken mini seaside square in the center, visitors can play in the water, have a picnic on the surrounding lawn and feel the pleasant living atmosphere in Denmark. The original sculpture of "Little Mermaid" in Andersen's fairy tales is also on display here.

The appearance of the China Pavilion, the host country, takes the concept of "the crown of the East" as the theme and takes the shape of a bucket arch more than 60 meters high. Its design concept can be summarized as: "the crown of the East, the prosperity of China, the granary of the world and the prosperity of the people." The China Pavilion consists of a national pavilion and a regional pavilion.

New prospects of scientific and technological life

The World Expo is a stage for countries to show their strength. In previous World Expos, participating countries will display their most advanced scientific and technological achievements, so the science and technology museum and enterprise museum have always been the highlights of the World Expos.

In terms of solar energy utilization, the Expo site uses solar energy in a large area. Solar energy facilities have been installed in main venues, theme pavilions, China Pavilion and Heather Power Plant.

In the application of new environmentally-friendly vehicles, the public transport in the Expo site will achieve "zero emission" and various new scientific and technological vehicles will be displayed.

In the popularization and application of energy-saving equipment, semiconductor lighting will be used as the main lighting in the urban best practice area.

In terms of resource recycling technology, the riverside layout of the Expo site is used, Huangpu River water is used as cold source heat pump, shallow underground geothermal resources are used as ground source heat pump, physical and biological technologies are used to purify Huangpu River water, and the purified rainwater is collected for greening and watering in the park, thus saving water resources.

In terms of energy-saving ecological buildings, the design of venue facilities in the Expo site makes full use of natural wind field, underground tunnel wind, automatic sunshade system, natural light transmission, roof greening and wall greening to reduce building energy consumption; In building materials, choose green building materials with low energy consumption and significant environmental benefits.

The biggest feature of the Mexico Pavilion of the World Expo is the display of a number of rare cultural treasures. Including the sandstone sculpture "Aicart Stone Tablet" representing the vast card culture; Limestone carving in Mayan civilization era "prints of feather figures"; Resplendent and magnificent altar of Notre Dame in dolores; A stone tablet "cactus" representing Mexican culture; The most precious exhibit in Mexico Pavilion is the self-portrait of Frida Kahlo, a famous Mexican female painter. Seven French "national treasures" were unveiled at the Expo site, and never exhibited abroad at the same time. On April 28th, Cezanne's work The Woman by the Coffee Pot arrived at the French Pavilion of the Shanghai World Expo. On that day, seven French "national treasures" appeared at the Shanghai World Expo. It is reported that these seven exhibits have never been exhibited outside France at the same time. These seven "national treasures" are all provided by the Musee d 'Orsay, France, and six of them are the works of impressionist painters. They are Cezanne's Woman by the Coffee Pot, bonnard's Dressing Room, Van Gogh's Al Ballroom, Miller's Late Bell, Manet's Balcony and Gauguin's Dione (also known as Banana). The other is Rodin's sculpture Bronze Age. The Orsay Museum, formerly a railway station built in Paris to host the World Expo 1898, was later converted into a museum, which mainly collects the works of the golden age of French art in the19th century and is known as the Impressionist Art Hall. It is known as the three major art centers in Paris together with Pompidou Cultural Center and Louvre Museum. The bronze statue of the Little Mermaid is the national treasure of Denmark, a fairy tale country. It has been standing on the seaside of Copenhagen since the completion of 19 13. In order to show its friendship with China, Denmark decided to let the bronze statue of the Little Mermaid participate in the Shanghai World Expo and display it in the Danish Pavilion for half a year. This is the first time that the bronze statue has been exhibited abroad. During the World Expo, the China Pavilion will display a number of top national treasures selected from all over the country. According to reports, the exhibition of National Treasures focuses on "Four Great Inventions" and "The Development of Science and Technology in China". Among the national treasures on display, "Ceng Houyi Drum Tower Base" and "Dianxue Tongren" are two treasures of Chu culture that attract the most attention. "Ceng Houyi Drum Tower Base" is the pinnacle of bronze smelting, consisting of 8 pairs of big dragons and several 10 little dragons. The dragon body is intertwined, hollowed out and inlaid with turquoise, and its craft has not been restored so far, and there is no replica. "Tongren on the Acupoint" should not be underestimated. This bronze statue of the Ming Dynasty clearly marked the specific positions of hundreds of acupoints and meridians, vividly reflecting the profoundness of traditional medicine in China. Since the bronze man has never been publicly exhibited before, the Shanghai World Expo has also become its "appearance".

The Bronze Boshan Furnace of the Western Han Dynasty from Hebei Province will also be exhibited in the China Pavilion. This bronze furnace has a history of 2,200 years and is one of the most exquisite bronzes of the Western Han Dynasty in China. Of course, the top national treasures appearing in the China Pavilion are not limited to this, and some will be announced on the opening day of the World Expo.

Apart from the top national treasures exhibited in the China Pavilion, other China treasures will also be exhibited in other pavilions of the World Expo. Representative exhibits include: the 7,000-year-old "Sun God Stone Carving" and the Shang Dynasty's "gluttonous bronze drum"; One of the ancestors of dinosaur fossils found in China-Xu Shi Lufenglong skeleton fossil and another giant Lufenglong skeleton fossil; The "Four Treasures of the Study" in Fujian Pavilion also set records in their respective fields: the 8-ton Mazu statue is the largest white marble Mazu statue in the world; Ode to sound of spring, worth 65.438+0.3 billion yuan, is the largest Shoushan stone carving in the world. "Expo and Ding" is the first large-scale porcelain tripod made by hand in the world. The peony vase, with a height of 3.6 meters and a diameter of 1.5 meters, is the largest known bodiless lacquer ware in mainland China, and many treasures are exhibited in various provinces.