the temple of heaven will open a mid-autumn night market, where visitors can experience making lanterns and lacquer fans
2024-09-14
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during this year's mid-autumn festival, the temple of heaven park will host a number of popular science and cultural activities, and hold a special night market called "mid-autumn moon temple gathering" that combines traditional culture and interactive experience, to accompany tourists and citizens to enjoy the mid-autumn festival.
learn about birds, observe ancient trees, and popularize science activities throughout the holiday
on the first day of the mid-autumn festival (september 15), the cultural tour guide team of the temple of heaven park will become cultural science lecturers, leading the pre-recruited participants to stroll through the ancient buildings of the temple of heaven and look for the "circle" element in the temple of heaven. in the afternoon of the same day, the temple of heaven park will also hold a science open day event. tourists and citizens can go to the science wooden classroom located in the northwest outer altar of the temple of heaven park to participate in the "smart temple of heaven science teaching aids interactive exhibition" experience activity, learn about measurement with the millet accumulation method, experience painting canvas bags, explore the age of trees with tree ring paintings, and learn about birds in the temple of heaven by making paper quilling paintings.
the temple of heaven park held a science open day event. photo courtesy of the temple of heaven park
there are 3,562 ancient trees in the temple of heaven, accounting for 15% of the ancient trees in beijing. during the "gardens on the central axis - natural observation of ancient trees" activity on the second day of the mid-autumn festival holiday (september 16), the park's science lecturers will lead everyone to understand the cultural value and natural significance of the ancient trees.
on the third day of the mid-autumn festival (september 17), the "roaming the ancient architecture of the temple of heaven" activity will lead participants to learn about the cultural knowledge of ancient architecture and recognize the common ancient architectural components in the temple of heaven. the "hand-drawn map of the ancient architecture of the temple of heaven" developed and designed by the tiantan park science popularization team for the first time will be officially used in the event.
chinese ancient architectural paintings are the beautiful clothes of ancient buildings. they protect the wooden components of ancient buildings, decorate buildings, and show the level of buildings. on the afternoon of the third day of the mid-autumn festival (september 17), the park will hold the "zero distance of carved beams and painted buildings" event, where visitors can experience traditional crafts such as making music, tying music, clapping music, applying powder, gilding, and brushing colors.
the hall of prayer for good harvests will be illuminated at night
during the mid-autumn festival, the full moon will appear in the night sky with the hall of prayer for good harvests lit up, allowing visitors to experience the beauty of the night. in order to enhance the experience and fun of moon-watching for visitors, the "full moon mid-autumn temple yaji" night market will be officially unveiled inside the second north gate of the temple of heaven park during the mid-autumn festival.
at the night market, tourists and citizens will have the opportunity to experience the intangible cultural heritage bronze making skills of master zhu bingren, and can also participate in interactive games such as archery and pitching pots to appreciate the elegance of ancient scholars. by participating in experience activities such as lantern and lacquer fan making, tourists can also receive a hand-made mid-autumn festival decoration. the night market also provides pre-packaged food and beijing time-honored delicacies, so tourists can taste beijing delicacies while enjoying the moon.
the flea market activity of "moon fate at the temple of heaven gathering love and civilization and starting righteousness" will be held at the night market in the evening of the mid-autumn festival. students from schools around the temple of heaven park will advocate the "green, energy-saving, and low-carbon" lifestyle through "barter" and "charity sales". that night, the temple of heaven park will also conduct an online live broadcast, and netizens can listen to the special performance of court music brought by the zhonghe shao music inheritance team of the national intangible cultural heritage temple of heaven shenyue bureau through the official weibo of "temple of heaven park".
beijing news reporter zhang lu
edited by zhang qian, proofread by zhang yanjun
