during the three days of the mid-autumn festival, beijing's municipal parks welcomed 1.344 million visitors, with these three parks receiving the most visitors
2024-09-17
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the reporter learned from the beijing municipal park management center that during the three days of the mid-autumn festival in 2024, 11 municipal parks and the china garden museum received a total of 1.344 million tourists, an increase of 38.9% year-on-year in 2023. among them, the summer palace received 284,800 visitors, the temple of heaven park received 268,700 visitors, and beihai park received 166,000 visitors, ranking the top three.
during the three days of the mid-autumn festival, beijing's municipal parks welcomed 1.344 million visitors, with the temple of heaven park ranking second in terms of visitor numbers. photo courtesy of beijing municipal park administration center
visitors guess lantern riddles to win exquisite gifts
on the day of the mid-autumn festival, yuyuantan park hung colorful lanterns. the lantern riddles included poems, idioms, common sense and interesting riddles. visitors solved the riddles and won exquisite gifts. the lanterns of "jade rabbit pounding medicine", "wooden mortise and tenon", "clay handicraft" and other exquisite and beautiful ones made the children eager to try and couldn't wait to start making them.
the exquisite performance of the flag-waving performance in the square inside the east gate of taoranting park attracted cheers from tourists. the huguang market was full of various commodities and delicious food. zizhuyuan park held a special performance of folk art at chengbi mountain house, conveying the joy and blessings of the mid-autumn festival to tourists through traditional folk art programs such as jingyun drum, danxian, and beijing qinshu.
zhongshan park held a science activity called "observe an ancient tree - i observe ground cover in zhongshan". park science staff led tourists to observe ancient trees and surrounding ground cover plants. tourists learned about garden science knowledge by collecting plant fruits and writing nature notes. more than a dozen primary and secondary school students who registered online "checked in" at the jinyuxuan revolutionary site to learn about the red stories of the early progressive people of the communist party of china who spread marxism.
animals get special mid-autumn festival food
during the mid-autumn festival, the keepers also prepared a mid-autumn "feast" for the animals. these "special" foods are within the daily feeding standards.
giant pandas at the beijing zoo eat mooncakes. photo courtesy of beijing municipal park administration center
the panda keepers processed the animal feed into mooncakes, allowing the pandas to experience the atmosphere of the traditional festival. in the polar bear, tapir, zebra and other venues, the special mooncakes were loved by the animals. in the children's zoo, the keepers made mooncake-shaped feeding containers by hand and put grass in them, which the pony ate with gusto. the keepers also prepared mid-autumn festival special delicacies for small animals such as parrots and two-toed sloths.
beijing's autumn brings the rich fragrance of sweet-scented osmanthus. visitors can go to the summer palace and fragrant hills park to enjoy the sweet-scented osmanthus. in october, beihai park and the national botanical garden (north park) will hold chrysanthemum exhibitions, and zhongshan park will also launch an indoor flower boutique exhibition. visitors can follow the official weibo and wechat public accounts of each park to keep track of specific "flower news".
beijing news reporter zhang lu
editor: fan yijing proofreader: liu yue
