Brief introduction of Changchun cultural square

The cultural square takes the central line of the new democratic street road to the main building center of the geological palace square as the north-south main axis, with a total length of 429 meters. From south to north, it is the main entrance of the cultural square and the north-south main road. In the center of the central square is the Sunbird sculpture, and in the north is the open-air music altar. Crossing the east-west main road is 1 1,000 square meters of the lobby square of the main building, and the northernmost part is the main building of the Geological Palace. The entire central axis is paved with natural granite, giving people a natural, solemn and heavy feeling. From the central square to the main entrance, there are square green space and garden road land with a total area of 40,000 square meters, and 3,000 pigeons are raised, which adds interest to the whole square.

Cultural Square, built in August, 1996, is the largest urban leisure square in Changchun, located in the city center. Located in Minzhu East Street, Jiefang South Road, Minzhu West Street and Chaoyang North Campus of Jilin University, with a total area of 20.5 hectares, it is a large leisure square in domestic cities.

Cultural Square, formerly known as Geological Palace Square, was once the capital square of Manchukuo in history. Founded in 1933, it is called "Imperial Palace Square" and "Shuntian Square". After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the underground palace square, as a large assembly square in our city, played an irreplaceable role in the political life of the city. In the early 1980s, the eastern half of the square was transformed into urban public green space.

The history of the Geological Palace and the cultural square in front can be traced back to 1938. After the founding of Manchukuo, the Japanese began to plan Changchun. Soon, they designated the area between the East and West Democratic Streets, north of Jiefang Road today, as "building a palace".

The Geological Palace is located at the northern end of Xinmin Street, in the central area of the "Babu" building. It is the teaching building of changchun university of science and technology (formerly Changchun Institute of Geology). The Geological Palace was once the seat of the new palace of the Japanese puppet government. The Geological Palace was built as the official "palace" of Puyi. Construction started in September. 1938. Due to the outbreak of the Pacific War and financial shortage, it was stopped and only the underground part was completed, while the grand palace was completed in the 1950s. 1953, this green tile roof and palace-style building is built on the original basis, with a construction area of 30,000 square meters. Because it is the teaching building of Changchun Institute of Geology, it is named "Geological Palace". The underground palace is a typical ancient architectural style in China. The square in front is 6.5438+0.8 million square meters, which is called Cultural Square. There is a geological museum in the Geological Palace, ranging from all kinds of precious diamonds and minerals to all kinds of fossil specimens of paleontology and dinosaurs, such as mineral specimens, precious stones and ivory, fossils and dinosaur fossils, with a true bone content of 70%. There are also ancient trilobites and dinosaur bones. The furnishings inside give people a sense of simplicity and vicissitudes. It will make people feel immersed in the long river of history. There is no luxurious decoration, red wooden floor and simple showcase, but every collection is precious. It is one of the six natural sciences, and it is also a geographical attraction.

The lawn square in front of the temple can accommodate more than 500 thousand people. Standing on the central axis of the palace, looking south, an 80-meter-wide straight Xinmin Street extends to Nanhu Park. The flower beds in the middle line are pine, cypress and lilac trees, and on both sides are poplars that can drill the sky, forming a green corridor of 1500 meters. The offices of the pseudo-the State Council and its subordinate "eight departments" are located on both sides of the street, forming a diamond-shaped scenic spot. The buildings have their own characteristics, and they are absolutely the same.

At the beginning of 1996, with the approval of the municipal government, the Geological Palace Square was renamed as the Cultural Square. In May of the same year, the prelude to the thorough transformation of the square was opened. Changchun Municipal Government listed the renovation project of Cultural Square as one of the twelve practical things that 1996 was run by the people of the whole city. Mayor Song Chunhua clearly pointed out in the government report made at the fourth meeting of the Tenth People's Congress of Changchun that Geological Palace Square should be built into a cultural square with lawn as the main body and reasonable plant landscaping. In order to make the square reconstruction project have a high starting point and a high level of planning control, the reconstruction planning scheme is collected for the whole country. Many famous universities, planning and design institutes and research institutes in China have shown great interest and enthusiasm in the reconstruction of Geological Palace Square. After fierce competition from elites from all walks of life and final evaluation by experts, it is determined that Tsinghua University's design scheme is the main one, supplemented by the schemes of Changchun Planning Institute and Changchun Landscape Management Office, and Tsinghua University will complete the overall work of the scheme.

The reconstructed square has broken the pattern of "divide and rule" between the East and the West for many years, and adopted an axisymmetric way to integrate the whole square. The main axis of the square is from the road center of New Democracy Avenue to the center of changchun university of science and technology main building. The central axis is 420 meters long and arranged from south to north: the main entrance distribution center at the entrance of the square is 3500 square meters, and then the north-south main road is 35 meters wide and 100 meters long. The main road connects to the north16000m2, which can accommodate tens of thousands of people. In the center of the central square, there is a main sculpture "Sunbird" with a height of 37 meters (in ancient China mythology, it is said that there is a bird with three legs or a face bird under the sun, and the belly has the image of feathers of the sun. The author borrows the contents of myths and legends and uses modern artistic expression techniques to shape the image of the sunbird, which shows the praise of the sun and the yearning and pursuit of light.

The renovation project of Cultural Square started on May 20th, 1996/kloc-0, and the main project was completed on August 20th, 2002/kloc-0, which lasted for three months. The first phase of the project was completed and put into use. 1997, the second phase of the project further supplemented the planting of trees in the cultural square, and planted a large number of more than a dozen trees and shrubs such as Taxus cuspidata, Pinus thunbergii, Phellodendron amurense and Luanzhi, and planted colorful flowers. At the same time, since 1998-2003, the four main entrances of the square, namely, east, south, west and north, have been set up with figure stone carvings, representing spring, summer, autumn and winter all the year round. In 2000, when celebrating the bicentennial of Changchun, the Cultural Square was updated with more than 10 main color lights in the city lighting project, including: 20 seagull lights were arranged in the east and west of the south main entrance of the square; There are 22 crystal lamps on both sides of the main road of the central axis; There are five electronic fireworks lights on the south side of the central square adjacent to the east lawn and the west lawn respectively; In the north section of the central square, there are four starry lights arranged on the east, west, north and south sides respectively; There are five colored laser spotlights arranged on both sides of the stage; There are 18 swallow taillights on the east-west main road in the north section of the square; There are three street lamps and 2077 U-shaped roads, pedestrian walkways and trees based on 173 around the square.

Since its opening, the Cultural Square has received tens of thousands of tourists every day on average, with the peak number reaching more than100000. Changchun Film Festival, Changchun Book Fair, Science and Technology Exhibition, Asian Art Festival, National Automobile Rally and other major events in provinces and cities, as well as large-scale celebrations and major expositions to welcome the return of Hong Kong and Macao and commemorate the bicentenary of Changchun's founding, were held here. Hundreds of large and medium-sized cultural performances are held every year, and spontaneous self-entertainment activities of the masses can be seen everywhere. Every year, the major events and cultural performances in the square are colorful and dazzling, which greatly enriches the spiritual and cultural life of citizens and builds a unique cultural landscape of the cultural square. Cultural Square has become the political and cultural center of Changchun, which has played a great role in the construction of spiritual civilization and urban environment in Changchun.