Cultural garden made of clay in China

on December 26th, 2011 by Cyber mania | No Comments »

A unique cultural garden made of clay recently open to the public, in the city of Tangshan, China.

Since the first emperor to power, the Chinese already somewhat accustomed to making super magnificent monuments. From the start of the palace contains thousands of Terracotta statues of legendary Chinese up the wall are two of them.

Now, they have created a unique cultural garden made of clay and recently opened to the public, in Tangshan City.

The park is featuring rows and rows of houses, busy streets full of shops and carts, state officials, to train horses Chinese classical era. This is a reproduction of the famous works of Zhang Zerui, “Riverside Scene”, which describes the Qingming Festival.

The main figure behind this extraordinary project is the Qin Shiping, a local resident Fengrun district. Tangshan is since long known for its pottery tradition and Qin is one of the sculptor and painter there.

In 2005 he got the idea, namely to offer a unique view on China. Because he enjoyed the paintings Zherui Zhang, Qin then decided to create a more real picture of the painting to the art of clay sculptures.

Shiping Qin began to pour his ideas into real work in 2008. When was he hired two experts clay sculptures and 100 sculptors and start the project. Three years later, Tangshan clay sculpture park has been completed and opened to the public.

The extent of 300 x 60 meters with a scale size of 2 / 3 of original size. Total project cost has not been published, but a year after the project began a professional sculptor, namely in 2009, Qin Shiping had claimed to have invested more than 10 million yuan or more than 20 billion dollars.