[Explanation] Entering the 1978 Cultural and Creative Park of Tongguanshan in Tongling City, Anhui Province, the rich history and modern vitality are integrated here.
In the three rows of red brick bungalows, the real life scenes of copper miners in the last century are reproduced in front of your eyes; in the underground tunnels, sound and light technology reveals the mystery of underground mining for you; in the creative block, a new generation of Tongling people The story of inheriting culture with copper continues to happen here.
[Explanation] It is understood that the predecessor of the Cultural and Creative Park was the relics of miners and residents in the 1960s and 1970s. After ecological restoration and management of the mine, the production and life scenes of the copper miners in the past were restored. Become a new "net celebrity check-in place" for citizens.
[Concurrent] Tourist Su Xingliang
The history of Tongling is also the history of this mine. Therefore, the original appearance of the mine is preserved, and these machines for mining and beneficiation are preserved, and a cultural and creative park is opened in this area to allow citizens, especially the younger generation, to come in. Take a look here and learn about the hard work of our mine workers in the underground, so that they will not forget the past and the hard-won life of today.
[Concurrent] Zhang Yu, Manager of Investment Operation Department of Tongling Cultural Investment Company
Our park is mainly divided into two functional areas: the miner's theme cultural exhibition area and the characteristic cultural commercial block. The miner's theme cultural exhibition area is a comprehensive exhibition area that recalls the life of the miners, the work of the miners and the culture of the miners.
The characteristic cultural commercial block is the first cultural commercial block with the theme of cultural creativity in Tongling.
As the first cultural entrepreneurship park in Tongling City, the construction and operation of Tongguanshan Phase I 1978 Cultural and Creative Park not only preserves the memory of the city, protects the cultural roots, but also provides the general public with a good place for leisure and entertainment.
[Explanation] According to Zhang Yu, Tongling is based on Tongli City, and the Tongguanshan Copper Mine, as the epitome and testimony of China's non-ferrous metal industry, has a very heavy cultural heritage that needs to be protected urgently.
The opening of the Cultural and Creative Park has attracted many entrepreneurs who love copper culture. Li Weiping is one of them.
Last year, Li Weiping, who had dealt with copper crafts for more than 20 years, moved his studio to promote copper crafts to customers through a combination of online and offline methods.
[Concurrent] Li Weiping, a cultural and creative practitioner
We have been engaged in the bronze industry for many years. We mainly inherit Chinese traditional culture. Generally, our works are copied and created based on palace objects from the Ming and Qing Dynasties.
When we came to 1978, we also wanted to do some cultural and creative copper culture here and promote the characteristic copper culture of Tongling.
[Explanation] In a coffee shop in the Cultural and Creative Park, Zhang Shun, a young entrepreneur, integrates hand-run and cartoons into cultural and creative activities.
Wang Shun believes that cultural and creative parks are gradually becoming a local cultural benchmark, and cultural and creative products should also be more targeted at young people. Many young people can be reached through coffee shops, so as to understand the forms and changes of contemporary young people’s acceptance of history and culture, and to promote cultural development. Innovation and upgrading of products.
[Concurrent] Zhang Shun, a cultural and creative practitioner
First of all, in addition to copper and ginger, we are now doing more stories out of nothing.
To dig out the traditional culture and make it into some cartoons, such as hand-run cartoons, and then turn them into products, and then spread the culture of Tongling.
Then, I can use all the coffee shops I currently cooperate with to do some offline sales, including our own online shops, to spread the culture into a commodity circulation.
Zhang Jun Chu Weiwei reports from Tongling, Anhui
Editor in charge: [Li Yuxin]