China News Service, Beijing, September 28 (Xu Jing) On the 28th, "Summer Palace Calendar 2023 (Vegetable Benhua)" officially met with tourists.
The reporter learned from the Summer Palace that this calendar takes the Summer Palace's plant culture as its theme, continues the pocket book-style design, focuses on seasonal flower viewing, and selects 385 plant-themed pictures, allowing readers and tourists to immersely experience the changing seasons of the Summer Palace with the calendar.
The calendar name of "Summer Palace Calendar 2023 (Grass and Trees Benhua)" is selected from the plaque "Grass and Trees Benhua" in Qianlong's Royal Book of Liujia Pavilion in the promenade, from "Wenxin Diaolong Yuandao": "The color of clouds and clouds is more than that of painting. Wonderful; the grass and trees are splendid, and there is no waiting for the wonder of the brocade craftsman." From the perspective of garden plant configuration, the calendar systematically sorts out the art in the garden plant configuration of the Summer Palace.
The picture shows the inner page of "Summer Palace Calendar 2023 (Benhua)".
Photo by Yi Haifei of China News Agency
Plants are one of the most dynamic elements of a garden composition.
As the last imperial garden in the Qing Dynasty, the Summer Palace began artificially planting precious flowers and trees as early as the Qingyi Garden period, becoming a model of Chinese classical garden configuration art.
In recent years, the Summer Palace has paid more attention to the protection of ancient and famous trees and the maintenance of characteristic flowers, forming a characteristic garden layout with complementary plant landscape and architectural landscape.
"Summer Palace Calendar 2023 (Benhua of Plants and Trees)" is themed on plant culture, including plant species, plant culture, popular science knowledge, palace flower arrangement, etc. It is arranged according to seasonal flower viewing, and introduces 110 main plants of the Summer Palace throughout the year. , with pictures and popular science introductions, so that tourists and readers can gain a scene and a little knowledge every day when they flip the calendar.
It is understood that since the "Summer Palace Calendar" was first launched in 2019, the Summer Palace has successively launched the theme of twenty-four solar terms, the theme of color painting in the gallery and the theme of Fushou culture, which has received good social response.
After three years of research and development, "Summer Palace Calendar" has basically determined a professional, elegant and cultural design style. The narrow pocket book binding design is not only convenient for displaying the calendar on the desk, but also easy to carry around when visiting the garden.
The 2023 Summer Palace Calendar continues the previous year's binding design. The text adopts the form of "theme pictures + text annotations". All popular science entries are checked by Summer Palace experts. harvested.
The shading of the cover and the ring lining of the inner pages are taken from the decals of Fengqi Wutong painted by Shen Ji in the Renshou Hall of the Summer Palace in the Qing Dynasty, and the decals of flowers and birds painted by Wang Jiming in the Qing Dynasty in the Summer Palace. The whole book is printed on high-quality special paper. At the same time of being beautiful and durable, it turns the calendar into a collectible reference book, extending the service life of the calendar.
The picture shows a tourist reading the "Summer Palace Calendar 2023 (Benhua)".
Photo by Yi Haifei of China News Agency
According to the relevant person in charge of the Summer Palace, the Summer Palace has recently launched a number of popular park cultural and commercial spaces by combining ancient garden architecture with modern life. The concept belongs to culture, and it pursues the deep cultivation of the cultural connotation and content of the park, so as to provide tourists with more high-quality cultural popularization products.
At present, citizens and tourists can purchase the "Summer Palace Calendar 2023 (Benhua)" through channels such as the Summer Palace's new cultural and creative Taobao store, the Tmall flagship store of the Cultural Relics Publishing House, and the Summer Palace's offline Wenchuang store.
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