Sun calendar Culture Park

Sun calendar Culture Park

Located in taiyangli Avenue, economic and Technological Development Zone of Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, taiyangli Cultural Park is a multi-functional comprehensive cultural park. The "one sea, one waterfall, four squares, six villages, eight districts, one dragon" in the park is skillfully arranged among the hills and hills, mysterious and deep. It is an important part of the "Museum of human and nature" in Yizhou, and one of the important exhibition projects of the "99" World Expo.

brief introduction

It will give the Yi compatriots a kind experience of returning to their ancestral home and the holy land, and it will surely become a hot topic at home and abroad

The comprehensive experimental site for scholars to study Yi culture is also a natural tourist area for tourists to appreciate the unique customs of ancient Yi people. 　

Chuxiong is a magical and beautiful place. The Yi nationality is an ancient nation with a long history in the big family of the Chinese nation. In the development of human civilization for thousands of years, the ancestors of Yi nationality have created a brilliant national culture. The October solar calendar of the Yi nationality is a great and exquisite astronomical calendar created by the ancestors of the Yi nationality.

Yi People's October solar calendar

This calendar divides a year into five quarters and ten months, two months in each quarter, 36 days in each month, totally 360 days. The remaining 5-6 days are Chinese New Year's day. It accurately calculates that the time of the earth's orbit around the sun is 365.25 days. The number of days in each month of the year is neat, and the season is accurate to one day. So far, the scientific nature of any ancient calendar in the world can't match It's a lot better than that. It is not only the most scientific and humanistic treasure in the Yi culture, but also the wisdom crystallization of the ancient civilization of the Chinese nation. It is a typical example of the excellent culture in the history of world civilization and the common cultural heritage and precious wealth of all mankind.

Introduction to Cultural Park

With this ancient calendar as the main symbol, the Chinese Yi October solar calendar Cultural Park is a cultural Grand View Garden and dynamic Museum of Yi nationality, which integrates ethnic cultural research, ethnic customs exhibition, ethnic art exchange, mass entertainment and leisure, and business exchange, and focuses on displaying the excellent cultural heritage of Yi Nationality. It gathers Yi culture in one garden and fully embodies the Chinese Yi culture It is a unique and unique Yi Culture Park in China.

Welcome to the main scene

Mainly gourd goddess, avoid mountain tiger, Zhaobi main relief "Yi mountain song". The tiger day will protect the people's health and happiness under the eaves; gourd goddess has a strong color of maternal reproduction worship, reflecting the origin of the concept of totem and gourd reproduction worship of Yi people; Yi mountain happy song: focuses on the Yi People's costumes, dances, festivals and other happy scenes in different regions and branches.

October sun calendar square

The square is in the shape of a garden, divided into three sets, each with five exits, covering an area of 5220.4 square meters. The diameter of the lower platform is 72 meters, the height of the platform is 8.4 meters, the diameter of the middle platform is 54 meters, the height of the platform is 5.7 meters, the diameter of the upper platform is 36 meters, and the height of the platform is 4.2 meters. The height of three tables is 18.3m. There are 40 large and small reliefs on the facade of all three platforms, mainly telling three typical Yi folk stories. There are 7275 figures and 1858 animals in all the relief sculptures. Such a large number of sculptures can be regarded as the "best" in China.

Sacrifice to the temple of heaven

The temple of sacrifice to heaven is an observatory or Observatory for Yi ancestors to observe the rotation of the sun to determine winter and summer, and to observe the constellation dipper pointing to determine winter and summer, four seasons and Ming Festival. Most of its structure is three cone pyramid type, but here it is magnified many times. It reflects the accurate method of recording year, month and day in the October solar calendar.

Address: no.111-125 taiyangli Avenue, 189 meters southeast of Chuxiong City, Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province

Longitude: 101.530819

Latitude: 25.051012