Ten groups of landscapes in Longmen National Wetland Park, Luoyang

Luoyang Longmen National Wetland Park relies on Longmen Grottoes Scenic Area. The park is adjacent to the south gate of Longmen Grottoes Scenic Area, bounded by the flood bridge on the Yi River, and extends southward along the banks of the Yi River to the side of the Yi River bridge in Caodian, with a total area of 306 hectares.

In the planning and design, the Yihe River runs through the north and south of the wetland park like a jade belt, and the two banks are landscape points. The Wetland Park will create 10 groups of landscapes, such as Hu Aixiang Ancient Road, Liu Yin Xijiang River, Muyi Hexiang, Slim Heron Shadow, Yanyu Rain, Dongli Bailong, Weiwan Zhaoxia, Zhoufang Evening Crossing, Zhuxi Moonlight, Xiaoxue Glacier, etc., with dynamic and static combination, covering four seasons.

Zhang, the person in charge of the planning of Longmen Grottoes World Cultural Heritage Park, explained that the names of these ten groups of landscapes were summarized from some ancient poems, paintings and history closely related to Longmen Grottoes, and there was a history to follow when creating real scenes. "The ancient road in Hu Aixiang reproduces the landscape of the Tang Dynasty."

Tang Wenhua elements are used in many places in the Wetland Park, and more than 50 bridges are planned in the park, most of which will adopt the shape of bridges in the Tang Dynasty. Curved slab bridges, splayed bridges, and red wooden arch bridges in the Tang Dynasty, which are rarely seen in modern life, will reappear in the wetland park. "Wetland parks should make full use of and reflect the cultural landscape of the Tang Dynasty, so that tourists have the feeling of traveling through time and space."