The scenic area is located at the northern end of Xinglin Road, Linqing City, Shandong Province. It is close to the expressway entrance and beside the South-to-North Water Diversion water system. The planned area is 500 mu, and the building area is 68,000 square meters. It includes: 25,000 square meters of antique buildings with brick-wood structure; 11,000 square meters of brick-wood structure landscape pavilions, corridors and bridges; 27,800 square meters of service steel-concrete structure buildings such as supporting offices.
There are 117,000 square meters of greenery and 120,000 square meters of water area. The project integrates landscape gardens, landscape architecture, leisure and entertainment, and cultural tourism. Taking Linqing’s prosperous Ming and Qing market culture as the background, it has distinct local historical and cultural characteristics. The main buildings are laid out around ‘three streets and twelve alleys’, creating a cultural and leisure entertainment street, a characteristic flavor food street, a themed cultural and creative street, and 12 alleys with various cultural characteristics. The overall area is divided into six functional areas: Canal culture experience area, themed cultural and creative area, canal park tourist area, cultural leisure and entertainment area, cultural and creative characteristic product shopping area, and hotel supporting service area. 1. The Canal culture experience area mainly displays the Jin Ping Mei culture and the canal shipping culture during the Ming and Qing dynasties with Linqing’s Ming and Qing market culture as the background. 2. In the themed cultural and creative area, landmark landscapes such as the Jin Ping Mei cultural corridor, Ziyun Street, canal shipping wharf, stage, government office, Ximen pharmacy, and Ximen Qing’s courtyard are created to extend folk cultural and creative products. 3. In the canal park tourist area, you can visit the park and enjoy the scenery. Through visiting the pet zoo and watching the stage performances and other park shows, it focuses on immersive experience. 4. The cultural leisure and entertainment area creates immersive performances through ‘interactive plays’ such as throwing hydrangeas for marriage proposals, county magistrates patrolling the streets, county magistrates trying cases, merchants and peddlers walking through the streets and alleys, and unique skills theaters. 5. The cultural and creative characteristic shopping area is divided into four parts, namely Ziyun Street, intangible cultural heritage exhibition hall, folk cultural and creative area, and shopping center. 6. In the hotel supporting service area, themed fashion hotels and scenic homestays are the main features. Through night tour lighting areas and large-scale performances, night tourism products are created. At the same time, water is introduced into the park to manage the water potential and integrate with the landscape pavilions and corridors at the main nodes. It is a leisure tourism and health resort holy land integrating ancient town sightseeing, immersive performances, themed experiences, internet-famous check-in points, research and expansion, folk custom displays, homestay experiences, and residential health care. It is committed to creating a national canal shipping culture demonstration tourism project and reproducing historical and cultural inheritance. The business formats of Dongwanyuan Scenic Area mainly focus on scene-based cultural and tourism blocks and market culture experience places. Through six themes of historical literary masterpieces (Water Margin and Jin Ping Mei), characteristic delicacies, prosperous times of Ming and Qing dynasties, entertainment places, parent-child traditional Chinese style, and peddlers, more than ten types of architectural scene style blocks are presented in a diversified way. Organic integration of internet-famous performances, wedding custom interactions, ancient costume parades, Ximen pharmacy, Sanhe restaurant, money changer’s office, interesting strange houses, intangible cultural heritage workshops, research and learning schools, handicraft workshops and other cultural and folk custom venues.Operating Hours: Open all year round from 08:00 to 22:00.
Preferential Policies:
Children: Free entry for children under 1.2 meters (not included); half price for children between 1.2 meters (included) and 1.5 meters (included).
Elderly: Free entry for individuals aged 70 years and above (included) with a senior citizen card or ID card; senior discount tickets for individuals aged between 60 years (included) and 70 years (not included) with a senior citizen card or ID card.
Students: Half price for full-time primary, middle, and high school students with a student ID.
Military Personnel: Half price for active military personnel with proper identification.
