A relaxing discovery of Henan

Attraction 9

Millennium City Park, Kaifeng

Millennium City Park in Kaifeng, Henan province is a large-scale historical cultural park featuring Song culture, built according to the famous Riverside Scene in the Qingming Festival painting. Construction started in 1992 and the park was opened to the public in 1998 with an area of more than 40 hectares, including 12 hectares of water areas and over 400 clusters of houses.

It boasts numerous wonderful scenic spots, including the Rainbow Bridge, a wall painting version of Riverside Scene in the Qingming Festival , and the Kissing Cloud Pavilion, all of which are full of Song elements.

The park has also produced a grand live-action show on water, which uses a lot of technology and more than 700 performers to bring the audience’s minds back to the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127) 1,000 years ago. The 70-minute theatrical performance takes inspiration from nine poems and the painting, utilizing the lake, pavilions, terraces and buildings to create a highly acclaimed live-action show.