Walking route: Gaochun Mancheng Park-Gaochun Old Street

Walking method: Follow the group

Walking time: September 2022

Gaochun Mancheng Yaxi sunflower sea:

Address: Yaxi Street, Gaochun District, Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province

One day, the customer service of the insurance company I previously purchased invited me to take a one-day trip to Gaochun. Gaochun didn't leave the market and didn't need to ask for leave from work. It was good to go out on weekends. Thinking about being invited by the insurance company to participate in an event, I can be considered to have begun the life of an elderly person. Otherwise, among the two elderly people with a full bus, I should be the younger old aunt. I quite enjoy this kind of slow travel method. I don't have to worry about it myself, and I have the enthusiastic care of the insurance company staff. Especially if you don't have to drive yourself, people suddenly feel much more relaxed. The entire itinerary was also arranged slowly.

Gaochun has been officially named "China's First International Slow City" by the International Slow City Alliance since November 2010. "International Slow City, leisure and quiet Gaochun" is the goal of Gaochun Slow City. As the scale of construction of Slow City becomes larger and larger, the concept of Slow City is now deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Mancheng has a large area. If you add the surrounding villages, you can spend several days in Mancheng. This time we mainly came to see the sunflowers in Mancheng, so we went straight to the Central Big Lawn Park near Lujia Village, Mancheng, Gaochun.

The park does not require tickets, but it requires 72 hours of nucleic acid reporting to enter the park.

Colorful little trains are waiting here. Because the park is very large, it is easy to take a small train and run around.

We were here in April 2020, so we are no stranger to everything. I was deeply impressed by the green here. At that time, the rapeseed flowers faded, the rapeseed seeds were grown, and hundreds of acres of rapeseed fields were green. Coupled with the pond, large lawns, and surrounding vegetation, this was a green ocean.

The central lawn of Slow City

The lawn is as high as a dam

The boundless green spreads out like a grassland

In the center of the lawn are circles of flower beds

On the green lawn, red and yellow flowers depict different shapes.

Cute little mushrooms on the lawn

The lawn has a basin-like structure, with high four sides and flat in the middle.

There are all kinds of vehicles walking at high places

There are groves around the lawn, and among the woods are tourists camping and picnics.

On one side of the lawn there is a pond that is curved like the teeth of the moon. Tents are blooming like flowers on the flat spot on one side of the pond.

There are trees and water here. It is a good place for tourists to rest and play. It is also a good place for outdoor drinking and camping.

The snail sculpture on the lawn deliberately caters to the theme of Slow City

Interesting tree shape

There is a wooden boat in the lawn where you can take photos. The sky photographed from this angle is quite interesting.

Across the lawn, we headed straight for the sunflower growing area. Beautiful multi-purpose roads have been built in the park. There are walking trails, bicycle lanes, battery lanes, and urban roads to meet the needs of different groups of people. The fitness trail is marked with red on one side of the carriageway.

A row of tall fir trees on one side of the road is very atmospheric

The fir tree is like a viewing frame

The pond behind us, the reeds and the lawn we had just walked through, the green of varying shades is so pure. The changing effect of the reflection in the water due to the water waves makes the picture more flexible and vibrant.

On this side of the road is a large rice field, stretching forward neatly

A lonely tree in the field

In the green, several rainbow slides pour down like a beautiful scenery. The exciting dive allowed tourists to shout loudly and cut through the tranquility around.

This is the main road of the park. The roadside trees on both sides are neatly lined up, extending and focusing to the end to become a focus point. There is a large lawn on one side of the road

On the other side is the broader pastoral scenery. In April, there is a continuous rapeseed field, and now various crops are grown.

The village with white walls and black tiles and horse-head walls is called Lujia Village.

Take some pictures with crape myrtle as a prospect

On the side of the road towards Lujia Village is the theme site of our trip-Sunflower Garden.

Sunflowers cover a large area. Are they past their blooming period? The flowers are a little bleak?

Tourists choose flowers to take details, but it is also difficult to find a plump flower.

You can only take a photo with a large area of sunflower fields as the background

I changed different perspectives to better express them.

Finally I saw a plump flower, and a bee also loved to approach it.

Suddenly there was a burst of laughter, and a group of young people rushed down from the hill on bicycles.

I envy their cheerful and heartfelt laughter

We came for the sunflower sea. To be honest, light did not meet expectations from the perspective of sunflower. But green eyes have a good healing effect. Divided carefully, light green, dark green, dark green, and emerald green overlap, scattered and integrated into one.

Mountains and rivers, fields, cottages, and harmonious coexistence constitute the main theme of the "International Slow City".