You can feel the warmth of the flowers on the way from the parking lot to the gate.

There are various vegetation scattered at high and low on the high cliffs, dotted with pink flowers in the green.

With the cliff as the background, the flowers are more delicate.

Ticket Inspection Gate at Xiping Gate of the Garden Expo Park

After checking tickets at Xiping Gate, there is a large square. There are two ways to climb the mountains, an elevator on one side and a wide staircase. Three big characters are engraved on the exposed rock wall-Garden Expo Park, which gives people an extraordinary feeling as a whole.

The elevator took us to the top of the mountain, where huge square stones were piled up to protect the mountain and create a landscape. The variety and density of vegetation planted on the mountains on both sides are very exquisite. The green plants close to the stones, the trees in the middle view, and a row of bamboos on a higher level like a barrier. The heights and heights are scattered, and the greenery of different shades are all designed in terms of shape and color. There is also a red cable car box across the picture in the sky, giving a full-dimensional landscape effect.

Continue to walk along the road surrounded by rocks and rocks to the park. Turning around a mountain, the vision suddenly opens, and in the valley sits the Time Art Valley plate of the Garden Expo Park.

The Shiguang Art Valley plate was once the site of two cement plants. It is based on the design concept of "light intervention, heavy restoration", which retains the industrial style to the greatest extent possible. In the mountains, towering chimneys, round cement pillars, and rusty pipes, the bell rings on time every hour, as if taking us back to the industrial era when machines roared.

There is a small train parked next to the Xipingmen Small Railway Station on one side. This used to be a quarry for a cement factory. The narrow gauge trains in the quarry travel between China Cement Factory and the Kongshan Limestone Mine in Hushan Village, Tangshan every day, carrying the heavy responsibility of transporting stone. With the closure of cement plants, the narrow-gauge railway also withdrew from its industrial career. However, the completion of the Garden Expo Park gave the narrow-gauge railway a second life. Because of the Expo Park, this industrial and cultural heritage was also preserved, and the narrow gauge was converted into a special sightseeing line. We used the rails and retro trains as the background and posed here for various postures.

I wanted to get closer to this big guy, but I didn't expect it to whistle and it turned out that it was about to set off.

The small train slowly set off with the sound of the whistle,"Wu-Wu", taking tourists slowly through the beautiful Expo Park

Have a romantic encounter with the evening primrose and rhododendrons on both sides.

The winding tracks, swaying flowers, and retro trains are a healing oil painting. If you have a loved one walking with you, the beauty of this moment will definitely freeze there.

If you walk here alone, this beauty and indifference will definitely be worth being intoxicated.

Tall chimneys and cement factory buildings are industrial relics deliberately preserved during the construction of the park, intended to preserve history. The tall tower industrial building next to the chimney has been transformed into a "Nanjing Times" bell tower, expressing the green development concept of "remembering the past, cherishing the present, and looking to the future" and realizing an ecological dialogue between man and nature, history and contemporary. There is a large green square in front of the industrial ruins. There is a mirror pool on the main square.

We went straight to the cement silos at the westernmost end, which is now a pioneer bookstore. Trees are planted on top of the cold cement silos. The swaying trees on the roof of the warehouse cleverly integrate the silo with the surrounding environment and achieve the best visual effect. The words "Pioneer Bookstore" are written on the huge box of the gray silo. This is a chain bookstore with the title of "China's Most Beautiful Bookstore".

Walking into the bookstore, the inside of the silo, which seemed to be "plain and unremarkable", actually had a unique hole in it.

The silo we are now in was originally used as a silo for crushing stone mines in a cement factory, but it has transformed into an intoxicating book ceremony. Since then, they have had their own new life. Rows of bookshelves, books stretching all the way to the top, the visual effect is so shocking. When people walk into the bottom of this "round" cylinder and look up, they connect spirit, books, nature, and the sky.

Just like the pioneer shop inscription: "Stranger on the earth", it is full of the vastness of life to the universe.

Since it is a bookstore, the main component must be books, and the bookshelves in this "Pioneer Bookstore" are specially designed according to the shape of the building. The same spiral bookshelves are filled with various books, one by one. Books, one by one bookshelf...

"Tube" is a description of the shape. The circular perspective gives people an infinite sense of extension. This sense of extension coincides with the connotation of "books" leading people to infinite spiritual space.

Silo Bookstore also has another magical design-the use of mirror materials. The many mirrors in the round silo create a psychedelic effect. The cylindrical and mirror design expands the silo space and infinitely amplifies the limited area. Create interesting illusions. We are immersed in it, and in our dreams, we have books, poems, and ourselves.

Glass, mirrors, lighting and circular shapes are used in the round silo to create an effect of changing reality and reality.

The milky white interior wall contrasts sharply with the bookshelves and books surrounding the wall. The white main body is combined with a large area, mirror decoration is used from multiple angles, and there are lights embellished between the bookshelf partitions, forming a Brahma world dotted with stars.

Books are carefully placed everywhere in the bookstore.

Characters will also have interesting effects in such a mirror effect environment.

When shooting from one angle, you can see several selves and several others. Sometimes you will stop to distinguish between reality and illusion.

Books spinning up the wall shot straight to the top of the warehouse. The silo seemed to have regained huge energy, bursting the roof and giving birth to new life.

The long spiral staircase is particularly eye-catching. The color of the entire decoration is mainly white, and there are many famous poems hanging next to the stairs. It is really full of literature and art, and the photos are also very good.

The spiral staircase spins along the silo

The opening around the top of each silo draws the blazing light from the outside along the inner wall of the silo, forming light and shadow on the walls that change with time, with a unique charm.

Follow the spiral staircase and enter the bottom of the warehouse, which is the cultural and creative product area of Pioneer Bookstore. There is a circular display stand in the center of the silo. There is a window behind the display stand that allows you to see the outside world, giving you a sense of connection between the inside and outside the world.

Walking out of the silo, there is a red mailbox and a yellow Pioneer Bookstore logo at the door. The interior of the silo is white and the exterior is cement color. Both are extremely simple and clean colors. "White" is not only a color, but a color that represents a new life and an infinite spiritual world. I also hope that the silo will be "reborn as white", right? In this way, a dreamlike "new" was constructed in the originally rough and cold cement cylinder.

Walking out of the bookstore and looking at these silos, which are grouped in groups, has a particularly majestic and high-spirited atmosphere. These silos have been involved in nearly a century of mining in cement plants. At the beginning of the huge pit mine, the cement processing factory machinery roared and smoke rose everywhere... Later, the place returned to calm again. Now we are finally waiting for a fresh soul injection-the world's most beautiful book warehouse.

Look at the open square in front of you.

Back to this building complex, this used to be the Dark Horse World Comic Museum

This place is now in the upgrading stage. In May last year, I visited a very interesting comic museum here. It is claimed to be the world's first comic museum. The original exhibition really made me feel rich in content and interesting and knowledgeable.

Groups of silo buildings. Silos used to be places where cement plants distributed raw materials or stored finished products, but now they have become check-in places for Internet celebrities.

Opposite the silo is the Coca-Cola Brand Pavilion, and the window display is retro and romantic.

There is not much change here and a year ago, because there is no change, it makes me feel more cordial.

It's very retro here, with gramophones, Shanghai qipao girls, neon lights and an old car.

On the gray industrial theme, red is used as the overall design color, and Coca-Cola cans of different shapes, large and small, are used as the decoration in the museum.

There are several tables and chairs placed in front of this wall, creating a scene that is very suitable for filming.

The Coca-Cola Memorial Hall collects various packaged Coca-Cola and also displays a variety of quite memorable Coca-Cola peripheral products.

The Coca-Cola Brand Pavilion takes you immersively trace the century-old history of Coca-Cola. The industrial factory houses Coca-Cola, which has been loved by generations. The red arrow on the cement floor led us to connect several interactive photo check-in points according to the brand's time. You can have various postures here, and you can also experience the historical years of Coca-Cola. This is to let people understand the brand and it is also a good brand promotion.

The Time Post Office is still in this old location, except that the walls have been painted postal green, and tables and chairs for tourists to rest are placed under the rain corridor in front of the door. We came just as the staff came back from dinner and followed her to open the door and enter the post office for a tour. There were some changes from our visit last year. The second floor is no longer allowed to visit, and the space on the first floor feels a little cramped because of the industrial equipment inside it. The entire themed post office is run through with the main element of "time", and the familiar post office is turned around in a short time. The staff recommended us to visit the Time Clock Museum next door. This museum was opened to the public after it was later improved, so we have never been there.

Look at this unique design. A cylindrical device runs through the second floor of the post office. This equipment was originally used to transport stone, but now it has been preserved in situ. There are many such designs in the Garden Expo Park, which are creative and completely preserve industrial relics, and have become part of the current creativity, with unique horizons.

The landmark building "Nanjing Shi" was transformed from the former Wei Kiln.

If it weren't for this illustration, we would have been difficult to find the Time Museum,

In this way, we also went up and down several times in the elevator of this iron spiral building to find the entrance to the time warehouse.

From the high tower, look for the museum entrance while admiring the beautiful scenery from above.

The old building uses reinforced structures and implants a variety of "corridor" spaces to connect with the old building in terms of transportation and shape. Steel towers complement each other with cement and concrete buildings, adding layers to the space, making it rich, changeable and more attractive. We entered through the corridor and did not find the entrance to the museum.

I finally found the entrance to the museum, but it seemed that the door had been locked. Judging from the time, it shouldn't be off work, but might be going for dinner.

You can only imagine the contents of the museum from the floor map.

Camera Art Museum

The industrial relics that radiate new vitality are even more charming in the sunset.

The former cement factory has become an industrial heritage. This is a model for industrial heritage protection and reuse. Jiangsu Garden Expo Park has carried out "light intervention" reinforcement and transformation of production lines, raw material storage, kiln factories, cement warehouses, and high-waste chimneys to achieve the artistic effect of repairing the old as before and give them new use functions.

When leaving, a small train was slowly driving into the scene of Time Art Valley. Time was quiet and beautiful, and my heart was grateful.

When you leave the park in the direction of Xiping Gate, the Expo Park is quiet and beautiful at this time.

Looking forward to meeting you again...