Colored Pottery Expo Park

Lanzhou Colored Pottery Expo Park

✔ Cultural Features

① Colored Pottery Culture Theme:

Centered on the Majiayao colored pottery culture of Gansu, showcasing Neolithic late period (over 5,800 years ago) colored pottery art, including classic patterns such as frog motifs and spiral designs.

② Modern Interpretation:

- Integrating colored pottery elements into architecture (such as colored pottery pavilions, spatial corridors), facilities (colored pottery benches, slides), and landscape sculptures;

- Creating an immersive cultural experience through giant colored pottery structures (such as the entrance hall);

- Historical context: covering cultural types like Dadiwan, Yangshao, Majiayao, and Qijia, demonstrating Gansu’s status as the "Hometown of Colored Pottery."

✔ Overall Environment

① Natural Landscape:

- Surrounded by green mountains and lush forests, offering panoramic views of the Yellow River flowing through the city;

- The park features artificial lakes, lawns, and gardens, combining ecological and recreational functions.

② Climate Characteristics:

Cool and refreshing in summer, with fresh air after rain and mist swirling like a fairyland.

✔ Construction Concept

- Cultural Revitalization: Breaking through traditional static museum displays by integrating colored pottery art into public spaces to make "cultural relics come alive."

- Ecological Integration: Echoing Lanzhou’s "exquisite greening" concept, using sprinkler technology to improve plant survival rates and creating a city "big oxygen bar."

- Cultural Tourism Symbiosis: Combining children’s play areas, fitness facilities, and more to meet citizens’ leisure needs, becoming an important node on the Yellow River scenic line.

✔ Overall Layout

① Core Exhibition Area:

- Colored Pottery Spatial Corridor: Entrance landmark, an arc-shaped structure imitating colored pottery forms, decorated with ancient patterns;

- Themed Sculpture Group: such as the frog-patterned colored pottery bowl and spiral-patterned colored pottery urn in the southwest corner;

- Colored Pottery Pavilion: main building for visitors to rest and reflect.

② Functional Zones:

- Cultural Exhibition Area (colored pottery landscape cluster);

- Natural Leisure Area (lakes, gardens);

- Parent-child Interaction Area (colored pottery slides, children’s play facilities).

③ Detail Design:

Even trash bins and seats use colored pottery patterns to strengthen thematic unity.

✔ Transportation Tips:

- Accessible by car via Luojiu Highway;

- Walking: hike up from the back mountain of Baita Mountain, or enter from the front gate of Baita Mountain → walk to the cable car at the mountain top, then turn right forward to see it.

📍 Detailed Address:
Location: South side of Luojiu Highway, Beishan, Lanzhou City, adjacent to Jiuzhou Terrace, backed by the eastern back mountain of Baita Mountain Park’s highest point.

✔ Lanzhou Colored Pottery Expo Park revives millennia-old colored pottery culture with innovative methods, creating an urban oasis that integrates history, art, nature, and leisure on the ecologically fragile Loess Plateau.

Its design respects the weight of cultural heritage while bridging ancient and modern times through interactive experiences, becoming a vivid footnote to interpreting Lanzhou’s "beautiful Yellow River shore."