[2025 Linqing Attraction] Travel Guide for East Wanyuan Garden (Updated Mar)

The Attraction is located at the north end of Xinglin Road, Linqing City, Shandong Province, close to the highway entrance and the South-to-North Water Diversion System, with a planned area of ​​500 mu and a construction area of ​​68,000 square meters. It includes: 25,000 square meters of brick-wood structure antique buildings; 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, 117,000 square meters of greening, and 120,000 square meters of water area. The project integrates landscape gardens, landscape architecture, leisure and entertainment, and cultural tourism. It is based on the prosperous Ming and Qing market culture of Linqing and has distinct local historical and cultural characteristics. The main building is arranged around the "three streets and twelve lanes", creating a cultural leisure and entertainment street, a special flavor food street, a theme cultural and creative street, and 12 alleys with their own cultural characteristics. The overall area is divided into six functional areas: canal cultural experience area, theme cultural and creative area, canal park tour area, cultural leisure and entertainment area, cultural and creative specialty product shopping area, and hotel supporting service area.1. The Grand Canal Culture Experience Area mainly displays the Jin Ping Mei culture based on the Ming and Qing market culture of Linqing and the Grand Canal Transport Culture of the Ming and Qing Dynasties;2. The theme cultural and creative area will create iconic landscapes such as the Jin Ping Mei Cultural Corridor, Ziyun Street, the Grand Canal Wharf, the stage, the government office, Ximen Pharmacy, and Ximen Qing Mansion, extending the folk culture and creative products;3. You can visit the Canal Park Sightseeing Area, visit the cute pet zoo, watch stage performances and other park performances, focusing on immersive experience;4. The cultural, leisure and entertainment area creates immersive performances through "interactive performances" such as throwing embroidered balls to find a bride, county magistrate patrolling the streets, county magistrate trying cases, merchants and hawkers walking through the streets, and unique skills theater;5. The cultural and creative shopping area is divided into four parts, namely Ziyun Street, Intangible Cultural Heritage Exhibition Hall, Folk Culture and Creative Industry, and Shopping Center;6. The hotel supporting service area mainly features themed fashion hotels and scenic B&Bs, and creates night tourism products through night tours of lighting areas and large-scale performances.At the same time, water is introduced into the park, and the water is managed and integrated with the landscape pavilions and corridors at the main nodes. It is a leisure tourism and health resort integrating ancient town sightseeing, immersive performances, theme experience, Internet celebrity check-in, research and development, folk custom display, homestay experience, and travel and health care. It is committed to creating a national canal water transport culture demonstration tourism project and reproducing historical and cultural heritage.The Dongwan Garden Attraction focuses on scene-based cultural and tourism blocks and urban cultural experience areas, using historical and literary classics (Water Margin and Jin Ping Mei) as allusions, special food, the heyday of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, brothels and theaters, parent-child traditional Chinese style, and peddlers. More than ten types of architectural scene styles and blocks are presented in a diversified manner, organically integrating cultural and folk venues such as internet celebrity performances, wedding customs interactions, ancient costume parades, Ximen Pharmacy, Sanhe Restaurant, money shop accountant, strange house experience, intangible cultural heritage workshops, study schools, and handicraft workshops.