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Zigong Dinosaur Museum

The Dinosaur Museum looks like a huge cave with a unique and beautiful shape. It is another one built in my country after the Banpo Museum in Xi'an and the Terracotta Warriors and Horses Museum of Qin Shihuang. Large professional on-site museum. The main building contains a fossil burial hall, a central hall, a fossil mounting exhibition hall, a lecture hall and a dinosaur ecological environment hall. It covers an area of ??25,000 square meters, with a display area of ??3,600 square meters, and is divided into three floors. The display mainly focuses on the dinosaur fossil burial site and unearthed dinosaur fossils in Dashanpu. These fossils have also been sorted and displayed in the knowledge hall and specimen exhibition hall of the museum, showing the ecological appearance of the Jurassic dinosaur animal community.

Salt Industry History Museum

Zigong Salt Industry History Museum is a professional museum of the history of science and technology in China. It is located on the bank of Fuxi River at the foot of Longfeng Mountain in Shizhong District, Zigong City, Sichuan Province. Built in 1959. The venue is the Xiqin Guild Hall built in 1736. This is a hometown guild hall built with funds raised by Shaanxi salt merchants. It integrates the palace and folk architectural styles of the Ming and Qing dynasties. The well-preserved inscriptions, wood carvings, stone carvings, and clay sculptures are physical specimens for studying the social life, economic conditions, and religious art of the Qing Dynasty before the Opium War.

Jianshan Scenic Area

Located in Rongbian Town, Ziliujing, Zigong City, Sichuan Province, the scenic area covers a total area of ??5 square kilometers, including 6,000 acres of forest area. It was formed in 1955. There are two lakes in the east and west, with a water storage capacity of 2.64 million cubic meters. It is a provincial natural scenic reserve and a national AA-level tourist scenic spot. The scenic area is mainly characterized by woodland and lakes and mountains. There are 7 main scenic spots, namely: Jianshan Lake, Nongtuan Mountain, Shiziwan Lu Dechrome's Former Residence, Yong'an Ancient Town, Kaihou Palace, He Le Temple, and Jinyin Lake.

Zigong Lantern Festival

Chinese lanterns are well-known in ancient and modern times; Zigong Lantern Festival has a long-standing reputation. The hard-working and intelligent people of Zigong not only contributed their unparalleled well salt technology to the world, but also contributed their beautiful lantern craftsmanship to mankind. On the land of China where annual lantern festivals have been widely held for thousands of years, the Zigong Lantern Festival stands out, bringing together the style of Chinese lantern culture, making this national historical and cultural city known as the "Millennium Salt City", "Hometown of Dinosaurs", and "Southern China". "Light City" is famous all over the world.

Chinese Lantern Museum

The Chinese Lantern Museum was established with the approval of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage (92) Cultural Relics Bo Zi No. 793 as the "collection, protection, research and display of Chinese lanterns" " is a specialized institution, a national county-level institution, and is the only professional museum about lantern culture in China and even the world. It is also the core of the construction of "Southern Lantern City" in Zigong City and an important symbol of the image of "Southern Lantern City".

The China Lantern Museum is located in the beautiful Zigong Lantern Park in Sichuan Province, with a main building area of ??6,375 square meters and an area of ??10.3 hectares. The buildings of the museum are lined up in rows, with pavilions high and low, and the windows are shaded. They are eclectic, but harmonious and unified, forming a huge group of colorful lantern buildings with a strong national style. The basic display in the museum is the prologue hall, Chinese lantern culture and history, Chinese lantern culture and art gallery, Zigong Lantern Festival history and development, Zigong Lantern Festival boutique browsing, Zigong Lantern Festival craft process, Zigong Lantern Festival special materials, Chinese lantern grand view and multimedia demonstrations. It shows a magnificent picture of Chinese lantern culture with all its aspects.