An expo that brings together the essence of horticulture from the world has attracted a lot of people who love flowers.
On March 27, at the 30-day countdown to the 2024 Chengdu Horticultural Expo, the list of 12 "Expo Promotion Ambassadors" was officially announced, including Tan Jintao, the breeder of the Chengdu Giant Panda Breeding Research Base, and Qiu Yamin, the founder of the "Heidi's Garden" brand , Canadian bonsai enthusiast Bai Xiong, etc. They will deeply participate in the series of activities of the 2024 Chengdu Horticultural Expo to jointly promote the charm of Chengdu. The ambassadors went to the main venue of the Eastern New District to explore the gardens, and after admiring the architectural features, landscape sketches, and exotic flowers, their understanding of the Expo deepened.
▲Expo Promotion Ambassador visited
went to the garden to find creative inspiration
Promotion Ambassador Jiang Yi is a media industry worker and a blogger who has attracted millions of followers with his "Sichuan-style English". He smoothly blended Sichuan dialect into English, creating a "new language" to promote his hometown dialect and convey Sichuan culture at the same time.
"After becoming a promotion ambassador, my sense of mission has become stronger. When I write jokes, I will specifically promote the Expo so that people can understand this event in a relaxed and humorous way." He believes that Chengdu The World Horticultural Expo is another world event after the Chengdu Universiade and the World Science Fiction Conference. It is an opportunity to promote the unique resources and development achievements of Sichuan and the country.
When Jiang Yi visited the main venue, he had already captured inspiration - each exhibition garden has a different style, including the magnificent Beijing Garden, the Chengdu Garden that combines the style of Du Fu's thatched cottage, the Nanjing Garden that dreams back to Qinhuai for thousands of years, and the ocean-colored Qingdao Garden. , "I want to combine accents from different places with English to create new sparks."
▲Jiang Yi
Also finding inspiration in the park is White Bear from Canada. As a child, he fell in love with traditional Chinese culture under the influence of his grandmother. When he was 19, he became an apprentice to learn bonsai art. In 2019, he set up his own studio in Chongzhou and devoted himself to the study of Sichuan-style bonsai.
He saw many beautiful and colorful bonsais in the garden and wanted to create a similar style in his own garden. He also plans to produce a series of vlogs for the Expo to attract more international friends to experience the greenery of the Park City.
"Gardening has grown from niche to mass"
More than ten years ago, because she wanted to build a garden for her daughter Heidi to play in, Qiu Yamin gave up her job in sales and worked in the fields, gradually turning the dream in her head into a garden. Reality - She has now developed the "Heidi's Garden" brand, owns a 3,000-square-meter garden, and brings flowers to thousands of households through e-commerce.
She said that the essence of gardening is an opportunity to experience the world, the process of planting, observing, discovering and sensing the vitality of plants. When society develops to a certain level, people pay more and more attention to the needs of the soul. “The Chengdu World Horticultural Expo is an inspiration to us practitioners because it gives niche things a chance to enter the public eye, gives everyone the opportunity to get close to plants, opens up pastoral dreams in a small space, and inspires the industry potential."
She specially invited 10 breeding experts from around the world to bring the latest flowers to Chengdu during the Expo and display them to the public in her garden. "I also want to do my part so that citizens can see the world's rare varieties at their doorsteps. Many practitioners will definitely come during the Expo, and this exhibition will also facilitate industry exchanges between breeding scientists and growers. ”
▲Qiu Yamin
Sowing “seeds” for children’s hearts
Qiu Yamin is a child who grew up “running” in the mountains. She feels that today’s children rarely have the opportunity to experience the richness of ecology. The Expo is a window that allows them to not only accumulate rich plant knowledge, but also develop a belief in environmental protection. Maybe some people will embark on such a career path in the future.
promotion ambassador Jiang Ke is a primary and secondary school music teaching researcher in Chengdu High-tech Zone, with more than ten years of first-line music education experience. He believes that music and nature are both components of young people's aesthetic education, and the organic combination of gardening and music can nourish people's body and mind, and better works can be born from the collision.
He observed that many schools have now added natural elements to music education, allowing students to feel the world, lakes, and forests, and cultivate emotions in singing and playing.
He is also looking forward to taking the students to hold a unique and interesting concert in the garden of the main venue of the Expo to "further promote the IP of the Expo and create a unique experience."
Red Star News reporter Ye Yan and Zhang Zhiyi Photographer Wang Qin Tao Ke
Editor Chen Yixi
