"Eleven Cotton Peach" Chinese-Style Lanterns | Xinjian Road, Taiyuan
As the Chinese-style lanterns are just lit, the city of Bingzhou on the banks of the Fen River gradually fades into the night. When you stroll along Xinjian Road, you will find this familiar thoroughfare quietly embracing a transformation—along its 3.5-kilometer stretch, the "Eleven Cotton Peach" Chinese-style lanterns stand neatly in rows. The warm glow spills over, illuminating the path under pedestrians’ feet and, more importantly, kindling Taiyuan’s urban cultural heritage and a new chapter in its cultural tourism.
The naming of "Eleven Cotton Peach" Chinese-style lanterns inherits the structural DNA of the classic lanterns on Yingze Street in Taiyuan, while endowing them with innovative expressions of the new era. The lamp body design boasts exquisite ingenuity: the curved lamp poles outline the lingering charm of Liuxi Creek, linking the memories of the west urban water systems including Longtan Lake and Yinma River; the spherical lamp modules draw inspiration from cotton peaches, with eleven lamp spheres arranged in a scattered yet orderly pattern. This layout symbolizes the vigorous vitality of urban development and echoes the epochal significance embodied by the number "eleven".
This lantern is a tribute to Taiyuan’s urban development and a celebration of Xinjian Road’s 70th anniversary, witnessing the urban changes of the municipal government, parks and communities along its stretch. It has transformed "Tang-style grace and Jin-style charm" from something only preserved in ancient books and relics into tangible urban scenery, bearing the golden years cherished by the people of Taiyuan.
If Xinjian Road is a busy thoroughfare bustling with traffic by day, it transforms into an immersive cultural tourism corridor by night. With a layered lighting design of "base primary lighting + spherical secondary lighting", the "Eleven Cotton Peach" Chinese-style lanterns use warm white light to outline the road’s contours and soft light to create a tranquil ambiance. They blend seamlessly with the roadside green spaces and the waterscape of Longtan Lake, forming a night scene texture where light, greenery and water converge in harmony.
What makes them even more remarkable is that these lanterns connect the cultural tourism resources in western Taiyuan. Stretching from the ecological landscapes of Longtan Park, to the vibrant scenes of intangible cultural heritage in the ancient city, and then to the natural beauty of the Fenhe River Scenic Area, a cultural tourism route linked by lighting has quietly taken shape—offering a brand-new option for "night tours in Taiyuan".
The "Eleven Cotton Peach" Chinese-style lanterns are not merely an upgrade to road lighting, but a microcosm of Taiyuan’s cultural and tourism development. With culture as its core, they transform the road from a mere passageway into a readable, experiential and shareable cultural space. Taking landscape as the starting point, these lanterns turn the night view into a tourism attraction, inject new vitality into the city’s nighttime economy, enable the harmonious coexistence of traditional culture and modern development, and set a vivid example for the inheritance of urban cultural heritage.
Today, on Xinjian Road, every glowing lantern tells a story of Bingzhou, and every ray of light invites people to linger. Whether it is local residents taking a post-dinner stroll or tourists checking in to Taiyuan, this light-bathed thoroughfare showcases the city’s inclusiveness and vitality, as well as its tradition and modernity.
Why not take a walk along Xinjian Road in the quiet of the night? Immerse yourself in the cultural heritage of this ancient city beneath the lantern glow, and witness Taiyuan’s new look as the lights flicker and dance. It is believed that these "Eleven Cotton Peach" Chinese-style lanterns will become yet another reason for you to fall in love with Taiyuan.
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