Yellow River Cultural Park 黄河文化公园

About Yellow River Cultural Park

The park is designated a national scenic area, the Zhengzhou Yellow River national geopark and a national water conservancy scenic area. It backs onto Mount Yue and looks north across the river at the precise point where the middle course of the Yellow River gives way to the lower course and where the channel, raised by its own silt, becomes what is called a suspended river. More than twenty square kilometres are open, organised as five areas named Wulongfeng, Yueshan Temple, Dayu Mountain, the Yan and Huang Emperors Statue and Xinghai Lake, with more than forty named features distributed among them.

The best known of these is the pair of colossal heads of the Yan and Huang emperors, 106 metres high, built into the hillside using a combination of sculpture and architectural construction and facing the river; a stele below carries the 485-character Yanhuang Fu in Fan Zeng's hand, 33 metres long and 3.3 metres high. Beside Yanhuang Square a sculpture group presents 117 historical figures, from Yao, Shun and Yu to Confucius, grouped under five themes. Elsewhere in the park the Yellow River Stele Forest has cut more than 4,000 pieces of calligraphy from China and abroad into stone, and the geological museum of the geopark uses loess cave-style halls over 5,892 square metres, of which 4,114 are exhibition space.

What to look for

• The Yan and Huang Emperors Statue, 106 metres high and facing the river, with the 33-metre stele of the Yanhuang Fu written out by Fan Zeng below it.
• The Nurture statue at the centre of the Wulongfeng area, an off-white figure of a mother in Wei-style hair and Tang dress holding an infant.
• The sculpture group of 117 historical figures beside Yanhuang Square, arranged under five themes.
• The Yellow River Stele Forest, with over 4,000 works of calligraphy carved into stone.
• The geological museum of the Zhengzhou Yellow River geopark, laid out in loess cave-style halls at the foot of Mount Mang.
• The eight pipes of the Mangshan pumping station on the hillside, built between July 1970 and October 1972 to lift river water into a 24-kilometre canal to the city waterworks.

Location & getting there

Getting to Yellow River Cultural Park

Confirm the visitor entrance and which boat or walking routes operate on your date. Rainfall, water levels and weather can change access.

• Search for 黄河文化公园 with 郑州市 and 惠济区.