Explore the natural record of Earth's evolution in Xingyi National Geopark!

Geopark is a park with geological scenery as the main object of viewing. Geological scenery for short, also known as geological relics, they are the traces left in the long process of earth formation, development and evolution. The earth has a history of 4.6 billion years from its birth to the present, and in the long geological history period, life has nurtured and formed a beautiful world of mountains and rivers.



In Xingyi National Geopark, you can "swim" the ancient geographic sea area of 240 million years ago and view the mountains and canyons of today

Today we see strange peaks, caves, rocks, volcanoes, glaciers, canyons, waterfalls, springs, lakes and seas, deserts, as well as life (paleontological) remains and geological structures preserved in rock formations, are all natural records of the earth's evolution history, collectively referred to as landscape. They are not only the physical archives for human beings to trace the history of the earth, but also the recreational objects for human beings to return to nature, enjoy nature and cultivate their body and mind.

During the May Day holiday, we walked into Xingyi National Geopark and opened this heavy book...

Exploring the mystery of "Guizhou Dragon" -- Xingyi National Geopark Museum

Xingyi National Geopark Museum is positioned to refine theme stories, highlight specimen display, and meet the needs of science popularization. The overall exhibition space is designed in accordance with international practices, and the geopark museum is built as a whole that integrates "science popularization + information + tourists + leisure + entertainment". It mainly includes six exhibition halls of Xingyi area and Xingyi fauna, reasons and evolution of Marine animals going to the sea, Marine reptiles moving from Xingyi to the ocean, biodiversity of Xingyi fauna, relationship between Xingyi fauna and other Triassic Marine reptile fauna in South China, and landscape and humanistic characteristics of Xingyi National Geopark. At present, there are a wide variety of fossils on display in the museum, most of which were excavated and restored in Wusha and placed on the site for display to visitors. The lifelike fossils of Pterosaurs, 碷 odontosaurus, sea dragons, illusion dragons, etc., make people imagine endlessly, as if passing through a tunnel of time and space.



Photo by GUI Song, Xingyi National Geopark Museum

Every weekend and holiday, the museum will attract study tour groups and families from all over the country to visit here to learn about the history of Guizhou dragon, experience Guizhou dragon model making and collection of Guizhou dragon fossil fragments.



The children are experiencing fossil fragment gathering

The Xingyi National Geopark Museum has launched three experience programs. First, the fossil model is made, the fossil model is made according to the size of 1:1, after choosing the desired mold, the plaster is poured into the mold, and the pigment is used to color it after drying. Each model is unique. Every weekend, the Handmade Experience Museum often welcomes a large number of students, who with curiosity and curiosity through the Triassic, explore the karst, the knowledge of history and geology and culture, through the fingertips into works.



Xingyi National Geopark Museum staff restoring fossils

The second is to experience the collection of fossil fragments in the in-situ museum, visitors can observe the geological evolution of hundreds of millions of years ago on the fossil excavation section, not only can see the ammonite, crinoids, shellfish fossils at close range, but also can personally collect fossil fragments, and feel the continuous evolution of the Mesozoic Earth through the traces on the fossils.



Fossil models made by tourists

The third is rubbing production, the fossil is flat on the desktop, coated with water sol on the fossil surface, forming a protective film on the fossil surface that can reflect the texture of the fossil; The mineral dye with Chinese painting is dipped in the non-grain part of the protective film surface, and then immediately covered with rice paper on its surface and lightly coated with the extension, so that the mineral dye is coated on the protective film, the surface texture of the rubbing becomes clearer, and the fossil appearance is left on the paper. This way does not affect the texture of the fossil surface, but also can protect the fossil, and can be repeated to make fossil rubbings, copy more clearly, and the surface is more vivid.