"Zero Waste Tour" to unlock the Forbidden City from another angle

Guide explains the environmental protection concepts contained in the Forbidden City trash cans for the adolescents.

The long rod lotus opened in the whole stone sink was swaying in the wind, and there were occasional butterfly flipping on the green grass stones. Recently, a artificial garden scene on the east side of the Arrow Pavilion Square of the Forbidden City has attracted many audiences to go to Explore. At the same time, it is also the "zero waste day" special event organized by the Forbidden City Museum and Vanke Public Welfare Foundation here. It is understood that this unique scenery of this place follows the law of natural cycle and realizes garden garbage re -use is the "ecological compost flower bed" built in 2020. After a new upgrade this year, it has become a new ecological landscape of the Palace Museum. This is also the embodiment of the Palace Museum's practice of environmental protection. If you observe it carefully, you will find a completely different "zero waste museum".

Follow the ecology with a small opinion

The cooperation between the Palace Museum and the Vanke Public Welfare Foundation began two years ago. In January 2020, the Palace Museum and Vanke Public Welfare Foundation held a cooperation memorandum signing ceremony. At the same time, it was announced that the "Palace Museum Zero Waste" garbage classification project was officially launched. The project gradually advances in two stages within two years, that is, the "zero waste office" of the Palace Museum and the "Zero Waste Tour" of the Palace Museum, with the principle of reducing, resource -oriented, and harmless. Reasonable management of waste in the area, improve the utilization of resource utilization, and build the Palace Museum into a leading internationally leading zero waste museum. At the same time, the project will advocate the audiences of the Palace Museum and the larger public public attention and the publicity of the garbage classification operations through various publicity and experience activities.

Photo Conferring in the Forbidden City Zero Waste Project Team

Although the newly upgraded ecological composting flower bed sparrows are small, they have all the internal organs, and a complete ecosystem is built. After more than two years of cultivation, more than 20 species of Beijing plants have been planted here, and ecological facilities such as Jingshi, lotus tanks, and compost boxes, earthworm tower, insect houses are equipped. Provide food sources, water sources, and habitats, reflecting the characteristics of close connection between the ecology and humanities of the Forbidden City. According to reports, there is also a nice name in the flower bed- "Flower and Bird Roll", borrowing the cultural attributes of the "flower", "Hua" and "painting" on the south side of the south, to extract the elements of biodiversity from the court of flower and bird painting The natural landscape of "three seasons and evergreens of four seasons".

A viewer who came to the Forbidden City several times a year after reading the introduction of insect boxes and compost houses, he suddenly realized: "Last year, there was a blessing of the blessing and the old 'waste regeneration sculpture. It turned out to promote the concept of environmental protection. "

It is understood that the "Old" sculpture of Fu Niu also was also launched by the Palace Museum and the Vanke Public Welfare Foundation and the Han Meilin Art Foundation. The special thing is a creative work made of countless large and small waste recycling. 90%of the creative materials used from the recyclables classified by the Palace Museum, totaling 0.3 tons. After disinfection, trimming, polishing, stitching and other processes, the artistic transformation of waste is realized, showing "becoming a waste into beauty" the process of.

The "Old" sculpture of Fu Niu is not the first artwork produced by the Palace Museum's "zero abandonment" project. At the end of 2020, Shi Yulong and his team of contemporary environmental protection installation artists used the abandoned carton and abandoned bottle cap collected from the Palace Museum to produce a "zero waste" version of the "Thousands of Miles" through stitching. "Jiangshan Map".

This year is the fifth "zero abandonment day", and the "Palace Museum's Zero Waste" project has also been upgraded. In the summer, it brings the public in the public. Liu Jianguo, a professor at the School of Environment of Tsinghua University, believes: "Zero abandonment of the Forbidden City, with small opinion, is the rising waste of garbage, zero waste from concerned, abandoned to followers. The iconic transformation of the ecology. "

Enjoy the tour guide to guide the audience

The tour guide is a bridge between the museum and the audience. For the Forbidden City, to build a zero -abolished world cultural heritage and world -class tourist destinations, it is inseparable from the participation of tour guides.

The "Forbidden City Zero Waste" project hopes to bring the audience to the audience to bring a better green visits experience through an empowerment group. In 2021, the Palace Museum and Vanke Public Welfare Foundation jointly organized a "Forbidden City Zero Waste" tour guide training lecture. Wang Xudong, a member of the party group of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism and Dean of the Palace Museum, said at the meeting that the professional explanation and leadership of the guide can help more audiences understand the awareness of environmental protection from history, identify zero abandonment from excellent traditional culture, zero from the Forbidden City Zero from the Forbidden City Inspired by abandoned practice. He believes that through such transmission, more audiences will voluntarily join the daily environmental protection actions.

Through a series of diversified measures, in the past two years, the "Forbidden City Zero abandonment" project has driven about 1,000 Forbidden City staff, 11 million audiences, and 40,000 tour guides to join. Recently, when the reporter visited the axis of the Forbidden City, Wu Jing saw the results of the upgrade of the "Palace Museum Zero Waste" project to show the audience. For example: In order to improve the category efficiency, professional industrial designers are requested to upgrade the garbage classification device as a whole, and carefully designed the Forbidden City classification trash can.

The reporter saw that the updated trash can not only integrate with the landscape, more refined classification, and more conservation of materials. On the basis of environmental behavior research, its distribution position is also more scientific. "The trash can of the Forbidden City is not the same as the commonly used trash can in Beijing. It is two more barrels more than the 5 barrels used, which is more fine and scientific. Bottle, glass bottle and paper, and there are special trash bins of the liquid, which can be used to discard the unsuccessful drinks, instant noodle soups, yogurt, and melted ice cream. "Wu Jing told reporters," It's not just the audience, Our tour guide also learned a lot from it. In the past, the remaining mineral water, drinks or something, will be thrown directly to the barrel position of the plastic bottle. Now it will unscrew the plastic bottle, pour the rest of the liquid barrel, and then then After twisting, throw the bottle into the plastic bottle barrel. "Speaking of the trash can, Wu Jing eloquently:" The location of the trash can is also reasonable. There are two groups on both sides of the Taihemen. The trash can, and is located in the place where the audience is more convenient. You can use the advantages of the route convenience to allow the audience to understand the exclusive trash can and the classification requirements of the Forbidden City. In addition to plastic bottles . Before I learned, I was like everyone, and I was thrown in the category of 'recycling'. In fact, because the wet paper towels have a lot of chemical elements that cannot be decomposed, they should be discarded in 'other garbage'. "

Wang Xudong said that through the research of environmental behavior, the best cloth method was analyzed. The number of plants in the Forbidden City was reduced from the previous 310 groups to the current 110 groups, which dropped directly 2/3. "The adjustment of the adjustment of the trash bin is more reasonable, the landscape is less disturbed, the cleaners' work area is more concentrated, and the classification efficiency is greatly improved."

In the guide explanation of the Imperial Garden of the Forbidden City, the ecological maps in classical gardens were expanded in front of the audience. The local landscape plants such as peony, peony, wolfberry, and leaf snake grapes were gloomy and sparse. Observe it carefully, you can also find birds such as crickets, ordinary kingfishers, turtles of pearl turtles, and nae, and the rare brown back labor in Beijing.

Following the footsteps of the propagandist of "Zero Abolishment of the Forbidden City", the reporter found that through this complete zero abandoned tour line, at the same time, the concept of "zero abandoned tour" and the knowledge of biological diversity knowledge into the explanation and introduction of the attractions can also allow the audience to be in There is a lot of gains in the visit.

Specifying the moisturizing and silent

By building the "Zero Waste Museum", the Forbidden City not only refined the ancient and frugal wisdom of the ancients, but also integrated the concept of ecological environmental protection. Let everyone accept and practice the concept of "zero abandonment" in the subtle way.

In the Forbidden City Restaurant in Jianting Plaza, the propagandist of "Zero abandoned for the Forbidden City" tells the thrifty eating habits of Emperor Daoguang, advocating the audience to practice the "CD -ROM Action", and oppose food waste. "When we used parent -child groups, many parents reported 'CD -ROM action' is very good, because there are many small puzzles on both sides of the meal plate. Only when the children eat the rice in the plate clean, can they see the answer on the bottom of the dish. I have aware of food. "

The reporter entered the cultural and creative store and found that there were some cultural and innovative faces in the product cabinet -characteristic environmental and cultural creatives. It is understood that the abandoned plastic bottles from the Forbidden City have been recycled, cleaned, and sliced, and the "shaped into silk" process is transformed into regenerative polyester fibers and processed into an environmentally friendly "zero waste" cultural and creative. Among them, 3 PET plastic bottles can be recovered to make 1 exquisite square scarf, and 8 PET plastic bottles can be recovered to make a cultural and environmentally friendly bag.

Photo Conferring in the Forbidden City Zero Waste Project Team

In addition, audiences can also learn about garbage classification by challenge activities through the "distinguishing ancient characters" of the trash can. The reporter saw that some trash bins were printed with ancient characters, and each word represents an item you might discard. The audience can open the map tour of the "Digital Forbidden City" applet. The barrels have exclusive partitions, and they all have their own numbers. Click to view the bags to participate in quiz interactions. Not only have knowledge, but also adds fun.

In an interview with reporters, Wang Xudong said that the "Zero abandonment of the Forbidden City" project is the continuation of the oriental concept. As a national museum and the World Cultural Heritage Site, the Palace Museum is responsible for contributing to the sustainable development of green and sustainable development, enhance the awareness of environmental protection of the audience, and cultivate the environmental protection habits of the audience. It is hoped that through the "Palace Museum's Zero Waste" project, the audience who come to the Palace Museum will bring home the concept of green environmental protection and sustainable development and gradually become cultural consciousness, and go deep into everyone's daily life. (Author: China Tourism News reporter Deng Minmin; Editor: Ge Yongjiang)

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