The park covers 45 hectares of land within the North Fourth Ring Road and a leisurely stroll throughout will take six or seven hours. It is also an anthropological museum, the China Nationalities Museum.
When construction started Replica jewelrys in 1992, it was part of China's plan to bid for the 2000 Olympics. China lost the bid in 1993, only to win it eight years later for the 2008 Games.
"It is actually a good thing for us, for we had eight more years to do research work for the museum and collect cultural relics from various ethnic groups," says museum curator Wang Ping.
It took three to five years for the park and museum to prepare the construction of each ethnic group's area. Although the first phase of the park replica handbags china opened back in 1994, work has been going on non-stop ever since.
"I have done fieldwork in all the ethnic minority regions in China - I have never been to some tourist attractions like the Huangshan replica wallets china Mountain or Taishan Mountain but I have been to many villages around the Himalayan Mountains," Wang says.
Every ethnic group has a "village" in the park to display its architecture, religion, lifestyle and cultural relics. Various crops are also planted in accordance with different ethnic groups, including paddy rice for the Dong people, highland barley for the Tibetans and buckwheat for the Yi.
"We hope to encourage visitors to enter the lives of different ethnic groups," says Wang.
