China Stone Carving Art Park

China Stone Carving Art Park

The China Stone Carving Art Park serves as a patriotic education base.

The Dashiwo Town China Stone Carving Art Park is located in Dashiwo Town, Fangshan District, Beijing, covering a total area of 75 mu with a total investment of 45 million yuan. It mainly includes a 10,000-square-meter stone carving square, a 40,000-square-meter stone carving art park, and the 2,200-square-meter Han White Jade Cultural Art Palace. The art palace is 25 meters high, built with over 700 cubic meters of Han white jade, making it the largest art palace in the world entirely constructed from Han white jade to date.

The park is divided into upper and lower levels, with three central axes running through it in different directions. The structures within the park primarily feature large-scale Han white jade sculptures and reliefs, including a 9.9-meter-tall Stone God, a 7.5-meter-tall Stone Pavilion, the world’s largest stone tripod standing 6.6 meters tall, a stone memorial archway, totem spheres, Han white jade bridges, Dougong-style bridges, white architectural elements, a 50-meter-long relief wall, 600 meters of Han white jade balustrades, and 7,000 square meters of marble-paved ground.

The art park highlights its garden features, integrating stone carving culture, garden art, physical fitness, and leisure entertainment. It features a connected fountain system totaling 120 meters in length, a 600-square-meter artificial lake, a Xiaoyue Pavilion, 30 sets of fitness and recreational facilities, as well as over 50,000 plants including golden leaf privet, roses, orchids, Chinese scholar trees, smoketrees, and persimmon trees, covering a green area of 20,000 square meters. Over 210 colorful and craft lamps are installed throughout. The establishment of the China Stone Carving Art Park serves as a showcase for Dashiwo Town’s stone carving art, a promotional window to the outside world, and a leisure destination for locals, making it an ideal spot for your travels.

Fangshan is the hometown of stone culture, renowned as a center for stone carving art and a source of high-quality stone materials. It has supplied vast amounts of stone for the construction of Beijing, earning the titles “Foundation of Beijing” and “Foundation of the Forbidden City.” Dashiwo in Fangshan is internationally famous for its unique product — Han white jade, which has been designated by the state as Stone No. 001, hailed as the “National Treasure No. 1.” As early as the Sui Dynasty in 605 AD, during the Daye era, Dashiwo’s Han white jade was used by Yunju Temple to carve stone scriptures. Over six dynasties — Sui, Tang, Liao, Jin, Yuan, and Ming — more than one thousand tons of stone were used. The Forbidden City, the Golden Water Bridge in front of Tiananmen, the Summer Palace, the Temple of Heaven, Lugou Bridge, and the Ming Tombs all sourced their Han white jade from Dashiwo. The pillars of the Great Hall of the People, the reliefs on the Monument to the People's Heroes, the Chairman Mao Memorial Hall, and the inscription stele of the recently completed China Millennium Monument all use Han white jade from Dashiwo. In addition, Dashiwo’s stone materials have gone abroad, shining brightly in other parts of the world. Projects such as the Tianhua Garden in Hokkaido, Japan, the Yuhua Garden in Singapore, and the Fenghua Garden in Canada all feature stone from Dashiwo.

Address: Dashiwo Town, Fangshan District, Beijing

Opening Hours: 9:00 – 17:00 (Last entry at 16:00)

Admission: Free

On-site Collection: A limited number of 4,000 free tickets are issued daily on-site.

Phone Reservation: Groups of 20 or more (inclusive) can make a phone reservation at least 3 working days in advance.