Yingxi Sculpture Park

Yingxi Sculpture Park

Located at the Yingxi exit of the Shanghai-Kunming Expressway, it includes areas for sculptures, memorial archways, and public restrooms, covering an area of approximately 3.6 acres. Through iconic landscape design, it serves as a landmark scenic introduction area; it features smooth and convenient access routes that highlight comprehensive functions such as landscape guidance and tourist dispersal.

The sculpture bases are square, combined with the round main body of the sculptures, symbolizing the concept of "round heaven and square earth" and the unity of heaven and humanity. The bases are clad in wide, thick stone—either贵妃红 (Rose Red) or黄金麻 (Golden Granite)—with a steel-facing finish, standing tall and majestic, representing the emerald waters, red cliffs, and danxia landforms of Longhu Mountain, the birthplace of Taoism. They embody the centuries-old purity of the landscape and the profound history of Yingtan, a place of enduring natural beauty.

The design inspiration for the sculpture’s form draws from the characteristics of Yingtan’s "Taoist culture" and the geographical identity of Longhu Mountain, the ancestral home of Taoism; the product characteristics of the "eyewear" industry in the Yingtan (Yujiang) Eyewear Industrial Park; and the commercial attributes of "coins" associated with the Yingtan International Trade and Business Park.

The sculpture’s design language is based on the "circle," using symbols such as the Taoist yin-yang taiji diagram, the lenses from the industrial park, and the coins from the trade park as design elements. It subtly reflects the Taoist principles of yin and yang balance, the unity of heaven and man, and integrates the breadth of a "window viewing the world" and the depth of wealth and prosperity. By applying formal aesthetic principles and laws of beauty, it creates concentric circles—natural, harmonious, and symbiotic—achieving the aesthetic goals of contrast and harmony, rhythm and cadence, change and unity in sculptural form. (Examples include the yin-yang contrast of solid and void in the taiji, the shape contrast between square and circle, the material contrast between steel and stone, and the texture contrast between ruggedness and refinement.)