Dong'e Bainiantang Donkey-Hide Gelatin Cultural Garden

Dong'e Bainiantang Donkey-Hide Gelatin Cultural Garden

The Dong'e Bainiantang Donkey-Hide Gelatin Cultural Garden is a national AAA-level tourist attraction.

Situated at No. 80 Ejiao Street, Dong'e County, Liaocheng City, Shandong Province, the Dong'e Bainiantang Donkey-Hide Gelatin Cultural Garden spans over 80 acres with a total investment of 150 million yuan. It combines cultural exchange, R&D and design, and cultural tourism, acting as a platform for the integrated development of the donkey-hide gelatin, cultural, and tourism industries. The garden is committed to restoring the historical status of donkey-hide gelatin, establishing a premium image of its collagen content, and promoting and inheriting the collagen culture associated with donkey-hide gelatin.

The Bainiantang Donkey-Hide Gelatin Cultural Garden consists of six major exhibition areas: the China Donkey-Hide Gelatin Culture Museum, the China Traditional Donkey-Hide Gelatin Craftsmanship Museum, the China Donkey-Hide Gelatin Diet Museum, the China Herbal Paste Culture Experience Museum, the Bainiantang Corporate Culture Museum, and the China Herbal Paste Digital Museum. Themed around donkey-hide gelatin, the garden showcases various aspects including the industrial development history of donkey-hide gelatin, its artistic evolution, classic artifacts, and key figures. Additionally, cutting-edge technologies such as sound, light, and virtual reality are employed to their fullest, offering visitors a deeper journey into the health culture of donkey-hide gelatin and satisfying enthusiasts' passion for it.

Donkey-hide gelatin is an important component of the traditional Chinese medicine treasury, and culture is its foundation. The Bainiantang Donkey-Hide Gelatin Cultural Garden focuses on exploring the cultural character and spiritual essence of donkey-hide gelatin. The construction team has undertaken extensive work, studying over a thousand classical texts on donkey-hide gelatin, collecting related items both online and offline, and traveling across more than ten provinces. They have gathered and displayed over a hundred types of gelatin-related artifacts, including ceramics, silverware, ironware, ancient books, bronze ware, woodwork, and stoneware, allowing people to gain a deeper understanding of the rich traditional Chinese culture and wellness heritage behind donkey-hide gelatin. This has greatly contributed to the promotion of Bainiantang’s donkey-hide gelatin culture, its shaping, and the development of industrial tourism in the sector.

Additionally, the entire factory area features over 300 exquisitely crafted story-themed reliefs, including tales of notable figures and renowned physicians related to donkey-hide gelatin, as well as a series of reliefs showcasing Bainiantang. These were meticulously created by professional artisans. Sculptures of famous historical physicians, stone inscriptions primarily featuring traditional Chinese herbal paste formulas, and the Ancient Ejiao Pavilion are also notable highlights within the factory grounds. Together, they present the exquisite and time-honored techniques and culture of Bainiantang’s donkey-hide gelatin from multiple dimensions—history, craftsmanship, and culture. The goal is to allow every health-conscious individual and lover of traditional Chinese medicine culture to “experience the ecological, natural, and genuinely healthy lifestyle brought by 3,000-year-old donkey-hide gelatin.”

The cultural garden continuously enriches its offerings in terms of foundational conditions, content design, service quality, and safety measures. It enhances the diversity of tourism activities to provide visitors with a distinctive journey into donkey-hide gelatin culture. Different tour routes are arranged based on the type of visiting groups, and the guides are highly professional—with excellent appearance, temperament, and cultural literacy—delivering clear, thorough, and insightful explanations that allow visitors to closely engage with the heritage of traditional Chinese medical culture.

Winter is often perceived as cold, quiet, and desolate, but the Bainiantang Donkey-Hide Gelatin Cultural Garden reveals the unique beauty of winter and the vitality of renewal after snowfall. The garden’s flowers, trees, rockeries, pavilions, towers, corridors, bridges, and waterside pavilions are arranged in an artful layout, blending classical ejiao elements with modern wellness aesthetics to create a vivid and elegant scene.