Splendid China - Shenzhen

Splendid China Folk Village is a theme park including Splendid China Miniature Park and China Folk Culture Village, located in the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone, People's Republic of China. The park's theme reflects the history, culture, art, ancient architecture, customs and habits of 56 nationalities in China.  It is one of the world's largest scenery parks in the amount of scenarios reproduced.

splendid China - Shenzhen

This park is near by the Windows of The World. It focuses on the Chinese culture and traditional elements while Windows of the world park focuses on the world culture with full of western elements.


The park is surrounded by pleasant gardens with many flowers and trees. Consequently walking in Splendid China can be very relaxing. Apart from the miniature buildings and scenic spots, one may see over 50,000 ceramic figures in the different locations.

splendid China map

Splendid China is divided into two parts, a Scenic Spot Area and a Comprehensive Service Area. The first part is a miniature park of China. Here, you can explore the famous Forbidden City, Huangshan Mountains, Yunnan's Stone Forest, Tibet Potala Palace, Terracotta Soldiers and of course the Great Wall of China. This miniature park covers 300 thousand square meters, fully forested with beautiful greenery and flower.

Temple of Heaven  credit photo: www.wikipedia.com

The second part consists of 56 houses, each representing one of the 56 nationalities in China, such as Mongol, Yi, Bai, and Uygur, Miao, including exhibition of their culture, fashion, habits, religion, language and food. There are also the shows at this park such as Uygur women twirl to Turkish music, Miaos dance, a miniskirted Ming Dynasty troupe performs electronic versions of Ming music and dance. There is even a Tibetan rock band and the Mongol horse battle too here

Battle on horseback show golden spear dynasty credit photo: tourist attraction guide

The park also hosts theater dancing show in Traditional Chinese costumes new oriental apparel at 5 pm at Impress China Theater, it was fantastic well worth staying for. It is a theater Dance and Music show. The performance is in a many episodes to present the cultural of all ethnic groups in China. It is a colorful show. Various traditional Chinese costumes gorgeously displayed Chine's five thousand year civilization.

colorful light show at impress china theater

Five amazing shows of North wind, south flowers, west snow, east moon and splendid china bring us to a tantasy wonderful if sound and lights, know as the never ending "Oriental Broadway".

traditional Chinese costumes new oriental apparel show

Tips

If you can stay until the evening, do not miss the evening show at Phoenix square at 7 pm that offers the greatest surprise of all. In the production called “The Dragon and Phoenix,” the entire troupe of entertainers combine their efforts to produce an outstanding and dazzling spectacle in the most amazing and versatile of theatrical settings.

The Dragon and Phoenix show

It blends dancing, music stunt show, magic, lights show, horse riding skills together.  It is a must see show in Shenzhen.It is  a large Chine's variety show epic, narrates birth, development and flourishing of China's civilization.

fountain show at Phoenix Square Shenzhen