Leizu Town is located in the northwest of Yuan 'an County, Yichang City, with a land area of 396 square kilometers and a total population of 30,000. Rich in mineral resources, profound cultural heritage and convenient transportation. Leizu Town is the hometown of national folk culture and art, the most beautiful homesick tourist village in China, a famous tourist town in the whole province, a characteristic town in the whole province, a civilized town and a pilot town for urban and rural planning in Yichang. It is the largest single phosphate mine in Asia, and also the location of Hubei Dongsheng Chemical Group, a top 500 chemical enterprise in China.
In recent years, Leizu Town has taken advantage of the east wind of global tourism, scientifically planned and built scenic spots according to the regional characteristics, and created characteristic rural tourist routes, such as visiting Leizu at Goujiaya, reminiscing about homesickness at Jinqiao, visiting Xihe Canyon, enjoying Lagerstroemia in Guangping, enjoying landscapes at Wangjiapin, exploring caves in water, and visiting Huahai at Tianjia. It makes full use of activities such as Leizu Temple Fair, Ziwei Festival and parent-child tour in summer to build its popularity. Has been rated as outstanding contributions to the development of tourism industry in the province, the second batch of famous tourist towns in the province, Jinqiao Village was rated as a beautiful and livable village in China.
Our present location is Lei Zu Cultural Park, which was built in memory of Princess Huangdi, the ancestor of human sericulture and the great mother of the Chinese nation, Lei Zu. It covers an area of 260 mu with an investment of 40 million yuan. It is undertaken by Huazhong University of Science and Technology and Beijing Green Cross Design, the government and Yuanda Company. The park is divided into tourist information consultation center, Leizu Museum, Leizu Square and Leizu Sacrificial Area. The whole project will be completed by April this year.
Located at the main entrance of Lei Zu Cultural Park, the tourist information consultation center is built according to the national unified standards and norms, with a building area of 500 square meters and complete facilities, including tourist reception, tourist consultation, tourists' rest, convenience service, tourist souvenir exhibition hall, standardized public toilets and other functional areas. Equipped with self-service information inquiry equipment, manual information desk, public telephone service system, mobile phone gas station, root carving, strange stone special commodity area and video equipment. Facilities such as nursery, children's seats, pagers and barrier-free toilets have been provided for special people, and a one-stop, intelligent, convenient and comfortable tourist information consultation center has been built with high standards and a high starting point.
The pavement of Lei Zu Cultural Park adopts local bluestone and coarse slate, which embodies the concept of simple ecology and strong local culture. Mulberry trees are mainly used for greening, supplemented by native tree species such as Lagerstroemia indica, Cinnamomum camphora and pentagram, so as to show the long history of planting mulberry and sericulture.
The statue of Leizu is12m high,15m long and weighs 458 tons. It is carved with white marble. Lei Zu, sitting west facing east, with a piece of silk in his hand, showed everyone Lei Zu's mother instrument and his heart. On the pedestal, Li Jingyi, a doctoral supervisor of Wuhan University and a well-known writer who wrote Red Kong Fu for the return of Hong Kong, Zhou Decong, vice chairman of the provincial calligraphers' association, chairman of the municipal calligraphers' association and former dean of the Art College of Three Gorges University, wrote Lei Zufu.