[2025 Miluo Attraction] Travel Guide for Qu Zi Culture Park (Updated Apr)

It suddenly started raining yesterday, and I deeply felt the damp cold of winter in Hunan. I drove from Zhang Guying Village to Quzi Cultural Park, entering from the west gate. It was a long walk to Quzi Temple. On the way, there was an artificial lake parallel to the Miluo River on the left, and the dam was called Chu Di. The gloomy sky and light rain made me feel sad, as if the heavens were also mourning Qu Yuan's patriotism.

Quzi Cultural Park is located in Quzi Temple Town, Miluo City, Hunan Province. It is a park built to inherit and spread Qu Yuan culture. The Quzi Cultural Park covers an area of ​​10 square kilometers and is divided into the Quzi Temple core scenic area, the Dragon Boat Festival cultural experience area, the Dragon Boat Festival cultural industry area, the Dragon Boat Festival cultural folk area, the Qu Yuan Tomb protection area, and the Miluo River Wetland protection area. The core scenic area of ​​Quzi Temple includes two major buildings: Quzi Temple and the rebuilt Quzi Academy. Founded in the early Song Dynasty, Quzi Academy has a history of more than a thousand years. It forms a whole with Quzi Temple on the banks of Miluo River. They have moved several times in history, but they have always been together. After the founding of New China, Quzi Academy was converted into a school and was destroyed during the Cultural Revolution. The reconstruction of Quzi Academy with a total investment of nearly 200 million yuan is the core project of Quzi Cultural Park. It covers an area of ​​140 acres and has a main building area of ​​14,118 square meters. The main construction contents include the academy auditorium, lecture hall, teaching room, library, sacrificial hall, Qu Yuan Research Institute, etc. However, when I visited it today, except for one staff member in a small cultural and creative shop, the entire academy was really deserted.

To the east of the Qu Yuan Temple is the Qu Yuan Stele Forest, built in 1990. The main structure of the stele forest consists of five parts: the Lisao Pavilion, the Tianwen Altar, the Jiu Ge Platform, the Jiu Zhang Hall, and the Zhao Hun Hall. It gathers calligraphy works from more than 300 famous calligraphers across the country at that time, and the stele forest includes 25 poetic works by Qu Yuan! It is a national key cultural relic worth seeing.