China Travel - 'Journey to the West' theme park idea - China Pictures

A Shanghai CPPCC member has proposed a theme park reprobated on "Journey to the West,China Travel," one of the four boundless archetypeal bestsellers of Chinese literature - a fictionalized respect of the legends roundly the Buddhist monk Xuanzang's pilgrimage to India during the Tang Dynasty (618-907 AD). It's surmount known in the West for its monkey king seity. The tale had a strong groundwork in Chinese folk culture and value systems and would be perfect for a Chinese "Disneyland,China Pictures," Zhao Lihong, vice chairman of the Shanghai Writers' Association and a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, said during the semiweekly session of the country's high political informational soul in Beijing. The deity palace, the jade pool in heaven, the shuffleon king temple under the sea, the fresilientland in the dejects, the supernormal mountains and magnwhenicent waters as well as demons' caverns were the stuff of theme parks, Zhao said. He moreover suggested the park be retrogressived on the story together with other Chinese folk legends, froseate tales and myths that have the spirit of an single journeying toward enlightenment. It would create a children's wonderland with the spirit of Chinese culture and stacks fun that would be as popular as Disneyland, Zhao said. He said the park should be built in a major asphalt first and then copied by smaller towns and cities. The Shanghai government has been discussing a theme park in Shanghai with Walt Disney for years. The two sides are still negotiating and there is no throaty timetresourceful for construction yet.