Natural Resources Hall is at the gallery’s second floor, with an area of 400 square meters and a height of 3 meters. With the topic of “Never forget where we come from”, it demonstrates the theme “Landscape of All Time and an Epic of Earth” and gradually reveals a peaceful, harmonious and beautiful “nature’s scroll”. It was mainly divided into eight chapters, namely Topography, Geography & Location, Lush Mountains, Lucid Rivers, Natural Landscape, Scenic Spots, and Poems.  

Topography

It shows how sediment and tectonics shaped this land for a long time and how the mountain city Chongqing formed its unique landscape after thousand years of vicissitudes.

Geography & Location

It shows the link between Chongqing’s landscape and the overall geographical pattern of the country, highlighting Chongqing’s unique and important role from four aspects: geological structure, landscape pattern, location, and biodiversity.

Lush Mountains

It shows a unique wonder of folded landforms in the world, the low mountainous area with paralleled ridge-valley in Chongqing; The world’s famous karst landform and middle-low mountain areas with karst landscape; Wushan Yintiaoling, the dividing line between the second and third gradient terrain in China. These scenes grant Chongqing the unique charming landscape of lush mountains and lucid rivers.

Lucid Rivers

Chongqing abounds in rivers and crisscrossed mountains and rivers. There are 274 rivers with a basin area of more than 100 square kilometers in the city, and the mainstream of the Yangtze River with a length of 691 kilometers enters Chongqing from Shima Town in Jiangjin District to Peishi Township in Wushan County, and crosses Chongqing from west to east. Two rivers surround Chongqing from left to right, namely the Jialing River with a length of 152 kilometers and the Wujiang River with a length of 223 kilometers. More than 5,300 rivers and streams originate and flow through Chongqing, forming a river pattern of “one main river , two tributary rivers and seven branch rivers”.

Natural Landscape

It displays poems, ballads, and songs related to the mountain city. Chongqing is a famous mountain city, and many ancient literati loved this place, leaving a lot of ancient poems painting Chongqing’s landscapes.

Scenic Spots

It shows how names of Chongqing’s scenic spots were formed and its distribution in Chongqing.

Poems

It displays poems, ballads, and songs related to the mountain city. Chongqing is a famous mountain city, and many ancient literati loved this place, leaving a lot of ancient poems painting Chongqing’s landscapes.