Zigong dinosaur "Dragon" travels the world

Time:April 04,2023 Visits:200

Since the 1970s, Sichuan organized a group of experts to protect and excavate dinosaur fossils in Dashanpu, Zigong, and by the end of February 1981, more than 40 tons of dinosaur fossils were initially excavated. One of them was a complete Stegosaurus fossil, the first complete dinosaur fossil in Asia. The large number, variety and preservation of these fossils are rare in the history of dinosaur fossil excavation in the world.


On January 15, 1987, the Zigong Dinosaur Museum, the largest in Asia with the most dinosaur fossils on display, was officially opened. Due to proper protection, the Zigong dinosaur fossil group was included in the World Geological Heritage List in 1991.


At the same time as the museum was established, a new industry called simulated dinosaurs emerged. In order to provide viewers with a more intuitive understanding of these behemoths, a production team for dinosaur models emerged in Zigong in the late 1970s.

 

At the 1980 Zigong Lantern Festival, a mini mechanical dinosaur about 25 centimeters long appeared. In the following 10 years, an increasing number of dinosaur models and lamp sets with increasingly high simulation levels appeared at the nationally renowned Zigong Lantern Festival. In 1990, the dinosaur model also went abroad for the first time with the Zigong Lantern Festival and arrived in Singapore.

 

In 2007, with the rise of the internet, Guo Qihong, who has been doing simulation dinosaurs for more than 10 years, opened up foreign markets through online sales, selling products to the United States, Poland, Germany, Japan, Russia, dinosaur culture officially went to sea. Now, every year thousands of simulated dinosaurs from Zigong In the global. In the global animatronic dinosaur market, nearly 90% of the products come from this city in western China. 


From the first Zigong International Dinosaur Lantern Trade Fair in January 1987 to the 24th Zigong International Dinosaur Lantern Fair in 2018, the Lantern Fair has been developing and growing. The Dragon and Lantern are still a window for the world to know Zigong. With the help of the lamp, these long-term petrified dinosaurs came back to life; Driven by the dragon, the ancient lantern festival has a new image; Under the link of the internet, both the dragon and the lamp have gone abroad and entered the world. For decades, the Zigong dinosaur "dragon" has traveled around the world.