As a crystallization of Changchun’s humanistic spirit, Changchun Culture Square is composed of a group of three landmark buildings forming a modern cultural corridor. The central theater utilizes a streamlined steel structure, with the star track embedded in the dome reflecting with the skyline at night. The resident symphony orchestra and drama troupe have staged classics such as “Legend of Changbai Mountain.” The library building group adopts the design concept of “Mountain of Books,” with spiral-rising reading spaces, Li Bai’s calligraphy of “Song of Great Joy” and Du Fu’s poetry corridor form a dialogue across time and space. The art museum group gathers Changchun City Art Museum and the Non-Material Cultural Heritage Exhibition Center, and the regularly held “Ice and Snow Sculpture Art Festival” perfectly integrates Northeast folk customs with contemporary art. The core area of the square’s “Changchun Memories” sculpture group, with bronze-cast farming tools and modern robotic arm shapes echoing, symbolizes the city’s transformation from “Auto City” to a cultural powerhouse. Every summer, the “Starlight Music Festival” is held in the circular open-air theater, with the projected Milky Way and the live performance of “On the Songhua River” forming a stunning visual and auditory experience. This was once the source of culture during the period of Marshal Zhang Xueliang’s rule, and now as an important cultural exchange hub in Northeast Asia, it continues to write a new chapter in the city’s civilization.
