{"id":6294,"date":"2025-06-07T11:19:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T03:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.a4artmuseum.com\/?post_type=events&#038;p=6294"},"modified":"2026-05-22T15:11:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T07:11:26","slug":"chuanxijixingxingzouzaiziranlidebowuxuejia","status":"publish","type":"events","link":"https:\/\/www.a4artmuseum.com\/en\/events\/chuanxijixingxingzouzaiziranlidebowuxuejia\/","title":{"rendered":"A Journey Through Western Sichuan: The Naturalist Walking in Nature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Situated in Southwest China, Sichuan&#8217;s unique geographical position and ecological environment have fostered unparalleled biodiversity. For millennia, numerous naturalists captivated by the natural world have journeyed here to observe and document the region&#8217;s abundant resources.<br \/>\nFrom the exotic flora and fauna of Chengdu recorded by the Northern Song official Song Qi, to the Western &#8216;plant hunter&#8217; Ernest Henry Wilson, who famously lauded the region as the &#8216;Mother of Gardens&#8217;, to the modern Chinese botanical pioneer Fang Wenpei and his extensive plant surveys of Mount Emei\u2014these first-hand accounts and authentic records capture the profound biological diversity of this land.<br \/>\nToday, we revisit these explorers&#8217; expeditions in Western Sichuan through archival manuscripts and historical imagery. In doing so, we offer a historical response to the escalating public interest in contemporary nature conservation.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","categories":[1],"event_category":[82,64],"class_list":["post-6294","events","type-events","status-publish","hentry","category-a4-art-museum","event_category-open-class","event_category-community-activity"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.a4artmuseum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events\/6294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.a4artmuseum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.a4artmuseum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/events"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.a4artmuseum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.a4artmuseum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6294"},{"taxonomy":"event_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.a4artmuseum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_category?post=6294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}