Hongshan

Hongshan Park

synonym

Hongshan (Xinjiang Urumqi City Hongshan) generally refers to Hongshan park scenic area

Hongshan park scenic area, located at No.40, North Lane 1, Hongshan Road, Shuimogou District, Urumqi City, is a comprehensive natural mountain park integrating tourism, classical characteristics, humanistic connotation and physical fitness. It is a national 4A tourist attraction and one of the ten new scenic spots in Urumqi.

Development history

Hongshan park is named for its location in Hongshan. Hongshan mountain is composed of purple glutenite, which is ochre red, so it is called "Hongshan". According to geological research, Hongshan mountain rose together with Tianshan Mountain during the Himalayan orogeny about 80 million years ago. There are rare fossil resources on the mountain. The fossil of ancient cod 270 million years ago and the fossil of human shoe print have been found.

It is said that in ancient times, a red dragon ran out of the Tianchi Lake on Bogda mountain. Here, it was caught up by the queen mother and cut off with a sword. Later, at the two sections of the red dragon that were cut off, each formed a mountain. The one in the West was called yamalik mountain (also known as demon mountain), and the one in the East was red mountain. The sword became the Urumqi River. Although this is a legend, according to the topographic photos taken by aerial exploration, Hongshan and yamalik mountains are indeed a whole. It is only because of the stratum fracture that they are divided into two peaks facing each other.

In addition, if you look eastward from the top of the red mountain along the mountain trend, there is indeed a stone mountain winding from the Bogda mountain to the West and extending to the Urumqi River. The mountain suddenly breaks and the top of the mountain rises, just like a giant dragon holding its head high. It is because of its precipitous nature, part of Bogda mountain, and its mysterious legend that Hongshan has always been regarded as a holy land by people. Local people regard it as a place for remote sacrifice to Bogda mountain. Even though the altitude of Hongshan is only 910.6 meters and the relative height is only 60 meters, it is a symbol of modern Urumqi.

Main attractions

Enter from the east gate of the park, climb a short slope, among the flowers, is a sculpture - Double Deer welcome.

Hongshan pagoda

To the West and south of the statue are the red mountain cliffs, or the red mountain mouth. In Mongolian, Hongshanzui is called balahada. Bala means tiger, and hada means rock. Therefore, Hongshanzui is also called hutoufeng. In the past, under the cliff of Hongshanzui, there was a river, the Urumqi River. In 1785 and 1786, the Urumqi River was flooded for two consecutive years, causing heavy losses to the residents near Hongshan. Therefore, rumors abound: Hongshan and the opposite yamalik mountain are drawing close to each other. Once the two mountains converge, the Urumqi River rolling north will be blocked, and Urumqi will become a vast area The ocean. Therefore, in 1788, the highest military and political officer of Urumqi, Shang an, built a 10.5-meter-high black brick solid tower on the top of Hongshan and yamalik mountains, named Zhenlong pagoda.

The "Zhenlong pagoda" of Hongshan still stands on the mouth of Hongshan. It's just that the Urumqi river running under the cliff is hard to find. Instead, it's replaced by a wide highway - Hetan Expressway (National Highway 216).

Hongshan pagoda was originally a green gray Pavilion style solid brick pagoda, with nine floors and six corners on the plane, which was composed of three parts: the base, the body and the brake. The height of the whole tower is 10.5 meters, the height of the tower base is 1 meter, the length of each side of the hexagon of the tower base is 2.2 meters, and the height of each stage of the tower body is about 0.9 meters. The structure of brick tower is rigorous, the shape is beautiful, and the construction is quite solid. For more than 200 years, after the invasion of wind and snow outside the great wall and the shaking of many strong earthquakes, the red mountain pagoda is still intact, standing on the red mountain. "The tower reflects the setting sun" has become one of the famous eight old scenes in Urumqi. Song Bolu, a poet of the Qing Dynasty, once praised the red mountain Pagoda: "the sound of running water and horses is beyond the double threshold, and the Sunset Tower reflects the two peaks of the mountain."

On September 19, 1988, the garden Department of Urumqi painted the tower red. So far, Hongshan tower is the only Qing Dynasty building on Hongshan.

Great Buddha Temple

On the way, there is a big Buddhist temple. It's a Chinese Buddhist temple. Along the foot of the red mountain, the original ancient temples are arranged from east to West: the east end is the Dafo temple, the middle is the Yuhuang temple, and the west end is the dizang temple. At that time, the ancient temples in Hongshan used to be a collection of classical buildings in Urumqi, and also a scenic spot for temple fairs. Every temple fair, all the temples in Hongshan were open for gods to perform, and there were endless offerings.

After the September 18th Incident in 1931, 30000 northeast Anti Japanese volunteers entered Xinjiang through the Soviet Union in 1933. The first group of soldiers arrived in Urumqi on March 27, and Chen Zhong, the chief of staff of Jin Shuren, chairman of Xinjiang Provincial Government, approached them immediately. 17 days later, they instigated the "naturalized army" of Belarus to launch the "April 12 coup". Jin Shuren and his family fled in a panic. At that time, they lived in the "Yuhuang Temple" on the top of the red mountain. He ordered Sheng Shicai to send troops to fight against the rebellion, but Sheng Shicai failed But they didn't. The next night, the naturalization army occupied the ordnance Bureau and asked for the support of the Anti Japanese volunteers. Knowing that he was not his opponent, Jin Shuren wrote a poem in the Yuhuang temple to scold Sheng Shicai for being a wolf in the middle of the mountain. After Sheng Shicai came to power with military power, he heard that Jin Shuren wrote a poem to scold him in the Jade Emperor Temple, so he burned the temple. In order to cover up his burning of the temple, he used the excuse of "breaking superstition" to demolish all the temples here. In this way, a religious resort with a history of more than 1000 years was destroyed. On the eve of liberation, there was only one isolated tower in Hongshan, and only one gate of the great Buddhist temple was left in the huge ancient Temple group.

When Hongshan Park was expanded in 1989, the gate of the ancient temple was in disrepair for a long time and was on the verge of collapse. In order to protect cultural relics and restore the landscape, the gate of Dafosi temple was moved to the top of the mountain as it was, and the main hall, wing room and Sutra Pavilion of Dafosi temple were rebuilt. Today's great Buddhist temple, the main building is Tianwang hall, Daxiong hall, Guanyin hall and dizang hall.

On the left side of the pavilion is the Diecui Pavilion, on which is a couplet: spring rain has a heart lock, green grass, and the sun rises to the red mountain; on the right side is the Longquan Pavilion, on which there is a stream of spring water flowing down, attracting tourists to play.

Overlooking tower

Further on, you will arrive at Yuantiao building, which is located at the top of Hongshan mountain. It is a three story ancient building imitating the Qing Dynasty, covering an area of 1150 square meters. The building is 21.95 meters high, surrounded by 138 meters long corridors with carved beams and painted buildings.

On the top of the building, "all the sceneries are collected from a pavilion". Overlooking the Tianshan Mountains, you can have a panoramic view of the bustling city. The bright sunshine, green mountains, fresh air and noisy scenes of the downtown are two situations and two tastes.

underground palace

Overlooking the building behind the hillside, there is a cave, known as the red mountain underground palace. The cave is a human defense project in the 1950s, with a total length of 460 meters. The cave is winding and crisscross. In 1996, it was rebuilt into the "rare cave" of Liaozhai palace, and later renamed as the underground palace, covering an area of 1300 square meters. It takes the popular folk myths and stories as the theme, uses sculpture and color painting to create scenery, combines sound, light, control and other technologies, intuitively and stereoscopically displays the content of the story in front of the world.

Memorial Statue of Lin Zexu

Overlooking the west of the building, there is a memorial statue of Lin Zexu. Qing Dynasty's nineteen year (1839), the national hero Lin Zexu destructed opium in Humen, Guangdong. In second (1840) June, after the Opium War, the British attacked Guangdong and Fujian, but instead attacked Zhejiang, then settled down to the sea and then invaded Dagu. Emperor Daoguang was frightened and asked for peace. He blamed Lin Zexu for "mismanagement" in Guangdong. In September, Lin Zexu was dismissed. In 1842, he was demoted to Yili. On December 4, the 25th year of Daoguang (1845), he went up to the red mountain and wrote a poem: "Ren crazy song, drunk in the mouth of the red mountain. The wind blows and the wine scales rise In commemoration of his great achievements, a statue of him was erected on the side of Hongshan pagoda and a bronze tripod for drug control was placed. Hongshan became the first drug control education base in Xinjiang.

South Lake

Continue southward along the ridge of Hongshan cliff, you can reach the rest Pavilion, Taibai cave and Hongshan waterfall. In the West and south of the pavilion, there are cliffs and cliffs. Looking around from the pavilion, there are many high-rise buildings on the west side of the highway and the rapids of the river. At the foot of the mountain in the south of the pavilion, there is a pool of blue water with trees on the hillside. In the south of the lake, there are the landmark buildings in Urumqi, Times Square and Zhongtian square.

The lake at the foot of the pavilion is called Nanhu. The surface of the lake is rippling with microwaves. Many tourists go boating on the lake.

Tired of walking, I sit in the shade of the lake, or enjoy tea near the lake, or watch the green trees, or close my eyes to listen to the children's laughter. From time to time, a cool wind blows, which is very pleasant.

On the South Bank of the South Lake, there is a sculpture with Wang Enmao's inscription: "greening of the past, happiness of the future generations." To the north of the sculpture, there is an inscription describing the development experience of Hongshan Park: in 1933, after Hongshan was destroyed by the warlord Sheng Shicai, only Guta Tuling was left. In 1958, members of the Communist Youth League and young people of all ethnic groups in Urumqi started the arduous project of greening Hongshan together with the general army and people. They chiseled stones in the mountains to change soil, built canals to divert water, and planted trees. After half a century of unremitting efforts, the total area of Hongshan park now is 4 square kilometers, with more than 30000 kinds of trees

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