Daydream Garden

Located on the South Bank of Daming Lake, Xiayuan was built by Luo Wangjun, Shandong academic envoy in the first year of Xuantong (1909) of Qing Dynasty, when he founded Shandong library. It was originally a part of Shandong library, and then it was divided into Daming Lake Park. The reverie garden was built with reference to Tianyi Pavilion, a famous library in Ningbo. After its completion, it was famous at that time for its elegant scenery and rich collection of books. It was known as "South Pavilion (Tianyi Pavilion) and North Garden (reverie garden)". In China, there are many buildings, such as reading hall, mingyifang, Haoran Pavilion and so on. They are ingenious, simple and elegant. They are known as "the first standard courtyard in Jinan".

Daydream Garden

Located on the South Bank of Daming Lake in Jinan City, Shandong Province, the garden was built by Luo Zhengjun, Shandong academic envoy in the first year of Xuantong (1909), when he founded Shandong library. It was originally a part of Shandong library, and then it was divided into Daming Lake Park.

The reverie garden was built with reference to Tianyi Pavilion, a famous library in Ningbo. After its completion, it was famous at that time for its elegant scenery and rich collection of books. It was known as "South Pavilion (Tianyi Pavilion) and North Garden (reverie garden)".

Development history

By 1916, the collection had reached 130000 volumes. Unfortunately, it was attacked by the Japanese in 1928 and the garden was destroyed. The second year, it was rebuilt under the leadership of Wang Xiantang and burned again in 1937. Today, we can see the kuixu book collection built in January 1935. Only the original stele is still standing on the site. Reverie garden famous for the book of songs

After the Opium War, with the invasion of imperialist forces, western culture also began to enter China, impacting China's imperial examination system which lasted for thousands of years. In 1905, the Qing government officially abolished the imperial examination system. In the past, the "Gongyuan" which was used by the public to pursue the future of fame was transformed into a school, and the "examination shed" was also idle.

Luo Zhengjun, who was then an envoy of Shandong to study abroad, wanted to imitate western culture and education after returning to China. In 1908, he invited yuan Shuxun, governor of Shandong Province, to invite the Qing government to set up a library in the original position of Gongyuan to open up people's wisdom. With the approval of the imperial court, in March 1909, Luo Zhengjun personally presided over the construction of the library in the southwest corner of Daming Lake, imitating Tianyi Pavilion, a famous library in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province. It is named "reverie garden" after "reverie heart" in Shi Xiaoya Baiju. It was completed on December 16 of that year.

Park layout

There are many buildings in the garden, such as reading hall, mingyifang, Haoran Pavilion and so on. They are ingenious, simple and elegant, and are known as "the first standard courtyard in Jinan".

Scale facilities

The whole garden covers an area of 9600 square meters. The gate is located from west to East. In the middle of the gate is a plaque with the word "Ya garden" written by Luo Zhengjun. In the middle of the park is Haiyue tower, with 60 rooms for storing books. In front of the building is the Hongya Pavilion (in front of the pavilion is the reading room), which is used to store books and gold and stone relics. The west of the building is a shrine, and the east of the building is hongyuexuan. There are also golden silk Pavilion, bilinlang hall, tiyaogouxuan room, mingyifang (children's reading room), Haoran Pavilion, chaoshuangtai and other buildings. They are places for storing ancient steles, decorating books, staff living and readers resting.

adopt a scorched-earth policy in fighting an invading enemy

After occupying Nanjing in 1937, the Japanese Army crossed the Yellow River to capture Jinan. Chiang Kai Shek heard that the Japanese army had crossed the river and entered Jinan, and ordered Han Fu to rely on Xiaoqing River to defend Jinan. Han Deling, however, told the left and right: "the third group army has only five divisions, one brigade and a few civilian regiments. The total number of guns is no more than 80000. Most of them are light weapons, especially no heavy artillery. It's not unfair that Chiang Kai Shek, who has a million troops and is well equipped, will not defend Nanjing but ask me to defend Jinan! " He ignored Jiang's order and withdrew from Jinan.

Before withdrawing from Jinan, Han Fuzhe, in the name of "scorched earth war of resistance against Japan", burned and robbed in Jinan and other places. The day before he withdrew from Jinan, Han ordered to burn buildings of provincial government departments, courts, arsenals and former governor's office. In an instant, the smoke billowed and the fire burst into the sky, and the garden was burned.

History of stone carving

In front of the gate of the garden, there are green willows. Under the trees, there are tea seats, rattan tables and rattan chairs. Tourists have a rest here to enjoy tea. When they look at the lake, boats come and go like crucian carp, and the melodious music of silk and bamboo comes from the boat. But what's not good enough is that this kind of teahouse is most afraid of rain. When it rains, tourists rush into the garden corridor to take shelter from the rain. Therefore, this kind of teahouse is called "yulaisan" teahouse by the old Jinan people.

In the garden, the willows are shady, the bamboo is luxuriant, the water is clear, and the pavilions and corridors are well arranged. On the south wall of the west corridor of the Ya garden, there were more than 40 stone carvings of Zhuge Liang's model of leaving teachers before and after, which were signed by Yue Fei's handwriting. Behind the stone carvings, Zuo Zongtang's comment in the tenth year of Tongzhi of the Qing Dynasty: "there is no doubt that it is not a fake book." However, the writing style of this stone inscription is quite different from that of Yue Fei's handwriting. Some scholars believe that this stone carving was made by Bailin in Ming Dynasty. Although this stone carving is not Yue Fei's handwriting, it is still a masterpiece because of its exquisite calligraphy. The stone carving has been moved to Shandong Provincial Museum for collection.

The origin of these stone carvings is also worth mentioning. Mr. Yang Henian (1842-1922), a famous scholar in Jinan, was deeply aware of the internal and external troubles in the late Qing Dynasty. He decided to reprint and distribute the rare edition of the ancestral model of the former and the latter to inspire people's patriotism. He personally went to Nanshan to buy good stone, and then went to Tai'an to hire a master engraver to come home. It took three years to carve 42 square steles, which were stored in the north house of the backyard. Soon after, the old man died. Later, his son, Mr. Yang Mingyi, built 42 square steles on the walls of the backyard in order, and built a corridor to protect them.

After the Japanese invaders invaded China, the Yang family was covered with plaster twice, which was hard for outsiders to recognize. Mr. Yang Mingyi died before liberation. After liberation, his descendants donated these stone carvings to the state and built them in the garden in 1956, introduced by Mr. Qin Wenbing, a close friend of Yang Mingyi and then a member of the Jinan Municipal Committee of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference.

Kuixu Library

The constitution of Shandong Provincial Library, which was formulated when the library was established in 1909, stipulates that "all works of Shandong people should be collected and classified as one of the national documents." When the library was built, there were more than 91000 volumes of books in the library. Later, a large number of private donated books were acquired and accepted. By 1916, the collection of books in Xiayuan had reached 130000 volumes.

In 1928, during the May 3rd massacre in Jinan, the Japanese artillery bombarded the city, causing serious damage to the library buildings and cultural relics. Afterwards, the library set up a special shelf to display the damaged books in the reading room! It's what Chinese people think of it After the tragedy, it happened that the heavy rain continued, all the houses collapsed and leaked, and countless books, specimens and instruments were damaged.

On August 2, 1929, the Department of education of Shandong Province "attached great importance to the social education of the provincial library, which could not be rectified and improved effectively". Wang Xiantang was appointed as the director of the Department of education of Shandong Province, who was responsible for the renovation project. In 1934, the Shandong provincial government allocated 50000 yuan for the construction of the new library. Fu Zengxiang, a famous educator in the period of the Republic of China, wrote the name of the new library "kuixu library", which means "Kuixing governs Qi, xuxing governs Lu, kuixu governs the division of Qi and Lu."

Looking up to the West from the garden, you can see "kuixu book collection". The building was designed by German engineers. At that time, it was a "modern building". When it was built, it faced east and integrated with the garden in space. It was rare in Jinan. There is a small gate between the garden and kuixu shucang.

Across the small door, "kuixu library" is in front of you. The building sits in the West and faces the East. The plane is in the shape of "mountain", with red brick walls, flat roof and reinforced concrete structure. The facade of the building is divided into five sections, the South and North ends and the middle part are slightly prominent, which is basically modern architectural style. The parapet on the top of the building is treated as a stacked horse head wall, with the four characters of "kuixu shucang" in the middle. The parapets at the South and North ends also adopt the shape of stacked horse head wall, which echoes with the middle part. The main door of the building is made of wood, which has experienced more than 70 years of wind and dust. It is said that the black wooden door inside the building was transported from Hamburg Wharf in Germany to Tianjin port, and then pulled from Tianjin by ox cart. The whole process took three months.

New library

After the completion of the new library, Shandong Provincial Library has entered the most prosperous period since its establishment and become one of the well-known Provincial Libraries in China. Since then, "kuixu library" has been used as a library. Before the completion of the new 2nd Ring Road East Library of Shandong Provincial Library, many rare books were collected here.

In 1945, "kuishu library" once became the auditorium of the headquarters of the deputy commander of the 11th theater of war. Japan's surrender ceremony in Jinan was held in the hall on the first floor of "kuishu library". On December 27 of that year, on the day of Japan's surrender to the people of Shandong, Li Yannian, deputy commander of the 11th theater of war, waved and inscribed the plaque of "I am Wu Wei Yang".

Our national influence has been spreading.

Today, the plaque of "I Wu Wei Yang" is in the room next to the surrender site. According to field measurement, the plaque is 2.75 meters long, 1.11 meters wide and weighs about 150 kg. The four golden characters of "I Wu Wei Yang" are powerful and powerful. In addition, it also has the words of "Commemoration of the surrender on December 27, the thirty fourth year of the Republic of China" on it, and the signature is "title of Li Yannian". The back of the plaque also recorded the names of "planner", "supervisor", "engineer" and "introducer".

Address: Daming Lake Park, Lixia District

Longitude: 117.021858

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