Dongguan People's Park

The people's Park was built in 1913. In the early days of its opening up, there were only Yushan and naoshan. It was called Yushan park because there were stones like a bowl. Today, the people's Park covers a total area of 23 hectares, with complete recreational facilities, pavilions and pavilions, tall and green trees, more than 100 kinds of ornamental tree species, red bridges, green water, moonlight in lotus ponds, bamboo trees, birds singing and flowers fragrance everywhere, especially eight famous sceneries such as "wind and bamboo cooking tea". It is a comprehensive city public park integrating ecological leisure, fitness and patriotism education The garden is a good place for tourists to have a holiday.

Transportation: it is located at No.1 Park Road, Guancheng district. Take bus No.1, 8, 15, 22 and 28 in Dongguan City.

The people's Park was built in 1913. In the early days of its opening up, there were only Yushan and naoshan. It was called Yushan park because there were stones like a bowl. Today, the people's Park has a total area of 23 hectares, and there are many recreational activities in the park

With complete facilities, pavilions and pavilions, tall and green trees, more than 100 kinds of ornamental tree species, red bridge, green water, moonlight in lotus pond, bamboo trees, birds singing and flowers fragrance everywhere, especially eight famous sceneries such as "Fenghuang tea", it is a comprehensive urban park integrating ecological leisure, fitness and patriotism education, which is a good place for tourists to have leisure and vacation.

Dongguan People's Park

Dongguan People's Park is located in the southeast corner of Dongguan City. It was built in 1912. At the beginning of its development, there were only Yushan and naoshan. Because there were stones like a bowl, it was called Yushan park. Today, the total area of the people's Park is 23 hectares, including 8 hectares of mountains, 4 hectares of lakes and 11 hectares of flat land. The park is one of the earliest parks in China, with Boshan, Yushan, Yuanbaoshan, Pingshan, Xiaohu, Liantang, public library and Museum Library.

Development history

In 1912, the second magistrate of Dongguan, CEN Xuelu, demolished some old temples and monasteries in Dongguan City, built Yushan park with a large number of demolished bricks and stones, and built eight scenic spots with 600 liang of silver allocated by Minglun hall. Also published "Yushan Park poetry book".

In 1917, the first public library in Dongguan was established in HongMian villa, one of the eight scenic spots in the park.

On October 15, 1938, Dongguan Anti Japanese model group was founded in the park, which became one of the birthplaces of Dongjiang column. Soon after, the Japanese troops stationed in Dongguan County Museum Library. The trees in the park were cut down and the eight sceneries were destroyed.

In 1925, Yushan Park was renamed Zhongshan Park.

From 1928 to 1932, the museum library, the first museum in Dongguan, was built.

From 1934 to 1936, the stadium in the park was expanded and the Zhongshan Memorial Hall was built.

In 1956, it was renamed people's Park.

From 1958 to 1959, the park was rebuilt, the playground was expanded, the Yushan lake was excavated, and the monument to revolutionary martyrs was erected.

In 1987, the government of Guancheng District allocated funds to rebuild the two scenes of "spring dawn in HongMian villa" and "visiting the old in the shade of hills", and build water park and football field.

In 2004, Fenghuang hall was rebuilt.

Main attractions

Today, the total area of the people's Park is 23 hectares, including 8 hectares of mountains, 4 hectares of lakes and 11 hectares of flat land. In the park, there are Boshan, Yushan, Yuanbaoshan, Pingshan, Xiaohu and Liantang, as well as the first public library and the first museum library in Dongguan. It is one of the earliest parks in China. The park has complete recreational facilities, pavilions and pavilions, green and tall trees, more than 100 kinds of ornamental tree species, red bridge, green water, lotus pond, moonlight, bamboo trees, birds singing and flowers fragrance everywhere, especially eight famous sceneries, such as "wind and bamboo cooking tea". It is a comprehensive urban park integrating ecological leisure, physical fitness and patriotism education, and a good place for tourists to have leisure and vacation . People's Park is famous for its "old eight sceneries". In the winter of 1912, after the completion of Yushan Park, CEN Xuelu, the founder of the people's Park, thought that the scenic spots and historic sites "had to be noted by celebrities", that is, eight sceneries were set up and poems were widely collected. The eight sceneries are as follows: spring dawn in HongMian villa, visiting the old in the shade of hills, tea cooking in Fenghuang hall, sutra turning in Zen heart courtyard, sitting and whistling in Banshan Pavilion, evening walk in Pinglv thatched cottage, overlooking the building full of wind, and joint chanting in shizhuange. There is only one old view of banshanting in the park, and the rest are rebuilt and rebuilt, including Chunxiao of HongMian mountain villa, visiting the old in xiaoshanyin, tea cooking in Fenghuang hall, and Sutra turning in Zen heart courtyard.

Red cotton Villa

According to the records of Dongguan county annals, when the second magistrate of Dongguan, CEN Xuelu, founded Yushan Park in 1912, he listed HongMian villa as the first of the eight scenic spots in the park, inscribed a wooden plaque "HongMian villa" in person, and wrote couplets: "the spring trees welcome visitors; the famous mountains comfort the poet." It's a pity that things are right and people are wrong. Now the plaque "red cotton villa" at the entrance of the villa is written by Luo Yang, the former headmaster of Dongguan middle school. The couplets on both sides are also changed to "draw into the building to enjoy elegance, and the garden is full of poetry".

Many Cantonese Opera lovers gather in the vestibule of the villa. Through their scattered figures, there is a simple building with red walls and green tiles under a tall red cotton tree not far away. This is Boshan hall. Ye Jianying and others stationed here during the second eastern expedition of Guangdong National Revolutionary Army in 1925. There are also red cotton Pavilion, tingchan hall and mianyin Pavilion around. There are stone mountains facing each other, bamboo forests covering the sky, pavilions and pavilions arranged in an orderly manner, corridors and courtyards crisscrossed with each other, and Yangchang stone road running through, which is a wonderful way to lead to seclusion.

According to the park staff, before the Anti Japanese War, there was a large open space in front of HongMian villa, surrounded by old trees. There was an ancient stone mountain in the villa, which was suddenly elegant and had a "Luohan bed". Tourists came here to have tea to quench their thirst. But later, the Japanese army occupied Dongguan, stationed in the park, trees were cut down, eight scenes were destroyed. The present villa was rebuilt in 1987 with funds from the government of Guancheng, covering an area of 4225 square meters and a construction area of 715 square meters. According to Chen Bo, an old man from Guancheng, the old stone mountain of HongMian mountain villa was built with English stone. There was a pool under the stone mountain, with goldfish and brick fence. It was beautiful and charming.

Boyu mountain

According to the Song Dynasty Liang's reconstruction of Desheng bridge, it is only a hundred steps from the south of the county gate to Nangang. It is called Nangang. Now in the southwest of the park, "Gangbei" originally refers to "the back of Nangang", which is the wrong sound of "Gangbei". In the Ming Dynasty, the original owner of Nangang, Xu Heling (the son of Xu Zhaokui), discovered that there were stones in Nangang that looked like a bowl, so he renamed Nangang as Yushan. And the opposite of Yushan was renamed Boshan. Yu and Bo mountains were originally connected, so they are collectively referred to as Bo Yu mountain.

From the middle of Ming Dynasty, the Ming government set up an inner camp on Boyu mountain, with "one sentinel officer and 45 recruits"; at the end of Ming Dynasty, Dongguan defense moved to the coast, and then Boyu mountain was followed by academies, which was the place where Chen aping, a famous poet in Dongguan, studied and taught in the early Qing Dynasty. There is a monument of revolutionary martyrs at the top of Yushan Mountain. It was built on the Tomb Sweeping Day in 1959 to commemorate the "outstanding sons and daughters of Dongguan people who gave their precious lives in the previous revolutionary struggles".

Museum Library

Dongguan museum library is a two-story building with the style of the early Republic of China. It was founded in 1928 by Xu Jingtang, chairman of Dongguan Minglun hall. It has a collection of 20000 books, ranking sixth in the province. Due to the Japanese destruction, some books were transferred to Dongguan middle school.

Shanyintai

On the hillside of Yushan Mountain opposite to HongMian villa, there are steep rocks and rugged rocks. There is a poem in the book of poems of Yushan Park, which says: the old journey has not been for many days, and the road has gone into the mountains as if it was cloudy; the haze here has become a small building, and the skirt and clogs are half my disciples. There are two doors on the mountaineering platform. The entrance on the right is "chaimen", and the horizontal plaque "xiaoshanyin" is inscribed by the famous calligrapher Qin Yusheng. The entrance on the left is "Zhumen", and the horizontal plaque on it is "Shesheng". According to the park staff, shanyintai was rebuilt in 1987, and a shanyintai waterfall was added. It was artificially made into a six level waterfall with a height difference of 12 meters. Three 4-inch pumps were used to pump water. At that time, Huang Yu, Liu Yisheng, Zhang Caian and other garden experts, poets and calligraphers were invited to give advice.

On the way up, you can see a cave in the West engraved with "green rock" and a cave in the East engraved with the word "Dongtian". The inner cave is winding and winding, and the sky above the cave top is vast. If you sit on the stone platform in the cave, you will have the illusion of "seven days in the cave, thousands of years in the world". Out of the cave, there is a huge stone shaped like a zither lying on the top of the head, engraved with the word "zither door". Along the stone steps, through the "Tongyou" to the top of Shanyin platform. On the top of it is a Shanyin hall with cornices and angles. In front of the hall is a waterfall, and behind the hall is a garden. The horizontal plaque "shanyintang" is inscribed by Guan Shanyue, a famous calligrapher and painter. On both sides of the plaque are couplets written by Zhang Caian. Those who want to watch the game can be regarded as making up the sky.

From the top of Shanyin hall, you can see the Banshan Pavilion. If not for the introduction of the park staff, it is estimated that few people know that this is the only one of the eight old scenes in the park. In Boyu mountain, Liu Guangzhong said: "after the disaster, the wasteland was everywhere. The courtyard was covered with fallen walls and tiles. Only the Banshan pavilion was startled." The red sandstone foundation of banshanting has been exposed, like a long solidified blood clot. The top of the pavilion is cracked, the pillars are mottled, and there are no explanatory words, just like an old man with vicissitudes and silence.

Fenghuang Pavilion

There is a square building in the lower right corner of the half hill Pavilion, with only one pillar, one wall and one door left. This is the former site of Fenghuang hall, which is full of moss. It is hard to imagine that this is the Fenghuang hall that the poet chanted "Xiaoxiao mountain hall is the most exquisite, spring white tea is green and fiery". The name of fenghuangguan is derived from the collection of Dongpo. Fenghuangling is full of bamboos, and Fenghuangling is full of wind

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