Jinbi Park

Jinbi Park

Jinbi park is the first park in old Kunming. It was founded in the early years of the Republic of China. Its site is now the first people's Hospital of Jinbi Road province. Because there was Jinma Biji square nearby, it got its name; and because there was only one park at that time, people only referred to it as "Park".

Development history

Around the 1920s, many exhibitions in Yunnan and Kunming were held in parks. In June 1914, a preview meeting of Panama Games was held to collect famous and special products from Kunming and other counties for exhibition evaluation, and select excellent products to participate in Panama. This is the first time that Yunnan has selected products to participate in the international competition. In October 1921, the second Yunnan product evaluation meeting was held here. There were museums for agriculture and forestry, arts and crafts, minerals, education, and antiquities. Products from all walks of life in Yunnan were displayed by categories. A small number of French and Vietnamese handicrafts were also exhibited. In December 1922, a product evaluation exhibition of Yunnan Quanye association was held. The scale was larger than that of the last exhibition. There were 16 kinds of categories, including human physiology, fine breeding animals, rare animals and so on. A lecture meeting was held to publicize scientific and social knowledge. In March 1923, the municipal government collected all kinds of flowers and trees in and around the city and held the Kunming Flower and tree horticulture exhibition. The exhibition is unprecedented. The gate of the park is arranged in the shape of Western architecture and covered with climbing plants, which is called "green gate". In the park, Rhododendron mountain, peony boat, nine story flower tower and orchid archway are arranged meticulously. In the pool, the scenery of Cangshan and Erhai Lake is built, and the first-class flowers are displayed in front of the bronze statue. In addition, potted landscape works of art are displayed in the bonsai Museum, more than 300 kinds of Chinese, English, French and Japanese horticultural books and newspapers are displayed in the horticultural books reading room, dozens of foreign and provincial horticultural tools are displayed in the horticultural tools display room, various improved cultivation methods of flowers and trees and the commodity catalogues of various seedling companies are extracted from the display board, and calligraphy and paintings are displayed in the calligraphy and painting Museum. This is indeed a grand Horticultural Exposition in Kunming 80 years ago.

Later, Jinbi Park was changed into Kunhua hospital. After 1950s, it was renamed the first people's Hospital of Yunnan Province. Now it has become a large-scale modern hospital. However, there are still several towering ancient trees in the courtyard, especially the garden design of the inpatient department is very good, with rockery, ponds, pavilions, and lush flowers and trees, which shows that people do not seem to forget that this used to be a beautiful park.

Main attractions

After more than ten years of construction, the park began to take shape in the mid-1920s. The gate to the north is on Jinbi Road. The entrance is a fountain. There is a fake stone hill behind the fountain. Behind the stone hill is the big screen wall. Around the screen wall is a large area of Merlin. There is a big flower bed in the middle of the plum garden. There are small pavilions on each side of the flower bed, which are called "Cape", "Yanyue", "talking about rain" and "Wangyun". To the east of the plum garden is the pear garden. From the pear garden to the south, along the east wall of the park, there are Huahong garden, jujube garden, chrysanthemum garden, apple garden and botanical garden. Due south of Meiyuan is the center of the park. To the east of the exhibition hall are the Mineral Museum and the agriculture and forestry Museum. In the center of the square to the south of the exhibition center, there is a bronze statue of Yang Zhenhong, a Kunming man who was a martyr of the 1911 Revolution. To the south of the bronze statue is a pond. There are two small islands in the pond, both of which are connected with the land by bridges, and there are small pavilions on the island. The whole park has luxuriant trees and gorgeous flowers. The ponds, pavilions, pavilions, rockeries, flower beds and bronze statues are well arranged. It is a good place for Kunming people to play and relax at that time.

Address: Jinbi Road, Wuhua District, Kunming

Longitude: 102.712178

Latitude: 25.033734

Ticket information: free.

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