Lotus Park

Lotus Park

Lianhuachi park is located in Fengtai District, east of West Third Ring Road and northeast of Liuli bridge. The intersection of Xuanwu, Fengtai and Haidian districts, close to Jingmen West Railway Station, is a first-class ancient ruins park in Beijing. She is the birthplace of Beijing City, which has a history of more than 3000 years. In the 1980s, the newly built Lianhuachi Park, covering an area of 53.6 hectares, began to resume construction in 1998. In December 2000, the first phase of the project was completed and began to receive tourists.

Historical evolution

Lianhuachi park is an ancient scenic spot

. In 1045, King Wu of Zhou enfeoffed the princes to Jicheng, the farthest city in the north

(Guji city is in the northwest, about 3 kilometers outside the gate of Guang'an

）It was developed in the lower reaches of Lianhuachi, which can be said to be the "cradle" of Jicheng. In ancient times, the lotus pond was once called "West Lake", "Taihu Lake" and "nanhepo Lake", so it was called "lotus pond" because of the wide variety of lotus. It is the main source of water supply in the ancient city of Beijing

. Li Daoyuan of the Northern Wei Dynasty said in his notes to the water classic that this is "the old pool of Yan" and "also the place where you can win". Beijing West Railway Station on the northeast side was called spring tide or west lake at that time. The lake was 1 km wide from east to west and 1.5 km long from north to south. The capital of Liao and Jin Dynasties was built in the southwest of Chi, which was an important water source for the city

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At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the lotus pool became a place for officials to go for an outing, and then it was abandoned. By the 1980s, it had become a duck farm. After 1979, the municipal government decided to turn this "village Yefu" into a park. In September 1980, the Preparatory Office of Lianhuachi Park was set up to clean up the environment and plan the design scheme

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In 1982, the park began to be rebuilt here, covering an area of 536000 square meters. There are two Zhongshan parks, about half of which are water surface. They are divided into four connected lakes, in which lotus is planted. In the north of the garden, there are earth mountains on both sides of the East and the West. In the East, there are tall and narrow mountains, planted with Pinus tabulaeformis and Cedrus deodara. There are winding paths between pines and cypresses. There is a lotus Pavilion on the mountain. The west mountain is relatively gentle, with lilac, Begonia, pomegranate, acacia, gingko, Magnolia and Fraxinus trees planted on the mountain, rockery cave and goldfish pond connected to the forest road, and recreation room on the mountain. There are arch bridges, curved bridges and flat bridges on the lake bank, and there are pavilions at both ends. There are islands in the southwest of the lake, pavilions and galleries, circular islands in the southeast and pavilions in the center of the island. The surrounding waters are full of lotus. There are curved bridges between the island and the lake bank. Crape myrtle garden is built on the north bank, with waterside pavilion, fish pond, pavilion, flower rack, exhibition room, etc

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In May 1984, it was announced as a key cultural relics protection unit in Beijing

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In February 1988, the Municipal Bureau of landscape architecture was transferred to the District Bureau of landscape architecture, and it was officially opened to the outside world in 1990. In 1998, the restoration of the lotus pool was listed as a key project of Beijing municipal government to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the people's Republic of China. The lotus pool, which has been deserted for many years, was rebuilt and officially received visitors in December 2000

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Main landscape

There are ten scenic spots in Lianhuachi Park: 1. East entrance scenic spot; 2. West entrance scenic spot; 3. Jindu Shengjing scenic spot; 4. Guchi hanxiu scenic spot; 5. Liantang Huayu scenic spot; 6. Taoyuan spring scenic spot; 7. Old Beijing tracing scenic spot; 8. Children's activity scenic spot; 9. Elderly activity scenic spot; 10. Commercial service area

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The layout of the whole park is bright, and the small park covers an area of 3000 square meters. In the middle of the small park, there is a small pool with an area of 348 square meters. Rockfill in the pool, building in the stone - water facilities. There is a small bridge on the surface of the pool, which divides the pool into two water surfaces, like two opposite mushrooms. At the west end of the park, there is a small hexagonal pavilion of 15 thousand square meters, surrounded by rockery stones. At the east end, there is a milky white flower gallery with an area of 125 square meters, under which several Wisteria plants are planted. The three sceneries are paved with square bricks and stones and separated by flower walls to connect the curved paths. The whole scenic area is Trinity. A large number of trees, shrubs and green lawns are planted around. In the highest point of Dongshan, there is a 14 meter two-story hexagonal pavilion covering an area of 50 square meters. Around the rockery, stone crevices planted with rose, spring shrubs and perennial Manglietia, and Magnolia, Purple Plum embellishment. In the rockery, there are caves for tourists to walk through. There are 92 kinds of trees, 11600 trees, 61000 square meters of lawn and 186410 square meters of green area. Nearly 2800 meters of Garden Road and mountain road have been built

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There are four interconnected hills in the park. The east mountain is long and narrow, with green cypresses and pines setting off the winding stone path to the lotus Pavilion on the top of the mountain; the west mountain is broad and gentle, with locust and ash green. In addition, the man-made Nanshan and Beishan Mountains are also densely wooded and leafy.

On the North Bank of the lotus pond, a long bow shaped dike divides the water into lakes, where there are lakes and water. There is a bridge on the bow shaped levee, and there is a pavilion at the end of the bridge, which forms a picturesque landscape with the lake and lotus

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Activity construction

Guided by cultural construction, Lianhuachi Park pays attention to the construction of landscape and the development of entertainment projects. In the lake, visitors can take a boat to experience "the rising of green duckweed breaks the path of lotus boat"; in the South Bank of the lake, the "fishing paradise" can make people happy; in the "children's paradise", the modern amusement equipment can let children play; in the middle-aged and elderly fitness area, more than 200 fitness equipment can meet the hobbies of all kinds of physical exercisers; more than 1000 square meters of "open-air dance ground" is for tourists to dance.

Lianhuachi Lotus Festival and Lianhuachi temple fair are characteristic cultural brand activities created by Beijing Lianhuachi Park, presenting the scene of lotus wind and rain in summer and gongs and drums in winter respectively. Lianhuachi Temple Fair has become a highlight of spring festival activities in Nancheng, Beijing, and has formed a unique brand temple fair. It represents the combination of modern civilization's song and dance performances with traditional folk art features, folk flower fair and stunt. In summer, when the lotus is in full bloom, the visitors will be presented with the grand scene of "the lotus leaves are boundless blue in the sky, and the lotus flowers are different red in the sun". Lianhuachi park has 15000 square meters of red lotus and space lotus, more than 300 varieties of lotus, and more than 10000 pots of potted lotus all over the park. Every year in the Lotus Festival, the park will excavate the connotation of lotus culture from various aspects, fully show the elegant demeanor of lotus to visitors, and also launch a series of colorful cultural activities, such as famous calligraphy and painting exhibition, poetry couplet exhibition, lotus photography exhibition, Gao Zhanxiang lotus pool photography exhibition and Fengtai primary and secondary school students' excellent works exhibition

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Traffic information

Lianhuachi park is located in Fengtai District, east of West Third Ring Road and northeast of Liuli bridge. The intersection of Xicheng District, Fengtai District and Haidian District is close to Jingmen West Railway Station, diagonally opposite to the South Square of Beijing West Railway Station.

Bus routes: take No.1, No.300, No.309, No.730, no.830, no.845, no.937, No.2, NO.201 Yuntong and get off at Liuliqiao Beili station.

Take subway line 9, get off at Beijing west station (exit b), walk along Guanglian road for 150 meters, turn left and forward to Beijing West Station South Road, walk along Beijing West Station South Road for 10 meters, turn left, continue to walk along Beijing West Station South Road for 50 meters, turn right, walk 40 meters, turn right and forward, walk 110 meters, turn right, walk 160 meters, turn left, walk 370 meters, turn left, walk 40 meters, turn left, walk 40 meters, walk left and forward Turn around and walk 130 meters to reach Lianhuachi park. (1.1km walk in total)

Take Beijing Metro Line 10 and get off at lianhuaqiao station (exit from southeast entrance C). Walk along lianhuaqiao for 160 meters and then turn right. Continue to walk along lianhuaqiao for 160 meters and then turn left. Continue to walk along lianhuaqiao for 240 meters to reach the west gate of Lianhuachi park. (walking 660 meters in total)

Address: Southwest of the intersection of Minyuan road and Xuefu Road, Wuhua District, Kunming postcode: 650221

Longitude: 102.701177

Latitude: 25.061185

Ticket information: no ticket required.

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