Green Lake Park

Green Lake Park

Cuihu Park is located at the foot of Luofeng mountain in Kunming City, at the West foot of Wuhua mountain, opposite the main entrance of Yunnan University, formerly known as caihaizi. At first, it was a bay in Dianchi Lake, but later it became a Wangqing lake due to the drop of water level.

The green lake is a emerald in Kunming City, with beautiful environment, beautiful water and trees. It enjoys the reputation of jade in the city.

Before the Yuan Dynasty, the water level of Dianchi Lake was high. It also belonged to xiaohuwan outside the city, with many paddy fields, vegetable gardens and lotus ponds, so it was called "caihaizi". Because there are nine springs in the north-east, confluence into a pool, also known as "Jiulong pool".

In the early years of the Republic of China, it was converted into a garden with willows planted all over the garden and lotus flowers planted in the lake.

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Development history

Cuihu Park is located at the foot of Luofeng mountain in Kunming City, opposite the main entrance of Yunnan University. Although the area is not too large, but it is very distinctive. At first, it was a bay in Dianchi Lake, but later it became a Wangqing lake due to the drop of water level. Since the Ming Dynasty, successive Yunnan administrative officials have built pavilions and buildings here. Due to the main characteristics of weeping willows and clear water, it was officially named Cuihu at the beginning of this century. It is famous for "spring dawn on the green dyke". People call it "an emerald inlaid in Kunming City".

In the park, Ruan dyke (built by Ruan Yuan, the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou in 1834) runs through the north and south, and Tang dyke (built by Tang Jiyao, the commander-in-chief of the three provinces of Yunnan, Sichuan and Guizhou in 1919) runs through the East and West, dividing Cuihu lake into five scenic spots. Huxin Island Scenic Spot is mainly composed of Huxin Pavilion, Guanyu tower and other Qing Dynasty buildings. It is particularly worth mentioning that since 1985, it has been built every winter A large number of seagulls fly from Siberia to Kunming for the winter, and some of them live in Cuihu lake. This also fully shows that the four seasons in Kunming are like spring. To visit Cuihu, you can take No.1 bus to Yunnan University Station, or take No.101 bus to Cuihu, or take No.5, No.23, No.4 bus to xiaoximen station and walk to it.

Luofeng mountain, which is very close to Cuihu lake, is Kunming Zoo. Yuantong Temple is also nearby. Interested tourists can walk there.

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In Cuihu Park, Ruan dyke runs through the north and south. It was built in 1834 by Ruan Yuan, the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou. In 1919, Tang Jiyao, the commander-in-chief of the founding alliance of Yunnan, Sichuan and Guizhou, who was then Sun Yat Sen, funded the construction of the Tang dyke. Two long dikes, divided into four lakes. Willows are planted on the Bank of the dyke, and lotus and willows are planted in the lake. They are green and beautiful. Two long dikes divide Cuihu lake into five scenic spots: Huxin Island Scenic Spot is mainly composed of Huxin Pavilion and Guanyu building in Qing Dynasty; shuiyuexuan and Jinyu island are in the southeast; Zhulin island and jiulongchi are in the Northeast; Huludao and Jiuqu bridge are in the South; Haixin Pavilion is in the West.

It is particularly worth mentioning that every winter thousands of red headed gulls from the North overwinter in Cuihu lake, playing in the water and competing for bait, which adds infinite interest to Cuihu lake. This is because Kunming is warm as spring all the year round, which is suitable for seagulls to spend the winter. In addition, Kunming people regard seagulls as friends and love them. The Kunming municipal government also stipulates that it is not allowed to catch seagulls and set off firecrackers to scare them. In this way, the Red Headed Gull and the Kunming people became "friends". Every November, they flew to Kunming for the winter, and the next March to April, they left Kunming to fly to Northeast China and Siberia.

At this time, visiting Cuihu lake and watching seagulls will become a great pleasure for Kunming people and many foreign tourists. In winter and spring, tens of thousands of red headed gulls gather in Cuihu lake, and thousands of people feed the gulls, which has become a major landscape of the spring city.

The "Green Lake" covers an area of 21 hectares, with 15 hectares of water surface. Two long willow dikes meet in the center of the garden in the form of "+", dividing the whole lake into four parts. The North-South horizontal dyke is called "Ruan dyke", which was built by Ruan Yuan, governor of Yunnan Province, in the reign of Daoguang, imitating the beauty of "Su dyke" on the West Lake. The East-West vertical dyke is called "Tang dyke", which was built in the Republic of China. At the junction of the two levees is a small island in the center of the lake, with the pavilion in the center of the lake as the main axis, forming the central tourist area. The pavilion in the center of the lake is also called "Biyi Pavilion". The pavilion is beautiful in appearance, with yellow eaves, dotted with the spring scenery of the green lake. There are two inner courtyards in the pavilion, which are the place for various exhibitions.

On the west side of huxinting, there are Lianhua Buddhist temple and free pond built in Jiaqing period, which are famous for "Haoshang fish watching". Now, the Buddhist temple has become a recreation palace, and the free pond has become a water garden. In the northwest corner, there is "laishuanglou" with ice rink. In the southwest corner, there is "Huludao". In the southeast corner, there is a big garden connected by three peninsulas, which is called "shuiyuexuan" In the northeast corner, there is the "Zhichun Pavilion", where people gather to sing folk songs during festivals. Today's beauty of green lake adds snow-white red headed gulls. From November of the first year to march of the next year, they fly here in groups from the far north to spend the winter. Once a year, they never stop. "Cuihu guanou" has become one of the most popular landscapes in Kunming.

Kunming Water History Museum: the indoor pit is the French water pump, Siemens motor, a set of pumping equipment. The equipment is still in good condition. The black paint on the pump is shining brightly. In the inner room, there are some historical photos and real objects of Kunming water supply plant since its establishment (there is a "do not take photos" prompt, you can only look at them by yourself), which briefly describes the history of Jiulong pool and Kunming water supply. This hut is the first pumping station of Kunming waterworks, which later existed as Kunming waterworks history museum.

Tourism information

Ticket information

Free Admission

Opening Hours

07:00~23:00

Best season

All seasons

Suggest playing

2-3 hours

Traffic information

Take bus No.1 and get off at Yunnan University Station;

Take bus 101 and get off at Cuihu;

Take bus No.4, 5, 26, 69, 83, 96 and get off at Baihui shopping mall station, then walk to Cuihu Park;

Take bus no.k2, 54, 61 and get off at xiaoximen station. You can walk there;

From the back of Carrefour square in Kunming downtown pedestrian street, you can take bus 133 directly to Cuihu. Bus 133 surrounds the whole Cuihu for a week. You can get a general understanding of Cuihu Park from the outside.

Related stories

The old man and the seagull

It was an ordinary winter day. When my friend and I came to Cuihu, the gulls were flying.

It's easy to recognize the old man among the people feeding the seagulls. He was hunched over, wearing a faded old-fashioned cloth suit, carrying a faded blue cloth bag, and even the big plastic bag for bird food. My friend told me that the old man walked more than 20 miles every day from the outskirts of the city to Cuihu, just to deliver food to the seagulls and accompany them.

Where there are few people, he feeds the seagulls. The old man carefully put the biscuits on the fence by the lake, stepped back, raised his mouth and called to the gulls. Immediately a group of seagulls came and swept clean. As the old man walked along the railing, the seagulls rose and fell according to his rhythm, forming a rolling white, flying into a colorful music score.

In the sound of the seagulls, the old man sang something rhythmically. Listening attentively, it turns out that the local dialect of intimacy (n ì) has changed its tone - "one foot", "grey head", "red mouth", "laosha" and "Princess"

"You named the seagull?" I can't help asking. The old man looked back at me, still bent over the seagull: "of course, which has a name." "Do you recognize them?" The same white wings flashed quickly in the sun, and I doubt whether the old man could see clearly.

"Look, look! The one with a ring on his foot is Lao Sha The old man pointed out to me with pride. He suddenly yelled at the water: "one foot! Lao Sha! Get up

Two gulls sprang up on the water and flew to the old man. One seagull's feet were shining with metal light, and the other came to peck on the old man's hands. It has only one foot and has to flap its wings to keep balance when it stops. It seems that it is one foot, the old man while feeding it while it intimately talk.

Talking about seagulls, the old man's eyes immediately became vivid.

"Seagulls are the most caring. The year before last, a seagull flew away from Kunming. The day before that, it took five breaks on my hat. I thought it was playing with me, but later I knew it was saying goodbye to me. It didn't come last year or this year Seagulls are auspicious and happy birds! The ancients said, "Bai Oufei brings poetry." more than ten years ago, when the seagulls came, I knew we were blessed. Look at their small appearance! TUT (Z é) tut... " The seagull heard the old man's call and immediately flew over and surrounded him, attracting passers-by to stop and watch.

The old man's plastic bag is empty. "It's getting late. They will go back in a little while. It's said that they are resting in the Dian pool, but I can't go. " The old man looked at the gulls hovering in the sky with expectation in his eyes.

My friend told me that for more than ten years, when winter comes, the old man will come every day, and seagulls are like relatives.

Unexpectedly, more than ten days later, someone suddenly told us that the old man had passed away.

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