BaiHuaZhou Park

BaiHuaZhou Park

BaiHuaZhou park is located on the riverside of xumen ancient city, covering an area of 40000 square meters. It has beautiful scenery at night and a boat tour of the ancient city. Every year, Lantern Festival is held here, which is very lively

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Historical story

Xumen, also known as laoxumen, is to the south of wannianqiao. In the spring of the Warring States period, Shenjun knew that Taihu Lake was higher than Suzhou. In order to avoid flooding in the city, he closed the xumen waterway. Since then, xumen had no water gate. The inner city of xumen is in BaiHuaZhou, and the urn is trapezoidal. The strange thing is that the outer city gate of xumen is not facing west, but South. Presumably the ancients wanted to avoid the direct impact of the war. It seems safer, but it brings great inconvenience to people. Pedestrians have to go through Xueshi street, enter Wengcheng from the inner city gate, go out of the outer city gate towards the south, and then walk hundreds of steps along Hebei before they can reach Wannian bridge. Now, the Suzhou government has built a 40000 square meter BaiHuaZhou Park in xumen.

Xu gate, also known as "Gu Xu gate", got its name because he Lu came out of this gate to visit gusutai. At first, it was also the gate of water and land. In the Northern Song Dynasty, the gate of land was blocked, and only the gate of water remained. When the Jin soldiers went south, Suzhou city was looted, and then the city wall was burned. "There was hardly any monument left above the ground". In less than a hundred years, the Southern Song Dynasty rebuilt the city wall more beautiful than before, but the xumen gate was canceled. After the early Yuan Dynasty pacified the south of the Yangtze River, the soldiers of the Yuan Dynasty suspected that the city wall was in the way, and Suzhou city was destroyed At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, in order to defend against the attack of the anti yuan rebellion, the city wall was built again. Because the stone with the word "Xu men" was dug under the nearby Gusu post, the Xu men was restored, but only the land gate was built, not the water gate, so as to prevent the flood of Taihu Lake from entering the city. Soon, Zhang Shicheng occupied Suzhou City, strengthened the city wall, and added an urn outside the city gate. During the period of the Republic of China, Suzhou was planned to be built. In order to facilitate transportation, all the urn cities except panmenwai were demolished. From Wu Zixu hanging his head in xumen tower during the Warring States period, "to destroy Wu by watching Yue", to Wang Anshi's exclamation in the Northern Song Dynasty that "thousands of families are fishing in autumn, and a leaf is returning to the boat at dusk rain bay", to the Ming and Qing Dynasties that "merchants gather in all directions", and now the city wall is hidden and reappeared, and has become a leisure place in the Qing Dynasty. The vicissitudes of xumen are like playing a black humor drama. " To the north is Wu Zixu's stone carving. Wu Zixu was a brilliant man and won the trust of King Helu. In the ninth year of the reign of King Helu of Wu, Wu Zixu helped the king of Wu break through and strengthen Chu in the west, Wei Qi and Jin in the north, and Yue people in the south. The national strength of Wu reached its peak. However, because his later master Fu Chai believed in slander, he gave Wu Zixu a sword in the autumn of 484 B.C. to commit suicide and put his body in the Yige river.

Park Address

105 West BaiHuaZhou Street

Address: No.105 West Street, Gusu District, Suzhou (near bachelor Street)

Longitude: 120.613343

Latitude: 31.29377

Ticket information: free.

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