Huancuilou Park

Huancuilou park is located at the east foot of xikuagu mountain in Weihai City. It is built against the mountain and has a rising terrain. It covers an area of more than 300 mu, including huancuilou Park and huancuilou square. It is named after the classical architecture "huancuilou" in the park.

So far, Huancui building has been reconstructed twice. In the Ming Dynasty, the Huancui building was rebuilt in 1931 and burned by the Japanese army in 1944. In 1978, the Weihai Municipal People's government planned to rebuild the Huancui building to form a classical architectural complex composed of pavilions, buildings and corridors. The main building has three floors and is 16.8 meters high. The roof of the building is covered with glazed tiles, with a Xieshan eaves and carved flowers. When you climb the building, you can see that "the vast blue waves are in the east of the city, and the green and green are all around. It is also the beauty of the sea and mountains, and the beauty of the water and mountains." so it is named "Huancui".

Huancuilou Park

Weihai huancuilou Park was built in May 1992 by the people's Government of Weihai Huancui District. It is located in the urban area of Weihai, with Cangshan in the West and blue sea in the East. It faces the peaks of Fuding and gumoling in the north and south respectively. When you climb the park, you can see the vast blue waves in the east of the city, and the green trees are hidden around it, so it is named "Huancui". There is a bronze statue of Deng Shichang, a national hero in the East Square. It is a famous scenic spot in Weihai and a good place for citizens to rest and keep fit.

In order to pay homage to the vast number of medical workers fighting in the front line of prevention and control, the scenic spot will be free of charge to all medical workers in the whole country (including Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan) from the date of resumption of operation to December 31, 2020.

brief introduction

essential information

Huancuilou park is located in the center of Weihai City, covering an area of 53.8 hectares. It is the main landscape area in Weihai City. It includes two parts: huancuilou Park and huancuilou square. It is named after the classical architecture "huancuilou" in the park. Huancuilou, founded in 1489, is located at the eastern foot of Naigu mountain, facing Cangshan Mountain in the west, overlooking the blue sea in the East, and facing Fuding and gumoling peaks in the north and south respectively. When you climb the building, you can see that "the vast blue waves are in the east of the city, and the green and green are all around. It is also the beauty of the sea and mountains, and the beauty of the water and mountains." so it is named "Huancui".

Huancui building was rebuilt in 2010, with a construction area of 800 square meters, four floors of main building and a height of 16.8 meters. You can have a panoramic view of Weihai City from huancuilou. In huancuilou, you can see the sunrise on the sea, which is especially praised by tourists. "The rising sun in the mountain tower" is one of the Eight Sights in Weihai. There are animal area, flower area, recreation area, etc. in the park, all kinds of service facilities are complete.

characteristic

Huancuilou Park, located at the east foot of xikuagu mountain, is built against the mountain. Huancui building was first built in 1489, the second year of Hongzhi in Ming Dynasty. It has a cornice, a bucket arch and eight windows. After years of disrepair, it gradually collapsed, and then it was built many times. In 1944, it was bombed by the Japanese invaders. Today's Huancui building was rebuilt on the original site in 1978. The main building has four floors and is 16.8 meters high. The roof of the building is covered with glazed tiles. The eaves of the building are of Xieshan style and carved with hollow windows. The eaves of the building are bright with three big characters "Huancui building" written by the famous calligrapher Shu Tong. The plaque on the back of the building "Huange Lingkong" is written by the famous calligrapher Huang Miaozi. From this building, you can see Liugong Island and the city scenery of Weihai. There is a bronze statue of Deng Shichang, the great national hero, in the square in front of the park.

Ticket price: collect tickets with ID card (no charge for the time being)

Historical changes

Weihai had huancuilou more than 500 years ago, and a real park about 100 years ago. Nowadays, Weihai is full of big and small parks: new Weihai Park, Harbor Park, seaside park, marine park In fact, the whole Weihai is a big park

The archives of Weihai Municipal Archives Bureau record the historical data of Weihai Park, and the blurred figures of those old parks are preserved in the photos. Looking at the image of the past, those places full of flowers are also full of history.

The past of huancuilou

Huancuilou park is an old park, its emergence, survival and development are closely related to huancuilou. The earliest Huancui building is a small tower built on the west wall of Weihai, which has a history of more than 500 years.

In the Yuan Dynasty and the early Ming Dynasty, frequent attacks by Japanese pirates became a major threat to national defense. In order to renovate the coastal defense, the Ming government set up guards and troops in the coastal dangerous areas to fight against foreign Japanese pirates. In 1398, the place named "qingquankuang" was chosen by the Ming government. Then the surrounding area was demarcated from Wendeng county and Weihaiwei was established. In the first year of Yongle of Ming Dynasty (1403), the garrison of Ming dynasty built a defensive wall in Weihaiwei. In the early days, the walls built with bricks and stones were not very strong, and they began to collapse only after 80 years. Wang Kai, the commander of Weihaiwei, is very anxious, but he can't renovate without money. In the second year of Hongzhi (1489), Zhao Heling, the vice envoy of Haidao patrol, was deeply worried about the situation of abandoning military equipment, so he used hundreds of taeshan incense money to rebuild it. Wang Kai and the people of Weihai were very grateful, so they donated silver to build the tower to praise Zhao Heling's merits in rebuilding the Acropolis.

The tower is located at the highest point of the west city wall, on the top of Naigu mountain in the west, overlooking the vast sea in the East, the mountains in the south, and the towering green mountains in the north. The tower is placed in a piece of green, so it is named Huancui tower. Because of the limited conditions at that time, we can't see the appearance of Huancui building directly today. According to the local records, it is a small building with exquisite workmanship, "painted pillars and carved beams, resplendent and resplendent, cornices and brackets, and eight windows.". However, the general picture of Huancui building in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China can be seen from the photos: the tower sits firmly on the high earth platform, the roof is hat shaped, the ridge line turns over, the tile eaves fly up, the north and south sides are closed, but there are no eight windows. Huancui building was constantly damaged by time and wind and dust. It was repaired and rebuilt during the reign of Shunzhi, Kangxi and Qianlong. There is no way to find out how different the Huancui building was from its original construction. It is certain that the reconstructed Huancui building is no longer as magnificent as it was, but adds a sense of historical desolation.

Huancui building is just a tower, not a park. The real huancuilou Park was formed in 1931. In 1930, the national government took back Weihaiwei from the foreign colonists and began to carry out large-scale urban reconstruction. First of all, the east gate and the north gate were demolished, the urban roads were widened, and the Weixin road and Tongyi road were opened. Then, the Huancui building was rebuilt, and a 4.8 hectare land was zoned downstairs to build a park. After reconstruction, the top floor of Huancui building is a two-story pavilion with 64 steps leading to the hall on the first floor. In the middle hall of the building, Zhao Heling, Ding Ruchang, Deng Shichang and other sages were worshipped. A pair of couplets on the gate post highly summarizes the original intention of building Huancui building: the resort likes Chongguang and comes to pick up Cuifang to recognize the vicissitudes of the city; the loyal spirit should not mince the phase, and share the same hatred with the enemy to return our beautiful rivers and mountains. In July 1931, huancuilou Park was built and opened to the public.

The completion of huancuilou park has added new beauty to the historic city of Weihai. But it didn't last long. This city boutique, which was elaborately built by the then government administration office, was completely burnt by a fire on a night in December 1944. The perpetrators were Japanese puppet troops. That night, a group of Japanese and puppet troops patrolling along the city wall on Mount Naigu hid in the top floor of huancuilou to keep warm because of the cold. As a result, the wooden floor was set on fire. Instead of fighting the fire, the Japanese and puppet troops fled. As a result, the fire took advantage of the wind, and soon the wooden roof was lit The next morning, people found that the Huancui building had been completely burned down. Only the 12 standing concrete columns and the green smoke scattered in the wind told people what had just happened

English Garden

After the British forced to rent Weihaiwei in 1898, a large number of British people poured into Weihai and built western style houses and gardens here. The British plant flowers everywhere. They not only build gardens in front of and behind their houses, but also plant flowers and plants on the streets, roadsides and public vacant areas. In 1904, they scattered the flower seeds to the triangle vacant area (now Triangle Garden) left by the intersection of three roads on the west side of Wukou. Later, they made a plan here, planting evergreen shrubs around the three sides, making it a fence wall naturally generated by plants, and planting all kinds of introduced plants and flowers in the garden. So people came here to enjoy the flowers and grass. Soon, a park was formed here, which was the first park in Weihai history. Because it is close to the dock of the former Beiyang Navy, it is named Wukou garden.

Traffic information

Bus: take bus No.5, 14, 25, 31, 108, 109, 110, 119 to huancuilou station.

Practical information

Ticket information

Free Admission

Opening Hours

all day

Best season

All seasons

Suggest playing

2 hours

Characteristic landscape

In 2009, the people's Government of Weihai invested 575 million yuan in the renovation of huancuilou park. The park area was expanded from 14 hectares to 53.8 hectares. The park is divided into one axis, two veins, three cores and four districts. One axis refers to a landscape axis composed of Liugong Island, Huancui building and hilltop Club; two veins refer to mountains and context; three cores refer to entrance square, Huancui building and hilltop Club; four districts refer to folk custom blocks, entertainment and fitness areas, historical and cultural exhibition areas and natural experience and sightseeing areas.

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