Weihe Park

Weihe Park

Weihe park is located in the center of Xinxiang City and on the Bank of Weishui river. It was first built in 1924 to commemorate two martyrs, Bao Zhifu and Zhang Zong, who followed Sun Yat Sen to participate in the revolution and died during the 1911 Revolution. It was originally called "Bao Zhang garden". It is the earliest Garden Park in Xinxiang City. After liberation, it became "people's Park" and "Cultural Park", and later it was also called "old park" -- compared with the newly built "Xinxiang people's Park" in the 1960s

Landscape in the park

The memorial hall built in the park to commemorate the martyrs of the 1911 Revolution, the violent hostage and Zhang Zong, has long been damaged, but the monument still exists, but it is no longer in the park. It is still in the courtyard of the Armed Police Brigade of Xinxiang City, south of the east gate of the park. Even so, there are many other landscapes in the park. Every Spring Festival is also the place of Xinxiang temple fair.

Weishui Jinbo

Weishui Jinbo has been listed as one of the Eight Sights of Xinxiang in Ming Dynasty. "Weishui Jinbo" describes the beautiful scenery of Weihe River, where the water potential is melodious but not turbulent. Every time it is windy and sunny, it fluctuates to form a pattern, and the water and light intersect, and the color is like gold. In Zhengde year of Ming Dynasty, Xinxiang County records: "the five mausoleums are quiet in the morning, the banquet is open, the moon song is sung in the night, Sima's enchantment is not arrayed, the old city Luosi is chengluo, Litai is shining in the sunset, Muye is ploughing in the spring, the raincoat is coir, you can watch the summer scenery in Yuanzhuang, and you can look back at the golden waves in Weishui."

Heshuo Library

Heshuo library, built in 1935, is a provincial cultural relic protection unit. It is the only library in Xinxiang City after liberation. It was not until around 1980 that the city library was newly built that it was changed into "Xinxiang mass art museum". "Old park" was renamed "Weihe Park" in 1982, and started in 2004. After three years of large-scale renovation and reconstruction, the park covers an area of 128 mu. Weihe branch bypasses the park and divides the park into three parts. Therefore, there are three arch bridges in the park. Because the park is near the river, with luxuriant trees and flowers, beautiful environment and fresh air, it is a good place for people to have leisure, exercise and entertainment all year round.

The origin of Weihe

Weihe River was named Qingshui at the beginning, and its former names were Baigou, Weishui, Yongji canal, Yuhe and Yunhe. Because Qingshui River, Yongji canal and Haihe River are mostly in the territory of ancient Wei state, it is called "Wei River". The main source of Weihe River originates from boaiqin River, Xiuwu Heishan River and Sumen mountain of Huixian county. There are more than 90 tributaries, which flow through Qi County, out of Henan Province, and finally into Haihe River and into Bohai Sea. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the Weihe River was 914 kilometers long, with a maximum width of 70 meters, a depth of 5-8 meters, and a drainage area of 15200 square kilometers.

Shipping and wharf of Weihe River

Before the Tang Dynasty, there were many wharves and ferries on both sides of the Weihe River. There were more than ten large wharves in Xinxiang County alone. The largest Wharf on the Weihe River is the yinmakou wharf built at yangshuwan in the autumn of 1917. There are often more than 700 ships of different sizes moored here. According to records, from the end of the Qing Dynasty to the beginning of the Republic of China, there were more than 1700 ships from Tianjin to Xinxiang, carrying nearly 70000 passengers a year, more than 800000 tons of freight and more than 180 tons of carrying capacity. There are 400 trackers living in Xinxiang on both sides of Weihe River. The two bridges on the north side of Dazhong bridge still have about 5cm deep grooves formed by rope friction when the trackers are pulling. After liberation, the shipping management office was also established. In 1953, Xinxiang Daokou opened a fixed-point flight. In January of the following year, Tianjin Shipping Bureau's Hefeng passenger ship successfully made a trial voyage from Tanggu to Xinxiang According to the information of Xinxiang Shouhang shipping management office, in 1960, there were 1951 wooden sail cargo ships with a load of 41000 tons, 38 small turbine ships with 2688 horsepower and 2842 employees. The colorful flags of the ships moored on both sides of the Weihe River are displayed on New Year's day, and the lights are bright at night. Later, the navigation was interrupted several times due to the water cut-off and sediment deposition in the upper reaches of the river, and the relevant departments invested a huge sum of money to clear the silt four times, but there was no obvious effect. Coupled with the inflow of industrial waste water, the water quality of Weihe River deteriorated and the fish and shrimp disappeared, and its last ferry barely lasted until 1965. In July 1969, the Weihe shipping management office, which had been suspended for more than one year, was abolished, and Weihe shipping was completely terminated.

The management strategy of Weihe River

As an important waterway in the upper reaches of Haihe River system, the shortage of water source of Weihe River has been a big problem for a long time. In the first month of 608 A.D., Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty forced hundreds of thousands of people in Northern Henan to build Yongji canal and lead the water from the Qinhe River to Wei from Wuzhi via Wangjing village of Huojia county. In the Tang Dynasty, it was stopped because of the heavy sediment in the Qinhe river. During the yuan and Ming Dynasties, the government also started the project of Danhe river water aid. Decades of "diverting water from Qinshui to Weihe" and "diverting water from Danshui to Weihe" not only brought short-term prosperity to Weihe River, but also caused a large number of sediment and silting pads due to the low terrain of Weihe River and the high water level of Qinshui and Danshui, which became a hidden danger in the future. In the Qing Dynasty, the water of Qin and Dan often stopped flowing. In 1933, the Henan Provincial Department of construction of the national government proposed the plan of "diverting the Yellow River into the Wei River". Later, because the water level of the Yellow River was 25 meters higher than the Wei River, it was not easy to control technically. In 1942, in order to strengthen the water transportation of Tianjin, a new town, the Japanese invaders plundered the resources of our country and forced hundreds of thousands of farmers in Northern Henan to develop the main canal of diverting water from the Yellow River to the Wei River. However, due to the large sediment content in the water of the Yellow River, it is regarded as "drinking poison to quench thirst". Under the opposition of the Chinese, the Japanese aggressors did not complete their surrender. After liberation, the Yellow River Committee redesigned the project of "diverting the Yellow River into the Wei River", widened the original channel of the Japanese aggressors, and flowed through Qinchang and laotian'an to Mengying in the south of the city to yinmakou and into the Wei River. From 1958 to 1962, the Yellow River Sediment raised the riverbed of Xinxiang Weihui section by 5.9 meters, resulting in the interruption of navigation. According to the data, from 1963 to 1985, the city cleaned up the silt of Weihe River four times, and the official cost was 170 million yuan (only 100 million yuan was used to build Nanjing double deck railway bridge at that time).

Address: Shengli Road

Longitude: 113.869562

Latitude: 35.311826

Tel: 0373-2022208

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Opening hours: all day

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