Gantang Park

Gantang park is located in the South Bank of the Yangtze River in Jiujiang City, Jiangxi Province. With an area of about 80 hectares, it is a natural lake with its own source of water. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Zhou Yu, a famous general of the eastern Wu Dynasty, once practiced Navy here. Bai Juyi, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, built a pavilion in the middle of the lake when he was the Sima of Jiangzhou. He named it "the moon dipping Pavilion" with the sentence "the moon dipping in the boundless river at another time" in Pipa Xing. In the Northern Song Dynasty, the meaning of "mountain scenery, water color, thin cage smoke" was changed to "Water Pavilion".

Gantang Park

Gantang Park, also known as Gantang Lake Park, is located in Gantang lake, Xunyang District, Jiujiang City, Jiangxi Province. It is a comprehensive park integrating animal watching, performance, popular science education, patriotism education, entertainment and leisure.

The park covers a total area of 10.5 hectares, including 5.70 hectares of green space, with a green space rate of 81.43%. There are 1.3 hectares of hard land, 2.14 hectares of lawn, 60000 seedlings, 3.32 hectares of ground cover, 3080 trees, 750 meters of hedgerow and 60000 shrubs in the park. There are many leisure squares in the park. The leisure Square in the park is favored by the citizens of morning exercise, that is, morning exercise receives more than 3 million people a year. After being opened free of charge, Gantang park has become an excellent place for citizens to enjoy their leisure. The number of tourists has increased from 300000 to more than 1 million.

history

Founded in March 1951, Gantang park is the first park in Jiujiang City. It was built by the municipal government on the site of the former hongduhui Museum in Jiangxi Province. At that time, the area of the park was 3.5 hectares. The fence of the park was made up of bamboo fences, and there were six managers. Their main work included animal breeding, flower production, sanitation and so on. At that time, the main animals were leopard, bear, monkey, porcupine, tushou chicken, civet and so on.

With the rapid development of landscape architecture, the construction of the park is highly valued by the municipal Party committee and the municipal government. In the early 1970s, funds were allocated to transform the octagonal pavilion with wooden frame and iron sheet structure into octagonal pavilion with cement structure. In 1979, in order to facilitate the unified management of the park, the facilities such as the skating rink and swimming pool, which were originally under the management of the Municipal Sports Commission and built next to Gantang Park, were allocated to Gantang park for unified management, and funds were allocated for restoration and opening to the public. At the same time, the people's Square was allocated to Gantang park. As a result, the area of Gantang Park was expanded to 6.7 hectares, with an increase of 3.2 hectares.

In 1980, the municipal government decided to carry out a preliminary rectification of the two lakes and two gardens. 28 households in Gantang park were gradually moved out to restore the green space. By 1981, a total of 471400 yuan was invested. The main works included building block stone revetment on the 580 meter Lake slope from the West gate of Gantang park to Bajiaoting; demolishing the west section of the small embankment leading to Lushan Road, and building a new LiuDi island with a total area of 30 hectares The coastline is 450 meters long. Xinliudi island was shot in the first group of CCTV series "talking about the river" in Jiujiang section. The total area of the park was increased to 7 hectares, and the people's Square was afforested. In April, the entrance ticket of the zoo was changed to the east gate and the west gate.

In the second half of 1987, the people's Square broke ground to build a children's amusement park. The completion ceremony was held on February 11, 1988. Since then, Jiujiang City has the first children's amusement park dedicated to children's entertainment, with a total area of 5700 square meters and a total cost of 272600 yuan. This money was appropriated by the Municipal Women's Federation. The new children's Park will be built on the basis of the original moon landing rocket, with additional children's trains, cars, windmills, swivel chairs, etc.

In 1997, the municipal government decided to build the East and West gates of Gantang Park and transform the penetrating wall. The new west gate is an imitative European style building with novel design and beautiful appearance, which is highly praised by people from all walks of life. The single investment is more than 1.1 million yuan. The newly-built penetrating wall has changed the dilapidated old wall and is harmonious with the East and West gates. It has become a highlight of Gantang Park, with a total investment of more than 4 million yuan.

In March 2003, the municipal government allocated funds to rebuild the trunk road from the east gate to the west gate of Gantang park. Grass bricks were laid on both sides of the road, Rhododendron, star anise and fish pond were planted, guardrails and waterside pavilions were trimmed, ornamental fish species were put in, and the road and East and West gates were brightened. The project was completed on April 24. On May 1, admission tickets to Gantang park were cancelled and opened to the public free of charge. Later, cherry blossoms were planted on LiuDi Island, long corridors were built, and mulberry weeds were planted, which greatly changed the appearance of the park.

After years of development, Gantang Park Zoo has more than 30 kinds of animals, more than 100 (feathers); children's amusement facilities have been developed to 24 sets (groups); revolutionary martyrs memorial tower and caigongshi martyrs tomb in the park have been listed as patriotism education base by the municipal government.

Cultural relics in the park

There is a municipal cultural relic in the park, Zhonglie Pavilion

Zhonglie Pavilion is located at No.2, Lushan South Road, Xunyang District, Jiujiang City, Jiangxi Province (in Gantang Park). Built in the middle and late 1920s, the government of the Republic of China built a memorial pavilion to commemorate the officers and soldiers of the Northern Expedition who died in Jiujiang. A monument was erected in front of the pavilion, which was destroyed during the cultural revolution.

The building is located in the southwest to the northeast, with a western style reinforced concrete structure. The pavilion is a square stone pavilion with a side length of 5.6 meters and a construction area of 31.36 square meters. There are two pillars on each side and eight pillars in total. The huge Ionian pillars are adopted, with rich and exquisite thread feet and patterns, and exquisite workmanship. Four thick square pillars support the roof. Its architectural style is exquisite, large, western style, but also reflects the charm of oriental architecture, and well preserved, has a higher architectural art style.

According to relevant historical records, the pavilion was built to commemorate the Northern Expedition army. It is the only building in our city to commemorate the Northern Expedition army. It has high historical and cultural value.

Address: Gantang lake, South Bank of Yangtze River, Jiujiang City, Jiangxi Province

Longitude: 115.98709371297

Latitude: 29.71320305503

Tel: 0792-8225249

Tour time: 2-3 hours

Traffic information: you can take bus 103, 104, 108, etc

Ticket information: Free

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