The earliest Zizhuyuan square dances include "Xueshan Ajia", "Hongyan", and "Roga on the Heart".
Square dance is a mass and social dance activity on open spaces such as squares and courtyards, spontaneously organized by the masses, integrating entertainment, performance and fitness. Zizhuyuan Park is located in the western third ring road of Beijing, near Baishiqiao in Haidian District, west of Beijing Capital Stadium. Zizhuyuan Park was built in 1953, because of the northwestern part of the park there is a temple in the Ming and Qing dynasties, "Fuyin Zizhuyuan" and named, there is the bamboo garden of the Shunan Bamboo Sea chic, but also the rabbit ears of the meadow landscape of the spirit of the stone.
The park covers an area of 47.35 hectares, of which the water surface accounts for about one-third. South Yangtze River, double purple canal through the garden, forming three lakes, two islands, a dike, a river and a canal of the basic pattern. It is a bamboo, Cuigang tired million, bamboo landscape, bamboo to win the natural-style landscape garden. 2006 July 1 onwards, Zizhuyuan Park free admission.
Zizhuyuan area, in the past there have been a number of beautiful landscape. It was once the birthplace of the Gaoliang River, one of the important water sources for Yanjing. After the 27th year of the Dading of the Jin Dynasty (1159), the river used to be dug upstream to create additional water sources, and the area became a water storage lake. The South Chang River flowing through the park is the upstream channel of the Tonghui River built in the Yuan Dynasty, and an artificial river (i.e., the present Chang River) was constructed in the upstream of the Gaoliang River to store and draw the water of Yuquanshan Mountain as a lake; and the Guangyuan Gate is the head gate of the upstream of the Tonghui River.
Ming Dynasty, in order to make the emperor and queen dragon boat is not blocked by the Guangyuan gate straight to the western suburbs, the south bank of the South Changhe River to cut a branch of the river, in order to facilitate the flow of large boats, Zizhuyuan site is then bypassing the imperial boat branch of the river, "other port". Wanli five years of the Ming Dynasty (1577), in the north shore of the lake to build Zizhuyuan temple, for the Wanshou Temple of the lower courtyard. Qing Dynasty this area with a palace and wharf, the royal family personnel by boat to the Summer Palace through here.
Qing Qianlong years in this replica of the Jiangnan water town with the scenery of the Luhua ferry, commonly known as "small Suzhou Luhuodang", but also the south bank of the Ming Dynasty repaired Wanshousi Temple, renamed "Purple Bamboo Zen Temple". Another temple in the west side of the Palace, the original plaque for the "Blessed Purple Bamboo Yard". Zizhuyuan thus named. Rebuilt in the Guangxu period.