History of Haikou People's Park

The People's Park was founded in 1951 and is located in the city's Daying Mountain, 20 meters above sea level, with an area of 350 acres.

At the entrance to the main gate of the park, there is a monument to the liberation of Hainan, built in April 1954, the monument has a personal inscription by Comrade Zhu De.

The country is divided into functional zoning for the East and West Lake Excursion Area, Martyrs' Memorial Area, Tropical Plant Specimen Area, Orchid Nursery and so on.

Martyrs Memorial Area has a statue of General Feng Baiju and Memorial Pavilion.

East Lake Park (also known as Haikou People's Park) is a comprehensive park, located in the city center of South Xinhua Road at the southern end of the Daying Hill, was built in 1954, a 57 years again expanded, covering a total area of more than four hundred and forty acres.

The park is built along the Danying Mountain, sitting west to east, flowers and trees on the mountain, ancient trees cover the top, looking out over the city of Haikou, the park is like a green Penglai floating in the sea of buildings.

In front of the main entrance of the park, there are two lakes in the east and west, which are like two crystalline mirrors set in the park on both sides of the avenue.

The two lakes are surrounded by coconut groves, banyan willows, green, green shade, cool and pleasant.

East Lake is ellipsoidal, there is an island in the lake, the island of the newly completed pavilion brilliant.

The island of the lake is connected to the Garden Gate Avenue by the Nine Curve Bridge; the West Lake is a short-necked gourd-shaped, broad water.

Whenever the white moon in the sky, the coconut wind flow rhyme, the east and west of the lake surface silver scales glittering, and Danying Mountain's sparse towering Cuicui contrasts with the interest of the lake, the color of the mountains and the coconut, the coconut shadow, pointing the paddle canoeing, it is refreshing and joyful.

Due to the east and west of the two lakes embellishments, regardless of the day or night, visitors have not entered the park has been born three times interest.

The park's main entrance to the population, standing tall monument to the liberation of Hainan.

The monument was built in April 1954, is to commemorate the long insistence on the revolutionary struggle on Qiongdao and the heroic cross-sea battle and the sacrifice of the martyrs and the construction of the monument.

The monument court is square, with stone fences and four steps on all sides, covering an area of 400 square meters.

The height of the monument is 14.5 meters, and on the front of the monument are the words "Revolutionary Martyrs Forever".

The lower part of the word inlaid in a copper plate, engraved with Comrade Zhu De's handwritten inscription: "Long insisted on Qiongdao Revolutionary Struggle and heroically crossed the sea and sacrificed comrades! You are the best sons and daughters of the Chinese nation, and your heroic behavior played an indelible role in the liberation of Qiongdao and all of China.

The martyrs' achievements will be immortalized forever!"

Along the stone steps behind the monument straight up to the open space at the top of Daying Hill is the statue of General Feng Baiju and the Memorial Pavilion.

This was built in January 1988 by the *** Hainan Provincial Party Committee and the Hainan Provincial People ***.

The statue of General Feng Baiju is carved on the highest peak of Wuzhi Mountain, which is made of thirteen pieces of granite.

He is staring straight ahead with a solemn and resolute demeanor.

The Five Fingers Mountain under the statue symbolizes Qiongya, and also symbolizes the core of the leadership of the party organization in Qiongya, of which General Feng Baiju was the leader, the Prime Minister of Qiongya.

On the front of the statue's pedestal are five strong golden characters, "General Feng Baiju", inscribed by comrade ***.

Behind the statue is the Memorial Pavilion, which consists of three pavilions and a set of galleries.

The main pavilion in the middle of the front frontal lintel engraved with Comrade Wang Zhen inscribed "Feng Baiju Memorial Pavilion" six big words, the middle wall engraved with "lt; Feng Baiju's life), on both sides of the two bas-reliefs.

The left one reflects the heroic deeds of the Qiongya people who insisted on the revolutionary struggle for 23 years, and the right one reflects the magnificent scene of the victory of the Chinese people *** crossing the sea to liberate Hainan Island and the Qiongya Column.

On both sides of the main pavilion is a long corridor, the left corridor wall is engraved with ***, Zhou Enlai, Guo Moruo's evaluation of Feng Baiju; the right corridor wall is engraved with Xu Xiangqian, Nie Rongzhen, Yang Shangkun's evaluation of the revolutionary struggle in Qiongya.

Statues, memorial pavilions solemn, simple and thick, beautiful and generous, and the hill below the Hainan Liberation Monument into one, so that it not only enriches the park landscape, but also an ideal place to carry out educational activities of revolutionary tradition.

Every Ching Ming Festival, the monument to the liberation of Hainan and the statue of General Feng Baiju, people like the sea, wreaths and bouquets of flowers stacked on top of each other, a good school of memory of the revolutionary forefathers, inheritance and carry forward the tradition of the revolutionary touching scene.

The park has a small zoo, which inhabits the tropical, subtropical animals more than 50 kinds of planting on a variety of families of tropical, subtropical ornamental plants more than 500 kinds of plants, so that Danyingshan evergreen, flowers and fruits do not stop; recreation and sports area has a film and television theater, dance halls, health care rooms, small ballparks, children's playgrounds and so on; quiet rest area with a teahouse, cool drinks room, Hainan refreshment stalls and so on.

After the establishment of Hainan Province, in order to adapt to the needs of the large Special Administrative Region economic construction, Haikou City People's *** continue to enrich the construction of the People's Park and the facilities, so that the appearance of the new year after year.

Visitors from the island and beyond step into the park, not only can enjoy the southern flavor, at the same time, as if walking into a tropical botanical gardens.

As it is located in the center of Haikou City, on the shore of the East Lake, Haifu Road, Airport Road, Longhua Road can be reached, the traffic is very convenient.

Surrounding the park is a bustling Park Road, where Haikou organizes flower and fish markets during New Year's festivals.

Various animal exhibitions, performances, and horticultural activities are held in the park from time to time.

Its scenery is beautiful and leisure facilities are available.

It is an excellent place for tourists to exercise in the morning and walk at dusk.

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Pre-liberation:

Was a military position of the Japanese army

In the minds of many people in Haikou, the concept of the park began with the Haikou People's Park.

Many of the old Haikou people have maintained the habit of going to the People's Park for exercise, walking, because the park is built on Danying Mountain, for which many people also call it "Danying Mountain Park".

But it is this small hill less than 30 meters above sea level is one of Hainan's ancient cultural attractions.

Meng Lesheng, former vice chairman of the Municipal Social Science Federation, said that the original water system along the Danying Mountain, and it is one of the 26 meters above sea level of the hill, in the Ming Dynasty, this has been one of the important settlement of Haikou people, commonly known as the "big and small Yindu", inhabited by the villagers of the three villages of the Bo Bo Wen, Botao, Baochao, five bridges connecting the area with the outside world traffic. The five bridges connect this area to the outside world.

During the Qing Dynasty, it was one of the harbor ports of Haikou, where ships were often moored.

Of the three villages that lived in Daying Mountain during the Ming and Qing dynasties, Bo Boon Village had a well called Tofu Spring where the water was so clean and pure that it could be used to make fragrant and tender tofu.

"Nowadays, it is difficult to find more detailed historical materials depicting the geographic conditions of the area at that time, but some of the antiquities scattered in the area and the written records of 'four temples, three nunneries, seven wells, and five bridges' reflect the bustling scene of this area of Daying Mountain in those days. " Meng Lesheng said, in the villagers gathered on the Danying Mountain, the distribution of Fubo, Guan Sheng, Ban Shuai, He Gong and other four temples, and now there are Ban Shuai Temple, "Germany with the dome" of an ancient monument, Ban Shuai Temple, the front of the wall, pack monument tortoise, and so on.

And in the small area of this mountain, the original not only have the temple, three villages also have Guangji, Jixi, Doumu and other three temples, the temple and the resident monks.

In 1939, the Japanese army attacked the sea, and ordered a deadline to drive away the residents on the Danying Mountain.

Daeyoungsan became a base for Japanese anti-aircraft guns and a position to defend the military airport.

Some of the villagers of Bo Boon Village chose to live in the area of Bo Ai Nan in Haikou, which is not far away from Daying Mountain, while the other part moved to Longtuipo, and they have not been able to move back to Daying Mountain since then.

In the three villages of Daying Mountain, until after the liberation of some villagers still live here, and then due to the *** land acquisition to build a park, all the villagers were relocated to form the current Daying Village, the original villagers' houses, temples, etc. have been demolished one after another.