Xinxiang "old park": the blood of the Xinhai Revolution is still warm, the next year blowing down, cherry blossoms like rain ......

Xinxiang, Henan Province, west of Shengli Road, north of Zhongtong Street, there is an old park.

She is the first "People's Park" in Xinxiang City, where the hot blood of the Xinhai Revolution, or the Xinxiang Weihe culture of the collection of Xinxiang and the people of Xinxiang, the most warm spiritual home ......

In the spring breeze of the coming year, here, also will be blown down comparable to the romantic cherry blossom rain of Wuhan University ......

Yueya River, through the garden

? The first one is the one that is not a part of the story of the man.

Memories of the past: the great years are infinite

The movie! (Zhou Huimin photographed in 1980)

The picture above is from "Weihe Memory" (edited by Li Baochen). According to the book, in the 1980s, Weihe Park was a good place for people to relax and have fun. There was a time when movies were shown here every day, and adults were paid 10 cents per person to watch one, and children were paid 5 cents per person. Because the money at that time "worth money", so many people in order to "escape the ticket", there are climbing trees to see, there are several people a vertical row of head through the doorway to see the ......

Original Weihe The gate of the open-air movie theater in the park, the entrance is the sale of installation of plumbing stalls, inside the suona class, dentists and so on. (Taken by Zhang Qinglin in March 2000)

The bleachers, stage, and screening room of the former open-air cinema in Weihe Park . The entire theater was covered with housing, even the bleachers and the stage were built as housing. (Zhang Qinglin photographed in March 2000)

Although the flip-flop is almost always "mine warfare" or "tunnel warfare" and other films, but no matter how many times you watch it, people feel that "twice the flavor"!

It is understood that, at that time in Weihe Park units are: Xinxiang City Arts Museum, City Song and Dance Troupe, City Painting and Calligraphy Institute, City Library Printing House, City Advertising Company, City Bureau of Cultural Affairs Labor Services Company, City Advertising Company Color Printing Factory, City Bureau of Cultural Affairs Warehouse, Great Wall Altar Chicken Company, the City Bureau of Cultural Affairs Labor Services Company Farm, etc., in the life of the smoke and fumes, this carries the memory of a city's most prosperous.

With the temperature of the fathers, see the back of the times!

The former Weihe Park East Gate (Zhang Qinglin photographed in March 2000)

The former Weihe Park South Gate concrete bridge (photographed in December 2000)

The dilapidated bridge leading to the West End, the building was built after the library printing plant. (Wu Sheng'an, taken in February 1984)

The swimming pool in front of the wigwam in Weihe Park, the house under the pavilion was originally the Xinxiang Amateur Art School, which later became the housing for the actors, and then changed into a dressing room when the swimming pool was opened in Weihe Park. (Zhang Qinglin photographed in March 2000)

Theater fans in front of the wigwam singing "Qin Xianglian" (photographed in October 2002)

The sound of silk and bamboo pipes and strings here, had played a side of the water on the most harmonious and simple notes of life.

However, with the development of the times, the park "Crescent River" sedimentation is serious, the water level also fell a lot. 2002 June began, Xinxiang slurry pumps for mechanical desilting operations, to the end of August 2002, the completion of the desilting of 27,500 cubic meters of earth volume.

Yueya River dredging (taken in June 2002)

People are like their own kind of mother grooming in general, carefully cleaned her body was left by the dust of the years.

In 2003, she put on her "new clothes" - beautification, greening the two sides of the Crescent River.

Greening and beautification of the two sides of the crescent-shaped river (taken in April 2003)

In order to further enhance the Weihua Park "park" attributes, June 10, 2004, Xinxiang Municipal Construction Committee issued a document decided to demolish the Weihua River Park, all the residential housing and move out of the relevant units. 2004 June, the Municipal Construction Commission Issued a document new management word (2004) 028 document, the full mobilization of demolition work began.

The last demolition of households (taken in November 2006)

After the last demolition of households to move out, in this place to build a large sculpture of "Lady Cheng Lu".

Since the mobilization of the June 2004 demolition to the spring of 2007, the resettlement of more than 150 residents of the park, moved out of a number of units stationed in the park, *** counting the demolition of more than 13,000 square feet of housing.

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East and West: the respective scenery into one

Weihe Park was first built in 1924, was built to commemorate the Xinhai Revolution to participate in the revolution until the sacrifice of the storm Qifu, Zhang Zongzhou two martyrs, formerly known as the "storm Zhang Garden", is the earliest Xinxiang City, the garden park. In order to commemorate the storm, Zhang's revolutionary performance, in 1924, YuYuRen, HuJingYi, ZhangFangZhong, YangHuCheng, DengBaoShan, WangShiWen and other 15 people initiative to build a mausoleum for the two of them. By the north of Henan fellow friends GuoZhongKui, HanJingYa fundraising collection in Xinxiang WeiHe riverfront 30 acres of cultivated land to build the storm Zhang Park, the park's main building memorial hall within the storm, Zhang two people's statues and relics exhibition, memorial hall after the construction of clothing mound, pavilion and monument, now only exist in the storm Zhang Memorial Hall.

The octagonal pavilion, storm Zhang martyrs souls survive

After the liberation, called "People's Park", "Culture Park", after the reason why it is also called "Old Park", is relative to the 1960s, the new "Xinxiang People's Park" in 1982 and renamed the "Weihe Park".

The park covers an area of 128 acres, Wei River ring through the park. To highlight the history and culture of Xinxiang as a feature, the use of classical garden gardening techniques, divided into three areas:

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East: Rule of Law Plaza

The main function of this area for the rule of law propaganda, the configuration of flower lawn, in addition to the article mentioned at the beginning of the planting of cherry blossoms, but also to create the "Rose of the date! "Theme garden. The introduction of 26 moon season varieties, tens of thousands of various colors of moon seasonal flowers competing to open, the fragrance of flowers long.

Moonflower vine frame, wait until the flowering period, is a good place to take pictures.

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West: Ping An Square

Traffic lights and crosswalks in Weihe Park

In 2016, in order to build Xinxiang peace and rule of law cultural propaganda position, relying on the beautiful environment of the Weihe Park, incorporating the rule of law and peace, prevention of fraud, public **** security, anti-drugs preventive and other cultural elements. So, now Weihe Park also has more than one name - Xinxiang peace culture theme park.

The main function of the area for civilized traffic propaganda, the construction of antique promenade near the river can read poetry, promenade on the west side of the fifteen hundred square meters of the square. In order to facilitate traffic safety education for children, the square is also set up "crosswalk" "simulation traffic lights", even for the public to rest on the benches have "120" elements.

Jinbo Pavilion

On the south side of the square is a group art center, behind the promenade is the "Jinbo Pavilion". Nowadays, when the sun sets, in the park Jinbo Pavilion, you can still see a river water "color like gold spray" of the magnificent scenery.

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Central: Weihe Culture + Heshuo Library

Heshuo Library

The theme is to display the history of the Weihe Park, the history of the Weihe River, the Heshuo Library, and the Eight Scenes of Xinxiang. The Heshuo Library, built in 1935, was the only library in Xinxiang after the liberation of the country, and was changed to the Xinxiang Mass Art Center after the construction of the new city library around 1980.

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Observe today: the old park to show the new face

Today's Weihe Park, is more and more beautiful!

Heshuo Bridge was rebuilt three times, looking at the changes in the water

Relief monument gallery recorded five thousand years of history of Xinxiang scroll

Jiang Ziya fishing in the water, waiting for the arrival of the saint

Tai Chi Square, the concave echo of the wonderful

Natural wildlife, the Taihang Mountain stone waterfalls

Late fall light shining crescent-shaped river

In addition, there is also a good news is that next spring, the Xinxiang River Park. A good news is that next spring, Xinxiang Weihe Park and you have a romantic "cherry blossom date".

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These days, the temperature in Xinxiang is getting cold, but the staff of Weihe Park is busy planting cherry trees. This year, Weihe Park introduced more than 100 "Japanese early cherry", will be planted to the park along the river banks. Within three years will be the Weihe Park into Xinxiang cherry blossom viewing resort.

Both sides of the new mound, waiting for the arrival of the cherry tree seedlings.

Only more than 100 trees? You think it's a bit few?

Whispering to you, the cherry trees in Wuhan University are only 70 to 80 trees ......

Is not looking forward to the arrival of spring?

But the "old park" is worth looking forward to,

not just next year's cherry blossoms,

about her, how much do you know?

This issue is edited by Yang Yang, thanks to the Weihuai Park for providing the text and graphics;