To the Ming Jiajing years, live in Pingliang Ming Han Zhao Wang will be occupied as a private garden, to show the royal weather, made a large-scale expansion. According to the Pingliang County Records, "King Zhaowang used thousands of dollars to build a three-refined city, two brick urn gates, two buildings, a double road connected, ten pavilions, covered with lush forests and bamboos, surrounded by two ponds, with flower barges and Nymphaea, tens of thousands of fish and turtles, and tens of thousands of land and water bird groups swimming in the air, and water and trees, two victories in Guanlong". This large-scale expansion made Willow Lake a famous garden in Northwest China. At that time, "the land around, about four miles. Imperial relatives "every tour must drive a boat to the past". It is clear that the natural environment of Pingliang was very good, the water storage capacity of Willow Lake is very large. According to "willow lake painting institute", the main buildings in the garden at that time are "sea view hall", "Hanxutang", "library" and so on more than ten places. Later by the Ming Wuzong Royal Edict "Chongwen Academy", for the children of the royal family to read. After the Qing dynasty Qianlong, and has been repaired many times, Qianlong five years (AD 1740) was renamed "hundred springs academy", later changed to "high mountain academy". In the early years of the Tongzhi, Willow Lake was destroyed in the war. Tongzhi twelve years, Shanxi-Gansu Governor Zuo Zongtang stationed in Pingliang, once again restored, renamed "Willow Lake Academy", and the title of the autograph "Willow Lake" plaque. Zuo Zongtang supervised the Xinjiang military affairs had regiment here, that "newly planted willow three thousand miles" of the "Zuo Gong Liu", most likely cultivated from Pingliang Willow Lake it. Fifteen years of the Republic of China (1926) was changed to the seventh Gansu Province Normal School, changed to Pingliang Normal in 1950, Pingliang Normal in 1958, moved out of the lake, changed to Willow Lake Park. In recent years, the construction of additional lake pavilions, flower gardens, theaters and other facilities, becoming one of the most famous gardens in Longdong.
The victory of Willow Lake, began with the warm springs. There is a warm spring, the water temperature of about 17 ℃, four seasons flow. Warm Springs is the source of Willow Lake, there is a stone monument next to the spring, which is inscribed for the Zuo Zongtang "Warm Springs" two big words, under the "Pingliang cold, water springs are very clean, this is only to warm, check the winter is not ice," and other inscriptions. Now the warm spring has been re-modeled, surrounded by an iron fence, to protect. Willow Lake is known for its peculiar "willow in the lake, willow in the lake". In late spring, the willow flakes, filling the lake, known as "willow lake snow", included in the Pingliang one of the eight scenic spots. Ancient people once celebrated the "Willow Lake Clear Snow" with the following poem: "The clear light reflects the wild pond, and the snow is flying all over the air. There are jade shavings dancing in the air, and pieces of silver glittering wildly around the shore. Under the moon, my clothes are wet, and I don't feel cool in front of the wind. Willow Lake has the West Lake interesting, caused the tart from the long Xing."
The long history of the cleansing, today's Willow Lake Park is still with her "willow in the lake" unique landscape, attracting people's attention. If along the stone steps along the path of roaming, only to see the willow shade green, the lake brimming, flower gardens are scattered, covered with confusion, pavilions, paddling light flooding, it is refreshing, forget to return.
Looking at the present day to repair the show new posture
Pingliang central city construction after "a line of three points", "six longitudinal and nine horizontal" two big battles, Pingliang city's spine really up, east and west, north and south of the bloodstream is also open, a regional center with a modern atmosphere. A regional center city with a modern atmosphere has taken shape. But, like the human muscle, there must be all parties to the organization and coordination, and heart ****ji, in order to have someone's health and active. 2005, in the municipal party committee, under the correct leadership of the municipal government, the city's urban construction units after many demonstrations, several research, listen to the CPPCC members and the views of all parties in the community and put forward the "two roads, a garden eight supporting "The construction of the concept, for the city of Pingliang, the whole outfit, clean heart and lungs, the creation of China's excellent tourist city, to create the best human settlements in the city, the center of the city of Pingliang construction and pushed to a new height, the east expansion of the Willow Lake Park, came into being.
Relative to the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties and before the reform and opening up, today's Pingliang, her economic situation, the number of people, the public demand, have been incomparable. As a national 2A level tourist attractions, mining precipitation in the "Willow Lake" in the deep historical and cultural resources, expanding the park area, increase the reception capacity, rich in ideological connotation, improve the construction of taste, has become the inevitable requirements for the development of the insightful **** knowledge and the general public's urgent desire. As limited by the original scale, on the basis of the original and then how to build, it is difficult to have a big as. To this end, the city in accordance with the Willow Lake Park master plan, decisive board decision-making, on the basis of the existing 128.96 acres, the Willow Lake Park to the east expansion. East expansion of the scope of the west from the small East Lake Willow Lake Park (North Gate), north to the old 312 line, east to North Street, south to a wall (fence), covering an area of nearly 47,000 square meters (69.88 acres), around the "willow", "lake" landscape, transforming existing facilities The project estimates investment of 37 million yuan, the planned construction period of two years, to expand the lake, increase the willow lake and green space, restore the Willow Lake Academy.
In the spring of 2005, the east expansion area demolition, land acquisition and guardrail project construction quietly implemented, opened Willow Lake Park, the curtain of the east expansion project. After last year's efforts, **** demolition of all kinds of farmers, businesses, such as 105 households, population of 425 people, the demolition of housing area of 1,80,000 square meters.
This year, the city's urban construction project headquarters carefully planned, commissioned by the Shanxi Institute of Ancient Architecture to complete the Willow Lake Park expansion and repair of the ancient city wall reinforcement design. In accordance with the preliminary validation of the construction program, Willow Lake Park plans to invest 17 million yuan during the year, the main implementation of "a lake, a spring, a waterfall, a pavilion, a bridge, a pavilion, a wall, a building, a door, a stone, a" project, and planning to set aside a courtyard, that is, "Willow Lake College ", complete the garden roads, greening, lighting, communications and other garden infrastructure projects. Specific construction content is: the construction of a lake 8600 square meters, water depth of 1.6 meters of the new lake; the construction of a 30-meter-high fountain; octagonal eaves of an antique pavilion; three across a 15-meter arch bridge; reinforced steel concrete Silk Rain Pavilion, a governance wall 240 meters high, 15 meters, in the wall at the corner of the construction of the two-story lookout building a new Ming and Qing Dynasty style east gate a new one; the construction of the garden recreation and leisure culture square; And in the east gate plaza to choose a boulder, in the form of a monument to record the east expansion project. Willow Lake Park east expansion project will be fully completed before the National Day this year, open to visitors.
In the east to speed up the expansion of regional planning and construction at the same time, the transformation of the old park is also being implemented simultaneously. Willow Lake Park as one of the famous Longdong Park, has a rich history and humanistic origins, to do the east expansion of the new park and the old garden, the new lake and the old lake connected to one, into one. To the old garden of the road, greening, lighting, landscaping and the new garden together with the design and transformation, so that the new garden old garden blending, leaving no trace.
East after the expansion of Willow Lake Park, will hold 900 years of historical and cultural deposits, riding the long wind of modernization, showing her more charming style, round Pingliang citizens a dream of Jiangnan water town for the people of Pingliang to provide a relaxation of the soul of the home.
Liu Lake - this ancient Longshang famous garden, along with the city's footsteps, will be new youthful vitality, bloom more brilliant luster.