Around Taoranting, there are many famous historical sites. Northwest of the Longshu Temple, the temple has reed reed yi, Tianni Pavilion, look at the mountain building, hold ice hall and other buildings, celebrities often rest in this, its popularity in the Qing dynasty after the Daoguang, can be matched with the Tao Ran Pavilion. In the southeast, there are Black Dragon Pool, Dragon King Pavilion, Nezha Temple, Prickly Plum Garden and Ancestral Garden; in the southwest, there is Fung's Garden; in the north, there is Kiln Terrace; in the northeast, there are Xiang Mound, Parrot Mound, as well as Drunken Guo's Tomb and Sai Jinhua's Tomb in recent times. These historical monuments produced years earlier than the Taoranting, and some even earlier than the Cibianan. They all have a history of literati and artists goblet, had a brilliant period of leadership.
Modern Taoranting, has a glorious chapter of history. Before and after the "May 4th" movement, the founders and leaders of the Chinese ****production party, Li Dazhao, Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai have come to Taoranting for revolutionary activities. 1920, January 18, Mao Zedong and members of the "Auxiliary Society" in Beijing, to discuss the expulsion of the warlord Zhang Jingyao, the struggle for the expulsion of Hunan, the first time in the history of China, the first time in the history of China. On January 18, 1920, Mao Zedong and members of the Auxiliary Society gathered in Beijing to discuss the expulsion of Hunan warlord Zhang Jingyao, and took a group photo in front of the big acacia tree in front of the gate of Cibian Temple after the meeting. In July and August 1921, Li Dazhao, through Chen Yusheng, a member of the Young China Society, rented two rooms in the south room of the Cibian Temple in the name of his wife, Jin Qixin, who was buried in the tomb of his wife by the side of the Tao Ranting Pavilion, and carried out clandestine activities in the room, and during the period from 1923 to 1923, Deng Zhongxia, Yun Daiying, and Gao Junyu often came to the meetings. meetings.
Inside the garden, there are lush forests, flowers and grasses, pavilions, pavilions and terraces, and the scenery is pleasant. Lake island, there are Jinqiu pier, Yan Tou Hill, and Tao Ran Pavilion into a tripod. Jinqiu Pavilion at the top of the Jinqiu Pier, the site for the Flower Fairy Shrine. Pavilion south of the foothills of the "Rose Hill", the land for the original incense mound, parrot mound, Sai Jinhua tomb site. In the quiet pine forests of the foothills north of the Pavilion, there are the tombs of the famous Gao Junyu and Shi Pingmei. Yantou Hill, there is the top of the Bancui Pavilion, and Jinqiu Pavilion view, Pavilion southwest of the mountain under the construction of the Pavilion, the light of the Pavilion, where the lake view of the mountain, the most appropriate. Pavilion North Hill for the Evergreen Pavilion.
Built in 1985, Huaxia Pavilion Garden is the Taoranting Park's "Garden of Gardens". Adopting the method of centralized tourism resources, selected domestic famous pavilions built in imitation. Drunken Master Pavilion", "Orchid Pavilion", "Goose Pond Pavilion", "Shaoling Cao Tang Pavilion", "Canglang Pavilion", "Sober Pavilion", "Two Springs Pavilion", "Blowing Platform", "Moon Dipping Pavilion", "Hundred Slopes Pavilion" and more than ten other pavilions. These famous pavilions are built in the ratio of 1:1, and the combination of pavilion and landscape complements each other. Inside the garden, you can feel as if you are traveling between Bashan and Chushui, or in the embroidered countryside of Wu and Yue, with deeper historical and cultural connotations. Pavilion, is a very national characteristics of China's architectural style. Beijing's famous pavilion a lot, such as the Summer Palace Pavilion of the spring, Beihai Park, five dragon pavilion, Jingshan Park, Wanchun Pavilion, Xiangshan Park, Langfeng Pavilion, etc., are widely known. But the park named after the pavilion is not much, the most famous to be located in the south of the city Taoranting Park.
The earliest Tao Ran Pavilion, in fact, no pavilion, but the Qing Dynasty Kangxi thirty-four years (1695) Ministry of Public Works Langzhao Jiang Zao in the ancient temple of Cibianan west of the construction of the three-room open hall, for temporary rest. Because of Bai Juyi's poem "wait for the chrysanthemum yellow wine ripe, with a drunken Taoran" meaning, named "Taoran Pavilion". It is customary to call it Jiangting according to the surname of the person who built the pavilion. Here, "Pavilion", with the ancient "road to set up houses, so stop set pedestrians" original meaning, "Pavilion" and "stopped" The same, is for pedestrians to rest in the premises, not as a garden landscape "pavilion". Therefore, there is "Jiangting no pavilion" said.
Jiangting is located outside the Forbidden City in the far suburbs, low-lying, water into a lake, reeds, grass and trees, open and clear, rich in idyllic flavor and mountain village fun. The literati of the Qing Dynasty often drank and chanted poems here, lingering in the landscape. Many people in modern history, such as Lin Zexu, Gong Zizhen, Qiu Jin, Kang Youwei, Liang Qichao, Tan Sitong, etc., have visited this place, or sad times and the world, a generous song of sadness, or secret gatherings, **** seek change. "Before and after the May Fourth Movement, revolutionary pioneers such as Li Dazhao, Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai and Deng Zhongxia were engaged in anti-imperialist and anti-feudal revolutionary activities here. The graves of Gao Junyu, an early Beijing ****productivist, and his girlfriend Shi Pingmei, a writer, are still located among the pines and cypresses on the island in the center of the lake, with their tombstones pointing to the sky like two swords. In the early years, in the wilderness, there is also the late Qing Dynasty prostitute Sai Jinhua's grave, not far away from it, there is drunken Guo's tomb. Drunken Guo's name is Rui, because of dissatisfaction with the darkness and corruption of the Qing Dynasty and the Beiyang Warlord era, pretending to be crazy, scolding the authorities, singing and crying in the city, which has a certain influence in the capital. In addition, there are parrot mound, incense mound ...... In 1924, the literary scholar Yu Pingbo wrote the "Tao Ranting snow" article, a detailed reminiscence of the past years with friends together in the snowy days to visit the Tao Ranting what they saw and heard and felt. They were in the "white straw raincoat widely covered fields, look here, look there," "but did not see any pavilion", "only see a few blunt old houses", can not help but "dull and colorless". It can be seen that at that time the Taoranting was already in a state of disrepair.
The situation after the establishment of new China
After the establishment of new China, all the wastes are waiting to be rebuilt. The people's government in the rectification of social order and restore the development of the economy at the same time, not forgetting to improve the living environment, improve people's living standards. 1952 will be the Taoranting as a park, remove the silt, remove the graves, planting flowers and trees, the construction of pavilions, so the original dilapidated outlook a new look for the residents nearby to provide a place of recreation and entertainment. 1954 Premier Zhou Enlai and Mr. Leung Sicheng in person to choose the site of the original Qianlong era in Zhongnanhai. In 1954, Premier Zhou Enlai and Mr. Liang Sicheng personally chose the site and moved the original Qianlong-era court building Yunyilou and Qingyinge to this place, which is adjacent to the Taoranting Pavilion in the Cibian Temple and opposite to it across the water, making it a bright landscape.
In the 1950s, the Beijing Opera School, the Beijing Dance School, and the Chinese Opera School, were built near the Taoranting Park. The boys and girls of these art schools, all like dragons and tigers, like flowers, often shouting and practicing in the park, beautiful melodies and dances, echoing in the lake and mountains, adding a lot of vitality and energy to the silent garden. Bai Shuxiang, Chen Ailian, Liu Changyu, Li Weikang, Zhang Xuejin, Li Chongshan ...... these first generation of artists cultivated by the new China, probably will not forget the flowery season walked along the shores of Taoranting. In the sixties and seventies, there were still open-air movie theaters on the slopes by the West Lake, and on summer evenings, bathing in the pleasant cool breeze, spending a few cents, you could see your favorite movies. Heroes and Children", "Young Luban", "Jinshangjiahua", "Sino-Japanese War", "Early Spring and February" ...... a film with different themes and styles, to see people's hearts rise and fall, blood boiling, so that for a long time do not want to leave this piece of open space. In the late seventies and early eighties, water concerts were held from time to time on the Lake Pavilion, and some famous singers and orchestras took turns to perform here. Nowadays, the above-mentioned art schools have long been upgraded to colleges, and the state has invested in the construction of beautiful new school buildings at new sites. The original screening of open-air movies, also built a spectacular cinema, because the audience is scarce, and has been changed into a casino. Water concerts are also like a yellow crane, gone. Over the past few years, with the increase in the elderly population, Taoranting Park more rolling wave of silver hair. A large number of retired elderly hovering here, each looking for their own fun, each have their own. You see, chess fans around the stone table, Chu He Han Border, kill is fierce; theater fans gathered in the shade of the willow, drums and gongs, silk and bamboo melodious, Beijing opera, opera, singing is happy; lake island, grandparents learn young dance partner, dancing, as if the age of dozens of years; moon garden, a group of groups, a team of singing enthusiasts, cited the song, with the "Ovoo will meet", "cranberries flowers bloom" melody, to relive the lost youth. Passed youthful years; and in the quiet fishing area, an angler, calm and relaxed, happy at ease, waiting for the fish on the hook; hobby of martial arts young man more in the square show of athleticism, ...... now the city garden, really become a place of leisure for the young and old, the ordinary people of the joy of the sea. From the sixties of last century, I worked and lived next to the Taoranting for several decades, and it has formed an unbreakable bond. After retirement, with my partner, every day must come here to skate a circle, fitness and strong body, flying mood, more on it full of nostalgia and gratitude. I collect the historical memories about it, enjoy the happy time it brings me, I feel gratified for its development and changes, and more y blessed for its bright future. (Chen Peizhong)