Park history of Yuexiu Park

Yuexiu Park is one of the earliest parks in Guangzhou and the largest comprehensive park in Guangzhou. During the Republic of China, Dr. Sun Yat-sen proposed to build Yuexiu Mountain into a big park. After the liberation of Guangzhou, this idea came true. Today, Yuexiu Park has beautiful natural scenery and subtropical characteristics, and also preserves various historical sites and relics. The newly-built Garden Road also connects various scenic spots. Yuexiu Mountain, the main body of Yuexiu Park, is a famous mountain with profound cultural heritage. As early as the Qin and Han Dynasties, it was a scenic spot in Guangzhou. More than 2,000 years ago, Zhao Tuo, the king of South Vietnam, who established the first feudal dynasty in Lingnan, once gave a banquet in this mountain and warmly entertained Lu Jia, the messenger sent by Liu Bang, the emperor gaozu of Han Dynasty. Yuexiu Mountain has the former site of Yuewangtai. According to legend, every year on the third day of the third lunar month, Zhao Tuo will visit here for fun, and the accompanying officials will sing and dance on the stage, so it is also called the Song and Dance Gang.

During the Southern Han Dynasty, the monarch of the Southern Han Dynasty took Yuewangtai as a banquet place and planted exotic flowers and trees on the hiking trail, which was called "Hulu Road". Jin Ju and Furong were planted all over the trail, and the monarch of the Southern Han Dynasty and his ministers often spent the night here.

By the Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties, Yuexiu Mountain had become a famous scenic spot in Guangzhou, such as Yuetai Autumn Moon, Guangdong Songtao, Xiangshan Woodcut Song, Guangdong Lianfeng and zhenhai tower. And Yuexiu Mountain has been listed as an important scenic spot among the "Eight Scenes of Yangcheng" in all previous dynasties without exception. 1925, the Guangzhou Municipal Government ordered the Industrial and Commercial Bureau to build Yuexiu Mountain as a memorial park for Premier Sun.

1926, Guangzhou citizens automatically launched a park recreation meeting to raise funds to build a park. In the same year, the opening ceremony of Yuexiu Park was held on 12.

Since 1950, the Guangzhou Municipal Government has organized the masses to develop and maintain the historic sites in Yuexiu Mountain, and at the same time, comprehensively renovate and afforest them. Zhu Guang, then mayor of Guangzhou, also wrote an inscription "Yuexiu Park" for the newly-built archway.

1957165438+1On October 7th, the new Yuexiu Park was officially opened to the general public, becoming the largest comprehensive park in the city with an area of over 750,000 square meters.

In June+10, 2006, the park was rated as a national 4A-level tourist attraction. Yuexiu Park is a mountain park, and Yuexiu Mountain belongs to the remnant vein of Baiyun Mountain, with an east-west extension of about 3 kilometers and an altitude of more than 70 kilometers. Also known as Yuexiu Mountain and Wang Yueshan in history. During the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, Guanyin Pavilion was built on the mountain, so it was often called Guanyin Mountain by the people.

Yuexiu Mountain is a treasure trove of geomantic omen in Guangzhou. Geographically, Guangzhou is surrounded by mountains and seas, with Jiulian Mountain in the five mountains in the north and Lingdingyang in the south. There is Luofu Mountain on the left, and Qingyun Mountain on the right as the "Suzaku" and "Xuanwu" vaults, extending to Baiyun Mountain and Yuexiu Mountain in Guangzhou. Seen from the map, Baiyun Mountain and Yuexiu Mountain are like huge black dragons, and on both sides of the Pearl River, a "flying dragon absorbs water" trend is formed. Yuexiu Park is the largest green space in downtown Guangzhou, and it is a natural ecosystem dominated by mixed forest and lake. The natural environment in the park is unique, and the plants in the park are diverse. The existing vegetation is a mixture of artificial plants and natural secondary vegetation. There are 460 species of trees, shrubs and ground cover plants *** 127 families. Among them, there are 275 native plants and 85 non-native plants/kloc-0. There are nearly 220,000 trees with 146 species, mainly including Yinxiang, Banyan, Tumi, Pu Shu, Broussonetia papyrifera, Longan, Prynne, Acacia formosana, Bauhinia, Peach and Pistachio nuts. 12 1 shrub species, including osmanthus fragrans, bamboo banana, pittosporum, forsythia suspensa, cinnamon, etc. There are 0/43 species of ground cover plants/kloc-,including taro, white butterfly, cattail, fern, wedelia, curculigo macrophylla, iris, bamboo and so on. Palm 19 species, bamboo 8 species, vine 10 species, aquatic 3 species and seasonal flowers 10 species. There are also national protected plants here.

The rich plant species, dense bamboo forests, Woods and large grasslands in the park provide good foraging and habitat for animals. There are 43 species of birds in the park, which also attracts migratory birds from South America. In addition, there are dog bats, East Asian winged bats, flat-headed bats and small yellow bats in the park. There are 6 species of frogs, 66 species of fish 10 and 66 species of insects in the park.