Description of scenery in Xiaoyaojin, Hefei

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Hefei Xiaoyaojin

Commonly known as " Hefei, the "Hometown of the Three Kingdoms", has left many historical sites related to the Three Kingdoms due to the more than 30 years of competition between Wei and Wu. There are evidences to test, and the historical records include Three Kingdoms New City, Yuan Shu's Tombs, Zhengdi Pu, Zangzhou Pu, Huilong Bridge, Feiqi Bridge, Hubingtang, as well as the ancient Xiaoyaojin and the crossbow platform.

Among the above-mentioned ancient ruins, most of them have disappeared due to historical changes, wars and natural influences. Nowadays, only Xiaoyaojin and Mingjiao Temple (religious crossbow platform) are relatively complete and can be found.

Among my country's four major classical masterpieces, the characters and stories in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" are well-known to every household. In the 67th chapter of this popular masterpiece, "Cao Cao pacified Hanzhong, Zhang Liao shocked Xiaoyaojin", Luo Guanzhong vividly described this historical battle example of defeating more with less, based on the records in "Three Kingdoms-Wu Zhi", He also gave a vivid description of the battle situation and scenes at that time with a seven-character quatrain: "Lu jumped into Tanxi on the same day, and saw Wu Hou defeated Hefei; he retreated with his whip and rode on horseback, and the jade dragon flew over Xiaoyaojin".

Xiaoyaojin Park is located in the northeast corner of today's Hefei Old Town. The park site was a ferry on Feishui River in ancient times. The name of the garden comes from the famous chapter "Xiaoyaoyou" in the ancient book "Zhuangzi". In the 3rd century AD, the three kingdoms of Wei, Shu, and Wu were in power. Hefei was subordinate to the Wei State. It was the throat of the Yangtze River and Huaihe River and an important military center. In the 20th year of Jian'an in the Eastern Han Dynasty (AD 215), Sun Quan of the Eastern Wu Dynasty took advantage of Cao Cao's expedition to the west to conquer Zhanglu in Hanzhong and Hefei was empty. He personally led 100,000 elite troops in an attempt to capture Hefei in one fell swoop and achieve the purpose of opening the passage to the north to the Central Plains. Zhang Liao, the general of the Wei State who was guarding Hefei, faced the critical situation of a powerful enemy and a huge disparity in strength between the enemy and ourselves. He was not afraid of danger and faced danger, and he resolutely led his soldiers to attack the enemy. Infected by Zhang Liao's heroic spirit of defeating the enemy, the Wei soldiers united as one and fought bravely to kill the enemy, one against ten, and defeated the Wu army. This is the famous story of "Zhang Liao's power shocked Xiaoyaojin" in history. The battlefield site is in the area of ??today's Xiaoyaojin Park.

In the history of more than 1,700 years, Xiaoyaojin, an ancient battlefield during the Three Kingdoms period, has gone through many vicissitudes. During the Qiandao period of the Song Dynasty, Hefei City expanded and Xiaoyaojin was included in the city. Dou Zicheng, a bureaucrat in the Ming Dynasty, privately owned Xiaoyaojin and renamed it "Doujiachi". During the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, Xiaoyaojin was occupied by a king named Hanlin and was renamed "Douya Pond". During the Guangxu period, it changed ownership to the private gardens of Gong Zhaoyuan and Gong Xinzhao. Gong Xinzhao called himself Douyin, so Xiaoyaojin was renamed "Douye Pond". After that, the Gong family garden experienced repeated wars and became increasingly dilapidated. On the eve of the founding of New China, the park site was in ruins, overgrown with weeds, and desolate.

After the founding of New China in 1949, the People's Republic of China began to gradually build Xiaoyaojin into a park, and also included Jijia Garden to the west of Xiaoyaojin. In 1953, it was officially named "Xiaoyaojin Park" name. After years of careful construction and management, Xiaoyaojin has now been built into a comprehensive park with beautiful environment and pleasant scenery. It has become a scenic spot and historical site in Hefei and one of the new "Ten Scenic Spots in Hefei".

Xiaoyaojin Park covers an area of ??31.3 hectares, including 11.2 hectares of water surface. The park is spread out in a fan shape and is naturally divided into east and west parts by the water system. The East Garden has a vast water area and a felt-like lawn. It is mainly composed of a youth activity area, a cultural activity area, and an animal exhibition area. There are children's playground, playground, lawn square, Xiaoyao Lake, Xiaoyao Pavilion, Dujin Bridge, cultural promotion corridor, teahouse facilities, etc.

The south gate of the park is an antique gate with a height of nearly 10 meters, three bays and archway style. An antique plaque above the gate reads "Gu Xiaoyaojin" in four large gilt characters, handwritten by Lu Runxiang, the teacher of Puyi, the first scholar of the Qing Dynasty and Emperor Xuantong. Entering the park, the first thing you see is a bronze statue of Zhang Liao holding a spear and leaping on a horse. The statue is 5 meters high, and there are five characters "Weizhen Xiaoyaojin" on the base.

On both sides of the main road of the park are various amusement facilities and children's playgrounds.

As the first choice place for young tourists from Hefei and other places to visit Hefei, it not only has a variety of amusement facilities such as rotating slides, elephant slides, seesaws and swings, but also self-controlled airplanes, rotating electric horses, electric trains, and electric amusement rides. Cars, air bicycles, bumper cars, flying doubles, pirate ships, octopuses, flying chairs and rapid rapids are all kinds of amusement machinery that combine science, artistry and fun, thus forming an open, multi-level and three-dimensional amusement park. world. Getting involved in it is thrilling and full of fun.

Xiaoyao Lake, located in the east of the park, has an open water surface. Standing on the shore facing the wind, you can see the sparkling lake surface, cruise ships wandering around, the fragrance of flowers on the lake shore, and the willow silk blowing in the waves. There are three islands in the lake. On the largest island there is a golden glazed tiled double eaves pavilion, which is Xiaoyaoshu. The lake shore and the island are connected by a stone bridge. The smallest island is called "Luo" Island, and there is another island that is said to be the tomb of Zhang Liao. The island is lined with green trees and has pleasant scenery. There is a circular water tour line around the lake. Visitors can not only go boating on the lake, but also go to the island to enjoy the scenery through the 71-meter-long Dujin Bridge with 9 holes in total. They can also climb the Ming San Dark Wu, which is 22 meters high. Xiaoyao Pavilion, which has the architectural style of the Han Dynasty, offers a panoramic view of the lake and gardens.

Crossing the Beijin Bridge and Nanjin Bridge that connect the east and west gardens and entering the West Garden, you will see intertwined rivers, winding paths, and green trees and red flowers. The southeast corner is an oval peninsula. A group of buildings on the island is called Xiaoyao Water Pavilion, which consists of water pavilion, square pavilion, verandah and Taihu stone rockery. Covered by dense trees, it has the charm of Jiangnan Ming and Qing architectural sketches. Walking there, lowering your head and looking around, you feel like you are in Penglai Wonderland, which can be called a paradise in the busy city.

Leaving the water pavilion and walking across the three-fold winding bridge, along the way, you can see Plum Blossom Mountain hidden behind clumps of plum blossoms, osmanthus, lilac, redbud, coral and hemp-leaf hydrangeas. In the peony garden not far away, the surrounding green trees and flowers make all kinds of peonies even more luxurious and gorgeous. There is a pool of clear water next to the garden. There is a four-corner pavilion built beside the pool. Osmanthus flowers, wintersweet, etc. are planted around the pavilion.

The bonsai garden located in the West Garden, also called the Hidden Garden, covers an area of ??2.4 hectares. The whole garden is divided into different spaces through doors, windows, pools, corridors, walls and plants. The bonsai gallery connects four large and small exhibition rooms in the form of a cloister to form a triple courtyard. There is a pool of clear water in the courtyard, with water lilies on the surface and goldfish swimming in it. The bonsai exhibition area displays more than 1,000 pots and more than 50 varieties of stump bonsais such as five-needle pine, podocarpus, cypress, plum, and elm. The bonsai garden has an exquisite layout, with buildings and plants complementing each other, forming a garden within a garden.

There is a raised pile among the pine trees on the east side of the bonsai garden, which is the tomb of Zhang Liao. There is a pavilion on the pile, and a stele (table of the tomb) is erected in the pavilion. The stele is a square-based column, and the top of the stele is engraved with nine seal characters: "The Tomb of Zhang Liao, Tinghou, the Former Capital of Wei". A bluestone shrine was piled down, with two square gates standing at the entrance of the shrine. There were three lions, tigers, and sheep stone beasts on each side of the shrine. All stone carvings are in the Han Dynasty style, solemn and antique.

Xiaoyaojin Park not only has beautiful scenery and rich cultural connotations, but also has a wide variety of exotic flowers and trees planted in the park. According to a survey, there are more than 180 plant species and 10,257 trees of various types in the park, including many ancient and famous trees that are over a century old, including oak, oriental cypress, juniper, ginkgo, and whitebark pine. A oak tree growing 50 meters east of Beijin Bridge is 17.2 meters tall, 50 centimeters in diameter at breast height, and 16 meters in east-west crown diameter. The shade area is as large as four houses. In 1980 and 1982, the azaleas, camellias, and cypresses presented to the park by visiting delegations from Kurume City, Japan, were also planted in the park by both parties, symbolizing the everlasting friendship between the two nations.