When is the best time to go to Gulou Park?

The best time for Gulou Park: Nanjing has a subtropical humid climate, with an annual average temperature of 15.3℃ and an annual precipitation of1106.5 mm. The rainy season is from mid-June to early July. Nanjing was once known as the "stove". The extreme maximum temperature in July and August is sometimes as high as 40℃, usually around 35℃. But in recent years, Nanjing has become an advanced city with a national greening rate of over 30%, so more and more people travel to Nanjing in summer. "Hot in summer and cold in winter" is a remarkable climate feature of Nanjing compared with other cities in the south of the Yangtze River. Usually 65438+2 In the snow has the most opportunities. If you happen to encounter heavy snow in Nanjing, it is also charming, and the snow scene in Jiangnan is even more charming.

Gulou Park is located in Gulou Gang, downtown, west of the intersection of five main roads: beijing east road, Beijing West Road, Zhongshan Road, Zhongshan North Road and Zhongyang Road. Covering an area of 3.6722 hectares, the water surface is 80 square meters, and the green rate is 62. 1%. Gulougang, 40 meters above sea level, is the remnant vein of Zhongshan. There is the Ming Drum Tower on the hill. The park, named after the building, is a heritage park, which is under the jurisdiction of Gulou District.

The Drum Tower was built in the 15th year of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty (1382), and the Drum Tower Park was established in the Republic of China (12). In 17 (1928), Nanjing Park Management Office was established, and Gulou Park belonged to it. There used to be a weather station in the Drum Tower, which was later used as the temporary office of the Central Astronomical Research Institute. After the completion of the Purple Mountain Observatory, the Observatory moved out. In the year of 19 (1930), the Drum Tower Park was set up to take charge of Liang Qingshan and Jiming Temple. In July of the 24th year of the Republic of China (1935), a children's amusement park was built in the park. At the end of the 26th year of the Republic of China (1937), after the Japanese invaders occupied Nanjing, the puppet government set up the Gulou Park Office to take charge of Mochou Lake, Wutai Mountain, Liangqingshan and street trees. In May of the 35th year of the Republic of China (1946), the National Government also established the Gulou Park Management Office in Nanjing.

After the liberation of Nanjing, Gulou Park was managed by the Garden Squadron of the Work-for-Relief Team, renovated and afforested. It is also used as a lookout for the fire department. 1957 On August 30th, the People's Government of Jiangsu Province listed the Drum Tower as a provincial cultural relic protection unit. 1958, the park covers an area of 2 hectares, with a green area of 0.8 hectares and a nursery of 0.5 hectares. Gulou Park Management Office was established, under the leadership of the greening team of Gulou District Urban Construction Branch, with more than 10 employees. The management scope includes the greening and maintenance management of Gulou Square and its surrounding areas, and serves as the greening arrangement and flower arrangement for major festivals in Gulou Square. 1959 10 On the 10th anniversary of the National Day, Gulou Park was officially opened to the public.

From 65438 to 0966, when the Cultural Revolution began, the park stopped opening to the outside world, and all the workers were merged into the greening team in Gulou District. The park became the headquarters of "attacking the armed guards" and later became the headquarters of "civil air defense". After the Cultural Revolution, most of the indoor cultural relics and antiques in the park were lost. The rest were also badly damaged.

With the approval of the Nanjing Municipal Government, the "Drum Tower Park Leading Group" was established on September 1 1 and 65434, responsible for the restoration of Drum Tower Park, including the greening of Drum Tower, gulou west Pavilion ("Lezhi Pavilion"), Drum Tower Square and its surrounding areas, with employees 15. 1976 February 18. The base of Drum Tower collapsed seriously due to the "civil air defense project", and the southwest side of the base cracked and sank from top to bottom. On September 30th, 1979, the renovation project of the Drum Tower was completed.

1 97910 June1day, Gulou Park resumed its opening to the outside world. Administratively, it was separated from the greening team in Gulou District and directly managed by the district and city. The park has 0/9 full-time employees and 0/0.8 hectares of green land, and has set up a teahouse, a food agency, a foreign guest service department and a photography department. The park has begun to enter the track of building its own income-generating park. To 1993, employees in the park 105.

During the reconstruction and construction of Gulou Park, flowers and trees were widely planted and scenic spots were arranged, which greatly improved the park environment. The area of park green space increased from 0.8 hectares and nursery 0.5 hectares to 2.28 hectares. Gradually changed the single management task form of "managing the Drum Tower, gulou west Pavilion, Drum Tower Square and its surrounding greening", cleverly designed fine arrangements in a narrow area, and invested 1 1273 yuan to build a rockery in the southwest corner of the park and repair the garden road. Constantly create a number of natural, simple and beautiful scenic spots. On the basis of realizing "flowers in spring, shade in summer, fruit in autumn and green in winter", green planting will continuously improve the quality in variety and scale. The flowers used in major festivals are basically self-sufficient, and there is also a certain level of gardening in co-organizing various exhibitions and arranging exhibition halls. Sabina vulgaris, Ginkgo biloba and Sophora japonica planted around the Drum Tower in the early years have become towering trees, and the red-walled building-Drum Tower among the green trees is even more majestic.

On the top floor of the Drum Tower, a pair of dragon and phoenix pavilions are placed on both sides of the "Street North" of Kangxi's southern tour, which set each other off and are simple and elegant for visitors to watch.

Longfeng Pavilion is 4 meters high and 3.5 meters round, with a tower-shaped appearance. The exhibition hall is a hexagonal seven-story and two-story structure, with gold-plated platinum and glittering gold.

There are extremely finely carved figures, plants and animals at all levels in the Longfeng Pavilion. From the bottom to the top, the fourth level is characters, all warriors, characters in the story of the Three Kingdoms and so on. The third level is flowers and birds, including sunflowers, bamboos, pines, bananas and evergreens. There are tigers and leopards, snakes and insects among flowers and birds; On the second floor, there are six knights carving alone. On the supports of six pavilions, the phoenix is on the top and the dragon is on the bottom, and the six dragons hold the column, and the six phoenixes are auspicious; The upper part of the pavilion is covered with flying cranes and lotus flowers. The whole exhibition hall presents exquisite pictures, compact and harmonious in shape, vivid and exquisite, and its carving technology is extremely exquisite, which is praised by the world and has high ornamental value.

The octagonal pavilion is located in the children's playground on the west side of the Drum Tower, with exquisite architecture and beautiful appearance. There are eight cornices, and the top flower of the pavilion is Ganoderma lucidum, which is16m high and10m wide. There are railing seats around the exhibition hall for tourists to sit around. This pavilion was built in the early years of the Republic of China for his mother's birthday. At that time, it was called "Qi's Shouting Pavilion", and the Qi's Shouting Monument (a turtle-carrying monument) stood in the east of the pavilion, which has now disappeared. After liberation, Shouting Pavilion was changed to "Laoting". One of the meanings of "music" is to take the meaning that the big bell pavilion echoes the drum tower. Now there is a big bell pavilion on the east side of the Drum Tower. The bell and drum stand upright and sound echoes. Therefore, this sentence is used as "uneven leeks, gentle and graceful left and right, bell and drum music", taking bell and drum as the topic and taking "music"; The second floor means that a children's playground was built around the exhibition hall, named "Joy", to give children happiness.

The Foreign Guest Service Department is located on the third floor of the Gulou Pavilion, which is designed to receive foreign guests. Business projects mainly include handicrafts, calligraphy and painting. This is a foreign exchange income-generating department. Since 1979, foreign exchange income has increased year by year, from the original 1. 1.7 million yuan to 2 1.8 million yuan. There is a teahouse on the second floor of the Drum Tower, which has a long history and was opened to the public as early as the 23rd year of the Republic of China (1934). 1979 after the park was opened to the outside world, the service of the teahouse was geared to the people. There are several famous horizontal planes hanging on the indoor walls, including Liu Haisu's Ming Drum Tower, Shutong's Ming Drum and Qing Monument, Du Ping's relaxed and happy, Jiang's Long Pan Hu Ju and Xiao Xian's Long Guan Lou, which add a bit of simplicity and elegance to the teahouse. Over the years, it has achieved high social benefits.

The reform and opening up has made the Gulou Park full of vitality, introduced the enterprise management mechanism, promoted the park's own construction, and made achievements in the construction of socialist spiritual civilization and material civilization. The number of Chinese and foreign tourists has increased from 6,543,800+at the beginning of the park to 654,38+more than 2 million at the end of 1993. The number of fixed assets increased from nothing at the beginning of the park to 1993, reaching 2.38 million yuan; 1993 earned 420,000 yuan; Through the efforts of the employees of the whole park, all the work has achieved good results, which has been well received by all walks of life and government departments, among which 18 has been commended by departments above the municipal level.