The Five Wonders of Xiyuan in Xiyuan

The West Garden is well-known. First, the roads are intertwined and intricate. According to statistics, there are 92 lanes in the entire Xiyuan Park. The longest lane is 250 meters and the shortest lane is only 30 meters. The widest road is 4 meters and the narrowest is 1 meter. Second, the lane is deep and deep. For example, Jiefuli is 30 meters long and 1.5 meters wide. The names of the alleys in Xiyuan are full of cultural color. Jiefuyuan means great blessing; Tongrenli is taken from the sentence "The saints treat everyone equally, treat those who are near and those who are far away" in Han Yu's "Yuanren"; Tongli is taken from "Dangshu" "Book of Jin" has the sentence "With the same virtue, we have the same heart"; third, temples are scattered among them; fourth, wells are dotted among them. Before the Anti-Japanese War, there were more than twenty wells in Xiyuan. Now, except for the thousand-year-old Langjing, there is only one well left. The fifth is environmental sanitation. In 1954, Xiyuan made a positive contribution to Jiujiang’s title of “National Sanitation Model City”. In 1962, Xiyuan people carried out a comprehensive renovation of all lanes of all sizes in the entire area. Since 1963, it has been awarded the honorary title of the city's sanitary model community in successive years. Although Xiyuan is only a small piece of land in the center of Jiujiang City, it condenses the political ups and downs, economic ups and downs, and cultural heritage of Jiujiang in the past century. In 2003, the Jiujiang Municipal Government demolished and renovated the houses in the Xiyuan area. The demolition area reached more than 80,000 square meters, involving more than 1,460 residents and enterprises and institutions. In 2005, it was built into a shopping, leisure, tourism, catering, and entertainment complex. An integrated large-scale urban shopping plaza. The century-old West Garden has since become a piece of history and will forever remain in the memory of Jiujiang people.