What are the attractions and fun things to do in Hunan Martyrs Park in 2022?

Hunan Martyrs Park is the largest urban park in Changsha. Here you can not only pay homage to your ancestors, but also enjoy flowers and go boating. So what are the attractions in Hunan Martyrs Park? See details below, let’s take a look!

: What are the attractions?

1. Hunan Martyrs Memorial Tower

The opening hours of Hunan Martyrs Memorial Tower are: Tuesday to Sunday 8:30-16:30.

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It was built to commemorate the Hunan revolutionary martyrs who sacrificed heroically for the liberation of the Chinese people in the past hundred years, especially in the past thirty years. The top of the tower is octagonal, with green glazed tiles, and there is a memorial hall under the monument. On both sides of the memorial hall are two exhibition halls, displaying the portraits and deeds of 90 martyrs including Yang Kaihui, Xia and Guo Liang.

2. Nianjia Lake

The lake has rippling blue waves and green willows. It is beautiful in spring and autumn, the scenery is beautiful, and the boats are full of tourists. There are four islands in the center of the lake, and there are three arch bridges between the islands. They stood aside and looked out from the fence, which made the water wide and the sky high.

3. Yingfeng Bridge

The Yingfeng Bridge connects the island in the center of the lake and the lake shore, and is built in the form of a covered bridge in the west of the lake. The bridge has low columns and high corridors, reflecting the local customs of ancient Hunan. There is a pavilion at each end of the bridge for tourists to rest and enjoy the park scenery.

4. Memorial Pavilion Gallery

The Memorial Pavilion is a gallery-style building from the Song Dynasty, and the beams and columns are all made of pure wood. The three pavilions are connected by a vermillion-lacquered red gallery, and the main pavilion in the middle is two-story. When you climb up the building, you can enjoy a panoramic view of the park, with lakes and mountains in front of you. The pavilion is covered with green glazed tiles, the beams and eaves are carefully painted with colorful patterns, and the beams, columns, and railings are all painted with bright red paint. It is majestic and has a strong national style.

5. Xianxian Pavilion

Xianxian Pavilion is located at Nianjia Lake to the east of Martyrs Park. It has two floors, white walls and green tiles, pitched roof, exposed windows, and columns. cloister. It has strong ethnic architectural features and authentic Hunan customs. It mainly deals in Hunan cuisine with Hunan flavor, undertakes various banquets, and receives domestic and foreign tourists. It is now the Yang Gospel Art Museum.

6. Arc-shaped Pier

The Arc-shaped Pier is located east of the Martyrs Park Memorial Tower and west of Nianjia Lake, where tourists gather. The entire pier is composed of granite steps with a rest platform in the middle, with an altitude of 35.515 meters. Above the highest water level of Nianjia Lake, stone retaining walls are built on the north and south sides of the pier, and guardrails are set up along the walls for visitors to enjoy.

7. Qijiawan and Tengqiao

It was named after several people named Qi lived here before the park was built. After the completion of the Martyrs Park, the original depression was widened and a water body with an area of ??864 square meters was built. A small concrete cane bridge with imitation wood structure spans it, and a glazed tile four-corner pavilion is built on the hillside to the west of the pool. There are weeping willows, ancient camphor trees, ingot maples, redwoods, etc. beside the pool. Plant along the pool. The scenery is beautiful, with green clouds like clouds in spring and red leaves like fire in autumn. The background is set off by the trees in the memorial area, and the reflection of the Martyrs Memorial Tower can be seen in the pond, which is like an elegant landscape painting, making people feel relaxed and happy.

8. Red Army Ferry

In July 1930, Peng led the Third Red Army to attack Changsha, defeated the enemy with more than 30,000 troops, and captured Changsha on July 27. Some soldiers of the Third Red Army crossed the Liuyang River from the lake into Changsha. After the completion of Martyrs Park, Hudian Ferry was included in the park and renamed Hongjun Ferry. In 1987, a fir pavilion and a stone tablet were built, with the words "Hongjun Ferry" engraved on the tablet to commemorate it. There is an ancient ginkgo tree at the ferry, which is a witness to the Red Army's transition.

: What’s fun?

1. Flower viewing

In spring, you can enjoy red plums, camellias, cherry blossoms, peach blossoms, crabapples, magnolias and wisterias .In summer, you can enjoy lotus, crape myrtle, canna, oleander, and hibiscus. In autumn, you can enjoy osmanthus, maple leaves, and metasequoia.

2. Commemorate ancestors

There is a 58.6-meter-high Martyrs Memorial Tower in the museum

The Hunan Folk Culture Village is located in the northeast corner of Hunan Martyrs Park. It is a cultural tourism area integrating the folk art, folk customs and residential buildings of the five ethnic groups in Hunan Province, covering an area of ??more than 40,000 square meters. Arrange five villages of Tujia, Dong, Miao, Bai and Yao ethnic groups. There are pot halls and stilt houses in Tujia Village, drum towers and teahouses in Dong Village, bluestone wooden buildings and two-person terraces in Miao Village, courtyards in Bai Village, and bamboo buildings in Yao Village. The village also has traditional ethnic delicacies such as Yao people’s rice noodles, tofu balls, Tujia brown chicken, Dong people’s bamboo tube chicken, and Miao people’s bamboo fish.

4. Rowing.

Jiahu is located on the east side of the Memorial Tower of Martyrs Park. The lake has rippling blue waves, green willows whistling, spring and autumn colors, beautiful scenery and throngs of tourists. There are four islands in the center of the lake, and there are three arch bridges between the islands. When you are on the bridge, you can look over the railing and it looks like the water is very wide and the sky is very high, which makes you very interesting.

5. Amusement Park

The southeastern part of the park is the entertainment area. There are various modern entertainment facilities, such as trampolines, Ferris wheels, and merry-go-rounds. All kinds of entertainment can satisfy my heart. childishness. Every spring and autumn, Xiangyi Garden holds various flower bonsai exhibitions or calligraphy and painting exhibitions.