Wanzhou Xishan Park

Wanzhou Xishan Park

Xishan Park is located in the southern end of Wanzhou old city, facing the Yangtze River and carrying Xishan (Taibaiyan). It got its name from "Xishan Temple" in Ming Dynasty. Wanzhou Xishan Park is one of the earliest famous parks in China. It is also one of the famous ancient tea gardens in China. Xishan bell tower in the park is a Western-style bell tower. It is the third largest bell tower along the Yangtze River after Shanghai and Wuhan. It is a landmark building in Wanzhou.

Historical evolution

Wanzhou Xishan Park has a long history of construction. The name of the park was named after the construction of "Xishan Temple" in the Ming Dynasty.

At the beginning of 1924, it was built as Wanxian commercial port park.

From 1925 to 1928, Yang Sen planned to build Xishan Park, with an area of more than 560 mu. Li Huan, Secretary of the military department of Yang Sen and Secretary General of Wanxian commercial port Bureau, served as the park management office.

On September 5, 1926, the British warship shelled Wanxian. To commemorate the incident, the park was renamed "9.5 Park" and Zhu De was invited to nominate it.

In November 1928, it was renamed "Zhongshan Park" to commemorate the victory of the northern expedition. At that time, it was planned to cover an area of 600 mu. It mainly built the "Ninth Five Year Plan library" and the Museum of antiquities, the ancient buildings of the bell tower, as well as the gardens, pools, roads, pavilions, etc. in the same year, because of the opening of Xishan park scenic spots, Wang LINGJI inscribed Xishan, the park was renamed Xishan Park. Xishan Park is green in vegetation and broad in area. It has a vast view of the Yangtze River. There are many scenic spots in the park. At that time, Wanzhou Xishan Park was famous in China.

In 1939, Gregory kurishenko akimovich came to China to resist Japan.

On October 14, 1939, after the air battle, he fell into Wanxian County, Sichuan Province (now Wanzhou District, Chongqing). After that, the people of Wanxian County buried him in the Xishan Park of Wanxian city and built the kulishenko Memorial.

Wanxian county was liberated on December 8, 1949.

In June 1950, it was handed over to the Construction Bureau of Wanxian Municipal People's government by the people's Liberation Army Military Management Commission, and then set up Wanxian Xishan Park Management Office. After the liberation, the park added cultural, sports, entertainment, zoo and other functional facilities according to the nature of the regional comprehensive park. At the same time, it added walls, began to collect and sell park tickets, and built six scenic spots, such as bell tower, wuzhouchi, Jingyuan, platform, ornamental flowers and trees forest, which greatly improved the garden ornamental level. The number of visitors increased year by year, and the annual number of visitors reached 80 Million person times.

On the other hand, since the liberation, due to the need of urban development and the out of control of park planning and management, the park area has been greatly reduced, the infrastructure in the park has been in disrepair for many years, and the unsuitable facilities and units have settled in one after another. The internal staff dormitory is everywhere, causing traffic jams and the decline of landscape quality. Now, only about 100 mu of scenic spots can actually provide visitors. The whole park is less than 160 mu.

geographical environment

topographic features

The whole terrain of Wanzhou Xishan Park is a long and narrow natural slope with a length of 650m from east to west and a width of 120m to 250m from south to north. The highest point is the north gate, the altitude is 233m, the lowest point is the bell tower of Binjiang Avenue, the altitude is 175m, and the relative elevation difference is 58m. The whole terrain of Xishan Park is steep in the upper part and gentle in the lower part. There are two cliffs at the north end of the existing zoo and Jingyuan, with a length of 120m-200m. On the south slope, along the East-West belt of bell tower, Wuzhou pool, swimming pool, zoo and Jingyuan, a number of small natural platforms are distributed.

The general geomorphic feature of Wanzhou park is the artificial subtropical evergreen broad-leaved mixed forest. Among them, there are Bell Tower Scenic Area, wuzhouchi scenic area and Jingyuan scenic area which are open to the public in combination with history and culture. In the middle of the scenic area, there are camellia, Chimonanthus praecox, Phoebe and bamboo as the main ornamental botanical garden scenic area. There are amusement parks, swimming pools, zoos and other comprehensive tourism service facilities scattered among them.

Climate and environment

Wanzhou District is located in the west of Qutang gorge in the Three Gorges Reservoir area of the Yangtze River. The climate is mild and humid with abundant rainfall and less frost and snow. The terrain in the territory fluctuates greatly, and it belongs to the landform of deep hills and low mountains along the river. Winter is short and summer is long. It has the characteristics of warm winter, early spring, hot summer and autumn rain. The annual average temperature is 22.10 C, the annual average rainfall is 1185.4 mm, and the annual sunshine is 1484.4 hours. Its mild and abundant rainfall climate is conducive to the growth of a variety of plant resources in Wanzhou Xishan Park. For a long time, Xishan Park and its surrounding areas have formed rich forest resources, which in turn plays a vital role in improving the ecological microclimate of Wanzhou old city.

natural resources

Xishan Park is a famous natural landscape garden with towering ancient trees, dense shade and many ancient and famous trees. According to the survey data, there are more than 320 kinds of ornamental flowers and trees in the park, which belong to 95 families, 160 genera (see the plant list of Xishan Park for details). There are 913 ancient and famous trees in the park, which are divided into 39 families, 54 genera and 97 species. The main plant communities in the park are subtropical evergreen broad-leaved mixed forest, among which camellia, osmanthus, Chimonanthus, Cinnamomum camphora, Phoebe, etc. In the park, there are many tall and ancient trees of Jue tree, natural trees of Pterocarya stenoptera, Liquidambar formosana, Camptotheca acuminata, red bean, bamboo grove, and simple tree grove, as well as large and artificial ornamental trees such as palm, cattail, Weimao, Podocarpus arvensis, Magnolia grandiflora, Cinnamomum camphora, and white orchid.

Latest news

Xishan Park actively creates national 4A scenic spot

Yesterday, the reporter learned from the district tourism bureau that Xishan Park is actively creating a national 4A scenic spot. At the same time, Wanzhou waterfall has become a national 5A scenic spot, the immigration Memorial Hall and Mituo temple have become a national 3A scenic spot, and Binjiang lake and Tianxian lake have become national A-level tourist attractions.

It is understood that recently, the relevant person in charge of the establishment of A-level scenic spots of the Municipal Tourism Bureau and other people on the spot directed the establishment of 4A level scenic spots of Xishan Park. The expert group pointed out that Xishan Park has a long history of Camellia, and the ancient tea trees in the Three Gorges form a unique landscape. If these tourism resources are developed in an orderly way, it will become a good place for urban tourism. "In order to create a 4A scenic spot, Xishan Park needs to focus on improving the construction of tourist reception center and parking lot." After listening to the suggestions put forward by the expert group, the tourism district actively contacted with the management department of Xishan Park, conducted guidance and training on the relevant work of creating A-level scenic spots, accurately mastered the application procedures, compared with the evaluation standards, and fully supervised and paid attention to the construction of facilities.

According to reports, there are 7 national A-level scenic spots in the region, including 4A level scenic spot Wanzhou waterfall, 3A level scenic spot tanzhangxia and Yuejun mountain, 2A level scenic spot Tiefengshan Forest Park, Mituo temple, Ninth Five Year Memorial Hall and Xiyou cave. The immigration Memorial Hall and Mituo temple will strive to be national 3A scenic spots, and the riverside lake and Tianxian lake will strive to be national A-level scenic spots. By 2016, there will be 12 A-level scenic spots in the region, including one 5A scenic spot, two 4A scenic spots, four 3A scenic spots, five 2A scenic spots and five A-level scenic spots.

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