On June this year, the restored South Park will be reopened to Fuzhou citizens. Yesterday, the reporter visited the South Park under construction and found that this classical garden embodies many modern garden concepts. In the design of the park, it embodies the concept of “sponge city, the accumulated water in the park will gather in the” Long Lake “; And the newly introduced hundreds of trees in the park are all big trees over ten years, which is to seamlessly integrate with classical gardens. The construction unit said that at present they are also rushing for the construction period, striving to finish it around May 18, while the park was officially opened on June this year.
South Park lake long pavilion has come to the end of construction
The stone gate on the lake of South Park has been built
Tang Hao drawing
Pursuing memory archway gate will be rebuilt
In most people’s impression, the gate of South Park is an archway, which was moved from Fengchi Academy in the 1970 s. Yesterday, at the front door of the construction site in South Park, the reporter saw a red archway, which was exactly the replica of the archway in that year.
In the original planning, the gate of South Park was the gate of a quadrangle building, just like the gate of Wangfu. However, some experts suggest that the current South Park is only a part of the Royal Palace in the past, and the design of the gate of the Royal Palace is somewhat abrupt. After several discussions, the main entrance of South Park was changed to a memorial arch familiar to the public.
Fan Sizhe, an expert of the provincial urban and rural planning and design institute, said: “The design of the courtyard gate is to distinguish it from classical gardens such as West Lake Park. Many experts suggest that since we want to restore the original appearance of the park, it is more appropriate to use the archway familiar to the public. The original archway could not be used due to termite damage around 2000. We rebuilt it according to the size of the original archway.”
In the transformation, there are also many references to restore South Park according to the old photos. For example, the stone lion, Stone Bridge, Mulberry Pavilion, lychee Pavilion and Geng King dressing table in the park all restored the original buildings and passed the old photos of the Republic of China. Most of the views of the park are made of Taihu Lake stone.
“Sponge City” park rainwater flows into Long Lake
The lake body of South Park is now named “Long Lake”. At present, the lake has not been cleaned up. The lake is full of green duckweed, with red pavilions, which has a unique view.
The construction director of South Park told the reporter that after the completion of the park project, the water of “Long Lake” will be cleaned up, and tap water will be poured into the park and the lake body will be rebuilt. In the future, the lake water in South Park mainly comes from the rainwater accumulation in the park, which also reflects the concept of sponge city.
The Park Road is arranged with green bricks and cobblestones, and the pattern is like four petals of flowers. There are drainage ecological ditches on both sides of the Garden Road, and the cushion of the ecological ditches is ceramsite, which is mainly used for planting flowers, keeping the water permeability of flowerpots, and less used in garden roads.
Construction workers said that these ceramsite were spread outside rain pipe. In the future, rainwater would be filtered through rain pipe and collected to “Long Lake”, which would save water costs for the park. According to the design, the South Park will also plant lotus flowers in the “Long Lake” in the future.
Green plants are exquisite for ten years, big trees set off gardens
Walking into the reborn South Park, you will find that there are no exercise plaza here, mainly classical gardens, and the choice of many big trees is exquisite.
At the main entrance of the park, several golden papaya trees of more than 4 meters high were planted, which is an ornamental papaya introduced from Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Construction workers said that this kind of papaya is different from the edible papaya, and the result will be full of golden fruits, each of which is worth a lot of money.
The park also has rare tree species such as Chinese yew, plumophyllum, Camellia, Tan Gui, Lagerstroemia lobata, etc. Most of the big trees in the park are seedlings over ten years, with a breast diameter of more than 10cm and a tree height of more than 3 meters.
For such a design, Taijiang district Garden Bureau said: “South Park is a classical garden. The existing plants are mainly ancient trees and big trees, and the main varieties are Ficus microcarpa, camphor, mango and kapok. This greening design aims at improving the appreciation and enriching the plant level. Ten-year-old trees are designed to integrate with classical gardens. In addition, we will plant plants with local characteristics such as wisteria, litchi and Magnolia grandiflora Linn.”
These big trees also correspond to the scenic spots in the park. For example, near the Ryukyu Memorial Pavilion, plants such as Podocarpus macrophyllus and cherry blossoms are planted to reflect the friendly exchanges between China and Japan. The lychee trees beside the lychee Pavilion, plum blossoms beside the painted Spring Garden and mulberry trees beside the Mulberry Pavilion can all set off the names of the scenic spots.
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The past life of South Park
South Park is the Garden residence of Jingnan Wang Geng Jingzhong family in Qing Dynasty, and is the seat of Mulberry Cotton Bureau set up by Zuo Zongtang viceroy of min-Zhe.
It was opened as a park in 1915and was called “South Park”. At that time, it covered an area of 42,000 square meters, of which the lake accounted for about half and has a history of more than 300 years.
In the period of May 4th Movement, Fuzhou people advocated the patriotic act of “using domestic goods and resisting Japanese goods”, which took place in South Park.
It was reopened in 1972 and its area was reduced to 20,000 square meters.
In the 80’s of last century, South Park was contracted by people and became “South Park entertainment center”. As a comprehensive entertainment place, many children’s amusement facilities and entertainment places for the elderly were added. (Reporter Shi Lei/Wen Huang Kong Yu/picture)