Liuhua Lake Park is a park of tropical charms composed of low hillocks and lakes. It is located at the south of Liuhua Road, north of West Dongfeng Road and west of North Renmin Road; there gates in the three directions. It is said that it was once a famous imperial garden in the ancient times. The maids of honor dressed and made up in the morning and threw flowers into the water. Petals floated away with the water so it was called Liuhua (drifting flowers).
Liuhua Lake was a natural lake at the ancient times and was called Lan (orchid) Lake or Zhilan Lake. Until 5 century BC the lake reached directly to the Pearl River and was an important inner harbor to go to the north from Guangzhou. In Tang Dynasty, here set up the Xihou jingting and was the waterway entrance of Guangzhou to the north. Boats came and left Guangzhou swarming into Guangzhou under the inspection of Si Ma (minister of war in ancient times). It was a military fort as well as an important transportation channel. In Ming Dynasty the lake was silted eventually into a sewage pond. In 1958, lake was constructed into an artificial lake through the voluntary work of the public. It has an area of 540,000m2 now with the area of 330,000m2 lake surface. Because at the northeast of the lake is the historic site of Southern Han Liuhua Bridge, so it is called Liuhua Lake Park.
The park makes the tropical natural scenery as the keynote. Tropical and subtropical plants and flowers and grass such as Palms, Chinese fan palms, yews etc are planted all over the park. The lake surface is broad. Clear waves, rippled green lake, banks with palms stretching and shadows of palms dancing, the banyan at the bank shade the sun giving a tranquil and charming view of southern China.
In the lake of the park there is an island called Lake Center Island. It has an area of 3,000m2 with vast shadowy of woods. This island is an aigret protection base and is under enclosed protection. Through decades of year's reproduction, now there are over thousands of aigrets on the island. It has become the rare “heaven of birds” in the downtown area. Around the island are pavilions, terraces for the visitors to see the birds. The beautiful environment has offered visitors preferable sightseeing conditions.
There is a garden famous in and out of china for the potted plants and miniascapes for display in Liuhua Lake Park—Xiyuan (west garden). It was built in 1956 with an area of 50,000 odd m2. It is at the bank of the lake with beautiful landscapes and full of poetic charms and is a welcomed place for miniascapes fans in and out of China. It is entitled “Home of Miniascapes”. In the garden there is an small island covered with banyans displaying several hundreds of miniascapes of Lingnan style such as murraya jasminorages, sparrow plums, Fujian Tea, gingkgo etc. At the inner yard of the miniascapes exhibition hall is tor miniascapes scenery spot called Pinshixuan (Stone enjoying loft). There displays all kinds tor miniascapes of pumice, Lashi, pine-skin stone and stone, grotesque and gaudy and full of beautiful things.
In the west garden there is a commemorative oak. It was planted by the queen of England ElizabethⅡon October 18, 1986 when she visited China. It was the time not long from the signing of China-England Joint Declaration. The monarch of Guangdong Province at that time Ye Xuanping sent a miniascape of 60 years old common jasminorange on behalf of people of Guangdong to the queen of England ElizabethⅡ. Because the common jasminorange had the same age with the queen so she was very pleased. She planted the oak carried from England in special plane and symbolizing the friendship of England and China with nomarch Ye Xuanping.
In the exhibition hall of Liuhua Tea Art City, thousands of red porcelain teapots are on exhibition. In the center of the hall is the yew tea desk with 6ms span, 30 odd people can sit around it. Tea drinkers can see the teapot while drinking tea and enjoying dim sums. The dim sums all have connections with tea. Snack cooks put the tea, powders of tea and flowers of tea into the snacks according to the specialties of each tea. To drink tea slowly here and taste snacks delicately here is enjoying life. What a happy and harmonious life! Indeed it is “A path of palms along the drifting water and shadowy flowers, the reflection of the Rainbow Bridge swings in the green mist. Light adornment betters Xihu, visitors are absorbed to leave for home slowly”. |
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