Longsha Park Travels was written in the 6th year of the Republic of China (1917), by Secretary of Police Department Gao Zhanxiang after the Heilongjiang Provincial Police Department Director Yang Yunfeng (courtesy name: Jigao) at that time completing the expansion and alteration of Cangxi Park under order. This travels was first collected by Longjiang Information, and was then collected by Annals of Longjiang County, and it's collected into Chorography Documents of Qiqihar City by Qiqihar City Chorography Office. The travels narrated from the construction of the park, the transformations of the park during various periods and dwelled on the situation after expansion. It's really a evolutionary history of the park.
The travels wrote, this park was built by Zhao Chaoyong (courtesy name: Beiqiang) during Guangxu Emperor Period in 1907). That's to say in Guangxu Dingwei Year (that is the 33rd year of Guangxu Emperor's reign)(1907), Zhao Chaoyong (with the courtesy name of Beiqiang and the sobriquet of Baixiang and Banyuan, who was holding a post in Heilongjiang Martial's Yamun), was ordered by Martial Cheng Dequan (courtesy name: Chun Ru; sobriquet: Snow Building; who was appointed as Assistant Military Governor of Qiqihar in the 30th year of Guangxu in 1904 and was appointed as Martial of Heilongjiang the next year) to plan and build on the site of the former grains granary. The park is located in the west part of the city, therefore it's called Cangxci Park (Granary West Park). Zhang Chaoyong once wrote 8 poems collected in “Random Thoughts on Cangxi Park) in the 18 th year of the Republic of China (1929) to recall the past 22 years ago (the poems were collected by Yisi Collections. Someone considered that the park was built in the 30th year of Guangxu according to the sentence Cheng Dequan was transferred to govern Heilongjiang from Yunyang, he is very talented and capable and he has contributed a lot to the development of the area quoted from the Longsha Park Travels written by Hu Rongguang (courtesy name: Dounan). He failed to catch the real meaning of the author, actually Hu Rongguang intended to say that Cheng Dequan had done a lot of good things benefiting the later generations since he was transferred to Qiqihar to govern the city.
The travels also mentioned when Zhou Shumo (courtesy name: Shaopu) was holding the post of governor of Heilongjiang in Qiqihar, who once excavate channels outside the wall of the park to transfer water from the river to increase the water amount of the East Lake Villa (which was built in the 3rd year of Xuantong 〈1911〉) and to create the landscape of villa beside water (the old citizens of Pukui must remember a zigzag channel flows eastward from the River-watching Pavilion, with a small wooden bridge across, which was refilled and the bridge was removed). Because the altitude of river is too low, the water could not go up, so that the behavior was suspended. And the soil was accumulated into a hill, then a pavilion was built on the hill. One could view the clear river and vast land on the pavilion. Zhou Shumo inscribed the stele for the River-watching pavilion. However, it's no called River-watching Pavilion at that time, and what Zhou inscribed was Weiyu Pavilion (the poem Weiyu Pavilion could be served as the proof).
What narrated in the latter segment of the travels were all newly-built landscapes that were built according to the conditions and the topography of the park. Counterpart Seagull Boat was built on a low land, the hut was as narrow as a boat, lightning, cloud, seagull and wild egrets are setting off with each other in the rainy weather in autumn; Choubian Tower, which is located at the southeast of Counterpart Seagull Boat, one could see a desolate view eastward all over from the tower, at that time the country was still in a chaos and one could not help worrying about the fate of the country; Xueku Bridge, piled up by stones, at the north of Choubian Tower; Love Me Hut was at the north of the bridge; further north was Yanwu House, which was a retiring room for police; several northern rooms were painted into dark green, which were named as Fairyland of Forests and Streams; a Musical Instrument Room was built on the west flat hill, equipped with musical instruments inside and various flowers and grasses planting outside, which could entertain the people; Zuiwengju was opposite with Zhenliu Jingshe, which was for rest and intoning; whose north was Kaigexuan, the place for military band rehearsal. In addition, the former pavilions, houses and huts were painted and decorated again, and all their names were inscribed again except the former Weiyu Pavilion, Longsha Wanli Pavilion and Fangwaiyou, etc, and there were also Jiyou Chaorantai, Xiaoqian Shilv, Yinxiang Xianguan and Heaven and Earth Yicao Hut. The name of park was changed into Longsha Park.
For several decades, some landscapes in the park had disappeared with the changing of seasons. Only the names for Weiyu Pavilion, Longsha Wanli Pavilion and Choubian Tower had far-reaching meanings and are still remembered and relished by people. Shortly after Zhang Congzhi's writing of pomes of Weiyu Pavilion and Longsha Wanli Pavilion Pillar Inscription at the beginning of the Republic of China, Zhang Hu Rongguang wrote his poem Choubian Pavilion. The previous wisdoms must write something on their habitats to express their feelings and to caution the offsprings, which should be reverently imitated. |
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