page_title: Hehuachi Park
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Hehuachi Park / History
caption_attribution_description: English: A few tanks parked behind a Honda motorcycle dealership just south-west of Hehuachi Park in Yangzhou English: The side of the building behind which the tanks are
context_page_description: Hehuachi Park is a small park in Yangzhou, Jiangsu province, China. The park's centerpiece is the Hehuachi, or Lotus Pond.
  Hehuachi Park's history can be traced back to the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The park plays an important role in the daily life of Yangzhou people, providing a quiet environment for people's recreation. The park is open to visitors free of charge.
context_section_description: The owner of the Garden brought in many precious rocks from lake Taihu in the past, some of those rocks were very big, and others were quite small. It is said that those rocks were the remains of the Huashi Gang of the Song dynasty. The owner placed those beautiful rocks together as man-made hills to decorate the Garden. With those rare artificial hills, the park took on a fantastic view.
  Additionally, the whole park were surrounded by different kinds of green trees. Inside the park, there were several flower houses built. A great variety of flowers were planted in those houses and they bloomed throughout the seasons. The whole park  is filled with sweet fragrance . In spring, the rhododendron, the camellia and the jasmine were planted in the flower house; in summer, the broad-leaved epiphyllum, the lotus and the oleander, and so on, were planted in it; in autumn, the sweet-scented osmanthus and the chrysanthemum were cultivated in the flower rooms, besides the wintersweet and cypress which were cold-resistant were cultivated in winter. Inside the flower house were arranged small artificial hills, with a pool next to them, and springs would trickle down from the hills. It took on lively pictures.
  However, in the late Ming dynasty and early Qing dynasty, the park has Ying garden and Jiufeng garden. After the war, it was badly destroyed. At the beginning of the 1990s, the main problems of Hehua pond park surroundings are "dirty, disorder, low and wet".
caption: In a quiet corner of the park
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