Guiping Zhongshan Park

Guiping Zhongshan Park

Guiping Zhongshan Park is a national AAA-level tourist attraction.

Located in the urban area of Guiping City, Guangxi, it was originally a private garden belonging to Ma Wenxiang, an official from the Ming Dynasty, and was formerly known as Ma's Garden. It was later also called Mustard Garden and Xunzhou Park. In 1936, it was turned into Zhongshan Park and has a history of over 600 years. The park features dense shade, swaying ancient banyan trees, winding flower paths, lush green lawns, reflections of bridges on emerald water, and elegantly scattered pavilions. The environment is clean, quiet, and elegant, with about 40,000 various large and small trees and shrubs, including more than 40 ancient banyan trees over a hundred years old. Rare and precious tree species include osmanthus, magnolia, ginkgo, and metasequoia. Facilities within the park include an aquatic world and a swimming pool. The south gate area houses a food and tea house, an ice-skating rink, rockeries, fountains, a goldfish pond, and a zoo. There are also entertainment facilities such as strollers, mini trains, elevators, bumper cars, drifting boats, sightseeing boats, and merry-go-rounds. During holidays, the park is bustling with visitors, receiving approximately 300,000 domestic and international tourists annually, making it one of the main tourist attractions in Guiping City. Recently, investment in the expansion and renovation projects such as the Guiping Square at Zhongshan Park has been fully completed. The newly built bronze statue of Sun Yat-sen and classical-style architecture at the park’s entrance have added much character to the park...

Sun Yat-sen (1866–1925), also known as Wen, with the courtesy name Zaizhi and the art names Jixin and Yixian, was childhood named Dixiang and used the alias Zhongshan Qiao, often going by the name Zhongshan. He was born into a farming family in Cuiheng Village, Xiangshan County (now Zhongshan City), Guangdong Province. In his youth, he was influenced by the revolutionary traditions of the people of Guangdong and aspired to the revolutionary cause of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. He was a pioneer of China's modern nationalist democratic revolution, a great forerunner of the Chinese democratic revolution, a founder of the Republic of China and the Kuomintang, an advocate of the Three Principles of the People, and the creator of the Five-Power Constitution. He was the first to raise the banner of complete opposition to feudalism... More detailed information on Sun Yat-sen ++