Xuanwu Park

　　Covering an area of 73,700 square meters, Xuanwu Park is a new-style urban garden that blends classical architecture with modern landscaping art, featuring the style of a Jiangnan-style garden. It emphasizes elegance and tranquility, and includes five scenic areas: "Lilac Academy," "Pine and Bamboo Dripping Green," "Emerald Reflections," "Quiet Elegance Garden," and "Green Waves Flowing Sound." The park gate is uniquely delicate, with a five-bay entrance flanked by scenic walls and brick carvings, giving it an antique and dignified appearance. Upon entering the gate, visitors are greeted by rockeries, ponds, and waterfalls. The design of “revealing the mountain right at the entrance” uses lush greenery to divide the scenery, creating a winding path through the hills. Beyond the rockery, the park is divided into eastern and western sections. The eastern part highlights landscapes with water features, featuring "Quiet Elegance Garden" and "Lilac Academy" as main scenic areas, adorned with rocks, clear pools, cloud walls, pavilions, terraces, pavilions, and bridges, creating a serene and elegant atmosphere. The western section mainly features mountain forest scenery, complemented by scenic areas such as "Pine and Bamboo Dripping Green," "Green Waves Flowing Sound," "Emerald Reflections," and "Awakening Lion Garden," offering views of the profound, quiet, rugged, and wild mountain forest landscape.

　　The most representative scenic area—“the garden within the garden”—Quiet Elegance Garden forms its own landscape unit within Xuanwu Park. It includes eight scenes: the Literary Quiet Pavilion, the Cicada Chirping Pavilion, the Elegant View Terrace, the Stillness Pool, the Mandarin Duck Pavilion, the Lotus Bridge, the Moonlight Embankment, and the Elegant Island. The Literary Quiet Pavilion is surrounded by water on three sides, while on the left bank, atop a small hill amidst lush pines and cypresses, stands the Cicada Chirping Pavilion, creating the poetic ambiance of “where cicadas chirp, the forest feels quieter.” Below the hill lies the Stillness Pool, with a Mandarin Duck Pavilion along its bank. At the back of the scenic area is the Lotus Bridge, resembling a rainbow after rain. To the south is a lotus-shaped fountain pool, beneath which three lively statues of children playing in the water add a touch of charm. Crossing the bridge leads to the Moonlight Embankment, south of which is a stepping-stone bridge made of blocks of stone, with stones adjacent to the water, creating a seamless connection between water and stone, truly evoking the feeling that “water makes one feel distant.” To the east of the embankment lies the Elegant Island in the pool, covered with dense green pines and adorned with a statue of a white crane. On a bluestone miniature landscape is inscribed a poetic line: “Delighted to see the evergreen pines thrive, and even more joyful to watch the white cranes dance on the Elegant Island.” Behind the bridge, a small hill is home to the Elegant View Terrace, from which the entire garden can be viewed. The entire Quiet Elegance Garden features stacked rockeries, uniquely shaped stones, and a peaceful, pleasant environment.

　　Starting in March 2007, Xuanwu Park added various energy-saving facilities such as rainwater utilization, water-saving irrigation, solar power, and shallow geothermal energy utilization. After renovation,

　　Xuanwu Park has become an energy-saving park in Beijing equipped with comprehensive energy-saving facilities, and it is also an energy-saving park that utilizes shallow geothermal energy for heating.