Chengdu Beautiful City (1)

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This topic will continue a long time, because there's a friend offered so many material.





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Huanhuaxi Park (get KML at here)



Huanhuaxi Park is a open park, and it is the largest open urban forest park in Chengdu. It 's history background is Dufu who is one of the greatest poem built a thatched cottage and living in it during he's in Chengdu. Dufu made a lot of poems when he lived in Chengdu, and we believe the Huanhuaxi gave him lots of ideas.



What about Huanhuaxi meaning? Huahua means wash the flowers, Xi means rivulet, so Huanhuaxi means this rivulet is used for washing flowers. Sounds so beautiful. The story is more beautiful. The story says, in Tang dynasty, there was a girl named Ren, lived near the river. One day, there's a monk with fully scabies and shabby dressing asked her to help him washing his cloth. The other people rejects but Ren was very kind and take his clothes. When she dip these shabby clothes into the rivulet, the imagic things happened, there's lotus were flowed out of her hand when she dipped the clothes. So, the rivulet get a name. Huanhuaxi, and the place where Ren washed the clothes named Baihuatan. And Ren named Ms.Huanhua.

In fact, the Huanhuaxi named before Tang dynasty. The convincing source says, the water in the rivulet is very good, when use this water to make paper, it could make the paper much more white, use this water to wash brocade, it could make the brocade much more bright, it could make the beautiful things more beautiful, like washing the flower.

In Tang Dynasty, the popular and fashion was take a short trip to visit Huanhuaxi, especially on Ms.Huanhua's birthday (Lunar calendar date is 19th, April). People would like dress well, and take some food and drinking (I think the drink should be alcohol), they would make some poems for the beautiful view or life.

Today, Huanhuaxi rivulet is still very beautiful, even it is the only one with 5 star park in Chengdu.