Li Aiping
Mother, mother, who is this? Black does not slip autumn. ”
"I don't know, why did you carry a black lump and put it here?"
Listening to the accent, this mother and son look like people on the dam, perhaps settled in Xuanhua, or perhaps specially visited the dam. The conversation between the two women is about the statue of Fang Guancheng, the governor of Xuanhua Wanliu Park, which may have been cast with iron or lead, and the appearance was brushed with a layer of copper water, which became black after oxidation.
Entering the park from the southeast corner of Xuanhua Wanliu Park, you will see this figure at a glance. Like this mother and son duo, many people are puzzled. In fact, Fang Guancheng has a considerable historical relationship with Xuanhua Wanliu.
Speaking of Fang Guancheng, we may wish to first understand this historical figure. Fang Guancheng was a native of Tongcheng, Anhui, and was born in the 37th year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1698). His grandfather, Fang Dengyi, was the head of the Ministry of Works, and his father, Lu Ji, was an official in the 48th year of the Kangxi Dynasty. In the fifty years of the Kangxi Dynasty (1711), Fang Guancheng's grandfather and father were exiled to Heilongjiang because of their involvement in the "literal prison". Fang Guancheng and his brother were spared exile due to their young age, and they were fed at the Qingliangshan Temple in Nanjing, where they lived on the help of monks. Every year, the two brothers travel thousands of miles between Heilongjiang and Nanjing, visiting their relatives outside guanwai, and their living conditions are extremely difficult.
One year, Fang Guancheng went north to the province again, walking alone on the Shandong Road, Hangzhou shen tingfang and Hainanese Chen Bi just happened to ride together to Kyoto to take the exam, these two people saw the young Fang Guancheng all the way with the car on foot, although the clothes are not neat, tired, but the head horns are magnificent, the temperament is extraordinary, can not help but ask each other. During the conversation, Shen Tingfang and Chen Bi learned that Fang Guan inherited his life and experience, and expressed deep sympathy, so he invited him to ride together. But the carriage could only accommodate two people, so they decided to take turns walking thirty miles and sixty miles per person along the way. The three of them went all the way to the capital. When Shen and Chen separated from Fang Guancheng, they gave Fang Guancheng a new coat of felt to ward off the wind and cold on the road. Decades later, Fang Guancheng, who was already a directly subordinate governor, learned that Shen Tingfang (Shandong Denglai Qingdaodaotai) and Chen Bi (the prefect of Yunnan) were passing through their official residences on their way to Beijing to report for duty, so they immediately sent people to invite Shen and Chen to the palace. This person, ah, is really "thirty years of Hedong and thirty years of Hexi", small look, see others have difficulties, can help it, maybe it will be out of the future!
His grandfather and father died of illness in Heilongjiang one after another, and Fang Guancheng had no livelihood and went into exile in the capital to make a living. In the tenth year of Yongzheng (1732), Fu Peng, the king of PingJun, served as a general of Dingbian and went out to conquer Dzungar, and the 32-year-old Fang Guancheng was selected by Fu Peng as a counselor, and was introduced by Fu Peng to the Yongzheng Emperor, and received the title of Cabinet Secretary. Since then, Fang Guancheng has been like a fish in the water, and has been in a smooth and prosperous manner, and has been directly subordinate to the cabinet secretary and the military machine Zhang Jing, the official Langzhong, the direct subordinate to the Qinghe Road, the direct subordinate to the envoys, the envoys directly subordinate to the envoys, the inspectors of Zhejiang, and the governors directly subordinate to them. In 17 years, he was promoted from a minor official of Qipin all the way to a directly subordinate governor from Yipin, and his promotion speed cannot be described as fast.
Ancient intellectuals emphasized that "the poor are good at their own, and the poor are good at helping the world." "Fang Guancheng is a clean and upright person, diligent in his work, meticulous in everything, and thorough in his work. In each term of office, he thought of the people's livelihood and worked hard, and he reclaimed sea ponds, built water conservancy projects, and controlled wind and sand, and his outstanding political achievements were deeply appreciated by the Qianlong Emperor. The governance of Xuanhua Wind and Sand is one example.
Xuanhua Province, near the Inner Mongolian Plateau, is a basin in the transition zone between Bashang and the North China Plain. The wind and sand are raging and unstoppable. Folk have "Xuanhua Xuanhua, four seasons of wind and sand", "a wind a year, from spring to winter" said. This is a bit exaggerated, in fact, the summer and autumn wind is less, winter and spring are not good, affected by the Siberian cold current, the periodic northwest wind wrapped in yellow sand attacks, such as running clouds, such as cloth thunder, the wind through the sand, day after day, southwest and northeast direction of the Huangyang Mountain at the foot of the formation of a huge Yellow Sheep Beach, Xuanhua City of course can not be spared, the people are deeply affected, to the Qing Qianlong, the western city wall and the north city wall under the "sand dune wall, walkers, horseback riders, farmers and herdsmen all take its high to enter and exit, and the city has almost lost its city." ”
In the fourteenth year of Qianlong, Fang Guancheng was appointed as the governor of Zhili, and he also managed the river, and began to plan to control the sand plague in Xuanhua Province. Fang Guancheng, such a big "leading cadre", managed the entire Hebei (including the present-day Beijing-Tianjin region), and thought of the people of Xuanhua, what a rare good official!
There are rivers at the foot of the mountain twenty miles north of Xuanhua City, which originate from many mountain springs in the North Mountains, converging into streams, and burying leaves, cattle and sheep dung and other things from the upstream of the rainy day to form a muddy swamp, which is very suitable for planting willow trees, and nearby villagers spontaneously plant some willow trees for profit, so it is called the Liuchuan River. Fang Guancheng personally made a field investigation, organized the entire army and people in the city to dig deep into the trenches, diverted the water of the Liuchuan River, planted a large number of willow trees on the trenches, and formed a large area of willow forest, and the sand plague was reduced. In the nineteenth year of Qianlong (1754 AD), Fang Guancheng again asked the imperial court to thoroughly control the sand and remove its accumulated diseases, purchase people's land in the west of the city as official property, obtain more than 1,000 mu of land, plant willow trees widely, and organize the people to remove the sand, build embankments on it after the sand is gone, and plant willows inside and outside the embankment, and at the same time vigorously build gardens for planting vegetables and crops in the west of the city, plant grain crops, and dredge trenches and sink wells for irrigation. To this end, it took more than three years, ten thousand willows were shaded, and thousands of years of sand were eradicated.
The success of planting willow trees to control sand has greatly changed the environment in the west of Xuanhua Province. So a small temple was built in the western suburbs to make people remember the merits of planting willows to control sand. Because this is the main traffic route from The Plug to Jin to Mongolia, merchants and emissaries are in an endless stream, so they built tea rooms in the west of the temple for tourists to drink water and quench their thirst; built a post house in the north of the temple for people to welcome and send them to accommodation; built a pavilion in the east of the temple, chiseled a pond under the pavilion, and led the river water to pass by; and planted flowers and trees on the embankment outside the pond, which was a beautiful scenery with the green silk and gold spikes in the nearby crop fields. Zhang Zhiqi, the prefect of Xuanhua who was born in the Qing dynasty, named the pavilion Wanliu Pavilion. Standing on the Wanliu Pavilion and looking around, the waves are clear, the green shadows are pale, and the desert scene of the past can no longer be seen, and in its place is a yanagawa resort.
After the wheel of the times turned into the 21st century, the Xuanhua District People's Government invested in the reconstruction of Wanliu Pavilion and built Wanliu Park with beautiful style and elegant environment. The park land is 40 hectares, the overall planning is "one lake and ten scenery", ten scenic spots include: Flower Harbor Fish Watching, Begonia Spring Dock, Yanagawa Sunset, Maple Ridge Stacked Mountains, Quchi Wind Lotus, Ancient Road and other landscapes. Its design condenses the classics of Jiangnan gardens, creates the beauty of lakes and mountains, mainly for sightseeing, fitness and entertainment, leisure and rest, and recreates the scenic scenery of "Yanagikawa Wanliu" in the park, which has become a highlight of Xuanhua. Friends from other places who come to Xuanhua, friends who have worked in Xuanhua, if you revisit the same place, you can't go to Wanliu Park to watch it, don't miss the opportunity.
Drinking water thinking about the source, it can be said that Fang Guancheng is the founding father of Xuanhua Wanliu Park, the merit is in the Qing Dynasty, and the benefit is in Qianqiu. It is a matter of course to place its statue in the garden as a memorial. The people of Xuanhua should remember him.