Shantou Small Park Review

"A small park, a history of Shantou" Shantou's old town, with many ancient buildings, famous riding buildings in the Republic of China, old old shops, mottled old city walls, quaint streets, vicissitudes of life but very historical. The changes of the times are inevitable, but here, everything seems to be static, everything is the old appearance. Small parks, the commercial center and cultural center of Shantou Old Town are the core landmarks and cultural symbols of Shantou Old Town. The city has memories like people, because he has a complete annual cycle and life. The small park is a landmark in the hearts of Shantou people. The center of the old city of Shantou City. The old generation said that "first there is a small park, then there is Shantou City". The small park is a place where Chaoshan people find roots. People proudly regarded this place as the birthplace of Shantou, and the small park became the star of the time. The arcades and streets in the small park area were fan-radially distributed; Add the old neighborhoods on both sides "four Yongyishengping", the old "salt steamed buns" in the east, the red pavilion in the north and the "Shantou port" in the south, forming a bustling commercial area and residential area with architectural characteristics in the 1930s. The department store next to the small park is 7 floors high, formerly the "Nansheng Company" founded by the Overseas Chinese Group in 1932, the second tallest building in Shantou before liberation, is one of the iconic buildings of the old Shantou and the symbol of the small park. Shantou City Small Park was built in the early 1930s, with rockery, fountain, trees with the "All Nations to the Dynasty" brand. In April 1934, an octagonal building was continued, with red columns and green tiles, and stone chairs were built around the pavilion, known as "Zhongshan Memorial Pavilion", commonly known as the small park. Later, the pavilion was demolished. In 1985, the garden department rebuilt the rockery, fountain, planting trees and shrubs such as coconut trees and fishtail anemones at the original site as a green island in the heart of the street. In 1997, the construction company of Lidao in Shengping District rebuilt the "Zhongshan Memorial Pavilion", and then rebuilt it again in late 2016. Zhongshan Memorial Pavilion is beautifully designed, located at the intersection of small parks, surrounded by Western-style arcades embedded in our classical Chinese garden-style pavilions, which can be regarded as a model of the combination of Chinese and Western. Most importantly, this pavilion is not built in the private garden of Daguan nobles like other pavilions, but belongs to public facilities. Everyone who comes to the small park can rest in the Zhongshan Memorial Pavilion and sit down and chat with relatives and friends. So this pavilion also brings us a sense of closeness. Since the reconstruction of the Zhongshan Memorial Pavilion in the small park, we have often seen this scene, the quiet neighborhood suddenly stopped the tour bus, and most of the tide people from overseas, when the small park area was lively again. In the eyes of overseas Chinese who returned to the country to visit and visit relatives, she was as unforgettable as the door of her hometown, as amiable as her grandmother's smile, and always so haunting. Although some travelers came here for the first time, the scenes and objects of their hometowns were only sporadic fragments in the accounts of their predecessors, but everything in front of them made them feel that they were also their hometowns. Walking in the street view of the young history of Shantou, eating the most distinctive snacks in Shantou, this is the best memory of the small park!