Wangjiang Tower Park
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The Wangjiang ( means overlooking the river" in English) Tower Park located in the woods on the bank of the Jinjiang Riverwas built to commemorate Xuetao, a poetess in the Tang Dynasty. The park offers a ideal scenic view with willows and stone banisters by bank, towers reflected on the waves, bamboos alongside the lanes and pavilions. The Chongli (grand and beautiful in Chinese) Tower, Zhuojin (washing brocade) Lou and Yinshi (poems-chanting) Building stand by the river. Other memorial buildings like Wuyunxian (five fairy clouds) Hall, Quanxiang (fragrance of spring) Pavilion, Pipa (loquat) Alley, Qingwan (refreshing and pretty) House, and Huanjian (paper-washing) Pavilion are elegantly arranged with lots of couplets and inscriptions. Xue Tao loved bamboo, so over 150 kinds of bamboos from home and abroad grow here in her honor. Wangjiang Tower Park thence wins the reputation of "garden of bamboo" .
Among the buildings in the park, the most majestic one is the Chongli Tower. Built in the 15th Guangxu year during the Qing Dynasty, it stands over 30 meters with four stories. The upper two stories are in octagon and lower two are square. Decorated with flying eaves, red pillars, green tiles and a gilded steeple ball on its pointed octagonal roof, the tower looks extremely splendid. Situated near the Jinjiang River, the tower is also named Wangjiang Tower, the symbol of Chengdu. West of it is the Zhuojin Lou, which somewhat looks like a boat. The name derived from the Zhuojin River. Since weavers in Chengdu during the Han Dynasty often washed brocades in the Jinjiang River, it is also called the Zhuojin River. People built it in form of a boat to memorize the scene that Xue Tao saw Yuan Zhen, her good friend, off with great reluctance. East of the Chongli Tower is the Yinshi Building built in accordance with the Yinshi Building in Bijifang (Green Chicken Lane) where Xue Tao lived in her late years when she subsisted on chanting poem and making paper. And, south of it, the Pipa Alley was built according to one line of a poem presented to her by a poet, Wang Jian, which goes that "live in loquat flowers".
About Xue Tao
The main structures in the park were built in memory of Xue Tao, a famous poetess in the Tang Dynasty. Xue tao was born in Chang'an (the present Xi’an), when she was young she moved to Sichuan with her father, Xue Yun, who served as an official there. After her father's death, she ran into financial difficulties and became a singer. Because of her talent in composing poems, she was called female Xiaoshu (an official position) at that time. With a pyrotechnic wit at her early age, however, her path through life was hard. Thanks to the appreciation of Wei Gao, the Jiedushi (an official position) in the east of Sichuan, she was able to move in feudal official and once served as Xiaoshulang (an official position). Being in with coetaneous famed poets such as Yuan zhen, Bai Juyi, Linghu Chu, Pei Du, Dumu, Liu Yuxi, Zhang Ji and etc, Xue Tao coauthored with them sometimes. The grief between her lines reflected her sadness and yearning towards a happy life. Most of her poems were lost and the remains of 88 poems were embodied in "Quan Tang Shi (poems of the Tang Dynasty in Chinese)" compiled in the Qing Dynasty. Xue Tao loved bamboo all her life and often inspirited herself with its virtue of fortitude and modesty.
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