Liu Hou Park Liu Hou Park, located in the center of Liuzhou, is a park built to commemorate Liu Zongyuan, a great writer in the Tang Dynasty, as the secretariat of Liuzhou, covering an area of 15.52 hectares. Established on 1906. There are Liu Houci, Liu Zongyuan's dressing tomb, Luochi, Citrus Pavilion and other monuments related to Liu Zongyuan. There are nearly 7 hectares of artificial lakes in the park, with clear water and curved bridges, which set each other off. The lake is lush with trees, pavilions and rockeries and pleasant scenery. There are also colorful places and facilities such as bonsai garden, zoo and children's playground in the park. It is one of the main tourist attractions in Guangxi. Liu Hou Park, like an oasis in the city center, is a good place for people to walk and play after public holidays and meals.
Liu Hou Temple, formerly known as Luochi Temple, is located in the west corner of Liu Hou Park in the center of Liuzhou. It is a mausoleum decorated by Liuzhou people to commemorate Liu Zongyuan, a famous politician, thinker and writer in Tang Dynasty. Liu Zongyuan, born in Hedong (now Yuxiang Town, yongji city, Shanxi Province), was named Hou (AD 773-8 19). He used to be a foreign minister in the etiquette department of the Tang Dynasty, but he was demoted for failing to participate in the political reform. He lived in Liuzhou in his later years (AD 8 15-8 19). During my stay in Liuzhou, I did many things beneficial to the people. Three years after his death in Liuzhou, Luochi Temple was built to honor him. At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, Song Huizong posthumously named him Wen Huihou. Therefore, the ancestral temple in memory of Liu Zongyuan is called Liu Hou Temple. The present Liu Hou Temple was rebuilt according to the architecture of the Qing Dynasty. Liu Hou is antique and magnificent, displaying bronze statues, cultural relics, charts, paintings and calligraphy of Liu Zongyuan and his Ministry, and introducing Liu Zongyuan's life and historical achievements in detail. There are more than 40 pieces of Dragon City Monument by Liu Zongyuan and Lizi Monument by Su Shi, which are well known.
There are also artificial lakes, bonsai gardens, rockery pavilions, winding bridges and cloisters and children's playgrounds in Liu Hou Park. In the first half of 2005, Liu Hou Park removed the silt from the artificial lake and transformed the landscape of the park. Taihu Stone from Baipeng Town, Liujiang County is one of the famous stones in Liushi, which changed the artificial traces of artificial lakeside revetment and formed a winding lakeshore line.
Unify the roads in the park into natural and quaint bluestone roads and blue brick roads, echoing the ancient charm of the ancient buildings of Liu Hou Temple; The zoo in Liu Hou Park was moved to Maohe Park before June 1 2005, where there are spacious and comfortable living conditions suitable for animals. The zoo moved out of the park and away from the city center, which improved the living environment of animals and the quality of visitors' visit to the park.
A series of measures make Liu Hou Park glow with new brilliance in the original historical and cultural atmosphere.