Huilan Pavilion is located on the seaside of Shinan District, Qingdao City, across the water from Xiao Qingdao, and its northern end is connected to Zhongshan Road in a straight line. It is regarded as an important symbol of Qingdao. This pavilion is a two-story octagonal pavilion. The pavilion is covered with colorful glazed tiles and supported by 24 red-painted pillars. There is a spiral staircase in the center of the pavilion. The upper floor is surrounded by glass windows. There is a saying that "one window, one scene, one scene, one painting". We can look out the window and see the beautiful Qingdao Bay and various surrounding scenic spots and famous buildings in all directions.
In 1930, at the initiative of Shen Honglie, the mayor of Qingdao at the time, it was decided to comprehensively transform the trestle that had become an important tourist attraction in Qingdao.
Construction started in September 1931. A semi-circular breakwater was built at the southern end of the bridge, and a new double-story octagonal pavilion with cornices and octagonal pavilions in the traditional Chinese style was built on the south end of the bridge, named "Huilan Pavilion". The top of the pavilion is covered with yellow glazed tiles and surrounded by 24 circular pavilion columns. The pavilion is a two-story spherical hall with a 34-step spiral staircase in the center that can be spiraled up to the second floor. In April 1933, all projects were completed.
Feige Huilan The three characters on the plaque of "Huilan Pavilion" were originally inscribed by Shen Honglie, the former mayor of Qingdao. This plaque was looted to Japan during Japan's second occupation of Qingdao. After the founding of China, many people went to Japan to look for this plaque, but could not find it. The current three characters "Huilan Pavilion" were written by the famous calligrapher Shu Tong.
In 1936, among the "Ten Scenic Spots of Qingdao" jointly selected by the municipal government and experts and citizens, "Feige Huilan" with the trestle as the main scene became the first scene among them. On January 16, 1992, the Qingdao Municipal People's Government announced it as a municipal key cultural relics protection unit. The road on the same north-south straight line as the trestle is Zhongshan Road. It is an old commercial street in Qingdao with a history of more than 100 years. After Germany occupied Qingdao, in order to build a deep-water dock in Houhai, a north-south road was opened in 1899. This was the prototype of Zhongshan Road. To the south of Dexian Road is a German residential area, named "Federi Street". To the north of Dexian Road is a Chinese residential area, called Dama Road. In 1922, the two roads merged together and were named Shandong Road. . In 1929, in memory of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, it was renamed Zhongshan Road. Zhongshan Road has a total length of more than 1,300 meters, 63 buildings, and more than 160 shopping malls. It is also one of the 100 civilized demonstration sites designated by the state.
At present, Zhongshan Road is also one of the most prosperous places in the old urban area. From this point of view, the trestle has become the transition between the sea and the street. It closely connects the sea and land. The tallest building on Zhongshan Road is the Parkson Commercial Building, which opened in September 1998. It is one of the first 18 joint venture retail enterprises in the country approved by the State Council. It is a joint venture between Qingdao First Department Store and Malaysia's Golden Lion Group, with a total investment of 780 million yuan. It has 5 underground floors, 49 floors above ground, and a construction area of ??120,000 yuan. square meters, the shopping mall area is 50,000 square meters. At that time, it was called the first floor of Qilu Commercial Building. The small island opposite Huilan Pavilion is Xiao Qingdao. Little Qingdao is located in Qingdao Bay on the north side of the estuary of Jiaozhou Bay, with beautiful scenery. The original name of the island was Qingdao. This island was named Qingdao because of its lush forests all year round and Huangdao on the opposite side. Each other is yellow and green. Qingdao City was established in 1929, and it was also named after this island at that time. It is 720 meters away from the coast, has an altitude of only 17.2 meters, and an area of ??only 0.012 square kilometers.
The "Lingshan Wei Zhi" written in the 16th year of Qianlong's reign in the Qing Dynasty (1751) contains: "Little Qingdao is on the opposite bank of Huaizikou, and those who enter the sea must take it." Because the island is shaped like a guqin, the water is like a string, and the wind blows the sound like a guqin, it is also called "Qin Island". Every summer, the sea breeze blows and the trees are lush, giving it the reputation of "Qingang Green Drops". The "Piano Girl" sculpture on the island is also one of the symbols of Qingdao.
When Germany occupied Qingdao, it named the small Qingdao "Akna Island". After Japan occupied Qingdao instead of Germany in 1914, it changed the island's name to "Kato Island". After the return of Qingdao, the Jiaoao Governor's Office named it Little Qingdao and opened it as "Little Qingdao Park" in the early 1930s. It was equipped with teahouses, flower gardens, stone benches, stone chairs, roads, and yachts. Visitors can take a boat to the pier. After Japan invaded Qingdao for the second time, it became a Japanese military garrison and has been used for military purposes ever since. In 1942, a 377-meter-long and 8-meter-wide embankment was built to connect it to the land, becoming a land-connected island.
There is a white lighthouse at the highest point of Little Qingdao. It was built by the Germans in 1900 and is a key protected cultural relic in Qingdao. It is 15.5 meters high and octagonal. The tower is equipped with a reflector made of crystal prisms. , and used a bull's-eye rotating flashlight to emit light. In 1997, it was replaced with a Spanish-made navigation beacon light. The original light was sent to the Qinhuangdao Navigation Beacon Museum for collection. This lighthouse has a sea range of 15 nautical miles and is an important navigation mark for passing ships entering and leaving Jiaozhou Bay. Together with the trestle, it is regarded as the main symbol of Qingdao City. There is a saying that "there are red lights in the vast bay, which come on and off, the white pagoda on Cui Island bathes in the night, and the floating lanterns on Qin Island spread its reputation."
In the summer of 1988, Little Qingdao was re-planned and built into a tourist attraction in Qianhai. Today's small Qingdao is full of black pine, cherry blossoms, peach, pomegranate, hibiscus, crape myrtle and other flowers and trees. To the east of the Zhanqiao and along the north edge of Taiping Road, there is the Zhanqiao Hotel. It was originally a hotel affiliated with the German Qingdao Hotel. It was designed by the German architect Paul Friedrich and is a typical German classical building. The main building of the original German Grand Hotel was demolished in 1993.
During the German occupation of Qingdao, Prince Heinrich, the younger brother of German Emperor Wilhelm II, visited Qingdao many times and stayed in this hotel. Therefore, it was commonly known as "Prince Henry Hotel" or "Henry Hotel" at that time. Prince Hotel". Sheng Xuanhuai, the then German Prince of Meklenborg and Minister of Posts of the Qing Dynasty, also lived here. In August 1922, Sun Yat-sen went to Beijing to meet with Yuan Shikai. On his way back to Shanghai, he arrived in Qingdao under German rule on September 28 and stayed at this hotel.