The origin of Cuihu Park

Cuihu Park, with a history of "Kowloon Pond", flows out of Jiuquan into Cuihu Lake. According to records, at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the Kowloon Pond of Cuihu Lake was "clear and beautiful, with a vegetable garden in the middle" and "it was inexhaustible, and the natives planted Chiba lotus in China", so it was called Caihaizi. Because there are nine water springs in Zhulin Island Pool in the northeast of Cuihu Lake, "Nine springs come out and merge into a pool, hence the name" Jiulong Pool ". After the Qing Dynasty, Kangxi and Daoguang built dikes from south to north in the lake and bridged three, forming the embryonic form of today's Cuihu. In the early years of the Republic of China, it was turned into a city park and officially named Cuihu. According to records, Tang Jiyao has built east-west dikes and north-south dikes in Jiulongchi, dividing the lake into four parts, with Haixin Pavilion in the lake, fish-watching hall in the west and Shuiyuexuan in the southeast. Weeping willows are planted all over the embankment, and willow branches brush their faces. There are many kinds of lotus flowers and lotus roots in the lake, and the flowers and trees in the garden are lush and willow trees are shaded. In 1917, the first waterworks in Kunming was built in Jiulongchi, Cuihu, and Kunming people who mainly drank well water for generations drank tap water. The spring water of Cuihu Jiulongchi provided a sweet spring to Kunming citizens until the early 197s ... According to the memories of the old Kunming people, the water of Cuihu in the past seemed to be shallower than today, but it was very clean and clear, and you could see the fish swimming at the bottom of the lake, just like a clever painting. Cuihu, in this way, entered the hearts of Kunming people, just as Mr. Chen Yinque wrote in a poem about Cuihu: "Chicheng County has lost people in the world, and Cuihu has moved home in spring." On May 22, 1976, the outcrop spring of underground water in Cuihu Lake, Kowloon Pond, failed to emit water, Cuihu Lake tended to dry up, and the ground subsided and the road surface cracked. In 1986, the Kunming municipal government allocated more than 1 million yuan to install pumping facilities to pump water from Panlong River into the lake. The rescue project of Cuihu Lake started one after another. The steel pipe from the water plant to Cuihu Lake was tens of kilometers long, and the "water replenishment" project of Cuihu Lake began. After that, many water pipes were added, and water was continuously delivered, rain or shine. Zhao Wei, head of the Cuihu Park Management Office, said: "Now the Jiulongchi in Cuihu has dried up. Except for a tap water museum, the water in Cuihu is injected in the form of external replenishment." Since then, it has become a thing of the past that the Kowloon of Cuihu spits water. Today, tourists are in Cuihu, and they can no longer see the spring water of Cuihu.