Title 1: This woman is by no means an ordinary woman

Today is a good day. Before sitting in the open-air teahouse under the sycamore tree, I wandered around in the rose garden for a week. It was when the roses were in full bloom, and all kinds of roses came into the camera.

Fuxing Park has become a paradise for nearby residents. Groups of friends, sitting or standing, had a lively conversation. One of the middle-aged women was lecturing on the brief history of Shanghai's parks. I squeezed into the crowd and listened attentively. Everyone around me was listening and nodded frequently. It seemed that this woman was an extraordinary person. She was meticulous and knowledgeable, which impressed me.

Something comes, something goes. This is also history, and this is also the history of civilization for thousands of years.

Shanghai's current parks can be roughly divided into four categories. The first category evolved from the original private gardens, the most famous of which is Yuyuan. The second category is parks built by foreigners in the concession, including Fuxing Park, Huangpu Park and Zhaofeng Park. The third category was transformed from a cemetery and tomb mountain. Zhabei Park was originally the tomb house of Song Jiaoren, and Huaihai Park and Jing 'an Park were both foreign tombs in their previous lives. The fourth category is a batch of newly built parks after liberation. People are familiar with Changfeng Park, Shanghai Botanical Garden, Forest Park, People's Park, etc. The relatively new one is Century Park in Pudong. In the past, most gardens in Shanghai were private gardens, which were of course closed to the public. Ordinary people can't enter the Lilac Garden of Li Hongzhang, an official family, or the Yu Garden of Pan Yunduan and his son; even if there are so many banknotes that are "Mike Mike", the Huangjia Garden (now Guilin Park) of Huang Jinrong, a famous person on the sea, will not necessarily open its doors to you. Of course, there are exceptions like Zhang Yuan, but exceptions are a little rare. In 1882, Zhang Shuhe purchased a large sum of money in order to support his mother's elderly and fulfill his filial piety. Unexpectedly, Zhang's mother died soon. Therefore, Zhang Shuhe saw that the garden was sad and had the idea of selling it. Upon the advice of a friend, he opened the garden to the world; this was the third year he purchased the garden. Since then, the park has become one of the famous gardens in Shanghai.

In ancient China, some people also called official gardens parks. Shanghainese call the garden built and operated by foreigners in the Public Concession a park. It comes from the Bund Park built by the British, which is today's Huangpu Park. At that time, the garden was called Public Park -Public Garden. This is the first park on Shanghai Beach and the first park in China. Although this Public Park is called a public, public, public and public garden, after it opened on August 8 in 1868 (the seventh year of Tongzhi of the Qing Dynasty), only foreigners could enter and exit freely. The park rules have this stipulation: "Chinese are not allowed to enter, except for servants of foreign residents." Ye Zhongjun's "Shanghai Scaled Bamboo Branch Ci" wrote: "Although the park equipment is new, Chinese are not allowed to visit it. What justice exists in the world, and how can it be said that seizing the master is a noisy guest?"

After continuous protests from Chinese and Chinese businessmen groups in the concession, the Ministry of Industry of the Public Concession agreed on May 4, 1886 that Chinese could enter the park with coupons. It was not until 1928 that the Ministry of Industry agreed to open all parks in the concession to Chinese unconditionally. Time, a full sixty years have passed. According to the Chinese, it was over sixty. How many sixties can there be in life?

Fuxing Park is also a public garden. Unlike the Bund Park, it was built by the French. The entire area is 88,900 square meters. One is that it was completed in June 1909 (the first year of Xuantong in the Qing Dynasty) and opened in July of the same year. Another is that it was built in 1908 (the 34th year of the Guangxu reign of the Qing Dynasty) and opened in the following year.

Earlier, the more than 100 acres of land in Fuxing Park was outside the concession. In 1900 (the 26th year of Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty), in order to prevent the Boxer Rebellion, Liu Kunyi, Governor of Liangjiang of the Qing Dynasty, and Governor of Zhangzhidong of Huguang, signed the "Southeast Mutual Protection Agreement" and the "Charter for the Protection of the Inner and Outer Walls of Shanghai" with the imperialist powers. As a result, the French army built barracks in this enclosure. After the signing of the Treaty of Xin Chou in 1901, the French army withdrew; the barracks were converted into a park, covering an area of 136.5 acres. The current area is much smaller than before. One difference from the Bund Park in the British Concession is that the Fuxing Park in the French Concession allows dogs to enter.

After the park was completed, it became a paradise for the French, but the Chinese could not step into it. Whenever French National Day comes, it becomes an important place to celebrate. During the day, the French Consul General and others parade here; at night, there are grand balls and open-air movies. However, the French call it "French Park", and the Chinese call it "Gujiazhai Park".

Mr. Cao Juren said that he had a friend whose family could go to the park because his father worked in the Ministry of Law and Industry. He invited Mr. Cao to visit the park several times, but Cao Juren did not go. Here's what he thought: "First, I have always been wearing a cloth gown, so there is no need to 'disgrace'; second, our 'anti-imperialist' fanaticism at that time made me unwilling to bow down. I didn't enter the park until it opened."

The park also opened in 1928, on April 16 of that year. Mr. Cao remembered in his book "The First Arrival of Fuxing Park" that the park "switched to a ticket admission system, one yuan per person per year." Although Mr. Cao did not say how much it would cost to go to Bund Park, it was estimated that it would be about the same as Bund Park. There were ten copper coins per person, and later they rose to two corners of the small ocean.

In 1944, the park was renamed Daxing Park, which was probably due to the change of Fuxing Middle Road to Daxing Road. On January 11, 1943, the concession was taken back. In 1946, the park was renamed Fuxing Park after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War. It is still the only French garden in my country that is relatively completely preserved. Fuxing Park is the one I have visited the earliest and the most among many parks in Shanghai. There is only one reason, which is that it is closest to home. When I was a child, adults took me there. After I became an adult, I took my own villain. I like Fuxing Park. It can be said that distance produces beauty. In fact, beauty exists objectively, whether you are at zero distance from it or a hundred thousand miles away. Fuxing Park has several outstanding beauties. One is the tall and towering sycamore trees, which cover the sun and cover the blue clouds; it is completely comparable to the sycamore trees I saw under the Eiffel Tower in Paris. There is also the tranquility and elegance. Not far away is Huaihai Middle Road Commercial Street, which is also considered to be in a busy city and does not affect the hustle and bustle. "Then the cold appearance and the eyes plan, the sound of the sound and the ears plan, the leisurely and empty person plan with the spirit, and the deep but still person plan with the heart." The address of the park says it is No. 105 Yandang Road, but there is more than one path to enter the park. In the past, there were four roads, entering from Yandang Road in the north, and the south gate was the intersection of Fuxing Middle Road and Chongqing South Road; in the west, there were two entrances, Gaolan Road and Xiangshan Road. Later, the entrance to Xiangshan Road was blocked due to the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall. Therefore, the park now has three directions and three entrances.

The woman finally said: I go to primary school in Fuxing Middle Road Primary School, and the school can see Fuxing Park. The garden walls at that time were not as open and see-through as they are today; only a touch of green shade emerging from the wall can be seen. Leaving people with a lot of reverie.