Wentu/Ying Zhigang

The melancholy and pale winter, rolling up fragments of memories, gradually drifting away.

One night of spring rain, on the water bank of Huqiu Wetland Park, a stream of smoke and willows were hanging.

It is in Jiangnan, where willow smoke is piled up, where old dreams sprout new shoots, quietly turning red and green.

The red ones are plums, the green ones are willows, and Gusu in early spring brings joy to life.

South of the water pavilion, painted boats come and go. Whispers three or two times, and thoughts flow on the shore.

The figure floated into the green, a patch of reeds was golden and green, the egrets spun low, shining in the shadows by the water, and a kingfisher stood on a branch overlooking the distance.

Spring is warm and flowers bloom, and you can read through the scenery of the season. Life is a painting of ink and blue painting.

A thin grass flute floated out from the edge of the dream, and the green grass dispersed slowly. Dawn, the earth was bright, and the heart was bright.

Waves and shadows, warblers fly and grass grow, rippling in the spring breeze, time opens the title page of the old age, knocking on the crystal soul.

Settling in Suzhou is a chance of karma. Huqiu Wetland Park is right at your doorstep, and many old Suzhou friends are envious.

Every day in early spring, I come here for morning runs. As the largest wetland park in the central Urban area, after 15 years of renovation, it has become an ecological specimen of the happy growth of local animals and plants.

At the end of last year, the International Federation of Landscape Architects, guided by UNESCO, awarded Huqiu Wetland Park the "2020 Outstanding Award in Wildlife, Biodiversity and Living Environment Improvement."

Huqiu Wetland Park is located in the northwest corner of Suzhou's Urban area and is an important part of the spatial layout of "Four Corner Mountains and Waters" in Suzhou's urban green space system planning.

In 2005, the Suzhou City government launched ecological restoration and transformation of the area and built it into an urban ecological wetland park. Large areas of abandoned artificial fish ponds have been restored to a "near-natural" water environment system, providing ecological habitat for hundreds of species of animals and plants living locally.

The park is located in the Sanjiao Zui area at the foot of the Tiger Hill. It was previously called the "Sanjiao Zui Wetland Park." It was later officially named Huqiu Wetland Park.

According to the natural geographical conditions of the base, Huqiu Wetland Park is planned to be nine tourist areas.

Among them, the reed Bitang Conservation Area is a core reserve that provides suitable habitats for swimming birds, waders, amphibians, fish and other organisms through the creation of different terrains.

There is not only a leisure theme area with an open lake as the core, but also a water town farming area that displays the characteristic paddy field agriculture and special aquatic plants of the Jiangnan water town.

There is a fisherman's style area with Jiangnan water town culture and Taihu Lake fisherman culture as the background, retaining the original fish pond texture, setting up diversified and interactive tours, and showing the long fishing and farming culture of the Sanjiao Zui area.

There are also different functional areas such as lotus cultural area, flower background area, and forest background area.

As the "urban green lung" in northern Suzhou, Huqiu Wetland Park has now become the first choice for hiking on the northern route.

The azaleas are growing abundantly in the park. It has been sunny and warm for several days, and flower buds have been cultivated.

What is worth looking forward to is that in another month, purple, red and white rhododendrons will bloom in full bloom, dotted in the green trees, forming a beautiful picture.

By then, I look forward to meeting you here and enjoying the good spring time in Jiangnan.