The spring breeze rises in April, and the sun shines brightly on mountains and rivers.
The Qilihe River in Dongcheng is green and full of bright flowers.
Unconsciously, it's spring again. Spring, spring breeze, the color of spring, green, yellow, red, purple, blue, bright sunshine, blue sky, slight cool breeze, gentleness, warmth and softness, make people feel relaxed and comfortable.
Living by the Qilihe River in the East District, you can listen to the footsteps of youth, taste the flowers, feel the breath of spring and listen to the story of Qilihe River.
Originally named Cao Zhuang, Qilihe is said to be named after Cao Xian settled here in the Ming Dynasty. According to the old people in the village, during the Tongzhi period of the Qing Dynasty, bandits were everywhere, and bandits were rampant, with many victims. The public security in Zhengzhou is chaotic, and many villages have built stockades. In order to prevent bandits and ensure the safety of the neighborhood, poor Cao Zhuang also built a stockade.
Cao Zhuang was able to build a stockade thanks to a Guo-zi-jian diploma named Ma Wanyuan in the village. It is said that he was imperial academy of Ming and Qing Dynasties, with a chivalrous nature, and was famous in Fiona Fang for more than ten miles. Ma Wanyuan was very sad to see bandits endangering his neighbors. With the consent of the villagers, he took the lead, mobilized his neighbors to contribute money and decided to build a stockade to protect everyone. So he got everyone's response and quickly prepared enough bricks and lime. In the winter of Tongzhi four years, the stockade began to be built.
The whole wall of the stockade is hexagonal, with a bottom width of three feet and a height of more than two feet, a top width of one foot and five feet and a circumference of one mile. The three characters of "Tongxin Zhai" carved with bricks are embedded above the gates of East and West Zhaizi respectively.
According to the Records of Qilihe Village, when Cao Zhuang built the village, Wang, then the magistrate of Zhengzhou, was in a hurry because he had no money to repair the city wall. When he heard that Cao Zhuang was building a village, he wanted to get all the materials for building a village wall in Cao Zhuang. So, he sent a leader to Cao Zhuang to beg for it, saying that the Qing law expressly stipulated that villages within ten miles of the city were not allowed to build village walls and ordered them to stop working immediately.
Ma Wanyuan and others refused to agree, so the king put him in prison, claiming that Cao Zhuang would not let people go until he stopped building the village. Ma Wanyuan refused to give in and told the villagers who went to visit him in prison that he would rather die in prison than give up building the village wall halfway. Encouraged by him, the villagers continued to build fences and others were arrested one after another. The king tortured them, but the three of them would rather die than surrender, and the villagers were more United. Qi Xin and Qi Xin worked together to speed up the construction of the village. Seeing that Cao Zhuang people were so stubborn, Wang was afraid of arousing more public anger. Later, he dared not arrest people again, so he built a "Tongxin Village".
When the king saw that what was done was done, someone came to intercede and demanded his release, but because of his face, he wanted to find himself a step down. At this time, someone gave the king advice. Although Cao Zhuang is less than ten miles away from the old city wall, it is generally counted from the gate of the state capital, so you can see your official prestige. Cao Zhuang is more than ten miles away from the gate of the state capital, so building the stockade wall does not violate the Qing law. Wang thought this reason could make sense, so he asked, "How far is Cao Zhuang from the city wall?" A: "Qili." Wang said that Cao Zhuang should be renamed. There is a river next to Cao Zhuang village. Let's call it Qili River. "Since then, the name Qilihe has been called, and several imprisoned villagers have also been released.
On the General Map of Qili in Zheng County drawn by 19 13, the village was designated as Qili River. With the development of society, the village of Qilihe Village has long since disappeared, and then Qilihe Village has become a village in the city.
In May 2006, with the approval of Zhengzhou Municipal People's Government, the village in Qilihe Village was rebuilt, and villagers moved into Qilihe Community one after another. Property companies have been set up in the village, and most of the cleaning and security guards are villagers in Qilihe. People who grew up in the village of Qilihe feel the changes in the village every day and live a happy life.
Now Qili River is far more than Qili River. With the construction of Zhengzhou Zhongyuan urban agglomeration, Qili River winds south outside the Third Ring Road and the Fourth Ring Road, and winds north and east outside the East Third Ring Road, connecting with the newly expanded Xiong 'er River. Then, it flows to the southeast of Jia Luhe.
With the rapid development of Zhengdong New District, the construction of Binjiang Park in the eastern part of Qilihe River is more colorful and picturesque, and it has become a place for citizens to punch in after dinner.
Qilihe Park has been well built in recent years, with wide river channels, bucket-shaped design and artificial marble pavement, with three-dimensional and beautiful appearance, reasonable planning on both sides of the strait, beautiful shapes, vertical and horizontal bridges, novel and unique seats, clear river water, rippling blue waves, shallow water fish and wild ducks in groups, playing with each other, warm branches in the spring breeze, green grass and blue sky.
Since it is a park, there are all kinds of trees and flowers, which are the harmonious colors of spring, the clothing of the earth and the home on which we live. I also admire the originality of the designers of Street View Garden. Combined with the road space on both sides of Qilihe River, they designed street gardens of various shapes, including red and blue plastic runways, winding walkways, brick and wood gravel roads among forest flowers, round flower beds, triangular flower beds and oval flower beds, which are pleasing to the eye, proud and proud, willow weeping willows, pine trees flourishing, cypress trees dense, paulownia numerous, and locust trees shaded. Winter jasmine lives by the water, by the bridge, under the tree, beside the flower bed, and has long goldenrods. The first thing that catches people's eyes is praise. Magnolia is proud of the wind, not afraid of the cold wind, not afraid of the haze, blooming in the cold wind, displayed between heaven and earth, snow-white, goose yellow, purple, purplish red, light green, is a beautiful scenery in an instant, making people squat down and attract people. The blooming Sophora japonica flowers, with purple in white and swaying in the wind, are not only beautiful, but also people's favorite food, with sweetness, which permeates the air and makes people feel relaxed and happy. The opening of cherry blossoms has welcomed a large number of flower watchers, photographers, media people and Tik Tok lovers. The varieties of cherry blossoms here are rich and colorful, including red, white, pink and purple, ethnic, clustered and large, as well as a corridor covered with hundreds of meters of flowers, as well as a cherry blossom forest with high trees, wanton flowers, shuttling people and laughing flowers.
In the flowers of the spring breeze, beside the festival, you appeared singing me, and I came gently, bringing everyone joy. Red, yellow and white roses, elegant manicured peonies all over the world, are open and fragrant, and they are even more attractive and desirable.
In the early morning, the red sun yawned just out of the horizon and shone on the young grass, dragging out the long light and shadow of all kinds of trees. At this time, on the boulevard on both sides of Qilihe River, there are already diligent men, women and children exercising, including running, walking, practicing equipment, playing badminton, playing basketball, dancing, whipping and walking dogs. People breathe fresh air and are in a good mood in the face of bright sunshine.
When the sun sets and night falls, it is a good opportunity for people to come out for exercise, walking and playing. Facing the spring breeze, smelling the flowers, listening to the frogs, watching the neon lights and city silhouettes reflected in the water, and strolling in this intoxicating garden is really a rare enjoyment.
Qilihe scenery
Brief introduction of the author
Chen Feng, male, born in May, 1964, a native of Xiangcheng, Henan Province, holds a master's degree. 1982 was drafted into the army, served in Henan Armed Police Corps for 28 years, and was transferred to the Propaganda Department of the Provincial Party Committee in 20 12. He has been engaged in news propaganda for a long time and is currently a researcher at the level of the Propaganda Department Office of Henan Provincial Party Committee.