The Heilongjiang culture-and-tourism account traces Longsha Park to Cangxi Park, also called the West Garden, completed in 1907. In 1917, provincial capital police chief Yang Yunfeng ordered its renovation and gave it the name Longsha Park, which it has kept. The dates turn a familiar public park into a record of how Qiqihar named and reshaped a shared green space as the city grew.
From the journal
Longsha Park and Wangjiang Tower: a garden by Labor Lake
Cangxi Park opened in 1907 and took the name Longsha Park in 1917; Wangjiang Tower began as a hilltop pavilion beside Labor Lake.
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A garden renamed Longsha Park
A pavilion formed beside the lake
Wangjiang Tower stands on an artificial hill on the east bank of Labor Lake. The article says governor Zhou Shumo twice invited Zhang Chaoyong to design and expand the garden; workers dug a channel to bring in Nenjiang water and piled earth into a hill, where a grass pavilion first called Weiyu Pavilion was built. In 1930, the pavilion was rebuilt in brick and timber. The tower’s story is therefore also a story of making a waterside landscape: a cut channel, a raised hill and a structure looking west toward the water.