People s Park is over 800 meters above the sea level on average, lie in and drink horses in the long bridge One hectometre of places in the west of sculpture.
1755 year, Tian Mountain north allow main officer of Tibet the sweat country become extinct, the Qing Government begins to station troops and build Urumchi, the embryonic form of Urumchi takes shape in the south of red mountain 3 years later, a lake forming by the thing that the river of Urumchi swings and leaves over here is laid out into the place where officers have a rest, this lake was known as at that time Hai Zi .
Several years later, Urumchi handled affairs minister five filled safely and built the first buildings namely wild pavilions of the show here . Here is a great wonderful scenery in Urumchi at that time, can be proved with jingle: Red spur of a hill Haizi along,northern-frontier scene defeat the South.
Later, did not know why, Haizi Rename as close the lake .
In 1878, Zuo Zongtang recovered Xinjiang area except plowing in Iraq, four years later, Iraq plows and returns to the motherland, Xinjiang build province 1884 year, the intersection of governance and centre of Xinjiang, for present Urumchi, the first JinTang Liu, governor of a province of Xinjiang, imprison lake Fetch straight on four sides, make imprison the lake Limpid mirror, and fetch the village in view of the stagnant water With Zhu Xi thoughts on watching book an ancient bronze mirror in the half-mu pond opens Its sentence, rename as lake of the ancient bronze mirror (summer can reflect the lake and go boating now) .
In 1898, shady Huan s reason of assistant minister Zuo of Ministry of Revenue is the Reform Movement of 1848 the first of the important criminal of health party Banish into Urumchi, pieces of shady Huan donate, build the intersection of ancient bronze mirror and the intersection of lake and little floor in the middle of a lake next year, give a name in lake pavilion of ancient bronze mirror (lay out into now The teahouse of mid-lake pavilion ).
Will it be March 15 1912, central the intersection of provisional government and the intersection of cable order and Xinjiang change governor of a province into commander-in-chief in ancient China, Yuan appoint Yang ZengXin as commander-in-chief in ancient China of Xinjiang triumphantly generation May 18, a few years after Yang Zeng appear on the stage newly, the lake of the ancient bronze mirror becomes the public place for sightseeing formally, people claim It is lake park of ancient bronze mirror Or West Lake Park (are abbreviate as too now The west park ).
1918, Yang ZengXin, in order to commemorate the Imperial Academy that banished Urumchi waited upon and read bachelor s discipline dawn haze, build a platoon leader s corridor one-storey house again, is named as reading the little thatched cottage (rebuild in 1995) .