A preliminary Study on Garden History of Yinshan Park During the Early Years of the 20th Century in Wusheng County, Sichuan Province

Yinshan Park, located in Zhongxin town, Wusheng county as a famous park in North Sichuan was taken as the study object. The history original appearance of modern park was restored by the ways of site investigation, mapping of ancient surveying, witness conference, monuments and literatures consultion, etc. It is of great value for clarifying the progress of developing and evolving from modern park to contemporary park. Studies showed that Yinshan Park was one of the earliest modern park in Sichuan province built in the collision between Chinese and Western civilization, which was equipped with more perfect public service function on the basis of inheriting the Bashu traditional gardening. It created basic conditions for the evolution of park publicization, and had an important historical influence on promoting the development of modern parks in Sichuan.