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Model showing Jingshan Park north of the Forbidden City. Jingshan's history dates to the Liao and Jin dynasties, almost a thousand years ago. [5] The 45.7-meter (150 ft) high artificial hill was constructed in the Yongle era of the Ming dynasty entirely from the soil excavated in forming the moats of the Imperial Palace and nearby canals.
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Beihai and Jingshan became public parks. Most of the former temples and imperial warehouses gradually became private residences. In 1912, during a coup by warlord Cao Kun, the Dong'anmen gate was destroyed by fire. In 1914, the Corridor of a Thousand Steps was demolished to make way for Zhongshan Park, named after Sun Yat-sen.
Parks are a long-standing feature of Beijing, a city of more than 22 million people, where the most famous green spaces include the former imperial gardens of Beihai Park and Jingshan Park.
Jingshan Subdistrict (Chinese: 景山街道; pinyin: jǐngshān jiēdào) is a subdistrict in Dongcheng District, Beijing, China. It contains 8 communities. It contains 8 communities. The subdistrict has a total area of 1.64 square kilometers, and as of 2020, it has a population of 25,374.
Jingshan may refer to the following locations: The Jing Mountains (荊山), Hubei; Jingshan, Hubei (京山市), county-level city of Jingmen, Hubei; Jingshan Park (景山公园), in Beijing; Beijing Jingshan School, in Beijing; Beijing–Shanhaiguan railway, or Jingshan railway (京山铁路), railway from Beijing to Shanhaiguan, Hebei
By 1914, the altar grounds had become a public park known as the "Central Park". That park was then renamed in 1928 after Sun Yat-Sen (Zhongshan Park), in memory of China's first revolutionary political leader who helped bring about the first republic era in 1911, which is what the park is known as today. [ 3 ]
On 25 April, the Chongzhen Emperor was said to have walked to Meishan, a small hill in present-day Jingshan Park. There, he either hanged himself on a tree, [20] or strangled himself with a sash. By some accounts, the emperor left a suicide note that said, "I die unable to face my ancestors in the underworld, dejected and ashamed.