According to historical records, in the first year of the Southern Song Dynasty (1225), Xinghua County ordered Chen Gai to build a tucheng with four gates in the southeast and northwest, four gates around the county yamen, and a high platform on the south side of the tucheng in the north of the county yamen. According to the orientation of the five elements and the corresponding Xuanwu (tortoise) in the "Four Elephants", this station was named Xuanwu Station. At the same time, the "Huai Jin Tower" separated by a strip of water from the Huaihe River was built on the "Xuanwu Terrace", which means "offensive and defensive". Downstairs is Zhenwu Temple, which is dedicated to the full-length statue of Chongbogun (the father of Yu Xia) who was named "Northern Zhenwu" in Shun Dynasty. Later, in order to commemorate Yin Zhanshilong's contribution to the people in Xinghua County in Yuan Dynasty, in the 13th year of Yuan Dynasty (1276), Zhan Shilong's "Huai Jin Building" was called management hall and reading room.
Due to the construction of cities and terraces by borrowing soil, a large area of water was formed in the south of Xuanwu terrace, which was called Haizi Pool in Yuan Dynasty (now Haizi River, Haizi is Mongolian, meaning lake).
In the fifth year of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty (1372), Hsieh Xiuji, the magistrate of Xinghua, ordered thousands of households such as Cai De and Liu to donate huge sums of money to build bricks with a length of 40cm, a width of 20cm, a thickness of10cm and a weight of10kg along the periphery of the original tucheng. In this way, the "Huai Jin Tower" on the "Xuanwu Terrace" relying on the brick city with double eaves and cornices is even more imposing and becomes the tallest building on the wall of Xinghua. At the same time, Xie magistrate of a county built four tall towers on four gates. Among them, the "Mountain Watching Tower" on the Weiwumen (West Gate) (meaning looking west at the "Sunset of Yangshan" scenic spot), the "Yangchen Tower" on the Zhaokui Gate (North Gate) (meaning looking up at Jeffery Ji, that is, the North Star) and the "Huai Jin Tower" on the "Xuanwu Tower" built according to the city are all close to each other, forming a pyramid.
In the first year of Hongxi in the Ming Dynasty (1425), the "five-generation veteran" Gao Gu, according to the Book of Songs, "started from Lingtai, and then went to camp. The people attacked it and finished it in a few days. The scenic spot was renamed Xuanwu Lingtai again to praise Xuanwu Lingtai as the earliest garden building in China-Lingkou, Zhou Wenwang. At the same time, he listed the scenic spot in the "Ten Scenes of Zhaoyang" and wrote a poem praising: "Gao Tai has a long Arctic and a temple near the water bank ... May the residents take refuge forever and recommend it every year. "
In the 14th year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty (1535), Xinghua prefect expanded and broadened the platform base of Xuanwu Lingtai by dredging the soil of Haizi Pool and moat. According to The Analects of Confucius, "Rule by virtue is like Beichen, living in its place, and all the stars are arched" and "Old Tang Book", Ye Taiyao divided Guanghua into pearl arches.
In the ninth year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (158 1), Ling Dengying, the magistrate of Xinghua County, added the scenic spot of Xuanwu Lingtai to the "Twelve Scenes of Zhaoyang" and wrote a poem: "Zhan Gong lost his position in the Song Dynasty ..... and said that he would always lay the foundation for his land, and I would go home for a thousand years."
In the autumn of the first year of Hong Guang in the Southern Ming Dynasty (1644), Shi Kefa, an anti-Qing hero stationed in Yangzhou, and his adopted son and deputy general Stevie went to Xinghua to inspect the Yugoslav capital, boarded the "Gong Ji Terrace" to inspect the terrain, renamed the "Huai Jin Tower" as "Guang Hai Tower" and improvised the inscription "Guang Hai Tower" to hang upstairs. After two years of Shunzhi in Qing Dynasty (1644), this monument was taken down and erected again in 1930s. 1945 was destroyed by the war.
During the reign of Emperor Kangxi in Qing Dynasty (1662 to 1722), in order to avoid Emperor Kangxi and Michelle Ye, Xuanwu Lingtai Scenic Area was changed to Yuan Wu Lingtai. At present, the four characters "Yuan Wu Lingtai" in regular script on the forehead of the memorial archway in front of Gongjitai Park are imitated by the handwriting of Mr. Shi, a Xinghua calligrapher in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China.
In the 25th year of Kangxi in Qing Dynasty (1686) and 28th year of Xia Dynasty (1688), when Dr. Kong, the sixty-fourth grandson of Confucius and Dr. imperial academy, served as assistant minister in the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, he inscribed "Guang Hai Tower" with "Gong Ji Tower" as the pavilion. At the same time, he used his spare time to create the second draft of the historical legendary drama Peach Blossom Fan, which became a much-told story in the history of China literature and even in the history of world drama.
In the sixth year of Tongzhi in Qing Dynasty (1867), Yu Linnian, a native of Yin Shan, Zhejiang Province (now Shaoxing City) who was then the magistrate of Xinghua County, rebuilt the "Gong Ji Terrace" with reference to the beautiful scenery of Hangzhou West Lake in the northwest corner of his hometown, and expanded the scenic spot to a considerable scale, so that the original "Haiguang Building" in Zheng Banqiao was written as "No Summer in June and July". Rewrite the couplets of "There are fishing songs after midnight" and hang them on the "Guang Hai Building". At the same time, they wrote their own couplets, "Whenever it rains, they always lean on the balcony to look at the North Pole and remember the West Lake", and called "Xuanwu Lingtai" the West Lake landscape.
There are many garden buildings on the green island to the south of Haizichi, which have become an indispensable part of the "Xuanwu Lingtai" scenic spot. On the south side, there is the "Full Garden" (now an experimental primary school) which was expanded by Li Changqian, the imperial adviser of the Southern Ming Dynasty, on the basis of the garden created by his great-grandfather prime minister Li Chunfang. It consists of buildings and scenic spots, such as Yanqing Pavilion built in Li Chunfang and bamboo forest and moss mountain built by Li Changgan. To the west of the garden is the jujube garden built by Li Sicheng, the minister of Sun Mingli Department in Li Chunfang (now the People's Armed Forces Department of this city, east to the middle section of Wu Ying Road). There are Shuiminglou, Xinghualou, Tuku, Buting, Lianningzhai and other buildings in the park, among which several towering jujube trees symbolize the owner's mind of serving the country wholeheartedly. After the demise of the Southern Ming Dynasty, Li Chunfang's great-grandson and famous scholar Li Qing lived in seclusion for 40 years, and Du Men Compilation, Sanyuan Annotation and Du Nan Lu became "treasures in the historical materials of the Southern Ming Dynasty". On the east side of Zaoyuan is Fanghu Island, where Amin scholar Beihai Caotang (later converted into Lu Xian Temple, now Songhelou of Bureau of Retired Veteran Cadres), known as the ancestor of the "East School" of Taoism, has lived and written for more than 40 years. During the Qin Long period of the Ming Dynasty (1567- 1572), Lu Xixing wrote a novel named Romance of the Gods here.
The "Xuanwu Lingtai" scenic spot was formed from the early Southern Song Dynasty to the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, especially in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Ai Yi Temple, Jingxian Temple (later changed to Quzi Temple), Zhaoyang Academy, Lvbo Pavilion, Monument Hall and other buildings have been built and expanded 10 times, which has been eulogized and praised by more than 100 literati at all levels. At the same time, it also produced the Collection of Poems and Poems of Gongjitai and Xinghua Gongjitai compiled by Yu Linnian, a scholar in the sixth year of Tongzhi in Qing Dynasty (1867), and the famous Confucius drama Peach Blossom Fan with world influence, which greatly enriched the cultural connotation and historical background of Xuanwu Lingtai Scenic Area, making it a tourist attraction as famous as Pingshan Hall and Gaoyou in Yangzhou.