Others went to Hunan Agricultural University to see the red maple, and I……

02/08/2023

All along, we think that Hunan Agricultural University is the school with the most farmland (agriculture), garden (industry), gas (special) and color (color) The activity of going to the Agricultural University of China is of course to see the suburban farmhouse entertainment projects such as rape, flowers and strawberries.

Unexpectedly, in recent years, the painting style of the Agricultural University has changed into the North American style of Vermont Green Hill Trail in an instant. In the early winter of each year, there are people from Uyang and Uyang under the trees. It is difficult to take a single photo The conversion speed is a bit unexpected.

In fact, Agricultural University is a school with rich landscape types. The design level of campus greening in the new campus is absolutely superior. Most of the old and famous trees are reserved, and the green space is designed to maintain the natural undulating shape. The vegetation is scattered and dense, and full of aesthetic details.

Compared with the new campus with modern garden style, the more interesting landscape of the Agricultural University is the ancient Zaowei old campus with green trees and red tiles, which is also the focus of our visit.

When you enter the school from the gate, you cannot avoid the beauty of red maples in the sun. This year's maple leaves seem to be a little later.

Architecture

Follow Xiuye Road and pass through the old gate of the Agricultural University. It has entered the old campus of the Agricultural University and a historical memory space that outsiders rarely pay attention to.

Two buildings in the 1960s are visible: the fourth and fifth teaching buildings of the Agricultural University. The red wall building under the green trees is an aesthetic classic of an era.

Many people call this kind of red brick building "Soviet style building". Actually, there is no such concept in architecture. People's oral Soviet architecture is mostly the abbreviation of the former Soviet architecture. However, the architectural style of the former Soviet Union is also changeable. The so-called Soviet style is actually a general term, which is not accurate.

The "Soviet-style building" type of Agricultural University is a building with sloping roof and thick brick wall, which was built during the Soviet Union's construction assistance to China in the 1950s or was built by us according to the same style, with a height of three or four floors, and an overall "peripheral" layout.

Their common features are: regular plane, symmetrical axis, high main building, and wide and gentle corridor. The next building, the first teaching building, was also the building of that period and appeared on the school emblem as a symbol of the Agricultural University. This classic building, which is 60 years old up to now, is magnificent. It is a broad building with a building area of 5744 square meters.

To enter the interior of the First Church, you need to pass through the continuous arch. When the sun sets, the light and shadow shape the artistic conception of beauty.

The Siyuan Building, built at the same time, is used today as the school history museum, which means "drinking water to think of the source".

The former residence of Liu Ziming, built in 1958, is a rare residential building that has been preserved at the same time. Compared with public buildings, it has more elegant living atmosphere.

Perhaps many people are not familiar with who Liu Ziming is. He is a comrade in arms of Jin Jiu, the father of the Korean independence movement. He is also a famous agronomist and the first director and professor of the horticulture department of Hunan Agricultural University. Liu Ziming's former residence was built in 1958 in the 14th building of the Yiyuan Community of the Agricultural University of China. It is the first batch of professors' houses moved by Hunan Agricultural University from Dongtang, Changsha to the current site.

The building on the square opposite the first church that looks like a building ruin is actually A memorial sculpture.

It is a partial copy of the predecessor of Hunan Agricultural University – Xiuye School, and uses this part to express the historical commemoration of Xiuye School as the source of Hunan Agricultural University.

Let's feel the architectural art style of the 1980s. This is the school complex built in 1981. Without the sloping roof, the surface is no longer clear red bricks, but mostly terrazzo, and the interior is mostly terrazzo paved, but the solemn style is still inherited, with a very strong sense of frame.

The second teaching building built in the same period. This yellow terrazzo color matching style instantly brings us back to the childhood memories of the 1980s.

The austere modernist style also affected the new buildings of the later Agricultural University. This dormitory building is a unique building surrounded by modernist architecture. The dense chimneys on the top of the building have been painted into a lovely Makaron color in recent years.

Ancient trees

All kinds of big trees are more ancient than buildings. The Agricultural University was built on the fields in the eastern suburbs of Changsha. Before the campus was built, it was a place with dense ancient trees and trees. Many ancient and famous trees have been preserved in the construction of the campus. They are still alive today under the care of the people of the University of Agriculture.

The Metasequoia/Taxodium glyptostroboides forest belt at the east gate of the old campus is the earliest online card printing place of the Agricultural University. In recent years, the red maple in front of the library has taken away a lot of publicity.

Camphor trees are the most ancient trees in the campus. Together with the old community, they form the beauty of the old time.

In the courtyard between the 4th and 5th teaching buildings, there are Phellodendron amurense, Park Tree, Mahonia, and elm. The ground is covered with fallen leaves, which are the leaves of Berberis amurense. Phellodendron amurense has beautiful tree shape and leaves. Jiangxi has a famous mountain of Zen Buddhism, which is named after it.

The evergreen camphor tree and the red wall are very comfortable.

A huge park tree stretched its beautiful branches to the sky.

Sculpture

The sculpture in the old campus is also ancient, and this ancient panda sculpture has been preserved. However, in my childhood impression, it is more in the form of peel box