The four famous lakes in Zhejiang are West Lake in Hangzhou, East Lake in Shaoxing, South Lake in Jiaxing and Dongqian Lake in Ningbo.
Four famous lakes
Hangzhou West Lake is located in the west of Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, in the center of Hangzhou. It used to be called Wulin Water, Qiantang Lake and Xizi Lake, and only in the Song Dynasty was it called West Lake. The Hunan is 3.3 kilometers long in the north and 2.8 kilometers wide in the east and west. The original water surface area is 5.64 square kilometers, including 6.3 square kilometers of islands in the lake, and the circumference of the lake shore is 15 kilometers. The average depth is 1.2 1 m, the maximum depth is 6.52 m, the shallowest part is less than 1 m, and the most muddy part is more than 5 m. Now, with the "West Lake Westward", it has expanded to 6.5 square kilometers, basically reaching the area of the West Lake 300 years ago.
East Lake is located about six kilometers east of Shaoxing ancient city. It is a famous garden and one of the four famous lakes in Zhejiang Province. It skillfully combines cliffs, caves, stone bridges and lakes. Although the East Lake is small, it has become a rare "wonder in the lake" recognized by tourists because of its grotesque caves. Japan's tourism agency, communication company, has made a questionnaire survey among Japanese tourists who have visited Hangzhou West Lake and Shaoxing East Lake at the same time, and they have more impressions of East Lake than West Lake, indicating that the praise of East Lake is not the self-feeling of Shaoxing people.
Nanhu Scenic Area is located in Jiaxing City, with a planned total area of 276.3 hectares, including 98 hectares of water area. Nanhu Lake is named because it is located in the south of Jiaxing. Together with Southwest Lake, it is called Yuanyang Lake. South Lake has always been famous for its beautiful scenery of "light smoke blowing Zhu, breeze bringing". The natural landscape and human landscape of Nanhu Scenic Area complement each other. There are more than ten scenic spots and six cultural relics protection units, mainly including Huijing Garden, Huxin Island, Nanhu Revolutionary Memorial Hall, Four Seasons Garden, Hero Garden, Lanxiu Garden, Guhaota, Zhou Xiaoying, Fangzhou and Yuanyang Lake Ecological Oasis. Among them, Jiaxing Nanhu Site is a national key cultural relics protection unit.
Dongqian Lake is located in the east of Ningbo, 0/5km away from the city center/kloc-0. It is backed by green hills in the southeast and plains in the northwest. It is a part of Fujian and Zhejiang geology and a natural lagoon formed by ancient geological movements. As a marine lake, Dongqian Lake is the largest inland natural freshwater lake in Zhejiang Province. It is a famous scenic spot in Zhejiang Province, 0/5km away from Ningbo East/Kloc-,enjoying the reputation of "West Lake scenery and Taihu Lake charm". "As far as the West Lake is concerned, who wins the East Lake is quieter." These well-known poems by Yuan Yuanyuan, a poet in the Yuan Dynasty, tell the beauty of Dongqian Lake.
The story of Hu Ming.
West Lake
The story of the white snake
During the Qingming Festival, there are many flowers on the shore of the West Lake, and people fly in the upper reaches of the broken bridge in full of green. This is really a beautiful picture with bright spring. Suddenly, two beautiful girls climbed up from the bottom of the West Lake. What happened? How can people rise from the water? It turns out that they are two snake spirits who cultivate human beings. Even so, they are harmless to people's minds. Just because they envy the colorful life in the world, one changed its name to White Snake and the other to Xiaoqing, and came to visit the West Lake.
It happened that God suddenly lost his temper and it rained cats and dogs. Bai Niangzi and Xiaoqing were caught in the rain, and there was nowhere to hide. They're worried. Suddenly, all they felt was an umbrella overhead. When they turned around, they saw a gentle, fair and delicate young scholar holding an umbrella to shelter them from the wind and rain. Mrs. White Snake and the little scholar's eyes met, and they both blushed and appreciated each other. Xiaoqing looked in her eyes and said, "Thank you! What is your name, please? " Xiao Xiucai said, "My name is Xu Xian and I live near this broken bridge." White Snake and Xiaoqing also introduced themselves quickly. Since then, the three of them have met frequently, and the relationship between White Snake and Xu Xian is getting better and better. Not long after, they got married and opened a "Baohetang" pharmacy. Life is wonderful!
Because "Baohetang" has cured many incurable diseases, and it doesn't charge any money to treat the poor, the business of pharmacies is getting more and more prosperous, and more and more people come to the White Snake to treat diseases. People affectionately call the White Snake. However, the prosperity of Baohetang and the happy life of Xu Xian and Bai Niangzi annoyed a person. Who is it? That's the Fahai monk in Jinshan Temple. Because people's illness was cured by the white snake, fewer people went to Jinshan Temple to burn incense and ask for bodhisattva, and the incense was not prosperous, so Fahai monks would naturally be unhappy. On this day, he came to Baohetang again and saw the white snake treating people. He couldn't help being jealous, and then he took a closer look. Oh! It turns out that this white lady is not a mortal, but a white snake!
Although Fahai has a little magic, his mind is not normal. After seeing the identity of the white snake, he tried to break up the white snake couple and bring down Baohetang all day. So he secretly called Xu Xian to the temple and said to him, "Your wife is a snake spirit. Please break up with her quickly, or she will eat you! " When Xu Xian heard this, he was very angry. He thought, my wife is kind-hearted and has deeper feelings for me than the sea. Even if she is a snake spirit, she can't hurt me. Besides, she is pregnant now, how can I leave her! Fahai saw that Xu Xian had not been fooled and became angry from embarrassment, so he locked Xu Xian in the temple.
In Baohetang, White Snake is anxiously waiting for Xu Xian to come back. One day, two days, or so, the white lady was in a hurry. Finally, I found that Xu Xian was "left" by the Fahai monk in Jinshan Temple. White Snake hurried to Jinshan Temple with Xiaoqing and begged Fahai to put it back in Xu Xian. Fahai sneered when he saw the white snake: "Bold snake, I advise you to leave this world as soon as possible, otherwise don't blame me for being impolite!" Seeing that Fahai refused to let people go, the white snake had to tear off the golden hairpin from her head, shake it in the wind, set off rough waves and push it towards Jinshan Temple. When Fahai saw that the water was flooding the Jinshan Temple, he quickly took off his cassock and turned it into a long embankment, which was stopped outside the temple gate. When the water rises by one foot, the long embankment rises by one foot. When the water rises by one foot, the long embankment rises by one foot. No matter how big the waves are, they can't cross. Plus the white snake is pregnant, it's really impossible to beat Fahai. Later, Fahai used fraudulent means to put the white snake in a golden bowl and put it under the Leifeng Tower, so that the loving couple Xu Xian and the white snake were separated alive.
Xiaoqing escaped from Jinshan Temple and practiced in the mountains for decades. Finally, she defeated Fahai, forced him into the belly of a crab and rescued the white snake. Since then, she has lived happily with Xu Xian and their children, and never separated.
Jade Emperor Mountain and Phoenix Mountain
In ancient times, there lived a Jade Dragon and a golden phoenix near the Milky Way in heaven. They ground a rough piece of jade on the edge of the Milky Way into a bright pearl. It is said that where this pearl shines, flowers will bloom and crops will be harvested. Who knows, this pearl was snatched by the queen mother and locked in the deep palace. On the birthday of the Queen Mother, a flat peach party was held in the Heavenly Palace. In order to show off herself, the Queen Mother took out the pearls for all the immortals to watch. Yulong and Jinfeng found the pearl luster of the pearl and hurried to the sky to ask the Queen Mother for it. Where is the queen mother willing to follow? In the struggle between you and me, pearls fell to the world. In order to protect the pearl, Yulong and Jinfeng came to the world in tandem. After the pearl fell to Hangzhou, it became a beautiful and clear West Lake. Jade Dragon and Jinfeng, reluctant to leave the Pearl, became Jade Emperor Mountain and Phoenix Mountain respectively, permanently guarding the West Lake. ...
East Lake of Shaoxing
Taoshe
Tao, born in 1878, died in Shanghai Guangci Hospital on 19 12 at the age of 35. He, Qiu Jin and Xu Xilin are also called "Three Masters of Jianhu". On both sides of the door hung couplets inscribed by Mr. Shen Ding 'an, a famous calligrapher in Shaoxing: "Run for half your life, strive for strength, open the foundation of democracy in China, and the gentleman respects it 6,000 times: the incense lasts forever, but it is fierce today. He is a hero of the five mountains, with 800 lakes and mountains, winning glory. " This couplet sums up Tao Guanghui's short life. There is a horizontal plaque inscribed by Dr. Sun Yat-sen in the memorial room, which was inscribed by Dr. Sun Yat-sen in East Lake on 19 16 to commemorate the martyrs who died in Tao. Careful tourists may find that the two words on the plaque are broken. It is said that when Dr. Sun Yat-sen saw the mountains and rivers broken and the martyrs died young, his calligraphy showed extreme grief and indignation. Because the ancient pottery houses were destroyed during the Anti-Japanese War, the current pottery houses were rebuilt on 198 1. Now, as a famous moral education base in Shaoxing, thousands of Qian Qian students come here every year to mourn the martyrs.
South Lake
The birthplace of China's * * * production party.
192 1 on July 23rd, the first national congress of China * * * production party was held in Shanghai secretly. At the end of the meeting, the meeting was forced to stop because of the harassment of the French concession. At the suggestion of Wang, the wife of Shanghai representative Li Da, the meeting was held on a cruise ship in Nanhu, Jiaxing at 10: 38 on the morning of August 6. On this red boat, the meeting passed the first Constitution of China Producer Party, which announced the birth of China Producer Party. Since then, the China Revolution has turned a new page.
Dongqian Lake
The legend of filling holes
The magnificent Dongqian Lake has islands like mussels. Among them, the north and south of Yuxia Island are opposite to Job Mountain, and the climate is unique. It is a must for literati to visit Dongqian Lake.
There is a cave on Yu Xia Island called Butuo Cave, also known as "Little Putuo". According to the Records of Yinxian County in Jiajing period of Ming Dynasty, Yu Xia is "in Dongqian Lake, surrounded by water, with a promising lake pavilion, Guanyin Cave and a small Putuo". This small Putuo was carved by Shi Hao, Prime Minister of Southern Song Dynasty.
Shi Hao, a well-known man, is from Yinxian County. In the 15th year of Shaoxing in the Southern Song Dynasty (A.D. 1 145), he was a scholar and successively served as the chief of Yuyao and a professor of Wenzhou. He was promoted from Imperial College London to Dr. Guo Zi, and later became the right prime minister. When he was old, he was named Wang Wei, died in Shaoxi for five years, and was posthumously named King Yue. Politician, poet, author of Feng Sui Ji, Feng Daqu and Ci Qu.
Shi Hao, who lives by Dongqian Lake, is the most filial. His mother believes in Buddhism, and she often goes to Putuo Mountain in the South China Sea for pilgrimage, praying for the Buddha to bless her family from generation to generation. Later, because of old age and blindness, I went on a pilgrimage to the South China Sea. It's a long way to cross the sea, and the sea is very stormy, so it's difficult to ferry. But my mother is clamoring all day to go to worship Buddha. Shi Hao is worried about his mother's mobility. But it can't be stopped. He was too anxious to sleep and eat. One day, in order to eliminate boredom, I went boating on the lake. I saw an island on the lake with beautiful scenery. The rugged rocks stood upright in the water, just like Mount Putuo in the East China Sea. He suddenly had a brainwave, why not carve a cave on the island for the Buddha statue and offer it to his mother. So, he called famous local craftsmen and sculptors and quietly built a grotto on Xiadao: digging a big hole on the island and carving statues of Guanyin, dharma protector and flying dragon in the hole. When all the arrangements were made, he invited his mother to burn incense in Putuo.
It was a sunny day. Shi Hao arranged a big ship in advance. He helped his mother into the hut and sat down. Then he set sail and paddled around Dongqian Lake. Every night, the boatman reported to the old man according to Shi Hao's words: "The ship has reached Zhaobaoshan" and "The ship has passed shenjiamen". The ship wandered around Dongqian Lake for three days and nights. Before finally reaching the grottoes, the boatman loudly reported: "Putuo Mountain has arrived!" " When the monks waiting there saw the ship docked, they quickly recited scriptures, knocked on wooden fish and burned incense, deceiving the mistress into thinking that they had arrived at Putuo Mountain. So Shi Hao helped her mother into the grottoes, burned incense and worshipped Buddha, and fulfilled her wish. He worships Buddha in this way every year.
Shi Hao is an outstanding official in Song Xiaozong. His five sons, a group of grandchildren, are all senior officials, Fujia. At that time, there was a saying in Mingzhou that "Manchu purple clothes are expensive, and they are all Siming people". Most of the landscape around Dongqian Lake belongs to historians, so it is easy to carve a grotto. With the vicissitudes of the stars and years, Butuo Cave has been unknown for hundreds of years, and it was not discovered until 1977 when it borrowed soil and quarried stones from the island to dig roads.
The mouth of the cave is engraved with the simple and elegant words "Butuo Dong Tian" in Qin Zhuan. The statue in the cave is lifelike, just like the pearl unearthed, which has become a great scenic spot in Dongqian Lake. Coupled with its legend, it has added such homesickness to tourists at home and abroad.
Hu Ming specialty
West Lake
Longjing tea
Longjing is famous for its green color, rich fragrance, mellow taste and beautiful appearance. The finished tea is flat and beautiful, smooth and symmetrical, and the green color is slightly yellow; Soaking in the cup, the bud becomes a flower, one flag and one gun, which complement each other, and the bud stands upright and lifelike; Fragrant, noble and lasting; This soup is bright in color and sweet in taste. People call it "golden bud" and "unparalleled product", and it has become a national advanced gift tea.
The water shield of the West Lake
Water shield is a traditional famous product in Hangzhou, which is produced in fresh water lakes such as West Lake, also known as horseshoe grass and water lotus leaf. Grass was recorded as "Soup Sea Perch" in Jin Dynasty. According to legend, when Emperor Qianlong went to the south of the Yangtze River, he ate thick soup every time he went to Hangzhou, and regularly sent people back to the palace to eat.
West lake silk umbrella
Silk umbrella, with bamboo as the bone and silk as the surface, is light and pleasing to the eye, beautiful in shape and convenient to carry, and is known as the "flower of the West Lake".
Zhang Xiaoquan scissors
"Zhang Xiaoquan" scissors is a traditional famous brand of handicraft industry in China, which has a history of more than 300 years. It is also known as the "Five Hangs" with Kong's "Hangfen", Wang's "Hangfan", Du Jinsheng's "Hangyan" and Mi Dachang's "Hangyan". During the Qianlong period, it was included in the imperial tribute. Since modern times, Zhang Xiaoquan Scissors have won numerous awards in international competitions such as Nanyang Persuasion Association and Panama World Expo.
East Lake
Shaoxing yellow rice wine
Shaoxing wine has a great reputation and was rated as one of the top ten famous wines in China in Qing Dynasty. He won many gold medals and excellent certificates at 19 10 Nanyang persuasion meeting, 19 15 Panama World Expo and 1936 Zhejiang-Jiangxi specialty exhibition.
Beans flavored with fennel
Anise bean is a snack in Shaoxing, which is often used as a snack or wine. Because of the description in Lu Xun's novels, fennel beans in Shaoxing are worth a hundred times and become one of the goods that foreign tourists scramble to buy. In order to meet the needs of tourists, the packaging of fennel beans has been greatly improved, so fennel beans have formed a big market in Shaoxing.
South Lake
Nanhuling
Jiaxing Nanhu Mausoleum, named after the lotus pond in front of Yuyan Building in Nanhu, is a rare treasure in the mausoleum. Its shell is thin, white, tender, juicy and delicious. The most special thing is that its horns are round, which is called "Hornless Spirit" and "Monk Spirit". Because of its shape like wonton and small ingot, it is also called "wonton ling" or "ingot ling" Every time Nanhu Ling is listed, Jiaxing people have the custom of eating Ling. Although there is no clear agreement, it is indeed "one heart and one mind" and we are used to learning from each other. Water chestnut in Nanhu Lake is not only a fruit, but also a dish. Peel, fry, sprinkle with shredded onion, and the color and flavor are good. Barbecue or rice with water chestnuts is fragrant and has a unique flavor.
Wufangzhai zongzi
Known as the "King of Zongzi", Wufangzhai Zongzi is a specialty of Jiaxing. Fangzhai Zongzi is refined according to the traditional formula, and the selection of materials is very particular. Nowadays, Jiaxing Wufangzhai Zongzi is deeply loved by tourists because of its delicious taste, convenient carrying and eating, and is known as "Oriental fast food". Products are exported to Japan, Southeast Asia and other places, and won the first domestic boutique award.
Dongqian Lake
Spit and feed the fish.
Spitting fish to feed fish is a major feature of Dongqian Lake. Because cauliflower blooms in spring, it is plump, so it is commonly known as "cauliflower yellow". Its belly is round, its meat is soft and thick, and it tastes delicious. As early as the Southern Song Dynasty, Baoqing's Annals of the Four Seasons specifically recorded that Dongqian Lake mainly produced this kind of fish. At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, after eating all the fish, I was deeply attached to it, and wrote a close-up song "Dongqian Lake spits fish", chanting: "Although there are many beasts in the aquarium, I suddenly laugh when I eat this fish." Explain its preference for this fish.