"Six bridges in the West Lake Scenery, separated by willows and peaches." The picturesque Su Causeway is a masterpiece left by the Northern Song poet Su Dongpo when he was guarding Hangzhou. This green embankment is 2.8 kilometers long from south to north, and among the verdant and luxuriant flowers and trees, there are six simple and beautiful stone-arch bridges, such as Yingbo, Locklan, Wangshan, Pressing Embankment, Dongpu, and Crossing the Rainbow, etc. Walking on the embankment, one can see the people's faces, the shadows and the color of the sky. Walking on the embankment, the shadow of people, trees swaying, as if entering the fairy fantasy.
What you see on the bridge, each leading the way: Yingbo Bridge and Flower Harbor Park adjacent to the poplars with the rain, the smoke wave ripples; lock Lan Bridge near the small Yingzhou, far away from Uncle Paul's Tower, near the real and far away from the virtual; look at the bridge on the west look, Dingjia Mountain Lancui can be scaled, the peaks into the clouds into the eyes of the towering; pressure dike bridge in the north and south of Su Causeway about the golden division of the position, and in the old days is the lake boat east to the west of the passage of the waterway mouth, "the Su Causeway Spring Dawn," the scene of the stele Pavilion in the south of the bridge; Dongpu Bridge, there is reason to suspect that it is "Shuangpu Bridge blackmail, this is one of the best point to watch the sunrise on the lake; across the Rainbow Bridge to see the rainbow flying in the sky after the rain, the lake and the mountains in the sun, such as into the fairy tale.
Su Causeway scenery at different times of the day, morning and evening, and the most poetic hour, naturally, is the spring dawn. When the winter old man hobbled away, the spring girl came, at this time you walk the Su Causeway, but feel the willow silk light, blue peach spitting, ten miles of the embankment is filled with green smoke and colorful mist. A few warbler cries on the branches, as if to report to you Su Causeway spring morning. How can this scene not mesmerize you? No wonder the painters of the Southern Song Academy of Painting to the "Su Causeway Spring Dawn" as the first of the ten West Lake scenery.
West Lake Ten Scenic Spots of Quyuan Wind Lotus
Qiuyuan Wind Lotus, with the theme of summer lotus watching, takes the place of Su Causeway Spring Dawn in the second place of the Ten Scenic Spots of West Lake. The "Qu Yuan" was originally a brewery opened by the court of the Southern Song Dynasty, located near Hongchun Bridge on Lingyin Road, near the shore of the West Lake at that time, near the surface of the lake cultivation of lotus, every summer, the breeze, the fragrance of the lotus and the aroma of wine wafting around, so that people do not drink and also intoxicated. Wang Wei, a poet of the Southern Song Dynasty, praised in a poem: "The summer people return to the cold spring, the port cloud brocade evening cool day. Love the canal incense array with people far, traveling over the high bridge to buy a boat." After the gradual decline of the courtyard, obsolete. After the Qing emperor Kangxi title West Lake ten scenic, in the Su Causeway across the rainbow bridge built curved courtyard wind lotus scenic monument kiosk. Remained, only a small courtyard, courtyard before the lake a small piece of lotus only.
Today's Courtyard Wind Lotus is gradually built since 1983 large-scale park, the park is divided into Lake Yue, Bamboo Vegetable Garden. Wind Lotus, Qu Yuan and lakefront forest five scenic spots. The park is surrounded by Yue Fei Tomb Temple, Guozhuang, Hangzhou Botanical Garden, etc., the combination of the north west of the lake into a year-round tourists dense tour hotline.
The most striking is still the summer lotus. The park's large and small lotus ponds cultivated hundreds of varieties of lotus, which is particularly fascinating to count the wind lotus scenic spot. Here to the water surface, the distribution of red lotus, white lotus, heavy platform lotus. On the surface of the water, there are small bridges of different shapes and sizes, and people cross the bridges as if they were walking in the lotus, leaning on the flowers, and the flowers reflecting people's faces, so the flowers and people fall in love with each other.
Yingxun Pavilion is a good place for tourists to enjoy the view from a height, climb the pavilion and look out, you can see the beautiful scenery of "endless blue leaves in the sky, reflecting the sun lotus flowers". When the breeze comes, the fragrance of lotus refreshes your heart and melts away your worries. To welcome you, there is a lotus culture showroom, which shows people the high morals of the "gentleman among flowers", as well as all kinds of artistic and literary masterpieces that imply people's value orientation, aesthetic illumination and ethical pursuits.
Yuehu scenic area preserved the Qing Dynasty Emperor Kangxi inscribed "Qu Yuan Feng Lotus" scenic monument courtyard, that piece of scenic monument is one of the only two pieces of the original monument of the Kangxi West Lake Ten Scenic Spots. Bamboo Garden Scenic Area was built and opened in recent years, it was originally one of the early Qing Dynasty West Lake Garden, bamboo and stone pavilions, winding water, quiet and elegant.
Binhu forest scenic area for visitors to prepare the tent, hammock, bamboo huts. Here you can picnic, fishing, entertainment, party.
The north side of the park near the Yuefen commercial area is opened with the Wind Lotus Wine Garden, which is built with an antique brewing workshop and several distinctive ethnic style restaurants.
West Lake Ten Scenic Spots of Pinghu Autumn Moon
Pinghu Autumn Moon Scenic Spot is located at the west end of the White Causeway, at the south foot of the Lonely Mountain, on the verge of the outer West Lake. In fact, as one of the ten scenic views of the West Lake, Pinghu Autumn Moon in the Southern Song Dynasty, there is no fixed scenic site, this is from the time and Yuan, Ming Dynasty and two literati poems about this scenic more from the pan to return to the boat at night lake, the boat to enjoy the moon point of view is not difficult to see, such as Sun Rui in the Southern Song Dynasty poem, "the moon is cold and cold springs condensation does not flow, where rowing song rowing boats," the sentence; Ming Hong Zhanzou in the poem, wrote: In his poem, Hong Zhanzu of Ming Dynasty wrote: "Autumn barge people climbed to the end of the wave wrinkles, fairy mountain pavilion in the mirror dust.
Nowadays, the picture of "Autumn Moon on the Pinghu Lake" is still the main subject of the picture of tourists looking at the moon in the lake boat.
The present Pinghu Autumn Moon scenic site was actually established after the 38th year of the Kangxi reign. At that time, the original Longwang Hall here for the Imperial House of Books, paved in front of the building jumped out of the lake stone platform, balustrades around the platform, next to the structure of the water Xuan, hanging the Kangxi Imperial inscription "Pinghu Autumn Moon" plaque, and later diligently built the stone Jingbei Pavilion on the left side of it.
West Lake Autumn Moon night, since ancient times recognized as a good time and beautiful scenery, full of poetry and picturesque. Pinghu Autumn Moon Pavilion overlooking the waves, Cherry Window overlooking the water, the platform is wide, wide vision, the autumn night in this long-eyed high view far away, but see the moon in the sky, the lake and the sky is blue, the golden wind, the water and the moon dissolved, I do not know what day and night. In fact, the beauty and not only in the fall, not only the moonlit night, Qing Luo Chengchao has written a couplet: "through the lattice and come to the summer breeze in winter, roll the curtains to see the front of the mountain, the bright moon after the mountain mountain."
Although the Pinghu Autumn Moon Scenic Spot is perhaps the smallest among the ten scenic spots of West Lake, people can still visit and savor the historical monuments and cultural connotations here. As early as in the Tang Dynasty, this place was built to look at the lake pavilion. In the Southern Song Dynasty, with the construction of the Lone Mountain Royal Taoist Temple of the Four Saints Yanxiang Guan, here and built the Moon Pavilion. "Looking at the lake", "looking at the moon", these two "looking at" for the future Pinghu Autumn Moon site here to lay the groundwork. Ming Wanli years, the Secretary of the Imperial Court eunuch Sun Long spent huge sums of money to rebuild the old West Lake, had a big renovation of the Lake Pavilion, the writer Zhang Dai in the "West Lake Dreams" recorded that: "the repair of gorgeous, additional terrace, can wind can be the moon, but also can be set up in the restaurant, sheng opera play, no day without it. Now changed to build the Dragon King Hall."
Ten scenic views of the West Lake Broken Bridge snow
Broken Bridge, now located at the eastern end of the White Causeway. In the West Lake in the ancient and modern many big and small bridges, she is the most famous. It is said that as early as in the Tang Dynasty, the Broken Bridge has been built, then Zhang Hu "question Hangzhou Lushan Temple" poem has the word "broken bridge".
Hangzhou, in the south of the Yangtze River, has a short snowy period, and heavy snow days are rare. Once wrapped in silver, it will create a very different from the regular time, the regular scene of the snow lake conditions. Broken Bridge snow has several interpretations, the more common saying is that, whenever the snow clear, come to the Broken Bridge to the west, to the north view, Lushan, Ge Ling around the upper and lower platforms, such as paving the Qiong Masonry Jade, crystal clear, there is a kind of cold beauty. Some people believe that the snow cleared up, climbed Jewel Mountain to the south overlooking the white dike capped like a chain. Sunrise illumination, Broken Bridge to the day the bridge surface snow melted to reveal the brown bridge surface a trace, as if the long white chain to this interruption, so the "snow" name.
Broken Bridge is the perfect place to enjoy the snowy West Lake. Here is located in the watershed point of the West Lake, the snow cleared, stand on the bridge and look out, the distant mountains near the embankment of silver, enchanting; and the entire West Lake because of the snow "outline", but also seems extraordinarily beautiful, slender. If you sit in the pavilion at the bridge to see the Broken Bridge, the shadow of the bridge inverted immersion, with the snow, but also Langlang posture. So "Broken Bridge snow" is indispensable in the ten scenic West Lake.
Today's Broken Bridge, is a 1921 reconstruction of the arched one-hole stone bridge around the hole, eight point eight meters long, eight point six meters wide, single-hole net span of six point one meter, years ago there was an overhaul, but the simple and elegant style basically unchanged. The east side of the bridge has a pavilion with a scenic stele, and the side of the pavilion is built with a water pavilion, with the title of "Yunshui Guangzhong", with green tiles and vermilion bars, flying eaves and warping corners, and the bridge and the pavilion constitute a picture of a classical style at the northeast corner of the West Lake.
Ming painter Li Liufang "West Lake Reclining Tour map title Trek - Broken Bridge Spring View" said: "past times to the lake, a look from the Broken Bridge, the soul to die. It is also said to know, the lake of brimming Xiwei, about as the morning light of the tree, the bright moon into the hut. Covering the landscape reflecting hair, elsewhere that there is a huge dip in the clarified wave, not as good as also." From this point of view, Broken Bridge look forward to, can get the essence of the lake and mountain, not only the snow!
West Lake Ten Scenic Flower Harbor Fish View
Flower Harbor Fish View, the front of the willow willow green Su Causeway, north of the mountains of the Western Hills, the sparkling blue of the small South Lake and the West Lake, like the two emerald framed mirrors embedded in the left and right. As early as in the Southern Song Dynasty, a stream flowed into the West Lake from Huajia Mountain, and this stream was called Huagang. At that time, Lu Yunsheng, a chamberlain, built a villa on the side of the Flower Harbor, which was called "Lu Garden". Inside the garden stacked stones for the mountain, chiseled ground for the pool, stocked with different colors of fish, so the tourists gathered, the elegant scholar inscription, known as "Fish Watching at the Flower Harbor", one of the ten scenic spots of the West Lake.
In the old days, only a pool, a monument, three acres of land. After the expansion, the whole garden covers an area of nearly three hundred acres. The landscape of the garden consists of three parts: Fish Paradise, Peony Pavilion and Flower Harbor, and Fish Paradise is the main scenery of the whole garden. Fish paradise is stocked with tens of thousands of red carp with golden scales, and when visitors put food bait or clap their hands on the curved bridge of the fish pond, fish will swim from all directions, compete for food bait, and jump up, dyeing half of the lake, which is a great sight to behold. Here, you can enjoy the fun of the fish, and it is really a joyful and happy experience for you.
Peony is called "King of Flowers" in China. Hangzhou planted peony in the middle of Tang Dynasty. During the Changqing period of Tang Dynasty (821-824 AD), a monk of Kaiyuan Temple, Huicheng, obtained a branch from Chang'an and brought it back to the temple for planting, and peonies have been planted in Hangzhou since then. Nowadays, peonies in Hangzhou are most flourishing in the Peony Garden of Flower Harbor and Guanyu. The peonies are cut into a dozen or so neighborhoods of different shapes. Inside the district, there are hundreds of peonies with colorful color towering over the peonies in the high place. When you look down, you can see the red and green among the flower beds of various sizes, and the peonies that are as brilliant as the cloud brocade have thousands of postures, and the fights and competitions make people forget to come back to the park.
The Ten Scenes of West Lake
Willow Waves Wenying Park is located on the south shore of West Lake, and its predecessor is the Royal Garden of the Southern Song Dynasty - Ju Jing Yuan, which has been ranked among the Ten Scenes of West Lake for its lush willow color. Every spring and March, the green willow season, the ten thousand willow trees fluttering in the wind, just like the green waves, blue waves surging. In the endless depths of the shade, from time to time came nicking warbler cries, to help the cause called "willow wave wenying". Sip tea and rest here, see the lake and mountains from afar, close to listen to the warbler warble, it is really good fun.
In the lake along the kilometer-long embankment and the garden road along the main road planted weeping willow and lion willow, drunken willow, coontail willow and other characteristics of willow trees. In the main scenic area of the garden in the middle of the Wenying Hall, and not far from the Wenying Hall in the giant net cage "Bird Paradise", to create a fireworks in March, willow fluttering, warbler sound of the atmosphere of the Qingli. Wenying Hall east, to the lawn and dense forest belt to form the main Friendship Garden scenic spot, introduced a number of Japanese cherry blossoms, the north side of the lawn paving stone platform, stands "Japan and China no longer war monument. Wenying Hall west side, is Liu Lang Wenying reconstruction when filling the water swamps and swamps and create a large lawn, grass color remote even the West Lake blue wave green hills, large lawn on the north side, is relocated to this Kangxi Imperial inscription Liu Lang Wenying Jing Pavilion monument; South side planted a tall tree forests, and the lawn, willow shore and lake and mountain color constitutes rich in level, angle changes in the vivid scenery.
West Lake of the Ten Scenes of the Three Pools and the Moon
West Lake is a bright pearl, and the three islands in the lake, is set in the pearl on the three emeralds. Three Pools and the Moon is composed of three gourd-shaped stone tower and "Yingzhou" two parts. Yingzhou is the use of dredged lake mud piled up and become a small island in the lake outside the island and built around the table embankment ridge, embankment between the island has nine turns, three times, thirty changes of the curve bridge connected to form a lake in the lake, island in the island of the garden pattern.
Boat people boarded the small Yingzhou through the nine curved bridges to the "I heart each other" Pavilion, standing in the full blue water above the three gourd-shaped stone towers will come into view. Here is a beautiful legend:
A long, long time ago, there was a blackfish spirit in the West Lake, often making waves and disturbing the people of Hangzhou. The master craftsman Lu Ban siblings see the black fish spirit scourge of life, a determination to get rid of it. The blackfish spirit Lu Mei looks beautiful, the main change into a young man to propose to Lu Mei. Lu Ban's brother and sister agreed to the marriage, and carved a stone incense burner as a dowry. On the day of the wedding, Lu Ban siblings to blackfish spirit first move dowry lift welcome, blackfish spirit happy to agree, it waved its head, behind the back of a gust of wind to drive the stone incense burner to run to the lake. The stone incense burner rolled to the center of the lake under the inverted over, the blackfish essence of the tightly covered at the bottom of the lake, from the West Lake has also restored the tranquility of the past. Now exposed on the surface of the three stone towers, is said to be the stone incense burner of the three and feet. In fact, the three stone towers was originally the Northern Song Dynasty poet Su Dongpo dredging West Lake set up, he stipulated that the three towers are not allowed to plant lotus root, in order to prevent the silting of the West Lake. To the Yuan Dynasty, the three towers were destroyed, the three towers are now seen in the Ming Dynasty rebuilt.
Three pools of the moon, ancient times is a moonlight resort. Every autumn night, the moon and stars, in the stone tower lit lamps and candles, along the mouth of the white paper, the light from the stone tower of the round holes, like a small moon, in the sky inverted in the lake in the moon reflected, so there is a "heavenly moon round, the lake in the shadow of the three" of the beautiful scenery, which is the "three pools and the moon," the name of the origin of the. At this time, only to see the moon shadow, tower shadow, cloud shadow dissolved into a piece, not to say endless poetry.
The West Lake Ten Scenes of the Twin Peaks in the clouds
The Twin Peaks in the clouds, referring to the West Lake north and south peaks of the strange red and varied cloud scenery. South peak in the smoke next to the Xia Ling, the north peak in the Lingyin Temple, the two peaks between the mountains, heavy valley round, stretching more than 20 miles, between from a distance, the two peaks face each other, close to if a few feet, the Woods fight for heroes, show out of the peaks.
Early in the morning, wisps of mist rising from the mountain, looking at the peaks, just like a face masked veil, body clad in cicadas of the maiden, shy, as if you intend to make you can not see, can not guess, showing a kind of ethereal beauty; in the spring rains or autumn rains in the season, the mountain clouds and mist steaming, the potential of the tide like the Chung, cloud thick like the mountains, mountain pale like the cloud, so that you clouds and mountains are difficult to differentiate between, and it is to show the beauty of a kind of male beauty; after the rain! After the first clear, cloud paved the mountainside, flocculation cover the peak, a blanket, Cuidai's twin peaks if the sinking if floating, sometimes hidden and sometimes present, as if the vast ocean in the two fairy islands, it shows a mysterious beauty. The bizarre and colorful clouds of the twin peaks are really breathtaking.
It is said that Bai Juyi, after leaving Hangzhou, had said to his friends: "a piece of warmth to a piece of soft, often hanging in the heart, the pain of shedding always hard to shed, if you want to throw away can not bear to lose. Loves to rely on the only self-system, sweet and beautiful real she stay, you can ask my heart disease, but it is lovesickness is not sadness." His friends asked him what he really loves. He smiled, replied: "is the north and south of the two peaks, West Lake, a water also." North and south of the West Lake peaks of the clouds actually make the great poet lovesick, can not be mesmerizing?
West Lake Ten Scenes of the South Screen Evening Bell
This scene is named after the sound of the bells of the Temple of Mercy under the South Screen Mountain. Nanping Mountain is located on the south shore of the West Lake, with verdant forests, exquisite rocks, and many empty caves. Every pale smoke twilight, all the dusk, the temple a few mortar and pestle sparse bells, the mountain should be the sound of the valley, the sound of distant, amusing, so people called "Nanping evening bells", and become one of the ten scenic spots of the West Lake.
The famous painter Zhang Zeduan at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty once painted the "Evening Bells of Nanping". Although this picture is far less famous than his "Qingming Shanghe Tu", but was recorded in the Ming "Tianshui Bingshan Lu". Nanping Mountain, stretching across the south shore of the West Lake, the mountain is only 100 meters high, but the mountain extends up to more than a thousand meters. The mountain is full of strange rocks and green trees. Sunny days, full of mountain verdure in the blue sky and white clouds under the backdrop of colorful, meet rainy and foggy days, cloud smoke cover, the mountains seem to dance, ethereal and ethereal, as if it were not. After the Zhou Dynasty appeared to be the first year (954), the Wu Yue State Lord Qian Hongshu in the foot of the Nanping Mountain to build a Buddhist temple Hui Ri Yongming Yuan, which later became one of the two major Buddhist monasteries in the North and South of the West Lake with Lingyin Temple, Jingci Temple.
Another famous Buddhist temple at the foot of Nanping Mountain, Xingjiao Temple, was built in the fifth year of the Northern Song Dynasty (972), and it was once the home base of the Shanjia School of Buddhism of the Tiantai Sect. Jingci Temple, Xingjiao Temple plus the nearby small and medium-sized temples, formed following the Lingyin, Tianzhu after the lake and a cluster of Buddhist temples, morning bells and drums, burning shells and Buddha's name, smoke and candles, Nanping Mountain since then added the 'Buddha's country mountain' nickname, Nanping Evening Bells of the rhyme, leisurely molding. Nanping Mountain around the mountain range is composed of limestone, mountain porous caves, plus the peaks of the rock wall stand as a barrier, whenever the Buddhist temple evening bell ringing, bell oscillation frequency to the mountain, rocks, caves, etc. for its compulsion, accelerated sound vibration, amplitude increased sharply after the formation of the **** vibration. Rocks, caves and then produce the speaker effect, enhanced *** sound. At the same time, the sound of the bell is also the same frequency to the West Lake over the West Lake, straight to the other side of the West Lake, touching the other side of the Ge Ling, composed of igneous rocks, echoes rise.
Particularly in the weather symphony mix, *** vibration of the chimes in unison, long, long-lasting. After the Northern Song Dynasty, Jingci Temple and Xingjiao Temple a layout a decline, years both long, Nanping Evening Bell's reputation and victory belongs exclusively to the name of the Jingci Temple, the Jingci Temple built a painted and decorated bell tower, gradually in the most fascinating attraction for the millennium ancient temple. Jingci Temple bell tower has been destroyed and built, the bell is also abolished and recast, the most large-scale bonfire casting, once in the Ming Hong cut-off eleven years, the letter to hold the Zen Master Yi Jane raised Hugh gathered copper more than 20,000 pounds, cast a huge bell, the impact of the sound broadcast far away from the gully, the aftermath of the sound lingers. There is a time in 1986, the new cast copper bell three meters high, caliber two point three meters, weighing more than ten tons of noise. Bell body inside and outside, engraved and cast "Lotus Sutra" seven volumes and inscriptions *** counting 67,000 words; it uses [Pujin carved dragon] for the bell button, to eight petals of lotus for the bell lip, each petal casting a point of impact on the bell, six of which are cast on the bell with the Sanskrit text. On the ridge of the bell, there are seven shrines of Buddha such as Namo Vihara and Namo Sakyamuni Buddha. In recent years, every New Year's Eve, Hangzhou people from all walks of life and foreign guests, compatriots, tourists gathered inside and outside the bell tower of the Jingci Temple, held the New Year bell ringing to get rid of the old and welcome the new activities. When the 108th bell rings, it is the beginning of a new place. This activity, which symbolizes peace, joy, stability and unity, injects new meaning and charm into the ancient Nanping Evening Bell.
Ten Scenes of West Lake: Leifeng Sunset
Jingci Temple is located under the Rihui Peak of Nanping Mountain on the south shore of West Lake. It is attractive not only because it is the first ancient temple in the south mountain of West Lake, but also because there are many magical legends related to it.
Leifeng, located in front of the Jingci Temple, for the Nanping Mountain to the north of the remaining veins, on the edge of the lake, erect and heavy, lush forests. Although its book is small and exquisite, fame on the lake is one of the two, because the top of the mountain had Wu Yue when built Leifeng Tower, is the West Lake in the many ancient towers in the most scenic and the most wind flow of a tower, but unfortunately more than seventy years ago fell down, the tower fell down the mountain is empty, and even the name of the mountain is also changed into the sunset mountain.
The south shore of the West Lake, the three water-facing peninsula-shaped mountain, which was once occupied by the Imperial Garden of the Southern Song Dynasty. The late Ming Dynasty Hangzhou famous scholar Wen Qixiang had him and the lake on the other side of the Baoshu Pagoda together to comment on: [the lake on the two Faustus, Leifeng such as the cassock, jewels, such as the beauty of the]. The world said the world said yes. Qing Yongzheng years into the book "West Lake" so praise Leifeng sunset a scene: [the tower alone stood alone, brick are red, vine traction, verdant lovely, daylight west, pavilion gold and blue, and mountain reflection, such as the first opening of the golden mirror, fire beads will be attached. Although the red city in vain Xia is not over also. On September 25, 1924, one 40 minutes in the afternoon, Leifeng suddenly fell. More than seventy years have passed, because of the history and culture into the lake and mountains, breeding and development of the West Lake ten scenic spots, West Lake ten scenic spots is bound to history, Wen Hugh with the lake and mountains depend on each other. Leifeng sunset [absence] will eventually still by the Leifeng sunset to make up for