Xuanwu Lake, known as Sangpo and Houhu in ancient times, has a history of more than 1,500 years.
During the Six Dynasties, it was a royal garden, and during the Ming Dynasty, it was the Yellow Book Treasury, a forbidden place for the royal family.
It is the largest royal garden lake in China, the only remaining contemporary royal garden in Jiangnan, one of the three famous lakes in Jiangnan, known as the "Pearl of Jinling".
The towering Ming City Wall, the beautiful Jiuhua Mountain, and the ancient Jiuming Temple are surrounded on the right.
On the National Day, it's time to take a trip! Decided to hike around the "Xuanwu Lake".
First of all, let's take a look at the past and present of Xuanwu Lake! Xuanwu Lake is nearly five miles in circumference, divided into five continents (the ring of the continent, Cherry Island, Lingzhou, Liangzhou, Cuizhou), Chau Chau dyke bridge connected, integrated, everywhere there are mountains and water, year-round scenery picturesque.
Fish farming in the lake, and planting lotus, summer and fall, the water surface is a turquoise, pink lotus covered in it, full of lake fragrance, the scenery is fascinating.
In the Three Kingdoms, King Sun Quan of Wu drew water into the back of the lake in the palace garden, Xuanwu Lake is the first time the shape of the lake.
Because Xuanwu Lake is located in Yanquan Lake and the north of the palace, it is also known as the "back of the lake" or "North Lake".
Many literati have left their poems here, such as Xiao Tong, Li Yu, Wei Zhuang, Du Mu, Liu Yuxi, Li Shangyin, Li Bai, Ouyang Xiu, Wang Anshi, Cao Xueqin, Guo Moruo and so on.
Ouyang Xiu of the Northern Song Dynasty once praised "There is nothing more beautiful than the West Lake in Qiantang; there is nothing more beautiful than the Houhu Lake in Jinling."
From the Xuanwu Gate fish through, in front of an endless lake, because it is cloudy, plus by this time has passed the sunrise time, naturally, can not appreciate the "Xuanwu morning sun" of the beauty of the lake, the lake, the lake of the five continents and the Purple Mountain after it is just like a painting in ink and water in front of you.
Walking along the lake, the pavilions are interspersed with the lake on both sides of the greenway, to a dazzling pearl praise the boundless Xuanwu Lake.
At this time, a red maple in the eye.
The red leaves like a grain of pigeon blood ruby inlaid on the red is so pure and so dazzling.
A pavilion standing next to a pool of blue water, the water is live water, introduced by the Xuanwu Lake, the water lilies quietly blooming, the side of the wild ducks leisurely foraging.
All the way forward, one side of the vast Xuanwu Lake, one side of the towering and winding Ming City Wall, step by step, a reed bush in front of the eyes, increasing the wildlife, while the emerald-green reeds, white reeds, contrasting the gray walls of the city to increase the vicissitudes of history.
After the wall is still towering purple peak building, a sense of history and reality intertwined from the birth.
The white flowers in the green reeds are particularly conspicuous.
The wind blew, the rushes fluttered, you listen, the rustling sound seems to tell the history of the past, now there are only the remains of the Ming City Wall still stands in the lake, gazing at the multitude of people.
Look at the reeds, densely intertwined, like a net, tightly net every traveler's heart.
Shouldn't we slow down and stop to think?
When it comes to Nanjing, you can't leave out the "wutong tree".
In Zhongshan Road, Huanling Road and other places, when the spring and summer, the green shade of the cover is so spectacular, and when the fall comes, the leaves gradually turn yellow, fell all over the ground, footsteps, leaving the creaking sound, imagine such as in the twilight of the day, a person walking on it, it will be what kind of feeling? In front of this sycamore, trunk upright, leaves yellow and green, tree branches gnarled and powerful, like open palm, eager to stay in the heart of each traveler.
Then look at the vicissitudes of the Ming City Wall! The wall is mixed with deep cracks, some places where the bricks fall off, just for the vines and greenery to provide the convenience of climbing, and soon winter will come, and will be withered to show people, I do not feel the feeling of the changing of the years ......
Xuanwu Lake scenic area is very large, so in the Xuanwu Gate at the entrance to the small train for tourists to choose to ride.
For those who want to visit the scenic area in half a day is a good choice.
As you walk along the lakeshore, you will see the "Taicheng" in front of you.
Its eastern end is connected to the Ming capital city, and its western end is a broken wall, which is 253.15 meters long and 20.16 meters high.
Since it is not far from the palace of Jiankang in the Six Dynasties era, it is often called "Taicheng".
The city of Tai for the six dynasties when the ruling center of the feudal king after the Palace of the forbidden city, is located in the middle of the capital city slightly northeast, is the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the Southern Dynasties of political, military and ideological and cultural ruling center, representing the "six dynasties of the rise and fall of the gold dust".
Wei Zhuang, a famous poet in the Tang Dynasty, once visited this place: "The rain fell on the river grass, the six dynasties like a dream of birds crying.
The most relentless is the Taicheng willow, still smoke cage ten miles of embankment", the poem is popular.
The ancient city of Taicheng has long since disappeared.
According to Wei's poem, the willows of Xuanwu Lake are connected to the city of Taicheng, so it is called "Taicheng Smoke and Willow", and a section of the Ming city wall behind the Jiming Temple is attached to the city of Taicheng.
Climbing on the city, the east view of Zhongshan Dragon Coiled verdant, north of Xuanwu ten miles of willow, south of Jiuhua Tower shadow, west of Jiming yellow walls and green tiles, the sound of the ancient temple bell.
Standing on the lake and looking far away, you can vaguely see the two bridges connecting Lingzhou and Jiefangmen - Sisters Bridge and Tailing Embankment, and then behind it is the towering Purple Mountain.
Inadvertently saw the Olympic five rings logo on the wall of the ancient city, although the 2014 Youth Olympic Games injected new vitality into Nanjing, but I personally feel that this logo built on the wall y damaged the original historical atmosphere.
I've always loved the uprightness of sequoias, and this one near Jiefangmen attracted my attention.
No reason, just for this piece of green and stay.
After the Jiefang Gate, you will come to the Wumiao Gate.
"Wumiao Lock" is the main outlet of Xuanwu Lake and the earliest water gate in Nanjing.
It is recorded that Zhu Yuanzhang, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, designed and built the gate when he built the city of Nanjing.
Its engineering design was world-class at the time and is still in use today.
Inside the gate, there are three curved corridors, Guanjing Xuan, Fangting Pavilion and Bi Xi (Bi? Xi) Monument.
Just let me show you around!
A row of green stone slabs stretches all the way in, and this green stone has also witnessed the smoke and cloud of history.
The legendary Gui Tuo (bi?xi).
The stone tablet is beautifully carved with auspicious clouds and double dragons playing with pearls.
Exit the Wu Miao Gate and head towards Taiping Gate.
From here to the Taiping Gate is about 1,300 meters long, one side of the ancient and simple stretch of the Ming City Wall, the other side of the blue waves of the Xuanwu Lake, purple calyx, iris, Mannian, garlic, lucky grass, etc. was covered during the period, walking in such a quiet and elegant place, the most suitable for the hair of the ghost thought of sighing in the past and present.
The front is the ancient parade platform.
The ancient parade platform was built in the south of Xuanwu Lake, located in the Jiefangmen to Taipingmen between the road around the lake.
Xuanwu Lake was the place where the navy practiced and paraded in ancient times.
Beginning in the Eastern Wu, flourished in the Southern Chen Dynasty, so, Xuanwu Lake is also known as the practice lake, the practice of martial arts lake.
Historical records: the Eastern Jin Dynasty Daxing three years (320), Emperor Yuan of Jin "is the age of the creation of the North Lake, build a long embankment to congestion of the water of the North Mountain; the east to the overlaying of the boat mountain, the west to the Xuanwu Lake, more than six miles, in order to practice the boat division.
"Song Yuanjia five years in the spring of A Shen, Emperor Wen driving to the Xuanwu Museum to read martial arts.
Song Yuanjia 16 years, Emperor Wen parade martial arts in the northern suburbs (Xuanwu Lake).
Song Daming five years, seven years, Emperor Xiaowu twice parade in Xuanwu Lake.
Liang Datong four years in August, Liang Wudi parade in Leyouyuan (Xuanwu Lake over the boat mountain).
In the eleventh year of Chen Taijian, Emperor Xuan of Chen paraded his troops at Xiwu Lake.
Chen Zhide four years, Chen Houzhu to Xuanwu Lake parade naval forces.
Among them, Xuanwu Lake, the largest military parade is the South Chen Taijian eleven years (579), in August of that year, Emperor Chen Xu Xuanjun Lake, masts and masts, flags and flags, drums and horns vibrate to the sky, 100,000 male soldiers, five hundred buildings and ships, majestic and spectacular.
The later song said: "Five hundred building ship 100,000 soldiers, climbed up to read the martial arts array of clouds.
Definitely know that the warships across the GuaBu, there should be military teeth embracing the stone city.
Autumn on the lake empty silk bamboo branch, the tide of the head of the river drums sound.
And now the clouds of history have long since faded, a group of old people happy to dance here in the square.
Step on the steps of history and look back to the past and look forward to the future!
Near the Taiping Gate is a high-grade villa with red and yellow flowers on the branches of the trees!
Looking from here, a remnant of the lotus covered the lake, if it is summer to this, fields of lotus leaves, swaying with the wind, the faint aroma shrouded four end, if there is a lotus picker will be - Jasper Jade good people Yin Yin Yi, if there is a guy - must be a jade boy!
The distant Purple Mountain can be seen vaguely, because it is cloudy, the reverse is more of an ink painting of the mood.
The front Taiping Gate is one of the 13 gates of the Ming City Wall, Xuanwu Gate was not opened before the city visitors to Xuanwu Lake, must be from the Taiping Gate.
Outside the Taipingmen is the White Horse Park