West Lake Scenic Spot
West Lake Scenic Spot National Scenic Spot. Total area of 60.04 square kilometers. East from Hangzhou City, Hangzhou Songmu field, Paul Road to the north of the Children's Palace Plaza, through the Baisha Road, West Huancheng Road, Lakeshore Road, Nanshan Road to the south of the Wansongling and Wushan, Ziyangshan, Yunju Mountain attractions all; South from the Drum Tower along the foothills on the east side of the Wushan, Ziyangshan, Yunju Mountain, the Fenghuang Mountain gate along the Phoenix Hill Road in the Tianhuashan along the West Lake Diversionary Channel to the north bank of the Qiantang River, Coral Sand Storage Reservoir to the north of the Liufang Ridge; West from the Liufang Ridge, Zhugang Mountain, Jiuqu Ridge, Celebrity Ridge to Beauty Peak, Beigaofeng, Lingfeng Mountain to the old and the east of the ridge line of the mountain; north from the old and the foot of the mountain (Zhejiang University West fence) to the Qingzhiwu Road north of 30 meters, connected to the Yugu Road, Zheda Road, Shuguang Road to the south of the Pinewood Field. Peripheral protection zone covers an area of 35.64 square kilometers, east of Nanshing Bridge Riverside Park, Jiangcheng Road, Fengshan Bridge, Zhongshan South Road, Gulou to Hefang Street, South Yan'an Road, Yan'an Road, turn Qingchun Road, Wulin Road, Teaching Ground Road to the West Huancheng Road to the West; south of the Qiantang River to the main channel of the center line, Hang Fu Road to the north of the area of the turn of the pond; the west of the east of the turn of the road to stay; the north of the area left behind, through Hang Hui Road, Tianmu Mountain Road to the south of the Wulin Gate Area. West Lake Scenic Spot in the West Lake as the core, there are 60 national, provincial and municipal cultural relics protection units and scenic spots more than 100, including the main West Lake Ten Scenic Spots, West Lake New Ten Scenic Spots. West Lake was formerly known as Wulin Water, Qiantang Lake, also known as Ming Sheng Lake, Jinniu Lake and so on. North, west and south of the mountains, the east side of the city, three cloudy mountains and a city. Tang people because of the lake in the west of the state city, so called West Lake. When Su Dongpo was guarding Hangzhou, he wrote a poem: The water is brimming with water and the rain is also strange. He wanted to compare the West Lake with Xizi Lake, and the light makeup and thick colors were always suitable. Therefore, it is also known as Xizi Lake. The outline of the lake is almost oval, with an area of 6.03 square kilometers, of which the water surface area is 5.66 square kilometers, and the circumference of the lake shore is 15 kilometers. The bottom of the lake is relatively flat, with the depth of water averaging about 1.5 meters, the deepest part about 2.8 meters, and the shallowest part less than 1 meter. The White Causeway and Su Causeway divide the lake into five parts: Outer Lake, Li Lake, Yue Lake, Xili Lake and Xiaonan Lake. There are 4 islands in the lake, including Lone Mountain, Little Yingzhou, Huxinting and Ruan Gongdun. The main streams injected into the West Lake are Jinsha Harbor, Longhongjian and Changqiao Creek. The West Lake Diversion Project drilled through the mountains and drew in the clear flow of the Qiantang River. The main outlets for regulating the water level of the West Lake are Shengtang Lock, which flows into the Canal via Shengtang River; and Chungjin Lock, which flows into the City River outside Wulin Gate via the underground pipeline of Wunsa River. West Lake in ancient times was a shallow bay connected with the Qiantang River, later due to siltation, the sea was cut off, in the sand spit on the inside of the sea water into a lagoon. So the folk proverb says: West Lake Pearl from the sky, the dragon flies to Qiantang. West Lake bears the mountain springs living water rinse, and through generations of artificial dredging governance. Poet Bai Juyi (772 ~ 846) and Su Dongpo (1037 ~ 1101) and other people served as Hangzhou magistrate, are attentive to the governance of the West Lake, dredging the lake mud, water conservancy, irrigated farmland, and constitutes the three islands in the lake, the two dykes of the Bai Su, the lake pagoda shadow of the beautiful scenery. Around the lake mountains, flowers and trees, peaks, rocks, caves, ravines interspersed with springs, pools, streams, streams, green and blue green bushes dotted with pavilions, pavilions, pagodas, grottoes. The lakes and mountains are so picturesque. Between the clear ripples and green clouds and valleys, there are countless beautiful natural landscapes and dazzling historical monuments. Chinese folklore: the world's 36 West Lakes, the best is Hangzhou. And said the beauty of the West Lake, ancient and modern difficult to paint and poetry. Ming Zhengtong period, a Japanese emissary traveled to the West Lake, said in a poem: In the past years, I have seen this lake map, do not believe that there is this lake on earth. Today playing from the lake over, the painter still owes the work. The title of the ten scenic views of the West Lake originated in the Northern Song Dynasty landscape painter Song Di inscription of the painting of the four-word sentence, he used the flat sand falling geese, the city of the mountains, clear blue, far Pu return to the sail and so on to mark the content of the works he painted. Later, landscape painters followed suit. In the 13th century A.D., the Southern Song Dynasty painters Ma Yuan, Chen Qingbo in the West Lake to capture the essence of the scenery made in the paintings, but also were marked on the willow wave Wenying, two peaks in the clouds, Pinghu Autumn Moon, broken bridge snow, three pools and the moon, Leifeng Sunset, the Su Causeway Spring Dawn and the evening bells of the Nanping, and later painted the flower port to watch the fishes, the courtyard of the Lotus Winds, and so there is a West Lake Ten Scenic Spots said. Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty visited the West Lake on his southern tour, named the Ten Scenic Spots and set up a monument, and changed the two peaks into two peaks, and the Quyuan Lotus Breeze into the Quyuan Wind Lotus. In 1985, Hangzhou Daily News, Hangzhou Garden and Cultural Relics Administration and other organizations launched a campaign to collect new scenic spots and scenic names, and 50,000 people participated in the campaign, which lasted for 8 months. As a result, ten scenic spots such as Yunqi Bamboo Path, Manlong Guiyu, Hupeng Dream Spring, Longjing Tea, Jiuxi Smoke Tree, Wushan Tianfeng, Ruandun Huabi, Huanglong Tujui, Yuhuang Flying Clouds, and Jeweled Haze were selected, which were called the New Ten Scenic Spots of West Lake. Chen Yun, Liu Haisu, Zhao Puchu and other 10 famous artists for the inscription of the monument. West Lake Scenic Spot, in addition to the ten scenic spots, the new ten scenic spots, famous attractions are Tianzhu, Wuyun Mountain, Phoenix Hill, Jade Mountain, North Peak, Huxinting Pavilion, White Causeway, Lushan, put the crane Pavilion, Liu Zhuang, Hangzhou Flower Garden, Botanical Gardens, South Peak, ShuiLe hole, Lion Peak, GeLing, Ziyun hole, Xixi, LingFeng explore the plum, and so on.