Talking about the origin of the name of Mochou Lake, there is a vivid and twisted, sad and sorrowful story. Legend has it that once upon a time there was a hard-working, kind, smart and beautiful girl named Mo Chou in Luoyang, Henan Province. Because of the family's poverty, there is no money to deal with the funeral of her father, so she sold her body to bury her father in pain and sorrow. When Mr. Lu, a wealthy man from Nanjing, passed by there on business, he bought Mo Chou's daughter. From then on, she left her widowed mother and her "childhood sweetheart" and embarked on a life of uprootedness and sadness. She swallowed her parting sorrows and bitterness in patience. She came to Nanjing with Mr. Lu and married his 15-year-old son. She later had a son. Soon, there was a war on the border, and her husband went to the border with the army. Unexpectedly, he was gone for several years without any news. She spent her days worrying about her husband on the border, thinking about her mother in the Central Plains, how much sorrow in her heart ah! She silently swallowed her sorrows in patience. This kind-hearted woman also helped others to solve their problems. She often use their own savings of money to help neighbors, for the poor medicine, loved by the neighbors. But also caused some gossip, the most intolerable is the Lu foreigner falsely accused her of theft, Mo Chou female unbearable to suffer this abuse, they threw himself into the Shicheng Lake died, the descendants in order to miss her, will be the Shicheng Lake together with the Lu's garden and known as Mo Chou Lake.
Originally, the landscape attractions are easy to provoke people's feelings, coupled with the Mo Chou woman's sad story of infection, so, since ancient times, many literati to Mo Chou Lake and Mo Chou woman has been chanting, leaving a lot of popular poems. Yuan Mu, a poet from Qiantang in the Qing Dynasty, once described Mochou Lake as follows:
Wanting to compare the West Lake with Xizi, it is difficult to judge what is right and what is wrong with the smoky waves.
But I feel that the West Lake has lost a stroke, and the river sails outside the clouds to beat the clouds.
In 1931, Mr. Lu Xun wrote in "Untitled" to his Japanese friend Bailian Jushi:
The broken halberd is buried by the Rainflower Terrace, and the remaining microwaves are in the Mochou Lake.
We have not seen the beautiful people we have been thinking about, and we have not seen them, and we remember that we have sent them to the river and the sky to sing their songs.
According to the evidence, the current location of Mo Chou Lake, the Six Dynasties or part of the river, the Tang called Hengtang, the Northern Song Dynasty music history book "Taiping Huan Yu Ji" in the name of Mo Chou Lake. Early Ming Dynasty in the lake building, known as the victory chess building. Qing dynasty Qianlong fifty-eight (1793), li yao li, governor of jiangning, built yujin hall, lakeside pavilion, lotus pavilion, guanghua pavilion; Daoguang years, built six pavilions, promenade and curved pavilion. Xianfeng was destroyed, Tongzhi years rebuilt. 1929 for the park, 1953 onwards for large-scale repairs, additional Lake Pavilion, waiting for the ferry Pavilion, the water open-air stage, gallery, etc.; and in the Yu Jin Hall, west of the re-sculpted Mo Chou female statue of one.
In the drizzly morning, when you step on the pebble path moisturized by the rain and shiny, through the rain stars of the vermilion corridor, into the simple and elegant Yu Jin Hall, you will find that there are beautifully carved furniture and colorful paintings, it is said that this is the year when the Mo Chou female spent her short and long thinking of her mother and husband's place, can be described as:
Yu Jin Tang Li
The tulip, the fragrance floating far away sadness long,
Silent and bleak thinking of mother son-in-law, Cangtai dew cold dickey apartment cool.
Out of the Tulip Hall to the Lotus Hall, only to see a pool of lotus blue water, baking a white, clean, beautiful, healthy woman statue. That ice crystal jade clean, out of the mud of the woman, naturally, is the main body of the garden here Mo Chou female. Gazing at her noble jade, thinking of her miserable life, the sympathy of the beautiful nature of mankind as well as a sense of aesthetics, suddenly turned into infinite thoughts and remembrance.
The park's winning chess building is not only beautifully constructed, even its name has a different origin. According to legend, when Zhu Yuanzhang lost the game of chess, he gave the whole building together with Mochou Lake to Xu Da. This is how the name of the building came to be, the so-called "winning chess" means that Xu Da won the game and the emperor lost the game. There is also a picture of Zhu Yuanzhang and Xu Da playing against each other in the building, which is vivid and realistic, and there is also a couplet by Xiao Xian, a famous female calligrapher, which reads, "Zhong Fu started the foundation, and Shicheng played against each other." I do not know whether this matter can withstand the historians, if it is true, that Zhu Yuanzhang when he did the peasant revolt leader of the heroism and righteousness has not been all dead, there is a little bit of open-minded tolerance of the amount of elegance, or else will be because of the subordinate bureaucrats offended by his scales and the old shame and fury. Celebration of the building poisoned the founding ministers of the incident is not a full reminder of the cruel nature of the feudal emperor Zhu Yuanzhang?
In the misty atmosphere, climbed the sparkling waves surrounded by the Lake Pavilion, that is a poetic: look away from the rain and mist weaving swallow, listening to the far splash of swimming fish, bathed in the rain with the cool wind, the body swings a chilly coziness. At this time, your heart may have swept through a trace of inexplicable sadness, but that slight sadness is like a slight chill, so that people from the world of hot and dry noise to free themselves from the spirit of sobriety, purification of the soul, so that people and nature are integrated, so that the beauty of nature and the beauty of human nature are integrated, which may be the reason that the garden landscape wins the cultivation of human temperament, right?