West Lake is located in the west of Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, surrounded by mountains on three sides and bordering the city on the east, with a length of 3.3 kilometers from north to south and a width of 2.8 kilometers from east to west, with a water surface area of about 5.66 square meters, including the islands in the lake of 6.3 square meters, and a perimeter of the lake shore of 15 meters. The average depth of the water is around 1.5 meters, with the deepest point being 2.8 meters and the shallowest point being less than 1 meter. Su Causeway and Bai Causeway divide the lake into five parts: Li Lake, Wai Lake, Yue Lake, Xili Lake and Xiaonan Lake. There are scenic spots everywhere in West Lake. In addition to the "Ten Scenic Spots of Qiantang" and "Eighteen Scenic Spots of West Lake", the most famous ones are the "Ten Scenic Spots of West Lake" named by the Southern Song Dynasty and the "Ten Scenic Spots of New West Lake" evaluated in 1985. The most famous are the "Ten Scenes of West Lake" named by the Southern Song Dynasty and the "New Ten Scenes of West Lake" evaluated in 1985. In the West Lake as the center of the 60 square kilometers of garden landscape area, the distribution of the main scenic spots more than 40, more than 30 key cultural relics. Summarize the West Lake scenery mainly to a lake, two peaks, three springs, four temples, five mountains, six gardens, seven caves, eight tombs, nine streams, ten scenic spots for the victory. 1982 West Lake was identified as a national scenic spot, 1985 was named "China's top ten scenic spots" one. "
The West Lake is one of the ten most famous scenic spots in China, and it is the best one in Hangzhou.
West Lake is in the plains, hills, lakes and rivers and seas connected to the zone, surrounded by mountains on three sides, in the green water, lakes and mountains, complement each other. That a large number of pulse with love, clear as a mirror of the water, hidden in this rolling, zigzagging, or far or near, hidden and hidden in the layers of mountains and roaches. The lake is like a mirror, the green lake Su Causeway, White Causeway is like two green ribbons, Huxin Pavilion, Ruan Gongdun and other scenic spots and the center of the lake, as if inlaid with two jewels. A former poet said: "the shore of the lake in their own strange, goblet of water drinking two appropriate, only that the boat is like a painting, in the painting of the original do not know". Along the lake around the flowers like a colorful huge garland. In the green silk, hidden countless buildings and pavilions.
West Lake with its beautiful natural scenery, access to successive generations of poets and ink masters of the favor, competing with the poetry of praise, so the West Lake area there are many places of interest and historical relics, for the West Lake adds a poetic and picturesque. The famous "Ten Scenic Spots of West Lake" appeared in the Southern Song Dynasty, which was named by the painter Ma Yuan and others when they painted the landscape of West Lake. The "Ten Scenes" are: Wind Lotus in the Courtyard, Spring Dawn on the Su Causeway, Fish-watching in the Flower Harbor, Three Pools and the Moon, Autumn Moon on the Pinghu Lake, Broken Snow on the Broken Bridge, Wenying in the Willow Waves, Sunset on the Leifeng River, Evening Bells on the Nanping River, and Twin Peaks in the Clouds.
The Broken Bridge and the Broken Snow
The Broken Bridge and the Broken Snow is one of the ten scenic spots of West Lake. The Broken Bridge is located at the east end of the White Causeway, also known as Baoyou Bridge or Duanjia Bridge in the Southern Song Dynasty. The bridge was rebuilt in 1921. The bridge is surrounded by a water pavilion and the Broken Bridge Monument Pavilion. Broken bridge snow generally refers to the winter snow, the bridge on the sunny side of the ice melted, but, the negative side of the snow is still like silver, from a high view, the bridge seems to be broken non-broken. Standing at the head of the bridge, look around, the mountains near the water, as far as the eye can see, is to appreciate the West Lake snow scene of the best place.
Huagang Guanyu
Huagang Guanyu is located in the southwest corner of the West Lake, east of Su Causeway, north and south, respectively, adjacent to Xiaonan Lake and Xili Lake. According to records, there is a small stream at the foot of Huajia Mountain, flowing through here into the West Lake. Because of the many flowers and trees planted along the stream, there are often fallings in the stream, so it is called "Flower Harbor". Lu Yunsheng, a chamberlain of the Southern Song Dynasty, built a house here, drew flowers and raised fish, constructed gardens, and gradually developed into a scale. The historical name of "Fish-watching in Flower Harbor" originated from the title of the landscape painting of West Lake made by Ma Yuan, the court painter of the Southern Song Dynasty. In the Qing Dynasty, Kang Xi's southern tour to Hangzhou, had handwritten the name of the flower Harbor Fish View, and in the fish pond monument and pavilion.
Leifeng Sunset
The story of Leifeng Pagoda and the White Lady is widely spread. The Leifeng Pagoda in the story is located on the Xizhao Mountain on the south shore of West Lake. It was built by Qian Hongxuan, the king of Wuyue in Song Dynasty, because of Huangfei's son. It was first named "Huang Fei Pagoda". Originally proposed to build a thirteen-storey pagoda, by the financial resources, to change the seven-storey, only five storeys were built at the time of construction. Structure for the inner masonry, outside the wooden building corridor, the inner wall embedded with engraved "Avatamsaka Sutra" of the stone, the tower is enshrined under the gold and copper sixteen luohan statue. The building is majestic, for the hiding place of the sutra. Because the tower site hill name Leifeng, later renamed "Leifeng Tower".
The Spring Dawn of Su Causeway
In the Yuanyou five years of the Northern Song Dynasty (1090), Su Shi (Dongpo), when he was the governor of Hangzhou, dredged the West Lake, and built a long causeway of lake mud, which was later called the Su Causeway, which is 2.8 kilometers long, and there are six bridges on the causeway, namely, the Reflecting Wave Bridge, the Locking Lane Bridge, the Watching Mountain Bridge, the Pressing Causeway Bridge, the Dongpu Bridge, and the Crossing of the Rainbow Bridge, in the order of from the south to the north. Along the embankment, there are more than 40 varieties of willows, hibiscus, peaches, begonias and so on. The scenery of Su Causeway is beautiful, sunny, rainy, cloudy, snowy, and the beauty of the four seasons is also different, especially in the early morning of spring to enjoy the best scenery, green poplars on the banks, colorful peaches, the dawn of the embankment, spring color is like a picture, so there is a "Su Causeway Spring Dawn," the name of the beauty of the.
Nanping Evening Bell
Jingci Temple, located in the south shore of the West Lake, South Ping Mountain, Hui Ri Feng, Wu Yue was built, called "Yongming Zen Temple", through the vicissitudes of life. Inside the temple there are Zongjing Hall, Hui Ri Pavilion, Ji Zu Temple, transport wood wells and other monuments, in front of the gate there is a pond. 1986 rebuilt, for the hermetic roof of the three eaves of the two-storey building, the upper suspension of the Brahma Bell, the lower level of the net Ci Temple, Earth Zang Hall. Brahma bell 3 meters high, caliber 2.3 meters, weighing more than 10 tons. Jingci Temple evening bell ringing, echoing in the mountains, shade of the forest, the melodious sound of the bell reverberates, so that people think of the Ming Nie Dainian's "Nanping evening bell" poem: "Willow dusk and flowers all night twilight clouds in the, hidden the first one or two sounds. The Zen couch repeatedly startles the monks, and the traveler's window teases the guests with affection."
Pinghu Autumn Moon
Pinghu Autumn Moon is located at the west end of the White Causeway, leaning against the Lonely Mountain and facing the outer lake. In the Tang Dynasty, there was the Lake Pavilion, and in the Ming Dynasty, there was the Dragon King Shrine, and during the Kangxi period in the Qing Dynasty, it was named "Autumn Moon on the Pinghu Lake", one of the ten scenic spots on the West Lake. Song Wang Wei "Pinghu Autumn Moon" poem Yun: "ten thousand hectares of cold light spread in one night, the water wheel line piece of cloud no, vulture peaks far away from the west wind is cold, osmanthus have to point the jade pot." Whenever the autumn air is fresh and cool, the lake is as calm as a mirror. The lake is as calm as a mirror, white clean autumn moon in the sky, the moonlight and the lake water reflect each other, quite a "colorful lake light of ten thousand hectares of autumn" feeling, so in the lakeshore monument, titled "Pinghu Autumn Moon". "Lake Tianyibi building" said: 10,000 hectares of the lake is long like a mirror; the four seasons of the moon is most suitable for the fall.
Quyuan Fenghe
Quyuan Fenghe is located in the northwest corner of the West Lake, known as the lake, lotus scenery, one of the ten scenic views of the West Lake.
According to records, there was an official brewery by the Hongchun Bridge in the Song Dynasty, and the pond connected with Jinshajian was full of lotus flowers, and every summer, the smoky wind blew, the fragrance of the lotus and the wine overflowed, which was intoxicating, and it was called the "Quyuan Wind and Lotus". In the Qing Dynasty, the brewery closed, Kangxi visited the lake when the imperial inscription of the Ten Scenic Spots of West Lake stele, it will be "Qu" word changed to "Qu", easy to "Lotus Breeze" for the "Wind Lotus "
The name of the scenic spot "Wind Lotus in the Qu Yuan" has been used since then.
Small Yingzhou in the Northern Song Dynasty has become a good place to enjoy the moon on the lake. During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, the turnip from the dredging of the West Lake was used to build a dike around the island, forming a lake within a lake. In the Yongzheng year of the Qing Dynasty, between the dykes and islands, the north and south of the dykes were connected with curved bridges, and the east and west of the dykes were connected with earth dykes, which constituted the garden characteristic of "there is an island in the lake, and there is a lake in the island". The total area is about 7 hectares, and the water surface accounts for 60%. Overlooking the entire small Yingzhou is like a large "Tian" word
Shuangfengjieyun
"Shuangfengjieyun" Royal Monument Pavilion attractions, in Hongchun Bridge. Twin peaks that is, South Peak, North Peak, respectively, located in the southwest and northwest of the West Lake. South peak elevation of 256.9 meters, North peak elevation of 355 meters. The two peaks face each other, stretching more than ten miles apart.
Zhang Dai's "Ten Scenes of West Lake: Two (Twin) Peaks in the Clouds": A peak of a tall man, two people talk to each other. The West Lake is here, and I refuse to go there.
This scene was originally a remote view of the lake, and was moved to land in the early Qing Dynasty for the purpose of erecting a monument. When the mountains are cloudy, the two peaks show double tip, like peaks into the sky, the natural scenery is exceptionally beautiful, the peaks are high and majestic, rain and shine, morning and evening different, especially after the rain or cloudy weather, colorful clouds, white clouds, or thick or light, suddenly entangled suddenly cover, it is the cloud is the mountain, a hazy. Such as a spectacular ink and water drenched and thick and light landscape painting scroll in front of us. Therefore, the name "two peaks in the clouds". Qing Emperor Kangxi traveled here, changed to "two peaks in the clouds".
Wenying Liu Lang
Located on the southeast shore of West Lake, at the Qingbo Gate. In the Southern Song Dynasty, it was the imperial garden of the emperor, and was called the Garden of Gathering Scenery. Yuan Dynasty Hui merchants A Laoding, in Hangzhou to build a mosque, died and buried here, commonly known as Hui Hui grave. In the Qing Dynasty, the old scenery of Liu Lang Wen Ying was restored. Willow type has its own characteristics: willow fluttering like a drunken princess, called "drunken willow"; branches and leaves as luxuriant as a lion's head, called "Lion Willow"; a distant view like a young girl raking yarn, called "Raccoon Willow" and so on. There is the name of Willow Island. During the yellow warbler flying, competing cries, so there is "willow willow wave wenying" called.
Featured Old Street
Qinghefang (Hefang Street): Qinghefang (Hefang Street) is located in the southernmost part of Yan'an Road, west of Hubei province, west of Wu Shan, and less than ten minutes' walk from the main gate of Liu Lang Wenying along Hefang Street. As the only well-preserved old town in Hangzhou, the quaint historical district fully demonstrates the customs and history of the old Hangzhou, so if you want to feel the strong flavor of Hangzhou or buy some Hangzhou souvenirs, Qinghefang is a must-visit. If you go there at night, the lanterns on the street will make the atmosphere even stronger.
The Hu Qing Yu Tang Museum of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Fang Hui Chun Tang, Wanlong Ham Farm, Zhang Xiaoquan Scissors Shop, Baohe Tang Pharmacy, and so on, are all famous old brands in Hangzhou, and there is no lack of historical and cultural attractions, such as Hu Xueyan's former residence, Yu Qian's former residence, etc. In addition, the nearby Wushan Square, Yuan Yuan Square, and the Hangzhou International Airport are also nearby. In addition, the nearby Wushan Square, Yuanhua Shopping Center and Xiebai Shopping Center are also bustling with activity, and if you decide to go to Qinghefang in the evening, you can also take a stroll in the above places. Gao Yin Xiang, adjacent to He Fang Street, is also a famous food street in Hangzhou, with Hangzhou cuisine restaurants lining the street, enough to fill your mouth.
Night tour of the West Lake
Hubin Road Pedestrian Street (Phase I area) is rightfully the best area for a night tour of the West Lake. It can be regarded as the hall and front of the whole Hangzhou, and is the most eye-catching place in West Lake and even the whole Hangzhou at night. Walking Street side of the International Street of luxury aura compelling, not only because of the stationed in them are and all the luxury such as ARMANI HEMERS FERRARI D & amp; G such a loud brand and eye-catching front, but also because of the Street of brand-new and fashionable architectural style, which also won her a number of international architectural design awards. Although most of the merchandise is prohibitively expensive, it is well worth a visit from a sightseeing point of view. Instead of just looking around the lake, we recommend that you visit the back of the lake, where the street is located, for a visual treat.
Not far from the famous street West Lake musical fountain 30 minutes a single from the point of view of the musical fountain is not the top level, but in the distance by the lights embellished with a fantasy such as the Jewel Mountain, brightly lit North Hill Road, the starry night of the West Lake as a stage backdrop, coupled with the night breeze from the lake from time to time to sweep across the lake blowing to you, the West Lake Musical Fountain at once added a lot of romantic atmosphere.
The West Lake musical fountain will add a lot of romantic atmosphere.
You can walk along the Hubin Road Pedestrian Street to the south through the West Lake world to reach the Nanshan Road bar street, you can also walk north through the Hubin Park and Shengtang scenic spot. In particular, the Shengtang scenic spot next to the lake has a unique lighting setup, which is very romantic if you are walking hand in hand with your lover!
Experience Hangzhou avant-garde
Located in the south line of the West Lake Nanshan Road bar street environment is beautiful and moody, unique geographical location and a unique architectural features make it a very prestigious bar street. And the newly emerged Huanglong business circle (located in the Shuguang Road Huanglong Road Tianmushan Road area) near the bar is high-grade eye-catching, the most famous is located in the Huanglong stadium next to the SOS.