Touring West Lake: Notes on Jinwen

There's nowhere to go in April.

That's right, just go to West Lake.

I stayed one night in Longmenkan Village, Longwu Town, by the West Lake in Hangzhou, and immersed myself in the sound of chanting Buddha at the Golden Lotus Temple in the early morning, meditating on its teachings and transmuting the body and mind.

From the high platform of Golden Lotus Temple on Wuchaoshan Mountain, you can look at the West Lake, as if you see the back of a lady.

Hangzhou tour of the West Lake, beyond the scenery, the tour is the story. First of all, I thought of the White Lady and Xu Xian in the West Lake holding an oil-paper umbrella chance encounter, Fa Hai came out to break up the marriage on earth. Without this sentiment, to the West Lake, can not see the love, but also can not find marriage, only to see a piece of black pressurized tourists, interest in the whole, fell into a sweat, full of regrets.

Keep joy in the tour, and what is the number one enemy of joy? Not sadness or pain, but worry. Do not worry about what to eat or what to drink for life; worry about what to wear for the body. Is not life better than food and drink? Is not the body better than clothing?

The West Lake in Huizhou is only 6.3 kilometers from my home. One of the large area called Fenghu, the shore of the Qing Dynasty of the Fenghu Academy, for the Qing Jiaqing years Song Xiang lecturing place.

Su Shi staff often and, Su Shi unique vision, that the West Lake Huizhou is characterized by "beautiful and profound landscape. He wrote this lake:

"A more mountain spit the moon, the jade tower lying in the waves.

It is like the West Lake, Yongjin door to see.

The ice wheel across the sea is wide, the incense and fog into the building cold.

Stop the whip and do not go, shine me a cup of residual."

He compared the beauty of the moonlit night at Fenghu Lake to the West Lake in Hangzhou. "This is the beginning of the title Pin Huizhou Lake scenery", Sizhou Tower thus get "Jade Tower" elegant name.

Huizhou West Lake, in addition to some of the remains of Su Dongpo, other attractions are still many. On the east shore of the lake, there is a mystery view, built since the Ming Dynasty. In the north end of the lake, there is also a hundred flowers, people who swim in the lake, more than in this canoeing for fun. Against the big west gate - the west bank of the lake, there is a cottonwood water pavilion, surrounded by cottonwood trees; "cottonwood water pavilion" four big words, that is, for the late national scholar Zhang Taiyan handwriting.

From 2004 to date, Huizhou West Lake has completed three lakes ecological restoration, an area of 280,000 square meters. Dredging, planting water plants, stocking fish and shrimp and snails ...... this "pure Chinese medicine" restoration method, to recreate a self-purifying ecosystem in the lake. Water transparency from the restoration of less than 35 centimeters before the increase to more than 100 centimeters, the lake is crystal clear.

5:55 am West Lake, there are not a few tourists, mostly residents of the neighborhood, playing Tai Chi, square dancing. The sun is getting higher and higher, more and more tourists, but the more I feel I'm not alone.

The beautiful feeling of traveling, from the beautiful scenery, more from the story we heard. Our own destiny is made up of a series of stories that we believe to be true.