Best tourist season: May-10 is the best. Dongting Lake is rich in water in summer, and you can enjoy the magnificent lakes and mountains.
Route recommendation: Yueyang Tower > Dongting Lake > Yueyang Confucian Temple > Cishi Building > Junshan.
Time: 1 day
Yueyang snacks: dried duck strips in Dongting, whitebait in Dongting and butterflies crossing the river.
Yueyang specialty: Junshan Silver Needle Tea, Orchid Radish.
Yueyang Tower
As one of the three famous buildings in Jiangnan, it looks at the Yangtze River in the north and Sanxiang in the south. Fan Zhongyan's world-famous "Yueyang Tower" is really an advertisement for Yueyang Tower. Yueyang Tower stands at the head of Ximen City, Yueyang City, Hunan Province, next to Dongting Lake. Since ancient times, it has been known as "Dongting is the world's water and Yueyang is the world's building", and it is also known as the three famous buildings in the south of the Yangtze River with Wang Tengting in Nanchang, Jiangxi and Yellow Crane Tower in Wuhan, Hubei.
Dongting Lake
Dongting Lake is located in the north of Hunan Province, China, south of Jingjiang reach of the Yangtze River. It is the fourth largest lake in China, second only to Qinghai Lake, Xingkai Lake and Poyang Lake, and the second largest freshwater lake in China. "Take the distant mountains and swallow the Yangtze River, it is vast and boundless", "Looking at Dongting from afar, there are green snails in the silver plate", and the 800-mile Dongting is in the historical frame with its majestic potential.
Yueyang Confucian temple
Confucius Temple, also known as Confucius Temple, is a place where Confucius was worshipped in ancient times, also known as Gong Xue in Yuezhou, located in the campus of Yueyang No.2 Middle School.
Cishita
Cishi Tower is located in the southwest of Dongting Lake. The tower is of masonry structure, with seven-story octagonal building and a height of 39 meters. The lower tower foundation is paved with five layers of granite, and the tower body is all made of blue bricks. Starting from the second floor, there are 28 small shrines on all sides of each floor, which were originally used to put small Buddha statues. Jason Chung is embedded in the cornices of each floor, and the breeze is blowing and jingling. It's a pity that the tower is solid, so you can't climb high and overlook the Dongting scenery.
Junshan
In ancient times, it was called Dongting Mountain, Xiangshan Mountain and Garden Mountain. It is a small island in the 800-mile Dongting Lake, far from the historic building Yueyang Tower. Junshan is known as the pearl of Dongting Lake, just like a "green snail in a silver plate".
other
In addition, there are Bajing Cave, Du Fu Tomb, Jin 'e Mountain Park, Lengshuijiang Boyue Cave, Miluo River, Zhangguying Village and Pingjiang shi niu cun.