The History of the Yuan Dynasty records that in the fifth year of the Yuan Dynasty (1090), when Su Dongpo was the assassin of Hangzhou, he dredged the West Lake and built a north-south embankment with the dredged mud and turnip grass.
Su Dongpo presided over the construction of the embankment, about the later south from the foot of Nanping Mountain, north to the bottom of the Qixia Ling this embankment prototype. Although it is a prototype, but the six most famous bridges that constitute this embankment, namely, Yingbo, Locklan, Wangshan, Pressing Dike, Dongpu, and Crossing the Rainbow, are already there. The names are said to have come from Su Dongpo's brogue. Su Dongpo's own poetry contains a clear account of the construction of this embankment: "I came to Qiantang to widen the lake green, the embankment of the ladies and gentlemen to compete Changfeng. Six bridges across the Tianhan on the North Mountain began to connect with Nanping."
Southern Song Dynasty, Su Dongpo presided over the construction of this embankment, has become the first of the ten scenic views of the West Lake, called "Su Causeway Spring Dawn". However, it is certain that today's tourists see the Su Causeway, has long been no longer Su Dongpo built the original, must have gone through countless additions and repairs, planting trees and forests. For example, Yang Mengying, the governor of Hangzhou during the Hongzhi period of the Ming Dynasty, who built the "Yang Gong Causeway" in the West Lake, once used part of the dredged West Lake silt to supplement the "Su Causeway". In other words, the beauty of today's "Su Causeway" was not achieved by the hand of Su Dongpo alone.
Subsequent generations have called the north-south embankment Su Causeway in honor of Su Dongpo's achievements in dredging the lake and building the embankment. In the morning of spring, the six bridges of smoke and willow, a few warblers cry, reported Su Causeway spring morning, there is a ballad sung: "West Lake Scenery six suspension bridge, a willow and a peach." "Ten Scenes of the West Lake" in the spring dawn of the embankment in this name.
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On June 9, 2010, according to the opinions of the experts of the bidding, the body of the "Spring Dawn of the Su Causeway", which is the first of the "Ten Scenic Spots of West Lake", will be implemented in three places, including the Su Causeway. -Su Causeway, will implement the remediation of three flower beds, these three flower beds due to the Su Causeway as a whole "peach and willow green" mood does not match, is listed as the focus of the Su Causeway remediation content, will be removed within a month's time. Construction will begin on June 20th.
June 25, 2011 - Close to zero o'clock in the morning of June 25, Beijing time, is being held in Paris, the 35th session of the World Heritage General Assembly will be "Hangzhou West Lake Cultural Landscape" included in the "World Heritage List". The successful bid for the West Lake is also China's 41st "world heritage".
Su Shi (1037 ~ 1101), the word Zizhan, the name Dongpo Jushi, the Northern Song Dynasty Meishan (now belongs to Sichuan). He was one of the eight great masters of prose in the Tang and Song dynasties.
He was a learned and versatile scholar with high attainments in calligraphy, painting, poetry and prose. His calligraphy, together with Cai Xiang, Huang Tingjian and Mi Fu, is known as the "Four Families of Song"; he was good at painting bamboo, trees and rocks, and his painting and calligraphy theories were also insightful. Is the Northern Song Dynasty after Ouyang Xiu, the leader of the literary world, prose and Ouyang Xiu, poetry and Huang Tingjian; his words majestic, bold style, a change in the word of the euphemistic, and the Southern Song Dynasty Xin Qiji and known as the "Su Xin," *** for the bold school of lyricists.
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