1, according to legend, a long, long time ago, there is a head wrapped in a blue scarf, carrying a bronze mirror fairy down to earth, she drifted down from the upper reaches of the East River along the river to Huizhou, was attracted by the beautiful scenery in front of them, and then lived, and the local people with the local people farming, so that the people of Huizhou live in peace and work in contentment, and a plentiful harvest.

The incident alarmed the immortal world, because of the sea dragon king's delusion, the Jade Emperor sent the heavenly soldiers and generals to take the fairy back to the heavenly court. The fairy was reluctant to leave Huizhou.

On the way, she threw her beloved bronze mirror on the bank of the Dongjiang River in order to make water available for farming in Huizhou and to keep the beautiful scenery on earth. The mirror broke into five pieces and became five lakes. And its ride on the crane is turned into the West Lake shore of the "flying geese", the formation of the West Lake today, the beauty of this lake and mountains on earth.

2, not far from the Huizhou West Lake Pinghu Gate, walk across a small bridge covered with gravel, through a round arch, will come to the Cotton Tree Resort. Nowadays, there are no pavilions in the Cotton Tree Reservoir, but several cottonwood trees are still standing.

Whenever the warmth of spring, the cottonwood tree blossoms, such as the clear sky fire cover; wind blown flowers fall, contend with the green wave, such as the flow of red by the water, the West Lake in Huizhou opened a scene, so there is "cottonwood spring intoxication," said. The former praised: "clouds and water, grass tree Yan, the lake and the mountains, the evening sunny day. Around the pavilion flowers red on fire, the green bushes to see the cottonwood."

Cotton water pavilion is the location of the Pinghu on the island of red cotton. During the Northern Song Dynasty, Huizhou governor Chen Song built a pavilion on this round island, called "Lake Pavilion", because the shape of the boat is also known as "boat pavilion". In the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, Fang Yao, the governor of the Guangdong navy, and Zhang Liangui, the governor of Huizhou, jointly built a new pavilion on the round island, called "Water Pavilion".

According to the compilation of Zhang Youren "Huizhou West Lake" records: Ming and Qing Dynasty Cotton Tree Water Parlor has two tall cottonwood trees, pale ancient and beautiful, every summer, cottonwood "flowers bloom, red color forced sky", spectacular.

Ancient literati tour of Huizhou West Lake, will be rowing from the Bay of the Moon to sit in this pavilion to enjoy the moon, leaving "a few frost trees decorated with kapok, the water pavilion is decorated like a painting boat. Drinking General Banquet clean guests, the moon and wind regardless of money" comments.

Huizhou West Lake Scenic Spot is located in the southeast of Guangdong Province, Huizhou City, Huicheng central area, by the West Lake Scenic Area and Safflower Lake Scenic Area consists of a total area of 20.91 square kilometers, of which the watershed area of 3.13 square kilometers, is to the elegant and deep landscape as the characteristics of the historical and cultural heritage, to leisure and sightseeing for the main function of the national scenic spots and the national AAAAA level. Tourist Attractions.

The mountains and rivers are beautiful and profound, the scenery is beautiful and winding, the floating continents rise up in all directions, the green hills look like diaper, and the ancient pavilions are hidden in the trees, and the scenery is wonderful in the heavenly form, which is known as "Ramie Xizi", and there is a historical record that says, "Thirty-six West Lakes in China are the only ones that are sufficient for Hangzhou, and only Huizhou is the only one". It is also known as "The 36 West Lakes of China, only Huizhou is equal to Hangzhou". More than 400 writers and artists represented by Su Dongpo have visited Huizhou, leaving a valuable cultural heritage for the West Lake.

Modern Sun Yat-sen, Zhou Enlai and other leaders have engaged in a revolutionary movement in Huizhou, leaving a glorious footprint in the West Lake. These historical monuments and revolutionary sites blend well with the green mountains and beautiful water of the West Lake.

West Lake in Huizhou was a wilderness in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Eastern Jin Dynasty built Longxing Temple near the lake, renamed Kaiyuan Temple in the Tang Dynasty, and during the reign of Emperor Zhongzong of the Tang Dynasty, Sizhou Pagoda was built on the West Mountain. In the Northern Song Dynasty, Zhang Zhaoyuan named the lake Langguan Lake when he lived in Sheren Lane in Huizhou. In the same dynasty, Yu Jing wrote the phrase "the heavy mountains and ridges, hidden in the rocky valleys, long streams with coils, the lake light is one of the earliest descriptions of the West Lake," which is one of the best.

In 1066, the governor of Huizhou in the Northern Song Dynasty, Chen Zhan, governed the lake by building the Pinghu Embankment, the Gongbei Bridge, the Lanyu Pavilion and the Huguang Pavilion on the Dancui Chau, and by raising fish and irrigating the fields, which made the west lake known as the Fenghu Lake.

In the first year of the Shao Sheng era of the Northern Song Dynasty (1094), Su Shi was relegated by the imperial court to Huizhou, where he spent three years with his concubine, Chao Yun, and his son, Su Zao, during which time he often visited the West Lake and wrote many poems about its landscape.

In the second year of Shao Sheng's reign (1095), he wrote Five Poems on the Moon, the earliest poems on the theme of the West Lake in Huizhou, which included the famous line, "The mountain spits out the moon on the first night, and the jade pagoda lies in a faint blossom". In the same month, in his poem "Gift to Tanshou", he called Fenghu Lake West Lake, which was the earliest source of the name "West Lake". The West Lake in Huizhou was also famous for Su Shi's poems.

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