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The West Lake is located in the west of Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, surrounded by mountains on three sides, bordering the city on the east, 3.3 kilometers long in the north and south, 2.8 kilometers wide in the east and west, with a water surface area of about 5.66 square metric meters, including the islands in the lake for 6.3 square metric meters, and a perimeter of the lake shore of 15 metric 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 top ten scenic spots in China in 1985, and it is one of the best lakes in the world.

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泓脉脉含情, 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 shade of 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 more added to the 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, Warming the Warblers in the Willow Waves, Sunset on the Leifeng River, Evening Bells on the Nanping River, and the 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 the Baoyou Bridge in the Southern Song Dynasty, also known as the Duanjia Bridge. The bridge was rebuilt in 1921. There is a water pavilion "in the light of clouds and water" and a pavilion of Broken Bridge and Broken Snow. 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 good 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 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".

Su Causeway Spring Dawn

In the Northern Song Dynasty, when Su Shi (Dong Po) was governor of Hangzhou in the fifth year of the Yuanyou era (1090), he dredged the West Lake and built a long causeway of lake mud, which was later called the Su Causeway with a total length of 2.8 kilometers, and there were six bridges on the causeway, namely, the Reflecting Wave Bridge, the Locking Lane Bridge, the Wangshan Bridge, the Pressing Causeway Bridge, the East Pudong Bridge, and the Crossing Rainbow Bridge, in the order of 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 exquisite, and it is interesting in sunny, rainy, cloudy and snowy days. The scenery varies from time to time, especially in the early morning of spring. Especially in the early morning of spring to enjoy the best scenery, green poplar whisk bank, colorful peach burning, dawn sunshine embankment, spring color like a picture,? Therefore, it has the beautiful name of "Spring Dawn of Su Causeway".

Nanping Evening Bell

Jingci Temple, located in the south shore of the West Lake, Nanping 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 floor of the Temple of the net Ci 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 reverberate, 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 into meditation, and the traveler's window teases the guests with affection."

The Autumn Moon of Pinghu Lake

The Autumn Moon of Pinghu Lake 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 a pavilion looking at the lake, and in the Ming Dynasty, there was the Dragon King Ancestral Hall, and during the Kangxi period in the Qing Dynasty, it was named "Autumn Moon on Pinghu Lake", which is 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 overnight, the water wheel line piece of cloud no, vulture peak remote degree of 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 the most suitable for the fall.

Curved Yard Wind Lotus

Curved Yard Wind Lotus 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, in the Song Dynasty, there was an official brewery on the banks of the Hongchun Bridge, which was connected to the Jinsha Stream with a pond full of lotus flowers, and whenever the summer smoky wind blew, the fragrance of the lotus and the wine overflowed, which was intoxicating, and it was called the "Qu Yuan Wind Lotus". In the Qing Dynasty, the wine shop closed, when Kangxi visited the lake, he wrote a monument to the ten scenic spots of the West Lake, he changed the word "Qu" to "Qu", and "Lotus Breeze" to "Wind Lotus". "

The "Wind Lotus in the Qu Yuan" scenic name has been used to this day.

SanTanYinYue

SanTanYinYue

SanTanYinYue, one of the ten scenic spots of West Lake, is located in the south of the central part of the West Lake, and the Pavilion of the Heart of the Lake, RuanGongDun tripod stand together as the "three islands in the lake", as if China's ancient legend of the three islands of PengLai, so it is also known as the small YingZhou.

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 "field" character?

Twin peaks in the clouds

"Twin peaks in the clouds" Royal Monument Pavilion attractions, in the Hongchun Bridge. Twin peaks that is the South Peak, North Peak, are 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, "Ten Scenes of West Lake? Two (Double) Peaks in the Clouds": ? A peak of a tall man, two people talk to each other. There is a West Lake in this place, and I refuse to go there.

This scene is a remote view of the lake, the early Qing Dynasty in order to set up a monument before moving to the land. 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. Like a spectacular ink and water and the intensity of the landscape scrolls in front of the show. Therefore, the name "two peaks in the clouds". Emperor Kangxi of Qing Dynasty visited this place and changed the name to "Twin peaks in the clouds".

Liu Lang Wenying

Located on the southeast shore of the 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 giant merchant A Laoding, built a mosque in Hangzhou, died and was 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 of a young girl like raccooning, called "Raccoon Willow" and so on. There is the name of Willow Island. The yellow warbler flying, crowing, so there is a "willow wave Wenying" of the name.

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『Tour Schedule』

◇? Day 1: ◇The first day of the trip is the first day of the tour.

Lingyin Temple (Feilai Peak)-Tea Museum-Yuquan-Wangyue Temple-Huanglong Cave Yuan Yuan Folk Garden?

Morning at the lakeshore by 7 bus **** to Lingyin, Lingyin Temple, Feilaifeng statue tour, still take the 7 to Hongchunqiao, change to 27 to the Chinese Tea Museum visit. Then take the 27 road back to Hongchunqiao, transfer to the 7 road to the Yuquan, after the tour to visit the Yue Wang Temple, and then walk to the Qu Yuan? Windhoek station by 28 bus **** car to Huanglongdong Yuan Yuan Folk Garden, out of the 16 or 28 bus back to the city.

◇? Second: day trip in the lake?

Pinghu Autumn Moon - Xileng Yinshe - Zhongshan Park - tour of the lake (Huxin Pavilion, Three Pools and the Moon) - Quyuan Fenghe (Guozhuang)?

Morning by 7 bus **** car to the Children's Palace Plaza and then walk the White Causeway, tour of the Lone Mountain, Xiling Indian Society, and then in the Zhongshan Park dock on the boat tour of the lake, the first to go to the Pavilion of the Heart of the Lake, and then tour of three pools of the Moon, and finally to the Yuehu Lake dock disembarked after the tour of the Qu Yuan Wind Lotus Park and Guozhuang. If you return to the city still take the No. 7 bus to the lakeside or train station can be.

◇? Day 3: South line day trip?

Song City - Six Harmonies Pagoda - Tiger Run - Fish Watching in Flower Harbor - Jingci Temple - Silk Museum - Wenyingying in Liu Lang?

Morning by 308 bus **** to Songcheng, after the tour to the Six Harmonies Pagoda, visit the Chinese Pagoda Expo, and then take the 308 bus to Hupeng, Hualang Guanyu tour, lunch after the tour of the Temple of Pure Mercy, and then take the 308 road in the Changqiao get off, walk to the China Silk Museum to visit, and then still to the Changqiao get on board to take the 308 to the Willow River Wenying, after the tour, the southern line of the tour to the end of the tour.

『Cuisine』

◇? Hangzhou famous dishes: Dongpo Pork, West Lake Vinegar Fish, Fish Soup, Longjing Shrimp?

Hangzhou local snacks: eel noodles with shrimp, Sichuan noodles with slices, and Xiao Long?

◇? Dongpo pork?

According to legend, Su Dongpo, the literary hero of the Northern Ningxia, came to Hangzhou twice to serve as governor, dredge the lake to build embankments, the people of Hangzhou to thank him for "lifting the hunting and picking sprinkles", he asked his family to cook according to his method of meat and treat the workers, they eat the crispy and flavorful meat and called it "Dongpo meat". Hangzhou restaurants also follow the imitation, so far Dongpo meat has a history of more than 900 years. When making, choose fine skin thin fat five strips of meat, with rock sugar, soy sauce as a condiment, to Shao Shao instead of water, will be cut into cubes of meat into a small onion to fill the bottom of the casserole, sealed on the steam, do not go away from the original flavor, the crispy and not crushed, not greasy fat characteristics.

◇? West Lake Vinegar Fish

West Lake Vinegar Fish, also known as "uncle and sister-in-law Chuanzhen", the legend is that in ancient times, the sister-in-law burned a bowl of fish with sugar and vinegar to the brother-in-law and came. Selection of medium-sized grass carp, preferably first blanch in water, to master the fire. Plated and drizzled with sweet and sour gravy. The finished dish is bright red color, tender meat, sweet and sour, slightly crab flavor.

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