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Su Dongpo and Huizhou West Lake

Huizhou West Lake, formerly known as Fenghu. Because it is rich in "reeds, lotus roots, cattails and fish, the benefits are tens of thousands of years old", and the lake water can irrigate hundreds of hectares of fields, bringing abundant harvests to local residents, so it is called Fenghu. As for West Lake, it was named after Su Dongpo came from the south.

In the first year of Shaosheng in the Northern Song Dynasty (1094), Zhang Tian was appointed prime minister and once again implemented Wang Anshi's new law. Su Shi, who opposed the new law, was demoted to Huizhou for "ridiculing the previous dynasty". On October 2 of this year, he came south as the deputy envoy of the Ningyuan Army. He originally thought that Huizhou in eastern Guangdong was a barbaric and savage land. Unexpectedly, when he got off the bus, he saw the mountains and rivers, the scenery was so beautiful that he couldn't help but admire it. He praised "the seas and mountains are lush and green, and the air is beautiful"! This eliminated the feeling of political frustration and expressed that "I will never give up being a Lingnan native". He stayed there for three years and wrote more than 190 poems and dozens of prose prefaces and postscripts. Later, because he wrote a poem that "reported that the gentleman slept well in spring, and the Taoist gently beat the clock at five o'clock", it reached Zhang Tian's ears. Zhang thought that his relegated life was too leisurely, so he was demoted to Danxian County in Hainan.

During the three years that Su Dongpo stayed in Huizhou, he said that "Dongpo lived in Huizhou and had the courage to do justice." He saw that the Huizhou garrison had no fixed barracks and lived mixed in the city, which interfered with the common people, so he suggested building three hundred barracks. seat. He was quite enthusiastic about the construction of the West Lake: in order to build the "Su Causeway" and "Liuru Pavilion", he even donated the rhinoceros belt on his body; he also donated the money and gold rewarded by Ouchi to help Taoist Deng Shou'an build the East New Bridge. , funded the construction of Xixin Bridge and embankment by monk Xigu. What's even more rare is that he personally works with construction workers, inspecting construction progress and supervising construction expenses. So on the day when the West Bridge was completed, he celebrated with all the elders in the city and feasted for three days. He often visited Fenghu Lake on moonlit nights, climbed Hejiang Tower, entered Xiaoyaotang, crossed Fengle Bridge, and walked all over the West Lake landscape until he "returned at dawn". He lingered under the Sizhou Pagoda in the Tang Dynasty for months, admiring the tower's shadow on the flat lake, and wrote the famous sentence "The moon is spitting out on the mountain, and the Jade Pagoda is lying on the gentle waves." This "Jade Pagoda is lying on the gentle waves", which has become one of the ten scenic spots in West Lake.

Su Dongpo also had a sad story when he was living in Huizhou, that is, his concubine Wang Chaoyun died of illness here. Chaoyun was from Qiantang, Zhejiang Province, named Zixia. She was smart and insightful. She was a singer when Dongpo was an official in Hangzhou. She was illiterate. Later, she became proficient in writing and calligraphy, and was "rough in regular script". When Dongpo was demoted, his concubines left one after another. Only she stayed with Dongpo for twenty-three years and stayed with him until his death. He was only thirty-four years old when he died. After her death, Dongpo and the monks of Louxia Temple buried her in the pine forest next to the temple. Legend has it that after Chaoyun's death, Dongpo still dreamed of Chaoyun going home to breastfeed his infant son every night. Every time she came home, her lower clothes were always wet. When asked why, Chaoyun said that it was because she had to wade across the lake. To. After Dongpo woke up from his dream, he built a new embankment between Pinghu and Fenghu so that Chaoyun didn't have to wade home at night. This became the origin of Su Embankment.

Dongpo stayed in Xihu for three years and had extensive contact with people from all walks of life. Because of his popularity, many buildings in West Lake bear his name in memory of him, such as Sugong Bridge (Xixin Bridge), Chisu Temple, Dongpo Pavilion, Dongpo Temple, Su Causeway... and even Dongpo Rou , Dongpo Braised Pork, Dongpo Restaurant, etc.

Huizhou West Lake has five lakes and six bridges. The lake area covers an area of ??approximately 80 square kilometers. The five lakes are Linghu, Crocodile Lake, Pinghu, Fenghu and Nanhu; the six bridges are Yanxia Bridge, Yingxian Bridge, Gongbei Bridge, Xixin Bridge, Mingsheng Bridge and Tuantong Bridge. Linghu Lake is to the northwest of West Lake, where water chestnuts were probably planted in the past; Crocodile Lake is to the south of Fenghu Lake, I don’t know if there were crocodiles in the past, maybe it was an attachment; Pinghu Lake is to the east of Crocodile Lake, Fenghu Lake is to the south, and beyond that is Nanhu Lake. Xixin Bridge is connected to Sizhou Tower to the west and is listed as the first bridge in the West Lake. It and Su Causeway are both popular "tourist spots" for tourists; Yanxia Bridge is on Linghu Lake, and now only remains; Yingxian Bridge It has been abandoned for a long time between Xuanmiao Temple and Fanghua Island in Pinghu; Gongbei Bridge is built with stacked stones at the northern end of Pinghu, commonly known as Wuyan Bridge; Mingsheng Bridge crosses Fenghu; Yuantong Bridge is between Fenghu and Nanhu. between. Looking north from Yuantong Bridge, you can see embankments and bridges like a belt, pavilions and pavilions, criss-crossing islands and scattered peanut trees. It was once greatly appreciated by the Lingnan painter Gao Qifeng. Ranked first in West Lake.

The scenic area of ??West Lake is mainly between Fenghu and Pinghu. Among the eight scenes of West Lake in "Huizhou Prefecture Chronicles", there is a scene of "Fenghu Fishing Singing". I imagine that Fenghu was quite vast at that time and there were fishing boats. Coming and going. There are Baihuazhou, Mingyue Bay, Jiuqu Bridge, Diancuizhou, Fanghuazhou and the newly built Hongmian Waterside Pavilion. Baihuazhou is an island in the middle of the lake, with gardens, flowers and trees on one island. There is an exhibition hall with carved stone railings, red walls and green tiles. Here you can see Huizhou's unearthed cultural relics from the Han Dynasty to the Song Dynasty: copper coins, porcelain and kilns. Tools and revolutionary cultural relics. There is a flower bed with flowers in full bloom in front of the museum.

It is a path to visit the lake from Sizhou Tower across Pinghu and through the newly built Jiuqu Bridge to Diancuizhou. Diancui Island is green with pines and bamboos, with flying flowers and green trees. Among them is an old phoenix tree. When the flowers are in bloom, it looks like a red cloud or holiday fireworks. There are newly built promenades, white pavilions and antique Liuzhou Pavilion on the island. This is the "Liu Dan Dian Cui" among the eight scenic spots in Huizhou, plus the repainted nine-curved long bridge. , which makes tourists forget to leave.