Dongzhou Island is located in the middle reaches of Xiangjiang River in the southeast of Hengyang City, with a length of about 2 kilometers and a width of about 200 meters. The beach covers an area of 25 mu, and the waters in the east are 200 meters wide and those in the west are 300 meters wide.
There are temples, academies, ancient trees and peach blossoms on the island, and you can see the beach in the season with little water. The island is surrounded by water, dense trees, shaded by trees, and the environment is very quiet. Junshan in Yueyang, Orange Island in Changsha and Dongzhou Island in Hengyang are also called the three continents of Xiangjiang River Basin. Dongzhou Island is one of the eight scenic spots in ancient Hengyang.
Dongzhou Island Scenic Area is located in Xu Xiangjiang River, 2 kilometers south of Hengyang City. It is divided into Xiangjiang River and East River, and it is like a bow, so it is named Dongzhou. Because it looks like a big ship, Beihang University, it was named Chuanshan again. The length of the mainland from north to south is1970m, and the width of the south is 2 10/0m. In the original Ming Dynasty, Liu Wen left another place in Taibu Temple, and King Guihua rebuilt the Halloween Palace, which contained a bronze statue of monks in a cloth bag, so it was also called the ancestral temple.
Local delicacies
1, Hengyang lotus leaf board
Traditional country food. Legend has it that it has a history of more than 1000 years. Mix high-quality rice with raw oil, steam it into rice, and let it cool. Slice eggs, chop shallots, diced lean meat, barbecued pork, shrimps, chicken, duck and mushrooms, mix with salt, wrap with loose rice, wrap with fresh lotus leaves and steam in a cage.
2. Pailou Tangyuan
Hengyang flavor snacks. Soak rice, wash it, add water and grind it into slurry, put it in a medium-hot pot, add proper amount of refined salt and spiced powder, cook it, cool it a little, rub it thoroughly by hand repeatedly, make it into thick round strips of bamboo chopsticks, and cut it into sections about 1 cm long, that is, glutinous rice balls. Put it into the boiling pot again, add salt, bring to a boil, scoop the soup into a bowl, sprinkle with chopped green onion and white pepper, and serve. The soup is clean and the pills are soft and spicy.
Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Dongzhou Island