Moon Lake is located in the northwest of Hanyang City, reaching the northwest corner of Guishan Mountain in the east, Guqintai and Meizi Mountain in the south, the foot of Heshan Mountain in the west, and Han River in the north. It is 3150 meters long from east to west and about 450 meters wide from north to south, with a total area of ??1.42

Square kilometers, generally 2 meters deep, is a freshwater lake.

The water surface of Yuehu Lake is wide and integrated with Guishan Mountain, Meizi Mountain and Guqintai. It has unique natural conditions. The beautiful legend of finding a close friend in the mountains and flowing water has injected profound historical and cultural connotation into Yuehu Lake Scenic Area.

In the early years, Yuehu Lake was famous among the three towns for its abundant lotus roots and water chestnuts.

Due to the good water quality of Yuehu Lake and the fertile silt at the bottom of the lake, the lotus root produced in Yuehu Lake has a high starch content and was once as famous as Hongshan vegetable sprouts, which are known as Wuhan specialties.

Until the early 1980s, Yuehu lotus root was transported to Hong Kong via "three express trains."

Moon Lake was called Queyue Lake in ancient times.

According to the "Hanyang County Chronicle" in the 23rd year of Jiaqing in the Qing Dynasty (AD 1818), Yuehu got its name because Huang Jianjun (Huang Zu, Liu Biao general in Jingzhou at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty) built Queyue City. Queyue City looked like a waning moon, and Yuehu also got its name.

Queyue Lake.

During the Chenghua period of the Ming Dynasty, the Han River changed its course and rushed into the Yangtze River through the north of Guishan Mountain, leaving Yuehu Lake, which has a history of hundreds of years.

Ancient Moon Lake is five or six miles long, bordering the Yangtze River in the east, Guishan Mountain in the south, Nanhu Lake in the west, and Han River in the north. It covers an area of ??about 7,200 acres, which is 6.2 times the current size of Moon Lake.

Yuehu Lake is composed of Dongyue Lake, Xiyue Lake and Tangyue Lake.

Dongyue Lake has long since disappeared, and its ruins are located to the west of Qingchuan Street, east of Jianghan Bridge, and the north corner of Guishan Mountain; Xiyue Lake is now Yue Lake; Tangyue Lake is a local water area of ??Xiyue Lake.

On the east bank of Guyue Lake, there are now Gaogong Street, Qingchuan Street and Xima Street running from north to south. A long embankment was built here in 1506 AD.

It is called the drowning-free embankment and also called the willow embankment. This embankment cuts off the Yangtze River and Yuehu Lake to prevent the river from invading during the flood season.

In 1732 (the tenth year of Yongzheng reign in the Qing Dynasty), Gao Gonggang, the prefect of Hanyang, and Gan Changqi, a local gentleman, donated a stone bridge to build it, and the bridge was named Gaogong Bridge.

In 1742, Guo Chaozuo, the prefect of Hanyang, presided over the construction of a long embankment that divided Yuehu Lake into east and west halves. This embankment was called Guogong Embankment. When the Jianghan Bridge was built in the 1950s, part of this embankment was converted into an approach bridge.

Monks raised funds to build a long curved embankment in the middle of Xiyue Lake, which is called Shishi Embankment. Because it is shaped like a dragon lantern, it is also called Dragon Lantern Embankment.

The original embankment has now been heightened and reinforced, becoming a road across Yuehu Lake.

In the old local chronicles, it was customary to attach the local scenery into "eight sceneries" or "ten sceneries". The "Hanyang County Chronicle" in 1884 called the eight sceneries of Yuehu Lake as Liuying Changdi, Banqiao Flower Shadow, Ancient Tower Zhongyun, Xiaoshi

Lights, lotus breeze, waning moon on the Qintai, morning glow in the Buddhist temple, and the wonderland of the ancient cave.

After the founding of New China, the party and the government changed the reality of Yuehu Lake being neglected. In 1959, the Hanyang District Yuehu Project Management Office was established. In 1961, the state-owned Yuehu Farm was established. In 1979, it was renamed Yuehu Fishing Ground.

In 1982, the Yuehu Scenic Area Management Office was established.

However, due to various reasons, the environment of Yuehu Lake is very unsatisfactory: the scenic area and surrounding environment are very poor, the main body of the Guqin platform is not prominent, the environment is messy, and the commercial atmosphere is strong; the scenic area belongs to the Provincial Sports Commission, the Municipal Federation of Trade Unions, and the Municipal Machinery Bureau

, district government, district environmental protection bureau, district health bureau, army and more than a dozen departments.

Due to multi-faceted management and multi-faceted politics, what was supposed to be a beautiful tourist attraction has become “fragmented”, which is incompatible with its superior natural conditions and rich historical and cultural connotations.

In recent years, the average annual number of tourists in the scenic spot has been less than 300,000.

Although Wuhan City has planned and designed the development plan of Qintai Scenic Area many times.

However, due to various reasons such as lack of funds, several plans were aborted.

In early 2002, the Wuhan Municipal Planning Institute once again completed the "Yuehu Area Construction Plan". The planned area of ??Yuehu is 2.45 square kilometers, with the goal of achieving a high degree of harmony between traditional culture, natural environment and modern life, and shaping the area into a central urban area.

It is a natural landscape area with the most unique riverside and lakeside characteristics, and a cultural tourism area with unique historical connotations.

The plan is to build a waterfront green belt around the lake with Yuehu Lake as the center, and build a spatial landscape corridor of four north and south drunken towns, connecting the three major parks of Qintai Scenic Garden, Plum Scenic Garden and Ecological Home.

Restore the old eight scenic spots of the Moon Lake such as the morning glow of the Buddhist Temple and the waning moon of Qintai, and create the eight new scenic spots of the Moon Lake in the modern style, such as the mountains and flowing water, the Crescent Square, and the Forest of Friends Steles.

The recent construction plan comprehensively improves the water bodies, traffic, buildings, greening, etc. in the Yuehu area, and achieves the goals of "water permeability, greenness, purification and beautification, and smooth accessibility" through "demolition, blocking, planting, repairing, and construction" to make the area more accessible.

The Yuehu area displays mountains and dews, embodies the ecological advantages of mountains and rivers, displays the unique natural and cultural features of the Yuehu Scenic Area, and promotes the development of the tourism economy.

In order to completely change the appearance of the Yuehu area, and to meet the needs of Wuhan City and Hanyang District to build a landscape garden city, on March 29, 2002, the government invested 50 million yuan, and the first phase of the Yuehu Environmental Comprehensive Improvement Project officially started.

The scope of the first phase of the construction project is the area east of Meizi Mountain, including East and West Yuehu Lake, Yuehu Peninsula, Guqintai Park, Parrot Avenue and the 4,300-meter-long lake ring, with a total land area of ??2.15 square kilometers.

It mainly includes six major projects: demolishing some buildings south of Qintai Square and around Guqintai to open up the sight of the lake; intercepting 22 sewage outlets along the lake to make the lake water clear; demolishing Qintai's large-scale shed advertising and coastal building facades

Renovate; build a 5,500-meter-long road around the lake to facilitate citizens' sightseeing; build a green square; reconstruct the eight scenic spots of Yuehu Lake.