Nanhu Lake and its waterfront area are rich in cultural relics and historic sites, which contain a long cultural landscape and vivid folk customs. There are ancient sky lanterns (navigation lights) in Nanhu Lake, including Sanyan Bridge built in Song Dynasty, the tomb site of "Wulisanshangshu" in Ming Dynasty, Nanjin Gudu and other ten historical sites. There are beautiful fairy tales about Qin Shihuang driving mountains to fill lakes and Yi Long driving nine turtles. During the Tang and Song Dynasties, many literati often gathered here to recite poems and paint. For example, Li Bai's freehand brushwork of the South Lake "the water is idle and the mirror turns, and the clouds move around the painting screen", and Zhang said that the poem praised the South Lake "the Dongling Mountains in the clouds reappeared, and the South Lake in the trees was bright".
Since the establishment of Nanhu District, it has inherited the traditional folk culture of dragon boat, successfully held the first world dragon boat championship, the first national water sports competition and other major events, and founded the world-renowned Yueyang International Dragon Boat Festival brand. The Nanhu Square and the tourist corridor around Nanhu, which were built by the municipal government with a huge sum of money, have become the holiday and leisure center area of Yueyang citizens, and the tourist corridor has also entered the top 2 leisure attractions in Hunan. Nanhu Lake has become an important window for Yueyang's tourism, leisure and opening up.
The beauty of Yueyang city lies in water, and the beauty of water lies in South Lake, which is the bright ecological pearl of Yueyang. Therefore, it is necessary to firmly establish the concept of ecological priceless, and to protect and develop Nanhu Scenic Area with scientific concepts. Green mountains and green waters are the life of South Lake, and the protection, development and prosperity of South Lake depend on the protection of environmental resources. It is necessary to create conditions to gradually build Nanhu into a well-known eco-cultural tourism resort.
focus on the protection of environmental resources. Nanhu and Longshan, as precious beautiful landscape resources in Yueyang, are the scenic spots for the general public and tourists to visit Yueyang for leisure. Protecting the green mountains, green waters and blue sky of Nanhu and Longshan is the primary responsibility of our district. It is necessary to unify the management of landscape resources in South Lake, strictly monitor the areas that are included in the planning and control of the core scenic spots of South Lake, increase the control of illegal buildings, increase the pollution interception around the lake, strengthen the comprehensive improvement of the water environment of South Lake, and take effective measures to improve the surrounding environment of South Lake to ensure a beautiful and fresh ecological environment.
focus on the development of cultural relics. South Lake was once famous in the Tang and Song Dynasties. The historical relics dotted with South Lake and the myths, legends, poems and wind attached to the natural ecological landscape have become valuable human resources of South Lake, including Yi Long's Quejiugui landform landscape, Bauhinia Dike, Sheng 'an Temple, Sanyanqiao, and the site of Elk Country. It is necessary to intensify the excavation of human resources in South Lake, restore the historical and cultural connotation in the scenic area, and reproduce the humanistic light of South Lake. South Lake comes down in one continuous line with Yueyang Tower, Junshan and other tourist hotspots. With the construction of Yueyang Tower's scenic belt along the lake and Nanhu Tourism Corridor, Yueyang will realize the integration of tourism resources of famous buildings, islands and lakes. Therefore, Nanhu should focus on developing urban eco-tourism and cultural tourism, give full play to the advantages of humanistic tourism resources centered on Dragon Boat Festival culture and Nanhu Square culture, activate the development of water tourism projects on the lake, show the unique charm of Yueyang's excellent tourist city, and build Nanhu into a first-class scenic spot and tourist resort.
focus on the construction of tourism projects and culture. After years of development and construction, Nanhu already has excellent infrastructure. Nanhu Hotel and Apollo Hotel are being rebuilt according to five-star standards. The five-star garden-style holiday hotel and large-scale urban ecological sports and leisure park of Dongting Lake International Mansion have started construction. The Nanhu Corridor will soon be integrated with Yueyang Tower along the lake, and a number of tourism hardware facilities are being continuously improved. In addition, Nanhu has held international dragon boat races with world-class influence for more than 1 years, and actively held activities such as Lantern Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and Lake Fresh Food Festival, forming a tourism culture with Yueyang characteristics. Therefore, we have the responsibility to build Nanhu into a national tourist resort and enhance the brand of Yueyang as an excellent tourist city.