Honghu Lake is in Jingzhou City, Hubei Province.

Honghu Lake is located in the depression between honghu city and Jianli County in southern Hubei Province and between the Yangtze River and Dongjing River. The elevation of the lake is 25m, and the perennial water surface is 35km2 (the mid-198s water level), with an area of 348.2km2 in 28 (the data of honghu city government in 218 was 348.33km2). The east and west sides are connected with the Yangtze River, which is a good place for fish breeding.

Honghu Lake is the seventh largest freshwater lake in China and the largest lake in Hubei Province. It is the only large freshwater lake in China with well-preserved ecosystem and the overall water quality reaching the second-class standard. Known as the "kidney of Hubei", it has many functions such as water supply, irrigation, wetland biological habitat, breeding, shipping and tourism. Foreign experts call it "the main habitat of endangered species in the world".

Jingzhou delicacies

1. Jingzhou Fish Cake

Jingzhou Fish Cake, also known as Jingzhou Flower Cake, Lily Cake and Jingsha Fish Cake, is a famous traditional food in Jingsha area. It is known that fish is not seen when eaten, and the fish is meaty, the meat is fragrant, smooth and tender, and it is praised when it is dissolved in the mouth. According to legend, Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty called it "eating fish is not seen, but it is pleasant."

2. Gongan Guokui

Gongan Guokui is a local specialty food snack in Gongan County, Jingzhou, and it is also one of the favorite foods of Jingzhou people. It is a kind of pancake baked with fire. Put all kinds of ingredients into flour, brush some oil in a baking pan with charcoal fire, and then stick the prepared cake in the pot, and you can eat delicious biscuits in a few minutes.

3. Breakfast noodle

Breakfast noodle is a famous traditional snack in Shashi, Jingzhou, Hubei Province, which has a history of one hundred years. After the opening of Shashi in 1895, the local noodle shop owner made this noodle with thick oil and fat and delicious soup according to the characteristics that dock workers here like to eat heavy food because of their manual labor.

above content reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Honghu Lake