Yingzhou West Lake

Yingzhou West Lake, located 9 kilometers west of Fuyang City, is Anhui provincial scenic spot, provincial Wetland Nature Reserve, national 3A scenic spot and National Wetland Park. The long-term plan is 70 square kilometers, and the first phase plan approved by the provincial government is 24.32 square kilometers, including 6 square kilometers of lake surface. It is a comprehensive tourism and leisure resort with the core of history and culture and the theme of ecological wetland tourism, leisure vacation and conference catering. There are mainly more than 20 scenic spots, such as Lanyuan, Yiyuan, nvlangtai, Zizhuyuan, zuixianju, West Lake stele forest, Baihua garden, Qinglian Pavilion, Jiuqu bridge, dressing table, SUDI, Oudi, etc. There is also a national wetland park with an area of 6 square kilometers adjacent to the scenic area.

Yingzhou West Lake, together with Hangzhou West Lake, Huizhou West Lake and Yangzhou West Lake, was once known as the four famous lakes in China. In the Northern Song Dynasty, Ouyang Xiu wrote thirteen poems of "picking mulberry seeds", praising Yingzhou West Lake with ten "good" words. Su Shi once wrote dozens of poems praising the West Lake in Yingzhou, leaving behind such famous lines as "although the West Lake is small, it is also the West Lake, lingering in a clear and abundant manner" and "who is male or female in Hangzhou and Yingzhou when thousands of people rise and perish in the dust".

Yingzhou West Lake

Yingzhou West Lake is located 9 kilometers west of Yingzhou District, Fuyang City, Anhui Province. It is a provincial scenic spot, a provincial nature reserve, a National Wetland Park and a national AAA tourist attraction.

The overall planning of Yingzhou West Lake scenic area is 70 square kilometers, with the first phase planning of 24.32 square kilometers and the lake surface of 5.74 square kilometers. It is a tourism and leisure resort with the core of history and culture and the theme of ecological wetland tourism, leisure vacation, conference and catering.

There are more than 20 scenic spots in Yingzhou West Lake, such as Qinglian Pavilion, Jiuqu bridge, nvlangtai, zuixianju, Zizhuyuan, West Lake stele forest, Baihua garden, Lanyuan, Yiyuan, dressing table, etc. There is also a national wetland park with an area of 6 square kilometers adjacent to the scenic area.

The core area of Yingzhou West Lake scenic spot will be more than 24 square kilometers, and the water surface will reach 6.6 square kilometers, which is the largest scale of West Lake in China.

Historical evolution

In 1040 B.C., GUI Kun, who was canonized by King Kang of Zhou Dynasty, was infatuated with a lake on the west side of Ru's tomb. He built a royal garden here, which is the later Yingzhou West Lake.

Ancient Yingzhou West Lake is a scenic Lake, named after Fuyang as Ying after the Northern Wei Dynasty. Together with Hangzhou West Lake, Huizhou West Lake and Yangzhou Slender West Lake, it is called China's four major West Lakes.

During the spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period, buildings such as girl's table and dressing table were built. Li Yan, Emperor Wuzong of the Tang Dynasty, built Lan Yuan when he was king Ying. In the Song Dynasty, huilao hall and Liuyi hall were built, as well as historical groups such as the famous three bridges of the West Lake. When Su Shi was the governor of Yingzhou, he dredged the West Lake, built Su dikes and Su steles, planted weeping willows and flowers, and built Qinglian Pavilion and Yiyuan in Ming and Qing Dynasties.

In 2010, the project of Yingzhou West Lake National Wetland Park was approved, and the fast track planning from Fucheng to West Lake was completed

In August 2010, the overall planning of Yingzhou West Lake Scenic Area (2008-2020) was approved by the provincial government. In March 2011, the Management Committee of Yingzhou West Lake, together with the Municipal Planning Bureau and the Municipal Tourism Bureau, through open recruitment, China Urban Construction Research Institute and the school of landscape architecture of Beijing Forestry University worked out a 24 square kilometer regulatory plan for the scenic spot and a 6 square kilometer constructive detailed plan for the lake area.

We should start the infrastructure projects of the ancient town of dressing up, nvlangtai, Lanyuan, Caohe sluice (dam) and other scenic spots, strengthen the wetland protection, the planning, design and project construction of Caohe sluice (dam), control the water level of the West Lake, protect the water source, do a good job in the construction planning of the National Wetland Park, and start the construction of scenic spots.

In December 2012, the "two plans" passed the expert review. According to the pattern of "East Entertainment", "West leisure" and "middle sightseeing", the plan creates "three circles" and "eight districts", forming a scenic area structure of "one lake connecting two rivers, one vein generating two wings", striving to build Yingzhou West Lake into an ecological wetland with history and culture as the core, modern entertainment, leisure and vacation as the focus Tourism, conference and catering as the theme of cultural lake, entertainment lake, leisure lake and ecological lake.

Water system changes

Yingzhou West Lake, 2.5km west of Fuyang City. The lake covers an area of 9.5 square kilometers. In the Tang and Song Dynasties, pavilions were as famous as the West Lake in Hangzhou. During the period of the Republic of China, after years of yellow flooding, they were all silted to the ground. The present lakes are the old roads of the newly formed Sanli River and Quanhe river.

Sanlihe River was a branch of Quanhe river. Above it is Caohe, which originates from the north of Yangmiao in Linquan county. In the middle are yaolaojiagou, qinyingzhaigou, yuqiaogou and Qingnian Gou, which are from the northwest and North. After the 27th year of the Republic of China (1938), the Yellow River flooded year after year, and the riverbed of the Quanhe River increased year by year. The lake was formed by accumulated water, 6.5km in length and 1.5km in width, covering an area of 9.75km2. The annual water level was between 26m and 27m. In 1984, the county people's government made the decision that Yingzhou West Lake should be relocated here.

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Main attractions

Huilaotang: in 1071, Ouyang Xiu returned to Ying and Zhao Kangjing was over 80 years old. He visited the lake from Nanjing (now Shangqiu, Henan Province). At that time, Lu Gong was a prefect. He built a hall beside Xihu academy, which was called huilao hall. Bright three dark five, double beam overlapping frame, Pillar Stone bucket arch, brick pattern, simple form. The walls are connected by moon doors, with hexagonal windows and lattice doors in front of the hall, which still exist in the 1980s. In 2005, it was restored by Yingquan district government of Fuyang City.

Wanmubai Garden: wanmubai garden is located in the southernmost part of Yingzhou West Lake. The West Lake in Yingzhou is characterized by flowers and trees. Ouyang Xiu, a writer of the Northern Song Dynasty, praised in many poems:

The water of Xixi is green at the vernal equinox, and the flowers of Beizhu are lack of warmth. It's good to have a deep spring rain over the West Lake. There are many flowers, butterflies and bees, and the flowers are warm on the sunny day. The road turns and the levee slants until the end of the city. Taste love west lake early in spring, Chimonanthus square sales, have seen peach open small.

Therefore, in the history of Yingzhou West Lake, four of the eight sceneries are related to plants. The new wanmubai garden is a better representation of the ancient West Lake landscape. It has the famous ten mile peach garden, hundred mu cherry garden, peony garden, chrysanthemum garden, peony garden, which can be called the most in Northern Anhui, as well as ginkgo garden, pear garden, bonsai garden, pomegranate garden, persimmon garden, Metasequoia forest, pine forest and willow forest.

Su dike: Su Shi took the post of governor of Yingzhou as a Bachelor of LongTuge. In order to develop agricultural production and overhaul water conservancy in Yingzhou, he left ten thousand Yellow River men to dredge the West Lake of Yingzhou directly to jiaopo pond, and built three sluices. The dredged soil piled up the dike of the West Lake of Yingzhou and planted weeping willows all over it. Many ornamental plants such as magnolia, cherry blossom, hibiscus and Melilotus are also planted on the Su dike. During the Southern Song Dynasty, there was once a market in the lake.

Juxing Hall: Ouyang Xiu and his friends had a banquet in Juxing hall on the seventh day of the first month of the second year of Huangyou. Ouyang Xiu, LV Gong, Liu Yuanfu, Wei Guang, Jiao Qianzhi, Wang Hui and others wrote rhymed poems, and wrote indoor objects, banquet fruits, and wall portraits At that time, many scholars and scholars from all over the world regretted that they could not attend the meeting. At the same time, Ouyang Xiu also built some new pavilions and pavilions in Yingzhou West Lake.

Huxiao villa: Huxiao villa is located on the East Bank of the south part of Yingzhou West Lake. From the tourism Avenue on the east bank, through the newly built Hushan bridge and the Huandao ditch, you can reach Huxiao heights.

Huxiao mountain villa is a cooperative construction project between China and Thailand in 1995, covering an area of more than 20 mu. The architectural design adopts Thai technology. It has four groups of Hushan and Huxue, which can accommodate more than 20 tigers. Now it raises two Amur tigers in China, and is professionally managed by two technicians trained in Thailand. There are more than 10 Australian ostriches, peacocks and other animals in Huxiao heights. There is also a 136 meter long elevated viewing bridge and two groups of viewing pavilions.

Three ancient bridges: feigai bridge, towering over Zhixi River in the southeast of the lake. The curved bridge and Zhulan reflect the bottom of the lake. It is open to traffic on horsemen, and on boats and yachts. It was built in the sixth year of Yu in the song and Yuan Dynasties. Wangjia bridge, under the south slope of Zhoudao, is tall and broad. In those days, cars, horses and tourists all passed through the bridge. Yiyuan bridge, in the west of the lake.

Nvlangtai: the former site of nvlangtai is one mile away from the East Bank of West Lake in Yingzhou. In October 2002, it was restored and rebuilt in the east of the West Hunan part. It is a brick platform structure square shape, 7 meters wide and 15 meters high on each side. There are zigzag ladders on the left and right sides of the platform, which can reach the top of the platform. There are railings around the top, a porch in the middle, windows on all sides, stone beds and stone benches in the porch. Under the stage, there is a curved corridor, overlooking the lake.

Dressing table: the dressing table is on the South Bank of Sanli River in the West Lake scenic area, next to Yangzhuang, Xiangyang administrative village. This is the "dressing table" site where the golden sedan was replaced by the silver sedan in the spring and Autumn period.

Yingzhou West stele forest: Yingzhou West stele forest is built on the peninsula of Yangxi lake. It covers an area of more than 30 mu and has more than 2000 steles, including stele forest, stele Pavilion, 100 meter stele gallery and exhibition hall. In addition, there are more than 1000 pieces of 2-meter stone tablets in the eight trigrams array forest.

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