Santan Yinyue

Also known as "xiaoyingzhou", it is the largest island in the West Lake, known as "the first scenic spot of the West Lake", and is a representative work of water courtyard art in the south of the Yangtze River.

East of Jiuqu bridge, facing a short white wall. There is no connection between the two ends of the wall, which is like a screen. However, four exquisitely decorated leaky windows are opened on the pink wall, and the spaces inside and outside the wall are separated and permeated with each other. The island's dense flowers and trees, mainly green willow, lotus, red maple, hibiscus, blooming all the year round, colorful.

Santan Yinyue also extends from the island to the lake. Three bottle shaped stone pagodas stand on top of each other, and the pattern on the one dollar bill is it. There are five small round holes around the tower. When you look around the Mid Autumn Festival, you can see 33 moons. At this time, the water and the sky match each other, and lights are lit in the tower to compete with the bright moon. Those who enjoy the moon come to the lake to stir the silver glow of the lake, the moon of the sky, the moon of the water, the moon of the tower, and the moon of the heart. There is a saying that "the moon reflects the lake, and the tower is divided into three parts.".

Santan Yinyue, one of the ten scenic spots of West Lake in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, is known as "the first scenic spot of West Lake". Santan Yinyue is the largest island in the West Lake, with beautiful scenery and quiet scenery, especially the scenery of Santan Yinyue is famous at home and abroad. The main scenic spots are "kaiwangting", "xianfangtai", "xianxianci", "yingcuixuan", "huaniating", "yinting of my heart", "quqiao", "jiushishi", etc. On the bank, golden osmanthus is dancing, willows are green and flowers are bright, and the buildings with carved hurdles and painted buildings complement each other. There are islands in the lake, lakes in the island, gardens in the garden, changeable tunes and new scenery. On the back of the RMB one yuan note, Santan Yinyue is used, which shows that Santan Yinyue also plays an extremely important role in China's scenic spots.

geographical position

Xiaoyingzhou, huxinting and ruangongdun are called the three islands on the lake. Santan Yinyue is the largest island among the three islands on the West Lake, covering an area of seven hectares. Surrounded by circular dikes and ridges, there is a lake in the island. The water surface is in the shape of "Tian". There is a Jiuqu bridge with nine turns and three turns and thirty bends. The island's exquisite architecture, four flowers Fu Shu, a "water Fairy" reputation. There are three stone pagodas standing on the surface of the South Island Lake. The height of the pagoda is 2 meters. The body of the spherical pagoda is hollow, and there are five small round holes. It is said that the moon reflects the deep pool, and the pagoda is divided into 32 parts. Each stone tower has five small holes, three of which are 15, plus the reflection in the water is 30, plus the moon and its reflection, a total of 32.

Beautiful green island, winding bridges, dignified context, rich and graceful. In ancient times, people often called the imaginary Qiongshan Fairy Island on the sea "Penglai three islands", namely Penglai, abbot and Yingzhou. In the construction of Chinese classical gardens, we also adhere to the pattern of one pool and three mountains, which metaphors "Penglai three islands" and symbolizes fairyland. Therefore, in the West Lake, people also compare huxinting, ruangongdun and Santan yingyue to Penglai, abbot and xiaoyingzhou. Therefore, the moon in Santan is also known as "xiaoyingzhou".

Historical data

In 1607, Nie Xintang, the magistrate of Qiantang County, built a dam around the island by taking fennel mud from the lake. The lake in the lake was first built as a place for release. In the South Lake of the island, three large bottle shaped stone pagodas were rebuilt at the original Su Shi tower. In the early Qing Dynasty, quqiao and Tangxuan were built on the island. Along the inner lake, hibiscus was planted. After passing through Qingguang Xujian, Peng Yulin, a retired general, built a villa here. Xiaoyingzhou began to take shape. It is famous for its water garden of "island in the lake, Lake in the island".

On the island, there are donglang Pavilion, yingcuixuan Pavilion, flower and bird hall, yubeiting Pavilion, yixianye Pavilion, xianfangtai Pavilion and Xianxian temple. Pavilions, pavilions, buildings, platforms, and stone bridges are full of twists and turns. The leaky windows are far-reaching, the flowers and trees are sparse, and the reflection is blurred. When you are in the middle of them, you can see different scenes step by step.

In 1727, the governor of Zhejiang Province at that time Li Wei painstakingly built pavilions and pavilions and planted exotic flowers and plants, making xiaoyingzhou a colorful water garden in the south of the Yangtze River. At that time, one of the 18 sceneries of the West Lake, Yuma Qiurong, was here.

Lakeside walk, flowers and trees to support sparse, step by step, different scenery. This place is located in the water area of the West Lake. It is a wonderful place to appreciate the scenery of the West Lake. It is also the best place to enjoy the "sunny lakeside", the fourth of the ten new sceneries of the West Lake in Su Shi's poems.

Eternal snow

It is said that Santan Yinyue is the three feet of a big censer, and the big censer is buckled with a black fish essence, and the three feet of the censer stretch out of the water to become Santan Yinyue. But there are two versions of this legend.

Lu Xiaomei fights with black fish essence

There are three stone pagodas in the West Lake, like three gourds, growing on the sparkling water. Every night of the Mid Autumn Festival, the moon is in the sky. People like to light candles in the round hole of the stone pagoda and paste thin paper on the hole. Many small moons will be reflected in the water. The moon shines on the tower and the tower reflects the moon. The scenery is very beautiful. That is the famous "three pools in the moon".

So, where did these three stone towers come from? It is said that one year, Lu Ban, a skilled craftsman from Shandong, came to Hangzhou with his little sister. They rented two shops near the gate of Qiantang and put up the signboard of "Shandong Lushi, made of iron, wood and stone". As soon as the signboard was put up, there was an endless stream of people visiting teachers. Luban choosed and accepted 180 clever young students as apprentices.

The Luban brothers and sisters have excellent craftsmanship, which is really extraordinary: the carved stone dog can watch the door, and the carved wooden cat can catch rats. One hundred and eighty apprentices became masters with their guidance. One day, the Luban brothers and sisters were carefully teaching their apprentices skills. Suddenly, a strong wind blew and the sky turned dark. It turned out that a black fish had come to the world to cause trouble. In the middle of the West Lake, a deep pool of 360 feet was drilled. When it blows in the pool, the city of Hangzhou is full of fishy smell; when it sprays water in the pool, it rains heavily in the north and South Mountains. On this day, the willows by the lake broke, the flowers withered, and the water kept rising.

The Luban brothers and sisters, with 180 apprentices, climbed the Baoshi mountain together. When they looked down the mountain, they saw a vast ocean. All the houses in the city were soaked in the smelly water, and men, women, old and young fled everywhere. In the middle of the lake, there is a big whirlpool. In the whirlpool, a very wide fish's mouth is raised. The fish's mouth is raised higher and higher, and the whole fish's head is slowly exposed. The fish's head is lifted up, and a piece of dark cloud is flying up. The dark cloud falls on the top of the gem mountain, and a black and ugly posterity falls on the cloud.

Hei housheng turned his round eyes and glanced at Lu Mei: "ha ha, beautiful girl, what do you do?" Lu Mei said: "girl, I am a skillful craftsman." Hei housheng saw Lu Mei from head to foot: "by the way, your bright eyes and curved eyebrows must be skillfully cut. Let's go and make new clothes with me. " Lu Mei ignored him. Hei housheng saw Lu Mei from head to foot: "by the way, I think your slim hands must have good stitches to depict dragons and embroider Phoenix. Let's go and embroider quilts with me. " Lu Mei didn't turn her head in disgust.

Hei housheng couldn't guess. After thinking about it, he narrowed her eyes and said, "beautiful girl, it doesn't matter if she can't cut, it doesn't matter if she can't embroider. If you marry me, you can't eat all the delicacies and enjoy the happiness." Then he reached out to pull Lumei. Luban separated his hand with a hammer and said, "go away!" Hei housheng still grinned and grinned: "my skin is three feet thick. I'm not afraid of your hammer! If you marry me, you can say anything. If you don't marry me, the mountains will be flooded again. "

Lu Mei thought that if the flood rose again, the lives of the people in the city would be lost. She turned her eyes and found a way. He said to Hei housheng, "you can't be in a hurry to marry me. Let brother do a dowry for me first." After hearing this, Hei housheng was happy: "good girl, I promise. What dowry are you going to do? " "High mountains and high rocks, I want my brother to chisel it into a big censer." Hei housheng patted his thigh happily: "good, good, black fish king in the sky, come down to earth and set up a temple. There's a Shixiang stove that you're married with. It's just the right way to raise it. "

Lu Mei had a discussion with brother. Lu Ban said to Hei housheng, "the East is water, and the west is water. What should we do? You go back to the water first. " Hei housheng opened his wide mouth and inhaled, and the water of the city poured into his belly. Lu Ban pointed to a cliff on the mountain and asked the young man, "look, how about chopping this half of the mountain down to make a stone censer?" "Good Li, good Li, brother-in-law, chisel it quickly. The bigger the chisel, the more beautiful it will be." "The censer is big, the censer is high, how can you move the heavy censer?" "Well, as long as I raise my feet, there will be a black wind behind me. What is a small stone incense burner? I can suck even a mountain. "

When all the people on the mountain went home. Luban, they climb the upside down cliff. Luban lunqi big hammer, hit a hammer on the cliff, his 180 disciples, then hit 180 hammer. With a bang, the cliff fell down. ——Since then, a cliff has been left on Baoshi mountain by the West Lake.

This cliff is really big. Looking at the white, looking at the white, how to chisel it into a round stone incense stove? Luban looked at the deep pool in the middle of the lake, estimated the size, pinched a long rope, stood in the middle of the cliff, asked his sister to tighten the other end of the rope, and "Patta Patta" ran for two steps. Lu Mei's footprints draw a circle on the cliff. Luban first chiseled a large sample, and 180 disciples chiseled it according to the shape. After chiseling day after day, 7749 days, the cliff turned into a big stone incense burner. Under the round censer, there are three inverted gourd shaped sharp feet. On the sharp feet, there are three transparent round holes.

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