Huixian Lake

Huixian Lake

Huixian lake, located in the South Gate of Dongtai old city, Jiangsu Province, has an area of 32 hectares. It has "one island, two gardens, seven districts and eight sceneries". The topography is undulating, the water system is connected, and the twists and turns are natural. It is the place where the seven fairies come down to bathe, and has the reputation of "little Xuanwu Lake". Huixianhu Park represents the highest level of public garden art north of the Yangtze River in Jiangsu Province.

There are more than 100 kinds of trees and nearly 30000 trees planted in the park, forming a pleasant environment with lush trees, birds singing, flowers fragrant and fresh air. It can be said that "there are mountains and water, and the mountains and rivers are connected; there are gardens in the garden, and the scenery is different; pavilions, bridges, and pavilions are beautiful; the natural five lakes are sparkling; the small bridges lie in waves, and the reflection is clear; the trees are verdant, and the winding paths are quiet; the exotic flowers and flowers compete for fragrance and beauty.".

The Yingke waterfall, Jiuqu bridge, camphor forest, Ningchun Pavilion, Baihua garden and Peony Pavilion in the garden make people experience the scene and have infinite interest.

Scenic spots

The Peony Pavilion

When Lu Yi Jian was an official in Xixi (today's Dongtai City), he loved the people and was a good official. At that time, people in Xixi all planted peony flowers. When Lu Yi Jian arrived, she was infected by it and planted a peony plant to comfort herself. He surrounded with Zhu LAN and took good care of it. It turned out that hundreds of flowers bloomed and became a seaside event. Lu Yi Jian saw the flowers under the moon, but he couldn't help himself. He immediately wrote a poem "Ode to peony", which is full of exotic fragrance and gorgeous flowers. Open to the east wind should hate, who moved into the royal family? Lu Yi's bamboo slips use flowers to describe himself, and his feeling of not being able to meet his talent is beyond expression. After Lu Yi Jian left office, Xixi people built a "Peony Pavilion" and engraved his poems as a memorial.

Er Nu Qiao

Jiaqing "Dongtai county annals" contains: there are two women, through the kitchen River, sigh no crossing, so determined to build a bridge. After three years of hard work, he spent a lot of needles and jars to build wooden bridges. Later generations feel that his achievements are called "Er Nu Qiao".

It is said that during the reign of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty, in order to facilitate the transportation of sea salt, the court ordered the excavation of Heduo Xinzao river. After the excavation of Zaohe River, xihaituan and xiguangying, which used to be adjacent to Dongtai City, were separated by Zaohe River. People in these places had to make a detour of more than ten miles to get into the city for business. At this time, the rich man named Gu of the Xihai regiment saw the chance to make a fortune and set up a boat ferry on the Zao River to collect the ferry money. The poor farmers are sometimes humiliated because they can't afford to pay the money. Once, a farmer's family was in urgent need of medicine in Taicheng. At the same time, a rich man also took a ferry. He bluntly claimed that no one was allowed to take the same ferry with him. The scene was seen by two local girls. They were so angry that they decided to build a bridge here. But it's not easy to build a bridge. It needs a lot of money. They discussed and decided to sell the embroidery. The two girls worked day and night for three years and finally saved a sum of money. They use their hard-earned money to buy wood and invite craftsmen to build wooden bridges for the benefit of the people. It is said that the two girls' righteous deeds moved the river god. The river god immediately reported to heaven, and the Jade Emperor was deeply moved, and immediately sent two immortals. Each pull a rainbow, lower bound inspection, hope to help two girls. When the immortals came down to earth, the wooden bridge had been built, and the two immortals dedicated two rainbows to the world. Since then, two new bridges, Donghong bridge and Xihong bridge, have been added to the vicinity of ERNU bridge.

Later, with the increasing salt production of Heduo salt farm, the tonnage of transport ships also increased, and the ancient wooden ERNU bridge hindered navigation. So in 1812, salt merchants donated money to rebuild the wooden bridge into a stone bridge.

In 1989, the state invested more than one million yuan to build a modern highway bridge with reinforced concrete structure on the Heduo River in Dongtai. At the end of the bridge, the title of "reconstruction of the two women's bridge" was used as a memorial.

Jiuqu bridge (santing bridge)

Jiuqu bridge is named after the zigzag bridge corridor. Because there are three rest pavilions on the bridge, it is called "three pavilion bridge" (also known as "three stop bridge", that is, "three steps and one stop, the bridge embraces the splendor"). The three pavilion bridge is an important landscape bridge of Huixian Lake Park.

Welcome Waterfall (Monkey Mountain)

Yingke waterfall is facing the west gate of Huixian Lake Park. Because there were ten monkeys scattered on the mountain, it is also called "Monkey Mountain". Yingke waterfall is the most popular scenic spot to take photos north of the Yangtze River in Jiangsu Province in the 1980s, attracting many tourists to take photos here every year.

Ambergris pool

Ishii

In the era of backward productivity and material poverty, besides rivers and streams, well water is an important source of water for people's life.

Wells meet the needs of people to get water, but also become a public place for people to communicate. When the neighbors get together by the well, the women wash clothes, vegetables and rice. They talk about their owners and Taoxi families. They have no scruples about chatting. The men carry water home with buckets to eat.

The peddlers at the side of the well yell to buy and sell, smoke and drink. Those who play chess and bask in the sun, gamble and rap, write and paint, and sharpen their hair and sharpen their knives have a traditional and leisurely life, which shows the charm of popular culture of ease and simplicity.

It is said that in the 17th year of Jiaqing, when the Jade Emperor sent the immortals to help the second daughter build the bridge, he saw the drought in Dongtai and left a piece of jade to dig a well. Well water is sweet, warm in winter and cool in summer.

Hezhou

It is said that when the seven fairies bathed, there were cranes frolicking on the lake and resting on the rocks in the middle of the lake. So it is called "Hezhou".

Address: 153 Hailing South Road

Longitude: 120.320325

Latitude: 32.839727

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