paradise lake

"Jiangsu and Zhejiang have Suzhou and Hangzhou, and Hubei has a paradise." No one who has been to Dabie Mountain will forget Paradise Lake.

Paradise Lake is located between Jiuzi River and Dida 'ao. This is an artificial lake, about 10 Li long and about 1 Li wide. From a distance, the whole lake is like a huge rectangular treasure mirror embedded at the foot of Thin Blade, Tiantangzhai, Bijiashan and other peaks. It is also like a winding silver belt flying in the mountains, outlining a landscape of mountains, rivers, clouds and scattered cottages.

Take a bus along the highway in the east of the scenic spot, and go straight from Aihuping for about 7 kilometers to Dadiao Township where the Paradise Lake Dam is located. When you climb the dam, the most striking thing is the breeze and the sparkling water. The clear water rippling on the surface of the water, the pleasure boats flying, the original boats crawling, the birds flapping their wings, the fish and shrimps frolicking underwater, and the turtles roaming everywhere give people a feeling of abundant business.

Take a small motorized cruise and look around the lake area. East and west Tiantangzhai and Bijia Mountain rise from the ground and are vast and towering; Thin blade in the west, clouds flying over the three provinces; In the south, the cock crows, the dog ears, and the blue tide surges; Moss Pass and Wengmen Pass in the north cross east and west.

Near the lake area, there are famous Fairy Ridge and Beauty Peak, which bring people into a dreamy world. Dozens of miles by the lake are picturesque, picturesque and surrounded by mountains and rivers. The village girl who plays the role of Huansha makes people feel like they have entered the landscape painting and pastoral poetry.

Lianhuashan

Lianhua Mountain is located on Yanglan Lake in the southern suburb of Ezhou City. It is a paradise for tourists to recuperate, visit and entertain.

Lianhua Mountain in Zhong Ling is beautiful, and Yanglan Lake is full of smoke. Geomorphologically, the territory of Ezhou is like a green lotus leaf, floating quietly between the Yangtze River and the Great Lakes. In the crustal movement of hundreds of millions of years, nine peaks with Lotus Mountain as the main body have risen from the ground and embraced together, just like nine lotus flowers blooming on the affectionate lake waves.

The mountains and lakes are magnificent, and the land is outstanding. The unique natural scenery, topography and landforms have attracted the literati of past dynasties to stop and stay. Qu Yuan, Tao Yuanming, Huang Tingjian, Su Dongpo and Ding Henian all sang and wrote poems here, leaving many well-known poems. According to legend, Sun Quan, the king of Wu, once set up a stargazing platform here, and Zhou Yu, the governor of Soochow, once supervised the water army here.

Lianhua Mountain is a famous foreign-related tourist attraction in Hubei Province, with more than 30 cultural landscapes. It is famous for the Yuanming Pagoda, the first tower in the south of the Yangtze River, and Jielongtai, the largest cultural forest in the world-the Yi Long in the world, and has become a tourist attraction in Jingchu.

Xishan scenic spot

Xishan in Ezhou, called Fanshan in ancient times, is named because it is located in the west of Ezhou, the ancient capital of Wu Wang.

Xishan is located on the south bank of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, 68 kilometers away from Wuhan, a metropolis in Central China. North of the Yangtze River, Huangzhou Chibi. South of Yanglan Lake, connected with the vast blue waves; East of the bustling downtown area; Fan Chuan, with a jade belt on the west pillow and a lake on the river, rises from the ground. Xishan has nine twists and one vein, and Jiu Feng has six valleys. The mountains are green and the pines and cypresses are empty. Green cliffs and waterfalls wash jade. The whole mountain is about 1.6 km long from east to west, 1.2 km wide from north to south, and the main peak is 170 m, with a total area of more than 4,000 mu. There are six valleys on the mountain, connecting seven springs, three pools, one lake and two waterfalls in series. The quality of groundwater in Xishan Mountain is excellent, which is inexhaustible all year round. Sweet Bodhisattva Springs and crisp and delicious Dongpo cakes are famous in Kyushu.

Xishan has a mild climate all the year round, abundant rainfall, lush trees and blooming flowers. The second peak of the west (mountain) is thunder (mountain) like a sword, with steep mountains like dragons, mountains flying and valleys floating. The spring water in the mountain stream is embedded in the Yandan Cuigu, with pavilions and flowers dotted in it, the curved bridge waterside pavilion reflects the Qingxi Biliu, and the Qingta Honglou looms among the colorful clouds. The mountains are lush with vegetation, birds and flowers, and the breeze is cool and humid. It is a tourist and holiday resort for people to entertain themselves.

Xishan has a long history and many places of interest. The historical and cultural landscape featuring the ancient capital of Wu Wang, the humanistic landscape represented by Sun Quan and Su Shi, the Buddhist cultural landscape marked by Gulingquan Temple and the natural landscape dominated by Xishan Garden are ingeniously integrated here. Sun Quan, the king of the Three Kingdoms, ruled the country, and Hui Yuan, a monk in the Jin Dynasty, Yue Fei, a famous anti-Jin star, Tao Kan, Yu Liang, Li Bai, Su Shi, Ouyang Xiu, Wang Anshi, Lu You, Peng Yulin and Zhang Zhidong gave lectures and preached, practiced martial arts, traveled and hunted, feasted and lived in seclusion in summer. Some of them have become historical sites, which is admirable. They left many beautiful poems and Mo Bao handed down from generation to generation, adding luster to the treasure house of China literature and art. Zhang Yuzhao, a calligrapher at the end of Qing Dynasty, and Peng Chufan, a martyr at the beginning of 1911, also have relics here. During the Great Revolution, General He Long led troops to guard the Western Hills. After liberation, the party and state leaders Dong, Wang and other comrades visited Xishan many times. 1In the autumn of 965, Marshal Chen Yi climbed to the top of the Western Mountain and was filled with emotion: "The Western Mountain is no less than Lushan Mountain!"

There are more than 20 places of interest in Xishan, such as the Summer Palace of the King of Wu, Wuchang Tower and Gulingquan Temple.

The Summer Palace of the King of Wu is the summer palace of Sun Quan of the King of Wu in Xishan. It was built between 22 1 year and 229. The ground here is covered with pine trees, and the temperature is 2-3℃ lower than that in the urban area. It has always been called the "cool and blessed land" of wuchang city. In the first year of the Eastern Jin Dynasty (AD 376-396), Hui Yuan, a monk, took a fancy to this treasure trove of geomantic omen and changed the Summer Palace into Xishan Temple. In the 1990s, the Summer Palace only retained one wing, which was called the Summer Palace.

During the period of 1999, the Summer Palace of the King of Wu was relocated to the top of the chair and rebuilt, becoming another new scenic spot in Xishan, with antique buildings in the Han Dynasty, such as the Summer Palace, the reading hall, the deliberation hall and the Wuchang Building, covering a total area of more than 80 mu.

Wuchang building

Standing on the top of the chair, the clouds reflect the sun, towering into the clouds, beautiful, and overlooking the building, Ezhou Huangzhou has a panoramic view. The Wan Li of the Yangtze River is long, with vast smoke waves, invincible battles, long sirens and folk songs, giving people a sense of vastness and grandeur. The three elegant and vigorous Chinese characters "Wuchang Building" on the forehead of the stair door were written by Guo Moruo, a great contemporary Chinese cultural master.

Gulingquan temple

Also known as "Xishan Temple", it was built by Hui Yuan, a monk in the first year of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and it is the birthplace of Buddhism "Pure Land Sect" in China. There are one hall (Manjusri Hall), three springs (Didi Spring, Han Xiquan and Living Water Spring) and six halls (Tianwang Hall, Baidian Hall, Daxiong Hall, Guanyin Hall, Wusheng Temple and Buddha Hall) in the temple. The main hall has brick and wood structure, lotus arch, cornice ridge and red rafter color hall. In the Hall of the Great Hero, dozens of Lohan Bodhisattvas are sitting or lying, moving or static, beautifully shaped and lifelike.

Jiuqu pavilion

On the Jiuqu Ridge at the southern foot of Xishan Mountain, it was named Jiuqu Pavilion with the meaning of "Nine Songs of the Sheep Intestine". Jiuqu Pavilion was built in the Three Kingdoms period and then abandoned. Su Shi, a Song native, lived in Huangzhou, crossed the river and climbed the Western Hills, looking for the former site, expanding the land and rebuilding it. There are yellow screen red columns in the Jiuqu Pavilion, and the screen wall has two sides, namely Su Shi's poem Xishan in Wuchang and Su Zhe's Jiuqu Pavilion in Wuchang. In addition, Xishan Temple, Songfeng Pavilion, Cui Jingyuan, Xiu Yuan Garden, Sword Trial Stone, Ancillary Altar, Retreat Valley, Shimenkai, Pang Tong Reading Room and other landscapes will definitely leave beautiful and profound memories for tourists.

Ezhou Museum

It is a local comprehensive museum established by the government, which not only undertakes the important tasks of cultural relics investigation, exploration and archaeological excavation in cooperation with the construction projects in the city, but also shoulders the historical mission of cultural relics collection, preservation, exhibition and publicity, scientific research and development and utilization, and management of cultural relics protection units in the city.

Covering an area of 23.69 mu, the museum consists of an office, a security department, a cultural relic archaeological team, an aboveground cultural relic protection department, an exhibition storage department, an operation department, a tourism department and a cultural relic restoration and reproduction research institute.

Through the efforts of cultural workers, the city has discovered 54 ancient cultural sites, 8 ancient buildings, 6 stone carvings, 7 revolutionary sites, 5 modern memorial buildings, and many ancient tombs and ancient tomb areas. Among them, there are 108 cultural relics protection units approved by the State Council, provincial government and municipal government, including 1 national cultural relics protection unit,1provincial cultural relics protection unit and 97 municipal cultural relics protection units.

The cultural relics protection units with great influence include: the Ming Cliff Stone Carving in Yiting, the Tomb of the Martyr Peng Chufan, the ruins of Wuwangcheng, Guanyin Pavilion, the former site of He Long Military Department, Yuliang Building, Wenxing Building, City God Temple, etc. * * * Excavate 1000 ancient tombs. The collection of cultural relics exceeds 20,000 pieces (sets). Among them, there are 56 national first-class cultural relics (sets), 277 second-class cultural relics (sets) and 233/kloc-0 third-class cultural relics (sets). This batch of cultural relics features bronze mirrors and celadon of the Six Dynasties. The collection of cultural relics ranks among the top cities and prefectures in quantity and grade, which makes Ezhou enjoy the reputation of "city of cultural relics" in the whole province, and the excavation of more than 500 bronze mirrors enjoys a good reputation at home and abroad, making Ezhou known as "hometown of bronze mirrors".

Ezhou

Ezhou is located in the east of Hubei Province, on the south bank of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River. It is located at11432'-11505' and 30 00 '-30 06' north latitude. Wuhan, the thoroughfare of nine provinces in the west, Huangshi, the city of mining and metallurgy in the east, Huanggang across the river in the north and Xianning Lake in the south. It was once the ancient capital of Wu Wang in the Three Kingdoms and a famous historical and cultural city. The total area of the city is 1504 square kilometers, and the outline of the whole city is "trilobal". The terrain is high in the southeast, low in the northwest and low in the middle; The highest point "Sifeng Mountain" is 485.8 meters above sea level, and the lowest point "Liangzi Lake" is 1 1.7 meters above sea level. China has 133 lakes with a water area of 650,000 mu. It is a famous "City of Hundred Lakes" and "Land of Fish and Rice". Among them, Fiona Fang Liangzi Lake, one of the top ten famous lakes in China, covers an area of more than 300 square kilometers. There are islands in the lake and lakes in the island.

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Ezhou is a city with a long history and splendid culture. Before the Eastern Han Dynasty, it was Hubei City, Hubei County and Hubei County. During the Three Kingdoms period, Sun Quan, the king of Wu, established his capital here and changed his name to Wuchang. Since then, Ezhou has been the political, economic and military center of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River.

Ezhou is a city with beautiful scenery, a tourist city along the Yangtze River, where mountains, water and cities are integrated. There are natural landscapes dominated by Xishan, Liangzi Lake and Yanglan Lake, historical landscapes focusing on "one pavilion" Cliff, Wuwangcheng and Guanyin Pavilion, humanistic landscapes represented by historical celebrities such as Sun Quan, Yuan Jie and Su Shi, and the birthplace of "Pure Land Sect" of Buddhism. It is spread all over the city, making Ezhou an important city on the "Three Kingdoms Tourism Line" and "Yangtze River Tourism Belt" and an important part of Hubei Chu Culture Tourism Zone.