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Dongting Lake

Dongting Lake is the second largest freshwater lake in my country. There is a lush evergreen hill in the center of the lake called Dongting Mountain, from which Dongting Lake gets its name. The total area of ??the lake area is approximately 18,000 square kilometers. To the south of the lake is Hunan Province and to the north is Hubei Province. During the flood, the lake was as vast as the sea, with an area of ??3,900 square kilometers and a volume of 10 to 20 billion cubic meters. In the south, the Xiangjiang, Zishui, Yuan, and Lishui rivers merge into it; in the north, there are Songzi, Taiping, Ouchi, and Tiaoxian ports connected to the Yangtze River. The lake water finally flows into the Yangtze River in Chenglingji, Yueyang. It is like a large natural reservoir that accommodates four waters, handles the Yangtze River, regulates floods, and controls Chu and Wu.

There are many theories about the history of the name of Dongting Lake. There are records of "Yun Meng" in ancient books such as "Historical Records", "Zhou Li", and "Erya". Meng is the meaning of "Huze" in the Chu dialect at that time, which is similar to the word "歼". "The dream of Chu Zi and Zheng Botian in the south of the Yangtze River in the first year of the Spring and Autumn Period." It is also said: "In the fourth year of Ding Dynasty, Chuzi crossed the Jijiang River and entered the clouds." "Hanyang Zhi" said: "The clouds are in the north of the river, and the dream is in the south of the river." Together they are collectively called Yunmeng. At that time, the area of ??Yunmengze once reached 40,000 square kilometers. "Modern Geography" records: "As far as Qizhou in the east, Zhijiang in the west, south of Jingshan and north of Qingcao, they are all the ancient Yunmeng." Sima Xiangru's "Zixu Fu" said: "Yunmeng is eight or nine hundred miles away." In the late Warring States period, due to sedimentation, Yunmengze was divided into northern and southern parts. The north of the Yangtze River became a swamp area, while the south of the Yangtze River remained a swamp area. The vast lake. From then on, it was no longer called Yunmeng, but this large lake was called Dongting Lake, because there is a famous Junshan Mountain in the lake, formerly known as Dongting Mountain. "A Brief Account of Xiangfei Temple" states: "Dongting is also one of the fairy caves built. It is the courtyard of Dongting, so it is called Dongting. Later generations were called it because of its vast ocean, monstrous floods, and nothing, so they named the mountain of Dongting. The lake is called Dongting Lake. "This is the origin of the name Dongting Lake.

Dongting Lake has clear water, clear sky, and vast sky. Throughout the ages, throughout the ages, there have been countless records and descriptions of it. During the Warring States Period, the great poet Qu Yuan repeatedly sang about the beautiful Dongting Lake in his poems, such as "Go up to the Dongting and go down to the river" in "Ai Ying"; "Go to the Dongting on the road" in "Xiang Jun"; In "Madam", "The autumn wind is blowing, and the waves in the Dongting are under the wooden leaves." In the poems "The King of Xiang" and "The Lady of Xiang", Qu Yuan described Dongting Lake as a place where gods and goddesses hang out based on folklore: a pair of beautiful gods of love, riding a brisk osmanthus boat, blowing sweet and sweet sounds. The pan flute is playing on the blue waves of Dongting in the autumn wind. The king of Xiang built a fragrant water palace with the special lotus, rhizome, duheng, purple clam, osmanthus, magnolia, magnolia, and sage, which are native to the Dongting area, to welcome Mrs. Xiang's arrival.

Dongting Lake not only has beautiful scenery, but is also known as a land of fish and rice. The lakeside is rich in rice and the lake is rich in fish and shrimp. It has been a famous source of freshwater fish in my country since ancient times. Li Shangyin, a famous poet of the Tang Dynasty, wrote a poem called "Dongting Fish": "Dongting fish can be picked up, and they hang down the fishing nets without fail. They are as noisy as mosquitoes before the rain, and as many as flies after autumn." It can be seen that there are many fish. Nowadays, the lake is rich in more than 100 kinds of aquatic products such as carp, crucian carp, bighead carp, silver carp, bream, mandarin fish, whitebait, anchovies and shrimp, crab, turtle, turtle, eel, eel, loach and clam. The rare white-finned dolphin also grows. The largest of the Dongting fish is the sturgeon, which weighs two to three hundred kilograms; the smallest and most valuable is the whitebait. Dongting whitebait is quite famous in history. According to the "Baling County Chronicle" of the Qing Dynasty: "The whitebait comes out of Fengshan and Junshan Lakes, and the small ones are full of inches. Those who see black spots are better. Bake them with fire, which is worse than drying them in the sun. Noodle fish are found in other places, and they are as long as two , three to four or five inches is a cheap thing. It is produced in winter and summer, and the water in summer is not as beautiful as winter. "It is said that when Emperors Yongzheng and Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty visited the south of the Yangtze River, they both tasted whitebait and rated it highly. Silverbait swims in the slow currents of clear water and grassy beaches. It is silvery white and transparent, in the shape of a round bar, without scales or spines. Its meat is tender and rich in protein. It tastes extremely delicious and has always been a treasure on the table.

Lianhu Lake, the "Lake in a Lake" of Dongting Lake, is rich in Xianglian, which is famous both at home and abroad. Whenever the lotus flowers are in full bloom, the lotus leaves all over the lake set off the graceful flowers, which are elegant and noble. They "come out of the mud but not stained, and wash the clear ripples without being evil." Boating to pick lotus has become a major tourist project.

Junshan in Dongting Lake not only has beautiful scenery, but also has many famous products and rare treasures. Among them, Junshan tea is especially famous, and it has been listed as tribute tea since the Tang Dynasty. Junshan Silver Needle Tea is picked when a bud has just appeared on the tea tree and is made through more than a dozen processes. It is orange-yellow on the inside and covered with a layer of white hair on the outside, hence its nickname - gold inlaid with jade. After brewing, all the tea leaves first rush to the top, then slowly sink, and finally they stand firm at the bottom of the cup, piled with greenery, like swords and spears standing in a row, and like young bamboo shoots unearthed, which is indeed a "wonder in tea". The fragrance is refreshing in the mouth and leaves a fragrant aroma on the teeth and cheeks.

The ancients have long summarized the beautiful scenery of Dongting Lake. Among the "Eight Scenic Spots of Xiaoxiang" recorded in the "Dongting Lake Chronicles" of the Qing Dynasty are "Dongting Autumn Moon", "Yuanpu Returning to the Sail", and "Pingsha Luoyan" , "fishing village sunset", "river sky with snow" and "sunscape", "moon shadow", "cloud shadow", "snow shadow", "mountain shadow", "tower shadow", "sail shadow", "fishing shadow", " The "Ten Shadows" of Dongting Lake, such as "gull shadow" and "goose shadow", can still be seen today.

The Legend of Junshan

Looking out from Yueyang Tower, the small island exposed on the lake is the famous Junshan on Dongting Lake. Junshan, also known as Xiangshan or Dongting Mountain, is only separated from Yueyang Tower by a river. Liu Yuxi, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, compared Dongting Lake, which has "the sky above and below, a vast expanse of blue sky", to a white silver plate, and the handsome Junshan Mountain to a green snail in the silver plate. "Looking at the Dongting landscape, I see a green snail in the silver plate." ("Looking at the Dongting") Viewed from the Yueyang Tower, this metaphor is very vivid.

Junshan is a long island composed of 72 peaks. Although Junshan is small, it is filled with beautiful places of interest, historical sites, and mythological stories.

It is said that in ancient times, there was no island in Dongting Lake. Whenever there are strong winds and white waves, the ships have nowhere to dock and are often engulfed by the waves, making the local people miserable. This incident aroused the sympathy of the 72 underwater snail girls. They reluctantly took off their snail shells and formed small islands. Later, they were connected together to form Junshan today. The 72 peaks on Junshan Mountain were created by 72 snail girls.

It is also said that more than 4,000 years ago, Emperor Yu was on a tour to the south. His two beloved concubines, Ehuang and Nvying, came later, but the ship was blocked by wind and waves in Dongting Mountain. Suddenly hearing that Emperor Yu had died in Cangwu (now Wuzhou City, Guangxi), the second concubine was so sad that she held the bamboo and looked south, shedding tears. The teardrops sprinkled on the bamboo, showing spots, so it became the bamboo growing in the north of Junshan. "Xiangfei Bamboo" is also called "Mottled Bamboo". The second concubine also died due to excessive grief and was buried here. Therefore, there is the tomb of the second concubine at the east foot of Junshan Mountain. There is a poem among the people that says: "Emperor Yu went on a tour to the south and did not return, and the two concubines were resentful in the clouds and rivers. I know how many tears I shed at that time, until now Zhu Shangban." In front of the tomb of the two concubines, there is "The Tomb of Emperor Yu's Second Concubine" The stele is surrounded by solid stone pillars with reliefs of unicorns, lins, lions and elephants carved on them. In front of the tomb is a pair of stone pillars, with a couplet engraved on them: "The two souls of the king and concubine will be fragrant through the ages, and the mangosteen will be full of tears." The second concubine was called Junfei and Xiangfei. In order to commemorate them, Dongting Mountain was changed to Junshan, also called Xiangshan. It is said that this is the origin of the names Junshan and Xiangshan.

Interestingly, Junshan also has legends of guilt in history. According to legend, Qin Shihuang was on a hunting tour of the world. When the boat passed Junshan, there was a sudden storm. The first emperor was furious and said: "I am the emperor who is destined to sail on the boat. It should be calm. Who is so bold as to dare to make waves?" Then, he Then he asked the people around him: "Where is this place?" The courtier replied that it was Junshan. When the First Emperor heard this, he became even more angry and said: "In the whole world, I am the only one who is 'King'. How come the mountain is also called 'King'?" He then ordered three thousand prisoners to cut down all the trees in the mountain, and ordered An order to seal the mountain was carved on the stone wall. Today, a stone seal can still be seen on the stone wall near the lake, which is 1 meter long and 0.8 meters wide. The handwriting is vaguely legible and seems to be the word "Yongfeng", commonly known as "Sealing the Mountain".

The "Liu Yi Well" on Junshan Mountain was dug by later generations to interpret the story of "Liu Yi Biography" written by Li Chaowei of the Tang Dynasty. Liu Yi is a failed scholar who meets a shepherdess with tears on her face. She claimed to be the daughter of the Dragon King of Dongting, and she was left here because she was abused by her husband. She then prayed to Liu Yi to enter the sea from a dry well and send a message to the Dragon King, hoping to be rescued and returned to the Dragon Palace as soon as possible. Liu Yi came to Junshan, found a dry well, and went straight down to the Dragon Palace to complete the task of passing the letter. After Long Nu was rescued, she married Liu Yi.

The existing "Liu Yi Well" is located at the end of Longyu Mountain in Junshan, with unique architecture. The diameter of the wellhead is 1 meter and the depth is more than 10 meters. On the wall of the well is a relief sculpture of a Poseidon holding a sword, which is said to be Liu Yi's guide. There is a ramp extending into the well 5 meters away from the well. On both sides of the ramp there are reliefs of shrimps, soldiers and crab generals, which are said to be soldiers and generals welcoming Liu Yi into the lake.

There is also a large flat surrounded by mountains on Junshan Mountain, which is where Zhong Xiang and Yang Mo led the peasant uprising army to camp in the first year of Shaoxing in the Song Dynasty. The poor fishermen who could not bear the oppression of the government at that time rose up here, set up water forts, built warships, and haunted the 800-mile Dongting. Today, there are still ancient monuments such as Military Advisor Cave, Dianjiang Terrace, and Ten Thousand Pots on Junshan Mountain.

In addition, there is Xuanyuan Terrace on Dongting Mountain, which is said to be the place where the Yellow Emperor cast the cauldron; there is also Xuanyuan Terrace, where Xiao Houyi is said to have shot dragons; Jiuxiang Mountain is said to be rich in wine-fragrant vines, which can brew longevity wine. , Dongfang Shuo secretly drank here during the Han Dynasty; Langyin Pavilion was named after Lu Dongbin recited poems here.

Yueyang Tianxia Tower

Yueyang Tower is located in the west corner of the ancient city of Yueyang, leaning against Baling Mountain in the east, Dongting Lake in the west, the Yangtze River in the north, and looking at the three Hunan and four rivers in the south. It is majestic. Extraordinary. Together with the Yellow Crane Tower in Wuchang and the Tengwang Pavilion in Nanchang, it is known as the "Three Famous Towers in the South of the Yangtze River". Since ancient times, it has had the reputation of: "The water in the world is in Dongting, and the towers are in the sky in Yueyang."

Yueyang Tower stands majestically in the west corner of the ancient city of Yueyang, leaning against Baling Mountain to the east, Dongting Lake to the west, the Yangtze River to the north, and the three Hunan and four rivers to the south. It is majestic and majestic. Together with the Yellow Crane Tower in Wuchang and the Teng Pavilion in Nanchang, it is known as the "Three Famous Towers in the South of the Yangtze River". Since ancient times, it has had the reputation of: "The water in Dongting is all over the world, and the towers in Yueyang are all under the sky"; "A belt of three thousand miles is all in the Yueyang Tower".

According to legend, this place was the military parade platform where Lu Su of the state of Wu trained his navy during the Three Kingdoms period. Because the Dongting Lake in front of the Yueyang Tower is vast and calm, and there happens to be a hill on the shore of the lake, it is indeed a good place for military training and military parades. According to "Three Kingdoms", Lu Su was ordered by Sun Quan to lead ten thousand people to garrison in Baqiu (today's Yueyang). At the foot of Baqiu Mountain, the choke point for entering and exiting Dongting Lake, a training and review naval force was built on the west gate wall facing the lake. The Yueyang Tower is the predecessor of the Yueyang Tower.

In the fourth year of Kaiyuan of the Tang Dynasty (716 AD), Zhongshu ordered Zhang Shuo to be relegated to Qiuzhou, so he expanded the Ximen Tower into a pavilion. It was first named "South Tower" and later renamed "Yueyang Tower".

The perfect combination of "the water in Dongting and the towers in Yueyang", its majestic momentum and long historical connotation, made it a popular destination for poets and poets after the Tang Dynasty, and gradually formed a way to express worries about the country. The special connotation of saving the world is the main tradition. Meng Haoran, Li Bai, Du Fu, Bai Juyi, Liu Yuxi and other famous poets of the Tang Dynasty have all ascended the tower to recite poems and compose poems. Among them, Du Fu's famous poem "Ascend the Yueyang Tower" is the initiator of this tradition. The poem goes: "I heard about Dongting water in the past, and now I go up to Yueyang Tower. Wu and Chu are talking to the southeast, and the world is floating day and night. There are no relatives and friends, and the old and sick have a lonely boat. The army and horses pass through the north of the mountain, and the water flows by Xuan." If it is said that Meng Haoran's " "Steaming clouds and dreamy lakes, waves shaking Yueyang City" expresses the grief and indignation of poor people who have neglected their duties. Du Shi, with his power to cover the sky and the earth, blends the story of a generation of poets and the fate of the country's revolution into the eight hundred miles of waves. The heart of fist.

In the fourth year of Qingli in the Northern Song Dynasty (AD 1044), Teng Zijing was relegated to Baling (Yueyang). He rebuilt Yueyang Tower and wrote to Fan Zhongyan, a famous politician and writer at that time, asking him to write "The Story of Yueyang Tower" . Then the poet and calligrapher Su Shunqin was invited to write it, and the sculptor Shao Chang was asked to engrave it. As a result, Teng Tower, Fan Ji, Su Shu and Shao Ke became the "four wonders" of Yueyang Tower.

More than 900 years have passed since the Song Dynasty. The current Yueyang Tower was rebuilt during the Tongzhi period of the Qing Dynasty. Su Shushao's "Yueyang Tower" has also been replaced by the handwriting of Zhang Zhao, a calligrapher during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, but this famous article is still brilliant.

"I saw Baling's majestic appearance, a lake in Dongting. It connects distant mountains and swallows the Yangtze River. It is a vast and endless river. It is bright in the morning and overcast in the evening, and there are thousands of scenes. This is the grand view of the Yueyang Tower. "Fan Zhongyan not only described the scenery around Yueyang Tower and the various feelings of morning and evening sunshine and rain with great purity, showing the magnificence of Dongting Lake and the grandeur of Yueyang Tower, but also further promoted Du Fu's spirit to a new height.

The famous line in the article, "Be concerned about the world's worries first, and be happy after the world's happiness" expresses the noble feelings of worrying about the country and the people, and taking the world as one's own responsibility, and has become a concentrated portrayal of the spiritual world of China's progressive intellectuals. The name of Yueyang Tower is due to the fact that scenery is conveyed through writing, and writing is promoted by scenery.

Today's Yueyang Tower is a unique brick and wood structure building with four columns, three floors, cornices and a helmet top. Entering the big building, I saw that the surroundings were hung with inscriptions by famous people from past dynasties. The pillars on the second floor are engraved with famous sayings by Meng Haoran and Du Fu, and on the carved screen made of twelve pieces of red sandalwood in the middle, Zhang Zhaoshu's "The Story of Yueyang Tower" is eye-catching, inspiring visitors' contemplation. There are two auxiliary pavilions on both sides of the main building: one is the Sanzui Pavilion named after the mythical figure Lu Dongbin who drank three times in Yueyang Tower; the other is the Xianmei Pavilion. According to legend, when the Yueyang Tower was being repaired in the late Ming Dynasty, a piece with plum patterns was dug underground. It is named after the stone slab. Near the building are Lu Su's tomb, Xiao Qiao's tomb, Yueyang Confucian Temple and Cishi Pagoda.

Poyang Lake

"The rainbow disappears in the rain, and the color shines through the clouds. The falling clouds and solitary swans fly together, the autumn water is the same color as the sky. The fishing boats sing late, and the sound is poor. Bin... "Wang Bo presents to the world a vast expanse of blue water and sky. On a sunny day, the floating light is golden, and the boats are flying and the birds are flying; when it rains, the clouds and water are vast, the wind is strong and the waves are high; the sun shines in the morning and the evening clouds, and the weather is endless. For thousands of years, Poyang Lake has nurtured the people of Jiangxi and attracted many tourists with its magnificent beauty.

The Yangtze River is like a long vine. At the junction of the middle reaches and the lower reaches, there is a huge treasure gourd that is wide in the south and narrow in the north. It lies on the south bank of the Yangtze River and the north of Jiangxi. This is our country. The largest freshwater lake - Poyang Lake. Poyang Lake is a vast, vast expanse of blue water. It receives water from five rivers including Ganjiang River, Fuhe River, Xinjiang River, Xiushui River and Raohe River. It flows into the Yangtze River in the north and merges into the sea. Long, crystal-clear rivers and dotted lakes and ponds form a centripetal water network - the Poyang Lake water system.

Poyang Lake extends from Hukou in the north to Sanyang in the south, with a length of 110 kilometers, from Guancheng in the west to Boyang in the east, and is about 70 kilometers wide. It is wide in the south and narrow in the north, shaped like a gourd. The long neck of the gourd is a long and narrow harbor leading to the Yangtze River.

The water level of Poyang Lake changes with the seasons, and the expansion and contraction range of the lake is about 1,000 kilometers. The maximum amount of lake water occurs from March to July, which is because Jiangxi receives the most precipitation in spring and summer. In autumn and winter, the lake surface can shrink by 1/7 to 1/6, leaving only a few waterways, exposed lake beaches and lush green grass, forming an open lakeside area, which is an ideal overwintering place for winter migratory birds. Therefore, in the south of Jiujiang City, Jiangxi Province, there is a world-famous "Kingdom of Rare Birds" - the Poyang Lake National Nature Reserve.

Xieshan Shiqu

The scenery on the lake is the best in the "Calabash Neck" area of ??Xipo Lake. The water there is deep, the cliffs are steep, and the scenery is natural. Deep in the "neck", not far from the mouth of the lake in the north, a small stone island protrudes from the blue waves, called Dagushan (also known as Dagushan), far opposite Xiaogushan, another stone island in the Yangtze River. This has aroused the travel thoughts of many poets in the past dynasties, among which Gu Kuang's poem "Dagushan is far away from Xiaogushan, and the moon shines on the passenger ship returning to Dongting" ("Xiaogushan") by Tang Dynasty poet Gu Kuang is the most profound and meaningful.

One end of Dagushan is high and the other is low. From a distance, it looks like a giant shoe floating in the blue waves, so it is also called "Shoe Mountain". It is about 70 meters above the lake surface, with a circumference of more than 100 meters. It has a towering peak, steep and beautiful, and was known as the "Penglai Fairy Island" in ancient times. There are tall and straight pines on the mountain and lush green trees. The forest is dotted with a beautiful ancient building - Tianhua Palace. When climbing the mountain and looking around, you can see the vast clouds and water of Po Lake and the beautiful scenery of Mount Lu in the west. Chen Yunde of the Ming Dynasty wrote a poem praising: "Who cuts the green hibiscus and inserts it alone in Penghu Lake. It divides the five old clouds equally and touches the water of Jiujiang River from afar. The sun and the moon are flowing in and out, and the haze flows with each other. The powerful force blocks the wild waves and ends with the sky. "The beginning."

There is also a local myth and legend about Hudao Shoeshan. It is said that in ancient times, there was a fisherman named Hu Qing. When he was fishing on the lake, he met the aunt Jade from the Yaochi in Heaven, and later fell in love and got married. The fisherman Shengtai learned about this and immediately wanted to rob the aunt. When the Jade Emperor learned of this, he sent heavenly soldiers and generals to take away the aunt, and Shengtai took the opportunity to arrest Hu Qing.

The aunt dropped an embroidered shoe from the sky and suppressed Shengtai and his gang. The embroidered shoe turned into a mountain of shoes. Shoes Mountain is also called Dagu Mountain, and its origin probably stems from this.

In the southwest of Shoe Mountain, there is a mountain mouth that extends into the lake. At the front end of the mouth, there is an isolated stone pier with a large top and a small bottom. It is about 16 meters high and 11-12 meters thick. It looks like a stone pier. A big frog squatting on the lake beach with its mouth facing Poyang and its back leaning against Mount Lu. Like Shoe Mountain, it is the unfinished "lake silicon" "swallowed up" by the lake waves. The side facing the lake is hit by waves, and the lower part gradually recedes inward, while the upper part appears to protrude and hang in the air on the lake. Looking from a distance, it looks like a leaping frog rushing against the waves, facing the opposite Shoe Mountain in the lake. It is really lifelike.

Charm of the Stone Bell

At the confluence of Poyang Lake and the Yangtze River, that is, on the southeast coast of the lake mouth, stands the Stone Bell Mountain majestically. Although it is no more than 50 meters high, it has dangerous cliffs and steep peaks. Looking up from the boat, it looks like it is connected to the sky. Shizhong Mountain is actually not one mountain, but two mountains, both made of limestone, with caves in the lower part. , shaped like a bell, facing a deep pool, with gentle breeze and waves, water and rocks hitting each other, and sound like a loud bell, so it is called "Shizhong Mountain". The two mountains are located in the north and south, less than 1,000 meters apart. The one in the south is adjacent to Poyang Lake and is called Upper Zhongshan; the one in the north is adjacent to the Yangtze River and is called Lower Zhongshan. The two mountains are collectively called "Double Bell Mountain". Climbing the two mountains, you can see the rivers and lakes in the distance, the waves are vast, the sky is high, the water is far away, and the Zhouzhu River is round, showing the unique landscape of "the clear and cold waves under the water forest, the steep peaks between the mountains and the clouds", which is majestic and majestic.

Among the Shuangzhong Mountains, the most famous one is the Lower Zhongshan Mountain. It stands abruptly and proudly on the shore of Pohu Lake in the Yangtze River. It is like a lock hanging in front of the "door" at the mouth of the lake, so it is called "the key to the rivers and lakes". called. In troubled times, it becomes a place for military strategists to fight. In a time of peace, there will be endless tourists and it will become a tourist attraction. There are exquisite pavilions and winding corridors on the mountain. These buildings have beautiful structures and picturesque layouts. The "Jiangtian Yilan Pavilion" faces the Yangtze River, and the "Mainxiong Palace" stands on the top of the mountain. The structure is intricately constructed up and down, scattered left and right, winding paths are connected, corridors are connected, courtyards are interspersed, and flower walls are embellished, making it appear that everything is secluded and beautiful.

Not only is the man-made garden beautiful in Xiazhong Mountain, but the natural beauty is even more fascinating. The vast mist and surging water of the Yangtze River in front of the mountain make the outline of the mountain particularly rugged. If you take a small boat and drive by the foot of Shizhong Mountain, you will see red rock walls with green pines stretching straight into the sky. The rocks submerged in the water are beaten by the waves to become exquisitely carved, and rows of deep and twisting caves meet the water, as if leading to the water. Deep in the distance. If you climb to the top of the mountain and look far ahead, you will see the Yangtze River coming in forcefully, cascading thousands of miles, and the water of Poyang Lake and thousands of rivers flowing out into one place. At the confluence of the river and the lake, the water line is distinct. The river is turbid and the lake is clear, "drawing" a wonderful boundary with completely different water colors.

Shizhong Mountain, with its majestic and beautiful scenery, has attracted many literati from past dynasties and left many poems and inscriptions. In particular, the great writer Su Shi took a small boat at night, anchored under the cliff, visited Shizhong, and wrote the famous "Shizhong Mountain Notes", which became a well-known and famous account later.

Beautiful Relics of Nanshan

In Poyang Lake near Duchang County, there is a tall and beautiful Nanshan, like a majestic mainstay, standing in the vast expanse of blue waves. Su Dongpo once visited Nanshan in admiration and wrote the famous poem "Passing to Duchang":

In Duchang County on Poyang Lake, there are ten thousand houses with lights and terraces. The water is separated by the Nanshan Mountains and no one can cross it, but the east wind blows the peach blossoms.

Nanshan and Duchang County face each other across the water. Today, a long stone embankment has been built across the water of Poyang Lake between the county and Nanshan. The long embankment of Yihong has become a smooth road, and people can walk to Nanshan. They no longer have to lament that "people can't cross the water across Nanshan."

Nanshan’s scenic spots are mainly famous for Yelaoyan and Yelao Spring. According to the "Duchang County Chronicle": "Ye Lao Rock and Spring are located on the Nanshan Mountain of Yi Zhi. It is said that in the Han Dynasty, an old man lived under the rock. Emperor Wu visited the south and wanted to raise it, but the old man could not leave. Later generations named the rock 'Ye Lao' Rock'. There is a stone crevice under the rock, and a spring comes out of it. It is sweet and clear, and it will not dry up despite the severe drought.

Su Shi, a scholar of the Song Dynasty, tried to visit here and was so pleased with the spring that he carved the words "Ye Lao Spring" on the rock. Naturally, the spring and the rock are both famous far and near. "

Near Yelaoquan, there is a huge stone that looks like a round chair, which is the "Scripture Translation Platform". It is said that Xie Lingyun, a famous scholar in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, once read scriptures on this huge stone, hence the name. There is an ancient Nanshan Temple on the upper side of the sutra turning platform. It was built in the Tang Dynasty and was originally named "Qingyin Temple" in the 7th year of Xining in the Song Dynasty (AD 1074). He once visited Nanshan and wrote "Qingyin Temple". The existing house was rebuilt during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty and renovated in the Qing Dynasty.

The Kingdom of Rare Birds

Poyang Lake. The national nature reserve is centered on Wucheng Town, Yongxiu County, and spans nine lakes in Poyang Lake under the jurisdiction of Yongxiu, Xingzi, Xinjian and other counties, with a total area of ??224 square kilometers.

Poyang Lake is a throughput lake. . During the flood season from April to September every year, the lake water rises, with the largest area reaching 4,600 square kilometers. At this time, Poyang Lake is a vast ocean, and aquatic life fish, shrimps, snails, clams and aquatic plants reproduce in large numbers from October to March. , the water level dropped sharply, and the lake area was reduced to about 500 square kilometers, forming a large area of ??lake beaches, grasslands, swamps, and shallow lakes. After the water receded, aquatic plants, snails, clams, etc. became abundant food for migratory birds. Every year in late autumn and early winter (November), thousands of pairs of migratory birds fly in from Siberia, Mongolia, Japan, North Korea, northeastern and northwest China, and spend time with the wild ducks, herons, mandarin ducks, etc. that originally settled here. Winter gradually leaves until the end of the year (March). Today, there are more than 200 species of birds in the reserve, including more than 20 rare birds. It is the largest bird reserve in the world. What is gratifying is that the largest group of white cranes in the world today, as well as white-naped cranes, white-headed cranes, gray cranes, etc., have been discovered here, with a total number of more than 4,000. In 1989, more than 2,600 white cranes were discovered, accounting for 100% of the total number of white cranes in the world. Ninety-five points. Therefore, Poyang Lake is called the "White Crane World" and the "Kingdom of Rare Birds".

The white crane is a rare bird in the world. , with a body length of 135 centimeters, its feathers are all white, and only the tips of its wings are black, so it is also known as the "Black-sleeved Crane". It has a brown-yellow knife-shaped beak and long pink legs. It is "monogamous." , has a long life of more than 70 years, so it is deified as a "crane" by the Chinese and has become a symbol of happiness and auspiciousness.

White cranes live in a family of three because a pair of adult white cranes lay two eggs every year. Because the two chicks fight each other constantly after birth, until the strong one destroys the weak one, it is said that this is Bai He's own way of elimination. In this way, Bai He's parents brought up the "single child". Flying more than 5,000 kilometers with a young crane, he came to Poyang Lake to spend the winter. Whenever the sky was clear, hundreds of white cranes soared from the lake, singing and dancing in pairs. Sometimes, they lined up in a row. The long snake array is 1.2 hundred meters long, and its shape is as graceful as a fairy in white.

Other rare birds here include white storks, black storks, great bustards, little swans, white spoonbills, and mandarin ducks. , pelicans, white-fronted geese and other rare birds.

Due to the dense concentration of birds in the reserve, you can often see the spectacular scenery of "the clouds and moon are covered when flying, and the grass by the lakeside is not visible when setting". Therefore, it has become the best place for Chinese and foreign tourists to go bird watching in winter.