Brief introduction of Huangshi Cihu Lake

There is a beautiful city in the south of the Yangtze River, Huangshi. There is a beautiful lake in this beautiful city. The name of this lake is Cihu. The traditional names of local people are Zhangjiahu and Nanhu. Now everyone likes to call it Cihu. According to legend, there were a lot of magnets in the magnetic lake in ancient times, hence the name. The water area of Cihu Lake is about 10 km2, the catchment area is 62.8 km2, and the average water depth is1.75m.. Cihu Scenic Area is surrounded by green hills and the coastline is winding, with a total length of 38.5 kilometers. The whole scenic spot is beautiful and fresh. Su Dongpo, a scholar in the Song Dynasty, lived in Huangzhou because of the most famous literary inquisition "Wutai Poetry Case" in the Northern Song Dynasty. His brother Su Zhe returned to Huangzhou by boat. Because of the heavy wind and waves, they went to Cihu for temporary shelter. Dongpo arrived at the news. The Su brothers traveled all over Cihu Lake and saw the silver carp pier, a hill in a thousand hectares of lake, so they tied the boat here. Singing and singing, people carved poems on the tablet to stay at the Su Gong Stone on the top of the mountain. There are exquisite Suzhou-style gardens and forest of steles engraved with the handwriting of famous Chinese and foreign artists by the lake. The main attractions are Sleeping Beauty, Silver Carp Wharf, Chengyue Island, Tuanchengshan Park (Yiqu Garden, Qu Ying Garden and Yequ Garden), Lover Bank (Cihu Tiandi) and the beautiful Hangzhou Road. In Cihu Scenic Area, the mountains are steep, the waters are vertical and horizontal, and the mountains are surrounded by water, which complement each other and are beautiful.