Who knows the legend about the formation of Jiaxing South Lake?

According to research, Nanhu Lake was formed in the Han Dynasty more than 2,000 years ago. It was originally a plain lake, and its area was two or three times larger than it is now. Nanhu is located in the southeast of Jiaxing City. It was named Qi Lake and Machang Lake in ancient times, and is also known as East Lake and Southeast Lake. In modern times, it was commonly known as Yuanyang Lake. Hunan is long in the north and narrow in the east and west. The current water area is about 624 acres and the water depth is 2 to 5 meters. Hubei is adjacent to the Shanghai-Hangzhou Railway; on the east coast is Nanhu Road, which stretches from north to south to Nanyan. Along the road are hospitals, factories, shops, schools, residential buildings, and prosperous markets; southwestern Hunan is full of fertile fields, full of pastoral charm. Nanhu Lake has been the hub for the storage and discharge of major rivers in the city since ancient times. Haiyan Pond flows into it, Pinghu Pond and Jiashan Pond are connected to it; Changshui Pond also flows into it through Southwest Lake.

Before the Five Dynasties, there were no garden buildings here. During the Tianfu period of the later Jin Dynasty (936-945), when Qian Yuanluo, the fourth son of King Qian Liu of Wuyue and Yue, and King of Guangling, was appointed as the envoy of the Central Wu Dynasty, he built a guesthouse on the lakeside as a "place for climbing and overlooking", and it gradually became a tourist area. After the Northern Song Dynasty, gardens were successively built by the lakeside: Pan Shidan Garden, Gao's Garden, Nanhu Thatched Cottage, Liexiu Pavilion, Shuixin Pavilion, Lejiao Pavilion, Shaoyuan, Yanjiayuan, Peanxiang Pavilion, Qiushui Pavilion, etc. Since the Song Dynasty, Nanhu Garden in Jiaxing It is as famous as West Lake in Hangzhou and East Lake in Shaoxing, becoming the three famous lakes in Zhejiang. In the Ming Dynasty, the commodity economy in the south of the Yangtze River flourished, Jiaxing was known as the "city in the southeast", and Nanhu tourism flourished. In the twenty-seventh year of Jiajing (1548), Jiaxing prefect Zhao Ying dredged the city river and filled the excavated river mud into the lake, forming a small island "five feet thick and twenty feet wide", surrounded by water, commonly known as the center of the lake. island. The following year, the Yanyu Tower was built on the island, forming a unique landscape. Tomorrow's "Jiaxing County Chronicle" records: "Qihu Lake is also called South Lake. The lights on the west side contain Zhuzhu, and the rainbow drinks on Haoliang in the north. Thousands of houses are leaning on the water, with hundreds of pheasants on the back of the city, with willows blooming, lotus leaves, and green waves. The sky is shadowed by the blue sky, the music is playing on the carved wooden sides, and the air is cool in the room. This is the most beautiful place. "In the early Qing Dynasty, Chen Weisong recalled the grand tour of Nanhu in the late Ming Dynasty in his poem "Yuanhu Yanyu Tower Feeling Old" (Congratulations to the Bridegroom): " Looking at the lights all over the lake... there are hundreds of thousands of red balls hanging." During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, during the Qingming Festival, the 24th day of the sixth lunar month, "Lotus Birthday", "Chinese Valentine's Day" and the Mid-Autumn Festival, there were many tourists on the lake, and boat songs and drums were painted in front of the Yanyu Tower day and night.

After the Song Dynasty, famous writers and poets of all dynasties, including Su Shi, Wu Qian and Yang Wanli in the Song Dynasty, Fang Hui in the Yuan Dynasty, Zhang Dai in the Ming Dynasty, Qian Qianyi, Wu Weiye and Chen Qinian in the Qing Dynasty, etc. all came here to visit and chant. Continuously. In the seventh year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty (1650), Jiangnan scholars headed by Wu Weiye held a grand shrine of ten counties in Nanhu. There were many famous people and hundreds of boats on the lake. In October of the first year of the Republic of China (1912), Sun Yat-sen visited Nanhu and took photos with people from all walks of life in front of the Yanyu Tower rockery in the lake.

Many famous modern writers and poets, such as Mao Dun, Yu Dafu, Cao Juren, etc., have visited Nanhu and written popular poems and articles. In early August of the 10th year of the Republic of China (1921), the First National Congress of the Communist Party of China concluded on a cruise ship in Nanhu Lake, announcing the establishment of the Communist Party of China. Since then, Nanhu has become a glorious revolutionary memorial place and has been recorded in the annals of revolutionary history. On October 1, 1959, the Nanhu Revolutionary Memorial Hall was established. The Yanyu Building in the lake was used as the venue. The revolutionary memorial ship, which was imitated in the style of the cruise ship used by the "First National Congress" representatives of the Communist Party of China at that time, was displayed next to the Wanfu Bridge under the Yanyu Building. , since then, hundreds of thousands of tourists come every year to pay their respects and receive education in revolutionary traditions. In 1985, Deng Xiaoping inscribed the name of the Nanhu Revolution Memorial Hall. From the founding of the People's Republic of China to 1990, many party and state leaders such as Dong Biwu, Guo Moruo, Hu Yaobang, Yang Shangkun, etc. have visited Nanhu for inspection and sightseeing.

In the 21st year of the Republic of China (1932), Kim Koo, the leader of the Korean independence movement, took refuge in Jiaxing and hid on a cruise ship on the lake. He once held a state meeting of the Korean Provisional Government on the cruise ship in Nanhu Lake to discuss plans to resist Japan and restore the country. South Lake has beautiful scenery and is pleasant in all seasons. In spring, the willows on the lakeside are as soft as smoke; in summer and autumn, the rhombus fields in the lake are as green as rice fields; in winter, when snow falls, the silver trees on the lake are beautiful. In the rainy weather in spring and summer, the scenery is charming. At that time, the mist is like gauze and the rain is like fog. Yang Wanli in the Southern Song Dynasty used the poem "Misty rain in the desert and sparse rain" to describe the beauty of the scenery.

Fei Yuanlu, a man of the Ming Dynasty, also wrote: "The beauty of Nanhu is that light smoke is boiling in Zhuguzhu. When the mountain rain is about to come, the pavilions and pavilions on the bank suddenly become dim, and the fishing boats are moored. There is a faint mist, but the sound of the oars is heard.", praising it. A beautiful sight in the world. Nanhu Lake now has electric motor ferries, rowing yachts, and motorboats for tourists to visit the lake. The floating restaurant on the island in the center of the lake allows tourists to enjoy the scenery on the lake while dining. Nanhu water chestnut and Nanhu crab are famous specialties