Tourists,
hello everyone! Today, we are going to visit Chaohu Lake, one of China's five major freshwater lakes and a national key scenic spot. Before visiting, let me give you an overview of it. Chaohu Lake is located in the middle of Anhui Province. It is named after its bird nest shape. It is 54.5 kilometers long from east to west, 21 kilometers wide from north to south, and covers an area of more than 800 square kilometers. Now it is the "Inner Lake" of Hefei. Since ancient times, it has the reputation of "eight hundred Li Lake sky". There are mountains in the lake and water in the mountains. It is known for its beautiful scenery. Chaohu Lake is also a famous land of fish and rice. Its silverfish, white rice shrimp and crabs are known as "three treasures of Chaohu Lake".
Chaohu, also known as "Jiaohu". It is said that Chaohu was a state in ancient times. One year when it was dry, xiaobailong secretly rained to get rid of the drought. He broke the rule of heaven and was banished to earth by the emperor of heaven. In order to repay her for saving her life, she told her that the emperor of heaven was going to sink into Chaozhou. She told the villagers in time to make them die. However, she delayed her escape and was drowned by the flood. Later, in order to commemorate the spirit of sacrificing herself for others, people called the lake "Jiaohu" and named a mountain in the lake "Laoshan". Of course, this is only a legend. The real formation of Chaohu Lake is the result of crustal movement.
Today, we mainly visit Zhongmiao, Laoshan island and yinpingshan peony. Dear tourists, our current location is Zhongmiao pier. This temple is Zhongmiao. Why is it called Zhongmiao? This ancient temple is named because it is located between Hefei and Chaohu Lake. It is known as "the most beautiful place in the lake". Due to the strong fragrance in the past dynasties, it is known as "South Jiuhua, North Temple". The Zhongmiao temple was built in the Han Dynasty and has a history of more than 20xx years. Since the Han Dynasty, it has been abandoned and repaired many times. In 1889, the 15th year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu, Li Hongzhang proposed to raise funds to build the temple. There were more than 70 temples. Please have a look. What's this? Yes, it's a stick. It's used by the Taoist in the Taoist temple to hang incantations. As we all know, it is unlikely that there is such a big stick in front of a Buddhist temple. It is said that it used to be a Taoist temple. At the beginning, it was Bixia Yuanjun, the "Empress of Zhongmiao" that we worship now. In the Wei, Jin, southern and Northern Dynasties, Buddhism began to prevail, Taoism gradually declined, so the original Taoist temple became a Buddhist temple.
Ladies and gentlemen, please follow me. Now let's take a cruise to visit Laoshan island. Laoshan island is the largest of the three major islands in Chaohu, about 3 kilometers away from Zhongmiao. There are more than 90 families and more than 200 people on the island. They live by fishing for a long time. The ecological environment of Laoshan island is very good, and the vegetation coverage rate reaches 99%. The tower we see now is Wenfeng tower. Wenfeng tower was built in the Chongzhen period of Ming Dynasty. When it was built on the fourth floor, it was shut down because of the peasant uprising. During the reign of Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty, local squires lobbied Li Hongzhang to say: Li Zhongtang, our temple, has a local saying that "the top of Mount Laoshan, the top of Luzhou". Li Hongzhang, a native of Luzhou, who is now from Hefei, was very happy after hearing this, so he decided to raise money to build the pagoda and named it "Wenfeng pagoda". Wenfeng tower is now seven story octagonal, 133 steps, 51 meters high, the top of the tower inlaid with Li Hongzhang. Standing on the tower, you can see shoshan and Gushan.
Ladies and gentlemen, after visiting Laoshan Island, we are going to visit Yinping mountain peony. When it comes to peony, you will think of many poems about peony. One of them is "natural beauty, people can't give up, and the earth nurtures the famous flower, and the guest comes". Today, we come to Yinping mountain to enjoy the magic peony. Please look in the direction of my finger. There are four big characters on the cliff which is tens of feet high: strange flowers on the silver screen. There is a cluster of flowers 1.5 meters above the "strange" character. This is the wild white peony on the silver screen, which is the "most wonderful flower in the world". Every year, in the rainy season, the flowers are in full bloom,
People from all over the world will come here to watch peonies. It is said that this wild white peony has magical aura, which can predict the year scenery and drought and flood situation from its blooming and withering, more and less: for example, five flowers bloom, good weather and good harvest; flowers bloom early and wither early, there will be drought and so on. Therefore, the local people call her "weather flower" and "God flower". In 1998, the Institute of biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences calculated that this wild white peony may be the ancestor of the existing tree peony, and it is also the only and last tree in the world, which has been included in the Chinese famous places dictionary.
Well, today's visit ends here. I hope today's visit will leave you a good and deep memory! thank you!