Hello, everyone. Welcome to Chaohu, the beautiful "great garden of central Anhui". I'm Wang Bing, the tour guide of Anhui travel agency. Today I'll show you the dreamlike world in pictures and the dreamlike water town. When I meet you for the first time, how about reciting a poem to help you have fun?
Chaohu Lake is like an inkstone, with Gushan as its ink mill. Laoshan is like a sheep's brush, which is enough to write the green sky eight line script. What about? Is it domineering? Ha ha, don't be fooled by Xiao Wang. This magnificent seven character poem is not written by me. It comes from Li Hongzhang, a famous person in Hefei. What is the beauty of his poetry? Let's go to the bottom together!
On the way to Chaohu, I'd like to tell you a beautiful legend: we all know that Chaohu is named because it looks like a bird's nest, but do you know the origin of its other name "Jiaohu"? According to the records of Soushenji, Chaohu was a state in ancient times. One year, there was a severe drought. Xiaobailong secretly rained to eliminate the drought. He broke the heavenly rule and was beaten down. He met grandma Jiao to help him. In return for Jiao's help, Xiao Bailong tells the emperor of heaven that he will sink into Chaohu Lake. When Jiao gets the news, she runs around and tells the people of Chaohu Lake that they are saved. But Jiao's mother and daughter delayed their escape by telling the neighbors, and they were engulfed by the torrential flood. Later generations admired Jiao's noble character of sacrificing herself to save others, so they named the lake "Jiao Lake" and a mountain in the lake "Lao Mountain".
We look out of the window. Now the water area that comes into our eyes is Chaohu Lake. As a matter of fact, Chaohu Lake is a faulted lake. As early as Jurassic and Cretaceous, the strata around Chaohu Lake were faulted, which hindered the water flow in the eastern Piedmont of Dabie Mountain in Western China and formed a vast water surface. After tens of millions of years of crustal movement and sediment deposition, about 15000 years ago, today's Chaohu Lake was formed. It covers an area of more than 800 square kilometers, known as "eight hundred Li Lake sky", and is also one of the five largest freshwater lakes in China.
Chaohu scenic spot is a national key scenic spot, mainly including Zhongmiao, Laoshan and Yinping mountain. Now when we get off the bus, we come to Zhongmiao and Laoshan Scenic spots, which are the most concentrated and characteristic scenic spots. It is a tourist scenic spot integrating lake, mountain, island, tower, temple and temple. First of all, let's take a look at Zhongmiao, which is named after its location between Hefei and Chaoxian. The Zhongmiao temple was first built in the Han Dynasty and has a history of more than 20xx years. And its most brilliant time was "Jiuhua in the south, Zhongmiao in the north", which was very popular. During the important festivals, the pilgrimage team reached dozens of miles. Let's have a look at the bluestone steps under our feet. That's the famous shibada. Only by passing it can we come to the big temple of Zhongmiao. It is said that this place was originally a Taoist temple. At the beginning of the temple, what was worshiped was Bixia Yuanjun, which is now the "Empress of the temple". By the Wei, Jin, southern and Northern Dynasties, Buddhism began to prevail, Taoism gradually declined, so the original Taoist temple gradually became a Buddhist temple.
Walking through the temple, you can see that there are three islands in the lake in the distance, and the biggest one is Laoshan, which is about 3000 meters away from the temple. Although it is only 4000 meters around the island, there are three mountains and nine peaks, with many historic sites. Among them, the most famous is the three antiques of Laoshan: ancient pagoda, ancient temple and ancient boat pond. There is another story about the ancient pagoda: the ancient pagoda was built in the late Ming Dynasty, but it was not completed due to the outbreak of the nongming uprising. During the reign of Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty, local gentry lobbied Li Hongzhang to say, "with the tip of Laoshan Mountain, Luzhou came out first." Li Hongzhang was very happy to hear that, and ordered to raise funds to build the pagoda and named it "Wenfeng pagoda". Standing on the Wenfeng tower, you can also see huazangjing temple, an ancient temple of three ancient times in Zhanmu mountain. Huazangjing temple is an ancient temple built in memory of jiaolao, goddess of Chaohu. It was first built in the Jin Dynasty and rebuilt in the late Qing Dynasty when Wenfeng pagoda was built. It was renamed "Chaohu Temple" and "SHENGFEI Temple". After seeing the second ancient of Laoshan, you must want to know the third ancient boat pond of Laoshan. This ancient boat pond is the harbor surrounded by huge stones that hit one or two kilos. There are two harbors like this. Do you know why? Because of the southeast wind in the first half of the year and the northwest wind in the second half of the year, two boat ponds were built. It is the warship haven of Chaohu Navy.
Well, the good time is always short. After tasting the delicacy of "Chaohu three treasures" silver fish, white shrimp and crab, our trip today is over. I believe that in the near future, I can still lead you to visit Chaohu again and taste three treasures!