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Daming Lake Traffic Guide: There are many bus routes to Daming Lake, including buses to South Gate, East Gate, North Gate and Southwest Gate. You can refer to the traffic map according to your accommodation and take the following bus routes: K98, K9 1, K54, 6, 1 1, 65438.

Daming Lake is located in the center of Jinan, north of the old city. Together with Baotu Spring and Qianfo Mountain, it is called the Three Scenes of Jinan. Jinan is known as the spring city, with more than 100 spring eyes, including 72 famous springs. Minghu Lake is a natural lake formed by the confluence of springs. Spring water flows in from the south bank, and when it is full, it flows out from the North Watergate built on the north bank. The bottom of the lake is composed of impervious igneous rocks, so the lake will not rise under continuous rain, nor will it dry up after a long drought, and it will maintain a relatively fixed water level all the year round. The park covers an area of 86 hectares, including 46 hectares of lakes. There are six islands on the lake, including Lixia Pavilion, Huiquan Hall and Huxin Island. The natural landscape of the park is beautiful and pleasant. The lake is sparkling, kites are flying, fish are jumping and cruise ships are passing by. Since ancient times, Daming Lake has been full of lotus flowers, weeping willows, lush flowers and trees, surrounded by lotus flowers, three willows, one city, one mountain and half a city, which is the best portrayal of her scenery. The human landscape of the park is very rich. More than 30 places of interest, such as Lixia Pavilion, Tiegong Temple, Nanfeng Temple and Arctic Temple, are hidden among trees and flowers, showing a long history and culture.

Daming Lake is a natural lake, which was first recorded in the Notes on Water Classics by Li Daoyuan in the Northern Wei Dynasty. It was called Lotus Lake in Sui and Tang Dynasties, West Lake in Song Dynasty and Daming Lake in Jin and Yuan Dynasties. There are many stone tablets in the park. The famous poem is Du Fu's: This pavilion is on the right side of the sea, and most Jinan celebrities wrote it in Qing Dynasty. In addition, the inscriptions of his couplets, He's couplets and Weng Fanggang all have profound cultural connotation and artistic level.

The main scenic spots in the park include memorial archway, Yuanyuan, Jiaxuan Temple, Tiegong Temple, Lixiating, Arctic Temple, Nanfeng Temple, Huibo Building, Mingchang Bell Pavilion, Mingding Lake and Zenggong Painted Wall. There is a 100-meter fountain in the middle of the lake, among which Lixiating and Tiegong Temple are municipal-level cultural relics protection units. Every year, the park holds a variety of garden activities, including Spring Festival cultural temple fairs, Spring Festival flower exhibitions, lotus exhibitions, folk cultural activities, flower bonsai exhibitions, and strange stone exhibitions.

Lixiating Island in the center of Huming Lake is a famous ancient sea pavilion. In the fourth year of Tianbao in the Tang Dynasty (AD 745), the poet Du Fu and the calligrapher Li Yong gave a banquet here. Du Fu impromptu endowed this pavilion with many poems of Jinan celebrities, and Lixia Pavilion became famous all over the world. Tiegong Temple on the North Shore was built in memory of Tie Xuan, the minister of the Ministry of War of the Ming Dynasty. He stood by Jinan and resisted the prince, but he was defeated and killed. Nanfeng Temple was built in memory of Ceng Gong, a writer in the Song Dynasty. Ceng Gong Zigu, a native of Nanfeng, Jiangxi Province, was appointed as Jizhou (Jinan) in the fifth year of Xining (AD 1072). He has made outstanding achievements in repairing the North Watergate and governing the Ming Lake, and won the hearts of the people.