Landscape of West Lake Park in Changsha

Changsha West Lake Park (formerly known as Xianjiahu) makes full use of Changsha's profound historical and cultural resources and the unique advantages of Yuelu Mountain's humanistic and natural landscape, and has formed a comprehensive urban park which mainly displays and expresses Changsha's history and culture, and integrates business, tourism and vacation. The whole cultural system is centered on the lake, forming Yuelu cultural exhibition area, cruise culture exhibition area, water town customs culture, West Lake Tiandi, academy culture, legacy of Hunan and Chu, exhibition of historical celebrities, cultural square and cultural landscape belt around the lake. All cultural nodes form a complete cultural landscape system of the park through the central lake and the pedestrian system.

Park planning emphasizes the park features of leisure-entertainment-life as a whole, with the West Lake as the core of ecological landscape and the greening of Yuelu Mountain as the ecological barrier, forming the overall spatial structure of "One Belt, One Park and Five Districts" to attract and aggregate urban popularity.

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Xianjia Lake is one of the larger lakes in Xiangjiang River system in Changsha, covering an area of about 2,700 mu. Later, it gradually became Yuelu Fishing Ground, formerly known as Hanjiahu, which was named after the Han family bought a house here during the Hongwu period in the early Ming Dynasty.

At that time, the lake embankment was dilapidated, and the local Han Bingxing rebuilt the lake embankment, making the "Liuyang Pavilion" pleasant and comfortable. In the early years of the Republic of China, educator Hu Wendian founded Xianjia Primary School here, and Hanjiahu was renamed Xianjia Lake.

According to the requirements of the Master Plan of Yuelu Mountain Scenic Area approved by the State Council, the area where Xianjiahu Scenic Area is located is determined as a third-class scenic area.