Introduction to Baisha Lake Scenic Area

Baisha Lake Scenic Area is a famous tourist destination in Zhengzhou Forest Park.

Baisha Lake, also known as Baisha Reservoir, is located at the junction of Yuzhou, Dengfeng and Xinmi. It is the earliest large-scale reservoir built in China after liberation. Construction started in April 1951 and was completed in June 1953. In 156, it was expanded into one of the provincial large reservoirs. The dam starts from Erlong Mountain in the east and connects with Xiaoyaoguan in the west, with a length of 1,316 meters, a height of 47.88 meters and a width of 6.69 meters, and a wave-proof wall with a height of 1.2 meters. It mainly stores Ying River, Shicong River River, Jiaohe River and Sili River, with a drainage area of 985 square kilometers, a total storage capacity of 295 million cubic meters and a water area of 19.43 square kilometers.

There have been developed reservoir dams, floodgates, forest parks, Black Dragon Pool, Dongling Pass Ruins, Ghost Valley Cave, Diaoyutai in Jiang Ziya, Ancient Road Ruins, Island in the middle of the lake, and other scenic spots. The reservoir dams and floodgates are magnificent. Here, there are cliff cliffs, stone statues, quiet stone paths, waterfalls, clear springs, islands in the middle of the lake, yachts, pavilions, painted walls, eaves, blue waves and sparkling.

after the completion of Baisha reservoir, it plays a role in flood control, irrigation and ecological protection, and it is also a tourist attraction, receiving more than 4, tourists from all over the calendar every year. In addition, there are many natural and cultural landscapes around the reservoir. Such as Baisha Yangjia Manor, the King Hall of Yong 'an, Yingling and han group. Especially below the reservoir, the natural scenery of Yinghe River is more characteristic of Jiangnan.

water park

Baisha reservoir forest park is a forest park integrating protection and appreciation. Baisha Reservoir Scenic Area Forest Park was developed in 21, with a total area of more than 2, square meters. There are dense trees and many kinds of flowers in the park. Among them, there are Cuizhu Garden, Ginkgo Garden, Palm Garden, Pomegranate Garden, Hundred Days Red Garden and Panhuai Garden. The vast forest has become a natural oxygen bar in the reservoir. Swings are also built in the park, and there are stone tables, chairs and benches for tourists to rest, and the farmhouse yard is for people to keep cranes. There are more than 2 kinds of birds and animals in the forest, such as squirrels, hedgehogs, pheasants and rabbits. The water is gurgling, birds are chirping, people are walking on the massage path, and they are walking in the flowers and trees. Everything is inadvertently washed away. Snow falls, the trees are covered with silver, and swimming here is more enjoyable and full of infinite interest.

Guiyuan in Reservoir Area

Guiyuan in Baisha Reservoir Area is a garden building named after a laurel tree. In the past, Guiyuan was a building integrating office, leisure and reception. It was built in the 195s, covering an area of about 6, square meters, with a building area of more than 8 square meters, showing a quadrangle shape. The wall is built of stone, and the roof is of tile-wood structure. There are more than 1 osmanthus trees planted in the garden, and the trunk diameter of each osmanthus tree is more than 2 cm. Every August, osmanthus fragrance is refreshing, so it is named Guiyuan. In the past few decades, Guiyuan was the place where the leaders of Baisha Reservoir worked. Superior leaders visited Baisha Reservoir, and they were also arranged to work and board here. After 2, the Guiyuan Garden was developed and transformed, and now it has become a leisure place for tourists to visit, rest and drink tea. Guiyuan has a quiet and beautiful environment and is now open to tourists.

Guiyuan is located at the right end of Baisha Reservoir Dam, with convenient transportation and adjacent to the exit of water conveyance tunnel. You can see the magnificent Baisha Reservoir Dam and reservoir water when you leave Guiyuan, which is also an important scenic spot in this scenic spot. 3 kilometers from Yuzhou bus station

Diaoyutai

Diaoyutai is located at the foot of Yucui Mountain in the upper reaches of Baisha Reservoir. Diaoyutai is a natural rock protruding from the water. The rock is flat and 3 square meters in size. This place is named after the legend that Jiang Ziya once fished here. Here, the valley is narrow, the terrain is dangerous, there are cliffs, waterfalls and clear springs. On the Diaoyutai, there is a white marble statue of Jiang Ziya. The statue is sitting, about 2 meters high, wearing a hat and fishing leisurely. There is a plank road under Yucui Mountain, which connects Diaoyutai with Guiguzi Cave. Almost all visitors to Baisha Reservoir will come to Diaoyutai to appreciate Jiang Ziya's elegant demeanor, remember his great achievements in assisting King Wen in cutting down the fish, and appreciate the profound meaning of those who wish to go fishing.

Bibo Turtle Island

Turtle Island, also known as an isolated island, is located in Baisha Lake, surrounded by water, with a total area of about 48, square meters. It is shaped like a turtle lying in the water, so it is also called Turtle Island. Standing on the island, overlooking the lake, I feel very cheerful. There are pavilions on the island, with beautiful environment and trees. There are also ancient earth caves, peeling blue brick walls, earth fires, heatable adobe sleeping platform, dry firewood, earthen pots and iron pans, which are the remains of ancient civilization.

Landing on this island, looking around the distant mountains and near the water, turning off your cell phone, not talking about business and competition, can wash away the noise of the city and the troubles at work.

tianye temple

tianye temple is a temple to worship the jade emperor, which is located in Baisha reservoir scenic area. Its architectural age is far from being verified, and it has been repaired in past dynasties. There were Taoist priests in the temple before 1958. There are three main halls in Tianye Temple. The whole building is magnificent, simple and elegant. There are statues of the Jade Emperor and the Queen Mother in the temple. The Jade Emperor wears a Kowloon crown, a dragon robe and a dragon case, and his eyes are far away. The Queen Mother wears a crested phoenix and a turquoise peony skirt, and looks dignified. Baisha reservoir is in front of the temple, with vast water, smoke cages and fog covers, and egrets and wild ducks soar and play. Around the Temple of God, bamboo stands in the forest, and pigeons gather in the air. In the past, pilgrims who came from eastern Henan to visit Chaoyue and Shaolin all prayed for God's blessing before going through the customs and entering the road of worshipping God.

Yangjia Manor

Yangjia Manor is the residence of the Yang family. Located in Baibei Village, Huashi Line, the Yang family was a noble family in Baisha as early as the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Yang's genealogy says: Someone once lived as an official in the DPRK and served as an important minister around Emperor Jianwen, so there was this mansion. It was built in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, covering an area of 86, square meters and a building area of 1, square meters, and is a masonry structure. The original pattern has two gardens and nearly 1 buildings, which are distributed on both sides of the middle section of Baisha Street. At present, there are five wheel gate buildings in the garden, and there are stone tablets on the ground with the words of Jiaqing Year in Qing Dynasty.

The existing five groups of buildings in Yangjia Courtyard are all five-entrance houses, and the last part of the courtyard is a garden part. The main building has 1 rooms on two floors, with red stone paving at the bottom and blue brick walls. There are two or three halls in the middle, and most of them are five rooms, which are beautifully built. There are rooms on both sides of the hall. In front of the hall, there are gates. The orientation of the compound is to sit east to west or west to east, and the gates all face the street center. The building of Yangjia Courtyard is a typical Ming and Qing style, with carved beams and painted buildings, and high arches and pecks. Its wood carving and brick carving art are exquisite in materials and exquisite in craftsmanship, which is a precious heritage of ancient architectural technology and has high historical and cultural research value.

King Hall of Yiwu Wu 'an

King Hall of Yiwu Wu 'an is located in Baibei Village, Huashi Township, under the dam of Baisha Reservoir. The temple was originally a sacrificial hall for Guan Fu, a Hou of Wu 'an in the Han Dynasty. According to "Han Shu", Guan Fu loved chivalrous men, and acted as a tyrant in Yingchuan, encroaching on the people. When they arrived in the Three Kingdoms, the people destroyed the statue of Guan Fu and offered sacrifices to General Guan, Zhang, Zhao, Ma and Gong, but the name of the temple remained unchanged. There is also a temple called Five Tigers in the local area. The temple has been repaired in many dynasties. Now the building was built in the ninth year of Yongzheng (1349). The hall is a mountain-resting building, with peculiar wooden arches and fine carving, which is of research value to ancient buildings. Now it is a provincial-level cultural relics protection unit.

Bailong Electric Irrigation Station

Bailong Electric Irrigation Station is located in Bailong Village, Huashi Township, and is the second-level irrigation station of Baisha Irrigation Canal. Founded in 1975, it took three years to complete. In 198, it was discontinued due to land contracting to households. The whole irrigation canal is more than 2 kilometers long, which can irrigate more than 1, mu of farmland. The platform and irrigation canal are all made of dark red square conglomerate stone, which looks like a dragon swinging its tail from a distance, quite spectacular. Standing on the platform at the top of the platform, Baisha Reservoir has a panoramic view. The peaks of Songshan Mountain in the northwest are looming and hazy. The whole platform consists of 36 houses with steps inside and outside, which can reach the top of the platform. Due to the superior location near Xuluo Highway in the north, the platform has been renovated into a hotel. Bailong electric irrigation station has become a beautiful scenery of Baisha Reservoir due to its historical reasons and the beauty of architectural art.

Songying Mountain Villa

Songying Mountain Villa is a summer resort that integrates dining, accommodation and leisure. The villa is built along the mountains and rivers, covering an area of about 15, square meters, mostly of reinforced concrete structure. The pavilions, terraces, buildings and pavilions in the villa are strewn at random, and the carved beams and painted buildings contain both ancient charm and modern atmosphere. The catering department can accommodate 2 people at the same time. There are more than 1 beds in the housekeeping department, and various fitness and entertainment facilities in the leisure department are complete. In the hot summer, due to the temperature adjustment of the water surface in the reservoir area, it is always cool and breezy in the villa, which is refreshing. Now it receives more than 4 thousand tourists every year.

Dongling Pass

The original site of Dongling Pass is located on the west side of the dam body of Baisha Reservoir, which was the first pass of Guan Yunchang during the Three Kingdoms period. Upstream along the Yinghe River is the old road from Xuchang to the ancient capital Luoyang during the Warring States Period. When Baisha Reservoir was built in 1951, the original building was destroyed, but the location of the site still existed. Today, there is a poem: the dam flies down Dongling Pass, connecting clear water and surrounding mountains. That is, the topography of Dongling Pass today.

Qiuzi Cave

Located on the southwest cliff of Diaoyutai in Baisha Reservoir Scenic Area, it is a natural cave. Legend has it that a couple are infertile after a long marriage. One night, the fairy instructed his wife to go to the cave to beg for a child: pick a stone and throw it into the cave, and you can get it. If the husband and wife give their advice, they will get a child if they throw stones at them. The news spread, and there was an endless stream of people who came here to ask for children. Since then, incense has continued. In addition, the cave was verified as the chicken raising place of Empress Shijie in Shang Dynasty, so it was also called Shijidong or Shijidong. The hole is slightly oval. The entrance of the cave faces the vast Baisha Reservoir, and there is a prominent platform in front of the cave. Standing on the platform, the green water is at the foot, flapping the cliff and the breeze is blowing. Waterbirds on the lake swallow and come and go; The island in the lake is lush with trees and lush grass. Looking at the north shore, pavilions and pavilions are faintly visible, and Songshan Mountain is faintly visible.

Remains of plank road in Baisha Reservoir

The plank road is located on the lower cliff of Yucui Mountain in the upper reaches of Baisha Reservoir. Its construction date is unknown. It is said that Cao Cao secretly built a military artery to further control Luoyang, and stationed troops near this plank road for a long time. At present, most of the ancient plank roads have been destroyed, leaving only stack holes. The length of the restoration is about 2 kilometers, and the plank road is 1.2 meters wide. The plank road skeleton is cast with reinforced cement and paved with wooden boards. There are pavilions, platforms, cable bridges and other facilities along the way, which connect Guiguzi Cave, Diaoyutai in Jiang Ziya and other scenic spots in Baisha Reservoir scenic area, and have been used by tourists as a traffic road for climbing cliffs and sightseeing scenery. The plank road enters the forest area from the cliff on the west side of the scenic spot, which is an important tourist landscape in Baisha Reservoir scenic spot.

yuwang cave

yuwang cave is a natural cave, located on the north bank of Mayu river, a tributary of Baisha reservoir. According to legend, King Yu used to control water here. Outside the cave, the mountains are majestic, the forests are dense, the scenery is beautiful, and the birds are singing and the flowers are fragrant. The holes in the cave are connected with each other, and the roads are connected with each other. The wide one can accommodate six or seven hundred people at the same time, and only one person can pass through the narrow one. The walls are full of stone flowers, waterfalls, stalagmites, stone pillars, stone pagodas, strange caves and rocks, and the weather is myriad. It is still a mystery how deep the Yuwang Cave is. At present, more than 2, meters of * * * have been proved, and about 7 meters have been developed for sightseeing. There are three halls and ten caves in the cave, and there are more than 5 scenic spots. Among them, the lions welcome guests, Yu Wang Guan Waterfall, Scarabs come out of the cave, the game of two immortals, Yaochi Wonderland, Penglai Fairyland and Zhenhai Pagoda are lifelike and unique in shape, which are rare natural caves in northern China. Yuwang Cave is a resort for mountaineering, tourism and summer vacation. Since its opening in July, 1993, tourists have flocked to glad you came.

Black Dragon Pool

Black Dragon Pool at the foot of Baisha Reservoir Dam was originally a famous catchment pool in the upper reaches of Yinghe River. During the flood season in Black Dragon Pool, the waves beat against the rocks, like a dragon making water; Su Chang is as smooth as a mirror, and the water is as blue as dye. It is the best place for swimming masters in nearby villages and towns to compete in waves. According to the legend of the local people, there are dragons and turtle spirits who used to do mischief in this pool.

in the early 195s, when the reservoir dam was built, most of it was filled. After several years of flooding, the scale of the pool has recovered several times. The current water surface is about 2 meters long and 2 meters wide, and the water surface reaches 4 square meters. The water temperature in the pool is low, and fish such as carp, grass and silver carp grow slowly, which makes them delicious after cooking. In addition, the spring water here is clear and sweet, and it can cure diseases if you drink it often. Around the Black Dragon Pool, it has become an ideal place for leisure, barbecue and fishing.

guiguzi cave

guiguzi cave is located in Baisha reservoir scenic area, also known as guzhai, with a height of 3.2 meters, a depth of 4 meters and a width of 3.4 meters. Inside, there is a statue of Guiguzi, wearing a Taoist robe, with a strange appearance, standing and telling a book. There are two students sitting below, namely Sun Bin and Pang Juan, who are listening carefully.

Guiguzi, surnamed Wang Mingxu, was born in the Warring States Period and was a noble of Chu. When I was a child, I went to Yunmeng Mountain to collect herbs, and I learned that the crane has a beautiful face and looks very strange. I heard that Songshan Mountain has traveled here. Previously, this valley was very quiet, and it was said that there were many ghosts, called Ghost Valley. Since Wang Xu lived here, all the demons have disappeared, so later people called Wang Xu Guiguzi, and the cave where he lived was called Guiguzi Cave. Guiguzi is a legend, and he has cultivated an outstanding strategist like Sun Bin, so many people come to visit Guiguzi Cave.

sarcophagus pool

sarcophagus pool is a water pool under the cliff behind the dam of Baisha Reservoir. The original pool covers an area of more than 2 square meters and the water depth is 3 meters. There is a folk story about this pool, which is widely circulated by local people. A stubborn child in a village near Shuitan refused to listen to his father's discipline since he was a child and asked him to go east and west. Until my father was dying, he was afraid of being buried in the pool under the mountain, so he said to his son, After my death, you should lock me in with two cow troughs and bury me in the pool under the cliff, not in the field under the mountain. After his father died of illness, he thought about his father's kindness to his upbringing and deeply regretted not listening to his father's words, so he decided to listen to his father this time. So, according to his father's last words, he used two Shi Niu troughs to buckle his father up and bury him in the pool under the cliff, so it was called the sarcophagus pool. Now the pool is completely submerged by the reservoir area.

wangsong bridge

wangsong bridge is located in baibei village, huashi township. it is a single-arch stone bridge, which was once the only way to songsong. Standing on the bridge, you can expect Songshan Mountain, hence the name Wangsong Bridge. The bridge is 6 meters wide and 18 meters long, and looks like a rainbow, spanning the upper reaches of the tributary of Yinghe River. The stone railings on the bridge are symmetrical, with four on the left and four on the right. The stone is carved with patterns of birds, monkeys, sheep, lions and flowers. The red stone carving dragon opens its mouth to the west, trying to swallow the Ying River, and the dragon tail goes east, which has the potential to sweep the surf. The whole bridge has beautiful shape, extraordinary momentum and rich national characteristics. The inscription on the bridge head records that this bridge was the Xun Zhai of Ma Gong Zhimin, who was commanded by Lieutenant General Yi Jun in the sixth year of the Republic of China (1917) and took a patrol. The construction of the monument records that it is more difficult to build this bridge than the plank road built by Hanwang on behalf of Chu Ming. Although the bridge has been scoured, it still straddles the Yinghe River, which shows that it is strong and abnormal. The river under the bridge is clear and transparent, with fish swimming and weeping willows on both sides of the river, which is refreshing and pleasant. It is the best place for tourists to spend their holidays and cool off.

Shiyangguan Stone Carving

Shiyangguan Stone Carving is a stone carving at the Pass site set up on the official road in the Northern Wei Dynasty. Shiyangguan, formerly known as Yang Chengguan, faces the Yingying River in the south and nine Phoenix Mountains in the north. It is a small village with long east-west and narrow north-south. The original village is in the place where the ancient pass is located. In the middle of the village, there is a stone sheep carved with bluestone and looking up, so it is called Shiyangguan. Shiyang carving knife is exquisite and skilled, and Shiyang is beautiful in shape and vivid in image. Shiyang is not only a symbol of the village, but also a safe and auspicious sustenance for the villagers. When the reservoir was built in 1951, all the residents moved, and Shiyang also moved to the south side of Xincun. Now the old village has been submerged. There are several stone Buddha statues carved on the rocks on the north bank of the old village. According to research, they were carved in the Northern Wei Dynasty, and the words are listed below where there is no Buddha. Now they have peeled off and cannot be extended. Not far from it, there are many ancient quarry sites, which are said to be the places where large stones were taken when Shaolin Temple and Zhongyue Temple were built.

Baisha han group

han group was left in the western suburb of Yuzhou City from the Han Dynasty until Baisha.