Old photo album-Guilin, two rivers and four lakes (Lijiang River, taohuajiang, Coral, Ronghu Lake, Gui Hu, Longmu Lake)

Guilin, called "Gui" for short, is located in the northeast of Guangxi and on the west bank of Lijiang River. Named for its rich osmanthus and osmanthus trees. Guilin is famous for its "green hills, beautiful waters, strange caves and beautiful stones" and enjoys the reputation of "Guilin's landscape is the best in the world".

Because my classmates got married and went to Guilin, I stayed with my classmates for nearly a week, just wandering between the mountains and rivers in Guilin.

The two rivers and four lakes are the scenic business cards of Guilin and the most beautiful scenic belt around the center of Guilin. The two rivers refer to the reach of Lijiang River and taohuajiang River flowing through the city center; Shanshan Lake, Ronghu Lake, Gui Hu Lake and Longmu Lake are located in the urban area. The "Four Lakes" were originally the moat of Guilin in Tang Dynasty. In the Ming Dynasty, the south of the city extended to taohuajiang, and its water system around the city was 7.33 kilometers long. Later, it was blocked or filled by the river, and it dispersed into a lake. Since 1998, after four years of demolition and excavation, the two rivers and four lakes have finally been connected, reappearing the beautiful scenery of Guilin, which was lamented by Liu Kezhuang, a famous poet in the Southern Song Dynasty, as "Qian Shan is surrounded by wild plants and one river embraces the city".

Schematic diagram of Guilin's two rivers and four lakes tourism

Lijiang River, located in the northeast of Guangxi, is the upper reaches of Gui Jiang, a tributary of Xijiang River, with a total length of 164km from Xing 'an to Pingle, belonging to the Xijiang River system in the Pearl River Basin. Lijiang River, starting from lingchuan county, enters the urban area of Guilin, passes through the urban area from north to south, flows into taohuajiang, then flows south to Jidu, enters Yangshuo in Yan Guan, Caoping Township, and flows through the urban area for 49.3 kilometers.

Visiting the Lijiang River, whether by water or land, mostly starts from Elephant Trunk Mountain.

Elephant trunk mountain, also known as Xiangshan, is the city emblem of Guilin and the symbol of Guilin tourism. It is located at the intersection of Lijiang River and taohuajiang in the center of Guilin. It looks like a giant elephant, with its nose sticking into the Lijiang River to drink water. There is a circular hole with an area of about150m2 between the trunk and legs of an elephant. The river flows through the hole like a bright moon floating.

You can see the elephant sculpture in Xiangshan Park from Lijiang River.

Overlooking Chuanshan and Tashan.

Chuanshan, located on the east bank of Lijiang River, has a circular hole running through the north and south on its west peak, with a height of 9 meters, a width of 13.3 meters and a length of 3 1 meter. If the sky is full of the moon, it is called the moon rock. The Moon Rock on the opposite side of the mountain is far away from the Shuiyue Cave in Elephant Trunk Mountain, with one hanging in the sky and the other floating in the water, forming a strange landscape of "two moons on the Lijiang River".

Weizhou, opposite Elephant Trunk Mountain, has been the best place to watch Elephant Trunk Mountain since ancient times.

Jiefang bridge, located at the eastern end of Jiefang East Road and the western end of Liberty Road in Guilin, was built at 1939 and renamed from Zhongzheng Bridge. It has undergone many reconstructions.

Sculpture of six bronze horses by the jiefang bridge River.

Fubo Mountain is located on the west bank of the Lijiang River in the city center, half embracing the Lijiang River and half leaning on the land. The general of the Han dynasty visited this place in the south, which was named after the temple of the general of the Tang dynasty was built on the mountain. Fu Bo, Guilin's unique Xiufeng, and Diecai Mountain along the Lijiang River are in full swing, all of which are tourist attractions for viewing Guilin's urban scenery.

Xiaoyao Building, located on the west bank of Lijiang River near jiefang bridge, was rebuilt near the original site on 20 15. The Xiaoyao Building in history was built in the Tang Dynasty. It was once as famous as the Yellow Crane Tower in Hubei, Yueyang Tower in Hunan and Wangtengting Pavilion in Jiangxi.

The Cunninghamia lanceolata Lake, which is adjacent to Lijiang River in the east and Ronghu Lake in the west, is named after a variety of Cunninghamia lanceolata on the lakeside.

Sun, Moon and Twin Towers in Sugiyama Lake. Lita Tower is 4 1 m high, which is a nine-story copper tower and the tallest copper tower in China. The Moon Tower is 35 meters high and is a seven-story glass tower. The two towers are connected by an underwater aquarium, and the bottom of the lake is18m long.

Taohuajiang, formerly known as Yangjiang, is the main tributary of the Lijiang River, with a total length of about 25 kilometers. It's quiet and quiet here, and the river twists and turns, which is called nine bends and eighteen bends.

Taohuajiang Shangfengyu Bridge

Taohuajiang is also the hometown of Zhao Guanwen, the first scholar in Guangxi.

Taohuajiang border stone boat

Riverside quadrangle pavilion

Longmu Lake starts from Lijiang River in the east and faces Diecai Mountain in the south. There is no lake here, but an artificial lake made of more than 450,000 pieces of earth and stone, which connects the water of Lijiang River and the inner lake.

See Mulongzhou in Diecai Mountain.

Restored ancient city of Song Dynasty

Wood Long Ta, based on Longhua Pagoda in Song Dynasty, is 45 meters high.

Gui Hu, originally the moat of Guilin in Song Dynasty, now has Palm Garden, Yulan Park, Banyan Garden, Ginkgo Garden and Metasequoia Garden.

The leaves in the middle of ginkgo forest are yellow.

Everyone pats the yellow leaves.

Guan Yi Bridge, located in Gui Hu, is decorated with European relief.

A six-year-old photographer, she said she taught herself.

Metasequoia glyptostroboides in Gui Hu

Lize Bridge, located in Gui Hu, is the first self-anchored flexible suspension bridge in China, inspired by the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.

Xiqing Bridge, located in Gui Hu, is a double arch footbridge. This bridge is 48.8 meters long and 4.5 meters wide. All the bridges are decorated with precious Korean pine.

Ronghu Lake is 860m long from east to west, with an average width of110m. It is connected with the mountain lake in yangqiao, with the mountain lake in the east and Ronghu in the west.

Yingbin Bridge is a combination of imitation of the Arc de Triomphe in the West and the architectural style of China ancient city gate suspension bridge. Within the bridge is the state guesthouse Ronghu Hotel in Guilin.

Rongxi bridge

Ronghu glass bridge

The ancient south gate, also known as Banyan Gate, is located on the north bank of Banyan Lake. According to records, it was built in Guilin by Li Jing, a famous Tang Dynasty soldier, after he pacified Lingnan in the fourth year of Wude (62 1). It is the south gate of Guilin's "Tang Cheng" with a history of 1300 years. The gatehouse "Ancient South Gate" was written by Guo Moruo.

In front of the ancient south gate, there is a big banyan tree and a banyan pavilion, which is over 800 years old. The ancient south gate constitutes the "Rongcheng Ancient Shadow", which is one of the eight scenic spots in the Qing Dynasty.

The ancient banyan double bridge, facing the ancient south gate, is a pedestrian parallel double bridge, made of white marble, 4 meters wide and 30 meters long.

The Big Dipper Bridge, located in Ronghu Lake, is connected with the island in the lake in the east and the ancient south gate in the west. The layout of the bridge is distributed according to the Big Dipper, hence the name Big Dipper Bridge.

Hu Xinting, located on an island in the middle of Ronghu Lake, was built in the 1940s and rebuilt twice in 1979. Now it is a group of antique waterside pavilions with novel design, consisting of two pavilions.

Entrance of Hu Xin Pavilion Corridor. Banner: Xu Bi; Gallery Association; A clear water leaves the bright moon, and the seven-star jade fence is the evening wind.

The round gate on the island in the middle of the lake is an abstract design that combines the Zhuang bronze drum and the Zhuang totem frog, which has great national characteristics.

White marble dragon boat

The landscape of Guilin is the best in the world, and the two rivers and four lakes are all in the picture. People are ashore on the boat, and the scenery around the city is beautiful.