Some legends about Erhai Lake? When is the best time to travel?

Erhai Lake, once known as Ye Yuze, Kunmichuan, Xi 'er River and Xi 'er River in ancient literature, is located in the northwest of Dali City, Yunnan Province. It is the second largest freshwater lake in Yunnan Province and the seventh largest freshwater lake in China. Erhai Lake starts from Eryuan in the north, with a length of about 42.58km, a maximum width of 9.0km from east to west, a lake area of 256.5km2, and an average lake depth of10m, making it the largest lake. The only exit of Erhai Lake is near Xiaguan Town, crossing the Xi 'er River. Erhai Lake is the location of the Moon in Erhai Lake, one of the four scenic spots in Dali. It is said that it is named Erhai Lake because it looks like an ear. Erhai Lake has excellent water quality and rich aquatic resources. At the same time, it is picturesque Dali, with beautiful scenery all year round. Among many scenic spots, wind, flowers, snow and the moon are the most famous and fascinating. There is a riddle poem of the local Bai people that has been passed down for several generations about the four scenic spots.

The poem says:

Insects enter the phoenix nest, there are no birds (wind), and there are grass (flowers) on the heads of seven people.

In the drizzle (snow) of Hengshan Mountain, half a friend disappeared (month).

1962 1 month, after the famous writer Cao Jinghua traveled all over Dali, he was deeply moved by the wind, flowers, snow and moon in Dali, leaving a romantic poem:

Upper Crown, lower Guan Feng, lower Guanfeng blowing on Crown;

Cangshan snow, Erhai moon, Erhai moon shines on Cangshan snow.

Wind: Shimonoseki wind, there are strong winds all year round in Shimonoseki, and sometimes the wind reaches more than eight. There is also a beautiful legend about the wind in Shimonoseki. According to legend, there lived a white fox on the sunset peak of Cangshan Mountain. She fell in love with a Bai scholar in Shimonoseki, so she became a character and interacted with the scholar. Their love affair was discovered by luoquan, a mage of luoquan Temple in Erhai Lake. He refused to let them be together, so he cast a spell to drive the scholar into Erhai Lake. In order to save the scholar, the fox went to the South China Sea to ask Guanyin for help. Guanyin gave her six bottles of wind and asked her to dry the Erhai Lake water with the wind in the bottle to save the scholar. When Fox Girl returned to Tiansheng Bridge in Shimonoseki with six bottles of wind, she was ambushed by Master luoquan, fell to the ground and broke five bottles of wind, so all the winds gathered on Tiansheng Bridge, so the wind in Shimonoseki was particularly strong. According to the scientific explanation, it is because the 19th peak of Cangshan Mountain is too high, which blocks the air convection on the east and west sides, and the Tianshengqiao Canyon in Shimonoseki between the sunset peak of Cangshan Mountain and Zhemo Mountain in Ailao Mountain Range is only the outlet of air convection in Shimonoseki, so the wind in Shimonoseki is particularly strong, especially in winter and spring. People walking on the street opposite Tianshengqiao Canyon can't stand it.

Flower: Shangguanhua, located at the foot of Yunnong Peak in Cangshan, Dali, is a fortress formed to defend Dali since the Tang Dynasty. There is a flower tree named "Shilixiang" in Huashu Village outside Guanwai, which is said to have been planted by the immortal Lv Dongbin. Flowers are as big as lotus, with 65,438+02 petals per year and 65,438+03 petals per year. It is yellow and white, beautiful and charming. The shell of the flower is black and hard, which can be used as pearls, so it is also called pearl flower. By the end of the Qing dynasty, there were too many tourists, especially the government dignitaries, who had to be entertained by the local Bai people to enjoy the flowers. The people couldn't stand the burden of free food, so they closed the flower gate. According to research, the flower of Shangguan is Manglietia, which can be seen everywhere in Dali.

Snow: Cangshan snow, why the snow on Cangshan does not melt for thousands of years, there is a beautiful legend among Dali people. According to legend, in ancient times, there were a group of athel lore gods who rampaged through Dali Bazi, causing "ten people to get sick and nine people to die". In order to save the suffering people, two Bai brothers and sisters returned from studying Buddhism under the guidance of Guanyin, and drove the god of plague to the top of Cangshan Mountain, where they were frozen to death by heavy snow. In order to make the plague never resurrect, my sister turned into a snow god, which bound the plague on Cangshan forever, so the snowman peak in Cangshan had a thousand years of snow. In fact, it is because Cangshan is too high above sea level and the temperature at the top of the mountain is low.

Month: Erhai Lake [February], every year on the Mid-Autumn Festival night of the 15th day of the eighth lunar month, Bai families living by Erhai Lake in Dali paddle wooden boats into Erhai Lake to enjoy the golden moon reflected on the sea. The sky, clouds, moon and sea water correspond one by one, forming a beautiful picture. The most popular story about the moon in Erhai Lake is the story of Princess Tiangong coming down to earth. Legend has it that a princess in the heavenly palace envied the happy life on earth, went down to a fishing village near Erhai Lake and married a fisherman. In order to help fishermen live a well-fed life, the princess sank her precious mirror to the bottom of the sea so that fishermen could catch more fish. Since then, Baojing has become a golden moon in Haiti, shining on generations of fishermen, so it has become the "Erhai Moon" that people watch. Scenic spot.