Introduction of Nanjing Mochou Lake Scenic Area

Mochou Lake is located to the west of Qinhuai River in Nanjing. Mochou Lake Park is a famous Jiangnan classical garden with a long history of 1500 years and rich human resources. It was a scenic spot in the Six Dynasties. The existing area of the park is 58.36 hectares, including 32.36 hectares of water surface.

The buildings, pavilions and pavilions in the park are strewn at random, with weeping willows, begonia in the water, Shengli Building, Yu Jintang, Shuixie, Bao Yue Building and cloisters winding on both sides. Mochou Lake has been known as the first lake in the south of the Yangtze River, the first scenic spot in Jinling and the first of the 48 scenic spots in Jinling since ancient times. Mochou Lake, called Hengtang Lake in ancient times, is located in jianye district, Nanjing. It is a famous classical garden in the south of the Yangtze River and a scenic spot in the Six Dynasties. As of April 20, 2023, it is a national 4A-level tourist attraction, and was approved as a national wetland park on 20 16.

Mochou Lake was formed in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, and it came into being with the changes of the Yangtze River waterway. In the middle of Ming Dynasty, Mochou Lake was a descendant of Wei Gong Xu Da and Xu. After the founding of New China, the people's government renovated Mochou Lake, adding Bao Yue Tower, Daiduge, Ershuige and other buildings, widely planting flowers and trees, expanding rockeries, and building a new island in the middle of the lake. According to legend, there was a beautiful girl Mochow in Luoyang during the Southern Dynasties, whose family was poor and she was buried in prostitution.

Brief introduction of Mochou Lake history

Mochou Lake is located on the west side of Qinhuai River outside jianye district, Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province. It is the second largest lake in the main urban area of Nanjing, second only to Xuanwu Lake, and has the reputation of the first scene in Jinling. During the Six Dynasties, the south bank line of the Yangtze River moved northward and Mochou Lake was formed. In the Southern Tang Dynasty, it was called Hengtang, also known as Shicheng Lake. In the early Ming Dynasty, there were more than ten pagodas along Mochou Lake. In the middle of Ming Dynasty, Mochou Lake was a descendant of Xu Da and Xu, the Duke of Wei, and became one of the famous gardens in Jinling.

In the fifty-eighth year of Qing Qianlong, Mochou Lake was renovated on a large scale, and more than ten pagodas including Yu Jintang were built along the lake. During the Xianfeng period, buildings and flower trees were destroyed by the war. Ten years after Tongzhi in Qing Dynasty, Mochou Lake was rebuilt, and the lakes and mountains gradually recovered. In eighteen years, Mochou Lake was turned into a park.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Mochou Lake