Overview of Sanshan Island Scenic Spot in Taihu Lake, Suzhou

From April 65438 to April 0984, a large number of mammal fossils were found in Sanshan Island, including macaques, brown bears, China black bears, maned dogs, wild boars, deer, badgers and rabbits. The discovery of the paleolithic cultural site and ancient mammal fossil site in Sanshan Island is of great significance, which has extremely important archaeological value for studying the origin of Taihu Lake, the land-forming age of the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and even the history of ancient human activities in this area.

In view of the precious primitive natural ecological environment of Sanshan Island, the experts of eco-tourism around Taihu Lake boarded Sanshan Island in April 20001,and made a lot of publicity and promotion on Sanshan Island.

Overview of Sanshan Island History

Sanshan Island is located at north latitude12016' 45 "12 ~17' 55" north latitude 31'25 "~ 312'. Therefore, there is: "When the king of Wu was in the Tao, he was commonly known as Sanshanmen. "

Wuxian Zhiyun: In the past (Spring and Autumn Period), there were three sisters, Wu Fei. They lived at a peak, which was very different. The villagers set up a shrine to worship. After the establishment of the township system in the Han Dynasty, it was under the jurisdiction of Wucheng County, Huzhou Prefecture, Zhejiang Province, and was called Dongting Township. Jin called the three mountains Penglai, and Jia wrote a collection of notes: "The three mountains in the sea are shaped like pots." Wang Ao, a great scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion in Ming Dynasty, wrote The Story of Valley Boat Garden: "Heaven will climb the pavilion, just like seeing three mountains on the sea, and wonders are everywhere, just like shrinking into a pot in a long room without knowing its fairy." Park in Qing Dynasty, Xu's records and Taoist books are also called "blessed land with a unique cave".

According to the existing historical records, Sanshan Island has 6 15 households and 30 12 households, excluding Jueze Mountain. After the looting in Xianfeng ten years (AD 1860) and the chaos before liberation, there were only 152 households and more than 530 people in Jueze Mountain and other three mountains in the early days of the People's Republic of China. After 40 years of stability, there are 275 households with 889 people.

The heyday of Sanshan Island can be divided into: Xian Tong period in Tang Dynasty; Jiajing and Apocalypse Period of Ming Dynasty; During the Qianlong and Jiaqing periods of the Qing Dynasty, after the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee after the founding of the People's Republic of China. Decline period: it should be divided into: Northern Song Dynasty, Weizong, Zhu Mian took Huashiban, the year of "Huashiban"; Stone quarrying in the Summer Palace built by Xianfeng and Cixi in Qing Dynasty and the Great Leap Forward and Ten-year Catastrophe after the founding of the People's Republic of China. Destroy all ancient and famous trees, ancient temples and temples many times, and destroy mountains by quarrying.

Once upon a time, there were three mountains: surrounded by mountains, shaded by bamboos, with thousands of ancient trees, birds singing and soaring, roes surging, fish leaping and fish leaping, fairy palaces lined up in rows, magnificent buildings dotted with charming scenery. Looking at some well-preserved Ming and Qing buildings at present can also remind people of the history of 300 to 500 years.