Tourist resources in Luji Town

Hongze Lake in Luji Town, Siyang County is one of the four largest freshwater lakes in China. It is a beautiful place with vast misty waves, rare birds gathering and shadows of fishing boats and sails. Today, the fishing village on the shore of Hongze Lake is full of smoked willows and boats parked on the embankment, giving it an ancient and simple fishing village scene. Standing on the beautiful and magical "Longyan Beach", you can see the water and sky in the same color, the scenery of the great lake, and the myriad weather conditions. You can appreciate the magnificent landscape of setting clouds and solitary swans flying together, and the autumn water and the long sky. Hongze Lake is a natural wetland area with thousands of acres of reeds and thousands of lotus flowers. While boating, the aroma is refreshing and refreshing. There are 210 species of aquatic animals and plants in the area, and 194 species of birds in 15 orders, 14 families, and four species under national first-class protection: great bustard, white stork, black stork and red-crowned crane. Chengtou Bird Sanctuary is a paradise for birds, covering an area of ??13,000 acres. It is the only lakeside forest in the country. It has a mild climate, interdependent forests and lakes, and more than 100 species of birds such as egrets, cattle egrets, and goshawks. This inhabits, lives, and reproduces. Birds sing in harmony in spring, swallows fly in midsummer, migrating birds in late autumn, and eagles soar in winter. The sound is endless all year round. Chengzi Lake, which is closely connected to Hongze Lake, has dense trees and bushes. Every year, more than 300,000 egrets, herons, gray herons, night herons and other rare birds come here to inhabit and breed. Herons gather together and the birds sing. It's spectacular all around.

The newly developed ecological Hongze Lake, relying on its more than 200 kilometers of shoreline and rich natural resources and cultural landscapes, has attracted a large number of tourists to go boating on Hongze Lake and Chengzi Lake to enjoy lotus and sightseeing. Birds and crabs. Hongze Lake was called Pofutang in ancient times. It was a lagoon on the ancient seaside as early as 2 million years ago. Due to the alluvial erosion of huge rivers, the lagoon gradually retreated inland and split into many small lakes, such as Chengzi Lake, Pofujian, and Baishuitang. , Wanjia Lake, Nidun Lake, Fuling Lake, Shengshan Lake, Taiping Lake, Dou Lake, Sishan Lake and so on. Later, due to the Yellow River changing its course many times to take over the Huaihe River, the Huaihe River flooded and the lake bottom was raised due to sedimentation and sedimentation. Many small lakes gradually merged into an increasingly larger "hanging lake". In 616 AD, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty went to the south of the Yangtze River. At that time, there was a severe drought and it was very difficult to travel by boat. When the dragon boat passed Pofutang, it suddenly rained heavily. The water rose and the boat sailed smoothly. Emperor Yang was overjoyed and thought that he was blessed with great blessings and benevolence. On a whim, he changed the name of Pofutang to Hongzepu. Hongze refers to a place where large amounts of water accumulate. Hongze Lake got its name from this. In the early Tang Dynasty, it was officially named Hongze Lake.

Hongze Lake is the third largest lake among the four major freshwater lakes, but as a "plain reservoir" it ranks "the best in the country". It looks like a swan spreading its wings and about to fly, and like a vibrant pearl, embedded in the vast plains of northern Jiangsu. It connects the Huai River to the upper part, discharges the Yangtze River to the south, and flows into the Yellow Sea to the east. It has a water area of ??2,069 square kilometers and a shoreline of 354 kilometers. The true height of the lake bottom is 10-11 meters, which is 5-9 meters higher than the Lixiahe area in the east, so it is also known as "Hanging Lake". Hongze Lake not only provides sufficient irrigation water for 25 million acres of farmland in northern Jiangsu, but is also one of my country's major aquatic resource bases. Not only is it rich in fish, shrimp, crabs, etc., it is also very rich in aquatic economic crops and resources such as reeds, cattail grass, lotus roots, and water chestnuts. Looking at the surface of the lake, there are thousands of misty waves, "infinite silver waves approaching the sky", and looking into the distance, it is "the ancient shore of Yunshan Mountains are faintly visible, and the grass in Yanzhou is lush" is so poetic and picturesque that it is so beautiful. When Emperor Qianlong went to the south of the Yangtze River, he praised Hongze Lake as "a water town, a country, a fairyland on earth", and it was well-deserved.