Old Photo Album - Guilin Two Rivers and Four Lakes (Li River, Taohua River, Shan Lake, Rong Lake, Gui Lake and Mulong Lake)

Guilin, referred to as "Gui", is located in the northeastern part of Guangxi, on the west bank of the Li River. It is named after its abundant osmanthus and osmanthus trees. Guilin is famous for its four unique features: "green mountains, beautiful waters, strange caves and beautiful rocks", and enjoys the reputation of "Guilin's landscape is the best in the world".

I went to Guilin because my classmate got married. During that nearly a week, besides getting together with my classmates, I just wandered among the mountains and rivers of Guilin.

Two rivers and four lakes are Guilin’s business card and the most beautiful scenic belt around the city in the center of Guilin. The two rivers refer to the sections of the Li River and the Taohua River flowing through the center of the urban area; the four lakes refer to the Shan Lake, Rong Lake, Gui Lake and Mulong Lake located in the urban area. The "Four Lakes" were originally the moats of Guilin in the Tang Dynasty. During the Ming Dynasty, the city expanded southward to the Taohua River, and the water system surrounding the city was 7.33 kilometers long. Later, due to siltation or filling in of the river sections, it was scattered into lakes. Starting in 1998, after four years of demolition, excavation and restoration, the two rivers and four lakes were finally connected, recreating the beautiful scenery of Guilin that Liu Kezhuang, a famous poet in the Southern Song Dynasty, praised as "surrounded by thousands of mountains and wild fields, and one river embracing the city."

Guilin Two Rivers and Four Lakes Tourism Map

The Li River is located in the northeast of Guangxi. It is the upper reaches of the Gui River, a tributary of the Xijiang River. The section from Xing'an to Pingle is the Li River, with a total length of 164 kilometers, belonging to the Xijiang River system in the Pearl River Basin. The Li River enters the urban area of ??Guilin from Lingchuan County, passes through the city from north to south, joins the Taohua River, and then flows southward at Douji Mountain. It enters Yangshuo at Guanyan in Caoping Township and flows for 49.3 kilometers through the urban area.

Tours on the Li River, whether by water or land, usually start from Elephant Trunk Mountain.

Elephant Trunk Hill, also known as Elephant Mountain, is the city emblem of Guilin and the symbol of Guilin tourism. It is located at the confluence of the Li River and the Taohua River in the center of Guilin. It looks like a giant elephant with its trunk stretched into the Li River to drink water. There is a round hole with an area of ??about 150 square meters between the trunk and the legs. The river flows through the hole, like a bright moon floating on water.

The elephant sculptures in Xiangshan Park can be seen from the Lijiang River

Looking at Chuanshan and Tashan in the distance.

Chuanshan is located on the east bank of the Lijiang River. There is a round hole running from north to south on its west peak. It is 9 meters high, 13.3 meters wide and 31 meters long. It looks like a bright moon in the sky, so it is called Moon Rock. The Chuanshan Moon Rock is far away from the Shuiyue Cave in Elephant Trunk Mountain. One hangs in the sky and the other floats in the water, forming a unique landscape of "Double Moon on the Li River".

Zizhou, opposite Elephant Trunk Mountain, has been the best place to view Elephant Trunk Mountain since ancient times.

Jiefang Bridge is located at the east end of Jiefang East Road and the west end of Ziyou Road in Guilin City. It was built in 1939 and was renamed from Zhongzheng Bridge. It has undergone many reconstructions.

Six bronze horse sculptures by the Jiefang Bridge.

Fubo Mountain is located on the west bank of the Lijiang River in the center of the city. It half embraces the Lijiang River and half rests on the land. General Fubo Ma Yuan of the Han Dynasty passed here during his southern expedition. In addition, General Fubo was built on the mountain in the Tang Dynasty. It is named after Ma Yuan Temple. Fubo Mountain stands side by side with Duxiu Peak in the city and Diecai Mountain on the bank of the Li River. They are both tourist attractions for enjoying the scenery of Guilin city.

Xiaoyao Tower is located on the west bank of the Li River, next to the Jiefang Bridge. It was rebuilt near its ruins in 2015. The historical Xiaoyao Tower was built in the Tang Dynasty. It was once as famous as the Yellow Crane Tower in Hubei, Yueyang Tower in Hunan, and Tengwang Pavilion in Jiangxi as "the three most famous towers in China".

Shan Lake, connected to the Li River in the east and Rong Lake in the west, is named after the many cedar trees planted around the lake.

Shanhu Sun and Moon Twin Towers. The Sun Tower is 41 meters high, a nine-story copper tower, the tallest copper tower in China; the Moon Tower is 35 meters high, a seven-story glazed tower. The two towers are connected by an 18-meter-long underwater aquarium at the bottom of the lake.

Taohua River, also known as Yangjiang in ancient times, is the main tributary of Lijiang River, with a total length of about 25 kilometers. It is quiet and quiet, and the river is winding and has nine twists and turns.

Fengyu Bridge on the Taohua River

The Taohua River is also the hometown of Zhao Guanwen, the first scholar of the Tang Dynasty in Guangxi

Stone boats on the Taohua River

Four Corner Pavilion by the River

Mulong Lake starts from the Lijiang River in the east and is adjacent to Diecai Mountain in the south. There is no lake here. It is an artificial lake created by excavating more than 450,000 pieces of earth and stone to connect the water of the Lijiang River and the inner lake.

Watch the Wooden Dragon Island on Diecai Mountain

The restored ancient city of the Song Dynasty

The Wooden Dragon Pagoda is modeled on the Longhua Pagoda of the Song Dynasty in Shanghai and is 45 meters high.

Guihu Lake was originally a moat of Guilin City in the Song Dynasty. Now there are palm gardens, magnolia gardens, banyan trees, ginkgo gardens, metasequoia gardens, etc. beside the lake.

The leaves in the ginkgo forest are turning yellow

Everyone takes photos of the yellow leaves

Guanyi Bridge is located in Guihu Lake. The bridge is decorated with European-style reliefs.

The six-year-old photographer is self-taught, she said.

Guihu Metasequoia

Lize Bridge, located in Guihu Lake, is inspired by the "Golden Gate Bridge" in San Francisco, USA. It is my country's first self-anchored flexible suspension bridge.

Xiqing Bridge, located in Guihu Lake, is a double-arch pedestrian bridge. The bridge is 48.8 meters long and 4.5 meters wide. The bridge body is entirely decorated with precious red pine wood.

Ronghu Lake is 860 meters long from east to west and 110 meters wide on average. It is connected to Shanhu Lake at Yangqiao, with Shanhu Lake in the east and Ronghu Lake in the west.

The Yingbin Bridge is a combination of the Western triumphal arch and the ancient Chinese city gate suspension bridge architectural style. Within the bridgehead is the Ronghu Hotel, the state guesthouse in Guilin.

Rongxi Bridge

Ronghu Glass Bridge

Gunan Gate, also known as Rongshu Gate, is located on the north bank of Ronghu Lake. According to records, it was built by Li Jing, a famous general of the Tang Dynasty, when he was building a city defense in Guilin after he pacified Lingnan in the fourth year of Wude (621). It is the south gate of Guilin's "Tangcheng" and it is more than 1,300 years old. The three characters "Gunanmen" on the gate tower were written by Guo Moruo.

In front of the ancient south gate, there is a large banyan tree and a banyan pavilion that are more than 800 years old. , and the ancient south gate form the "ancient shade of Rongcheng", which is one of the eight scenic spots in the Qing Dynasty.

The ancient banyan double bridges, facing the ancient south gate, are double bridges for pedestrians. They are made of white marble. The bridge is 4 meters wide and 30 meters long.

The Big Dipper Bridge is located in Rong Lake, connected to the island in the east of the lake and to the west of the Gunan Gate. The layout of the bridge is distributed according to the distribution of the Seven Stars of the Big Dipper, so it is named the Big Dipper Bridge.

The Huxin Pavilion is located on the island in the center of Rong Lake. It was originally built in the 1940s and rebuilt twice in 1979. It is now a group of antique waterside pavilions and corridors with novel designs, consisting of two pavilions and a connecting pavilion. Corridor composition.

Entrance to the Huxin Pavilion corridor. Banner: empty green; corridor couplet; a clear moon is left in a pool of clear water, and the seven-star jade railing is tied to the evening breeze.

The round gate on the island in the center of the lake has an abstract design that combines the bronze drum of the Zhuang ethnic group with the frog shape of the Zhuang ethnic group’s totem, which has strong ethnic characteristics.

White Marble Dragon Boat

Guilin’s landscape is the best in the world, with two rivers and four lakes all included in the painting. People are on the shore while the boat is sailing, and the scenery around the city is beautiful.