What are the East Lake, West Lake, South Lake and North Lake in China?

China has a vast territory and rich resources, and there are many wonderful lakes in it. These are the natural landscapes that many people like to travel and explore. Among them, East Lake in Wuhan and West Lake in Hangzhou are both famous natural freshwater lakes. So what do East Lake, West Lake, South Lake and North Lake mean respectively?

1, Wuhan East Lake, referred to as East Lake Scenic Area, is located in the downtown area of Wuhan, Hubei Province. It is a national 5A-level tourist attraction, a demonstration site of national civilized scenic spots and the first batch of national key scenic spots. Mao Zedong loved East Lake all his life and called it "the place where white clouds and yellow cranes fly". East Lake is located in the east of Wuchang, Wuhan City, Hubei Province, hence its name. Now it is one of the largest lakes in China, with a water area of 33 square kilometers, which is six times that of Hangzhou West Lake. Located on the south bank of the Yangtze River, it is silted by the Yangtze River. /kloc-was connected with other lakes in Wuchang and the Yangtze River more than 0/00 years ago, resulting in frequent floods. From 1899 to 1902, Zhang Zhidong, Governor of Huguang, ordered the construction of Wujin Dike and Wuqing Dike between the Yangtze River and the East Lake, and built five gates and five peaks on the dikes. With human intervention, East Lake and its surrounding lakes were separated from the Yangtze River.

Wuhan East Lake is a scenic spot with large natural lakes as its core, lakes and mountains as its features, and tourism, leisure and popular science education as its main functions. It receives millions of tourists from home and abroad every year and is the largest scenic spot in Central China. It was the largest lake in China 20 14 years ago. Due to the expansion of the central city of Wuhan on 20 14, East Lake retreated behind Tangxun Lake in Jiangxia District of Wuhan City. East Lake Eco-tourism Scenic Area covers an area of 88 square kilometers, and consists of six districts: Tingtao District, Moshan District, Luo Yan District, Flute-playing District, Baima District and Luohong District, with rich Chu style and exquisite Chu rhyme. The lakeshore is tortuous, the harbor branches are staggered, the blue waves are boundless, the green hills are surrounded, and the island is dotted with stars, which is known as the 99 Bay. National key universities such as Wuhan University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Geo University (Wuhan) and Wuhan Institute of Physical Education are located on the lakeside of East Lake, which has become an excellent landscape.

2. Hangzhou West Lake West Lake is located at Longjing Road 1, Xihu District, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province, in the west of Hangzhou City, with a total scenic area of 49 square kilometers, a catchment area of 2 1.22 square kilometers and a lake area of 6.38 square kilometers. Xiangxi, west and north are surrounded by mountains on three sides. Bai Causeway, Su Causeway, Yang Gongdi and Zhao Gong dikes in the lake divide the lake into several water surfaces. The outline of the West Lake is nearly oval, and the bottom of the lake is relatively flat. The average water depth of the lake is 2.27 meters, the deepest is about 5 meters and the shallowest is less than 1 meter. The natural surface water sources of the lake are Jinsha River, Longhong River, Chishan River (Yin Hui) and Changqiao River. West Lake is located on the edge of hills in the southeast of China, on the northern edge of the middle subtropical zone. The annual average total solar radiation is between100-10 kcal/cm2, and the sunshine hours are 1800-2 100 hours.

There are 100 park attractions in West Lake, including "Ten Scenes of West Lake", "Ten Scenes of New West Lake" and "Three Comments on Ten Scenes of West Lake". There are more than 60 national, provincial and municipal key cultural relics protection units, more than 20 museums, including Broken Bridge, Leifeng Pagoda, Qianwang Memorial Hall, Jingci Temple and Su Xiaoxiao Tombs.

The West Lake Broken Bridge is located at the water dividing point between Beili Lake and Waixi Lake in Hangzhou, with one end spanning Beishan Road and the other end connected with Bai Causeway. It is said that this broken bridge was built as early as the Tang Dynasty. It was called Fuqiao in Song Dynasty and Duanjia Bridge in Yuan Dynasty. The name Broken Bridge comes from the Tang Dynasty. The origin of its name, when it is said that the road to lonely mountain is broken here, it is named; It is said that Duanjia Bridge is called broken bridge for short, and homophonic broken bridge. There is a monument pavilion in the northeast of the bridge, and a monument of "Broken Bridge and Residual Snow" is built in it. Su Causeway is located on the west side of the West Lake, starting from the foothills of Nanping Mountain in the south and ending at Qixia Mountain in the north, with a total length of nearly 3 kilometers. It was built by dredging the West Lake and using dredged mud when Su Dongpo, a poet in the Northern Song Dynasty, was appointed as the governor of Hangzhou. Later generations named it Su Causeway to commemorate Su Dongpo's management of the West Lake, and built six single-hole stone arch bridges along the embankment, including Yingbo, Suolan, Wangshan, Dike, Dongpu and Yue Hong.

3. Jiaxing Nanhu Lake, formerly known as Lu Weichi, also known as Racecourse Lake and Lake, is located in Nanhu District, Jiaxing City, Zhejiang Province, in the southeast of Jiaxing City, with the center geographic coordinate of east longitude120 76' and north latitude 30 76'; The scenic area is about 5.86 square kilometers, and the core area is 2.76 square kilometers.

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The main stream of Jiaxing section of Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal passes Beili Bridge, Chengbei Bridge and Xili Bridge, and is divided into two streams, one of which flows eastward into Southwest Lake, and the other is still a canal to the west. Xiushui flows through Haohe River and into Nanhu Lake. The South Lake formed by the confluence of canals is connected with Changshui Reservoir and Haiyan Reservoir and discharged into Pinghu Reservoir and Changxian Reservoir. The terrain around Nanhu Lake is low, with rivers and ports. Hunan is long in the north and narrow in the east and west, with a water area of about 624 mu and a water depth of 2 to 4 meters. Nanhu Lake is located in Nanhu District, Jiaxing City, Zhejiang Province. Nanhu District is located in the southern edge of the northern subtropical zone and belongs to the East Asian monsoon region. Winter and summer monsoon alternate obviously, with four distinct seasons, moderate temperature, abundant rainfall and abundant sunshine, showing the characteristics of rainy spring, hot summer, dry autumn and cold winter. Due to its mid-latitude, the hot and humid weather in summer is much shorter than that in winter.

Nanhu Red Boat, located on the surface of Nanhu Lake, is a single-clip silk screen boat with a length of about16m and a width of 3m. It has a front cabin, a middle cabin, a cabin and a rear cabin, and the first national congress of the Chinese production party was held in the middle cabin. Yanyulou is located on the island in the middle of Nanhu Lake. It has two floors, the main building and the second floor. It is about 20 meters high and has a construction area of more than 640 square meters. On the eaves of the building hung the plaque of "Yuyanlou" inscribed by Dong. Yuyanlou was named after Du Mu, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, who wrote a poem entitled "Four hundred and eighty halls in the Southern Dynasties, and how many buildings were misty and rainy". Founded in the late Five Dynasties and Jin Dynasty (936-947), in the twenty-seventh year of Jiajing in Ming Dynasty (1548), Zhao Ying, the magistrate of Jiaxing, dredged the river to fill the lake and became an isolated island in the lake.

4. Beihu Scenic Area in Suixian County is located in the north of Suixian County, about 2 kilometers away from Lianhuo Expressway Quan Min and Suixian Exit 12, 60 kilometers away from Shangqiu Railway Station in the east and 0/60 kilometers away from Zhengzhou, the provincial capital, in the west, with highways extending in all directions. Beihu Scenic Area is a national AAAA scenic spot. Sui County has a long history and is a famous historical and cultural city in Henan Province. Suixian Beihu was originally the site of Suizhou Old Town in Ming Dynasty. There are many historical and cultural relics in Beihu Scenic Area, the most famous of which are Song Xianggong Mausoleum, Song Xianggong Wangmutai, Chamomile Spring, Peach Blossom Cave and Su Shi's ink-leaving place. In terms of water surface, North Lake in Suixian County is bigger than Kunming Lake in Beijing 1000 mu, three times bigger than Mochou Lake in Nanjing, half of Xizi Lake in Hangzhou and two-thirds of Sun Moon Lake in Taiwan, ranking third among the four famous lakes in China. The water quality of Beihu Lake is clear, with an average water depth of 2.2 meters and a maximum water depth of 3.9 meters. It is rich in human and natural landscapes. Cruise ships in the lake, islands like green snails, willows set each other off, and fish and birds set each other off. Known as the "Pearl of Eastern Henan". In 2000, it was approved as a provincial-level tourist attraction by Henan Provincial Tourism Bureau, and registered as "Zhongyuan Water City" by the State Administration for Industry and Commerce in 2004. Now it has been included in the "three points and one line" tourism development strategy of Henan Province. Sui County's superior geographical environment shows its natural beauty, resulting in Dong, a well-read celebrity in the Han Dynasty, Zhang Quhua and Zhang Deye, first-class scholars in the Song Dynasty, Shang Shu of the Ministry of War of Prince Taibao in the Ming Dynasty, Tang Bin of the Ministry of Industry in the Qing Dynasty, Su Jinsan, a famous poet in modern times, and Ren Changxia, a first-class model of the contemporary national public security front.

In the 15th year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty, that is, in March of 1642, Li Zicheng, the leader of the peasant uprising army at that time, and three million-strong armies, including Luo Rucai and Yuan Shizhong, conquered Suizhou. Li Zicheng planned to build Kaifeng as its capital, so he followed the military strategy of Qin Shihuang when he destroyed the Six Kingdoms: "If you want to fall down a big tree, cut off the heavy branches first" and sent people to demolish the Suizhou city wall. At that time, the Yellow River flooded three times in five years. Every time the Yellow River flooded, the city gates were closed, and the water deposited a lot of sediment outside the city. Over time, the landform of low in the city and high outside the city was formed. In addition, in September of 1642, when Li Zicheng attacked Kaifeng, the peasant army broke the Yellow River (the Yellow River was only/kloc-0.5 km away from Suizhou in the Ming Dynasty) in order to replace soldiers with water, and the Yellow River flooded Suizhou and became a lake. Therefore, Beihu Lake is a "city under water, a lake above the city", and its water surface presents a very regular rectangle, which is very rare among tens of thousands of lakes in China.