What does autumn mean in August?

Dongting Lake in August is autumn, which means that the scenery of Dongting Lake in August has begun to show the breath of autumn.

"Autumn in Dongting in August" is the beginning of an ancient poem. The whole sentence is "The lake in August here is an air with heaven". Fog in Yungu and Menggu enveloped Yueyang City. "This poem was written by Zhang Xu, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, expressing his praise for the autumn scenery of Dongting Lake.

Among them, "the lake here in August" means that the water surface of Dongting Lake is very calm in August; "Breathe with the sky" describes the lake as deep, empty and clear; Fog in the Valley of Clouds and Dreams describes that the weather is hot and the water vapor rises to form clouds, giving people an illusory feeling. "Yueyang City has been besieged" refers to the huge waves on Dongting Lake, which seems to shake Yueyang City. This poem has beautiful language and profound artistic conception, and is regarded as one of the masterpieces of China's ancient poetry.

Dongting Lake, formerly known as Yunmeng, Jiujiang and Chonghu, is located on the south bank of Jingjiang River in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, spanning Yueyang, Miluo, Xiangyin, Wangcheng, Yiyang, Yuanjiang, Hanshou, Changde, Tianjin, Anxiang and Nanxian counties and cities. The name of Dongting Lake began in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and it was named after Dongting Mountain (now Junshan Mountain) in the lake. Dongting Lake receives water from Songzi, Taiping, ouchi and Diaoxian counties of the Yangtze River, connects with four small tributaries of Hunan, Zi, Yuan and Li in the south and west, and flows into the Yangtze River from Chenglingji, Yueyang City.