Daming Lake has beautiful scenery, kites flying, fish jumping, lotus flowers all over the pool, original ships passing by, and the Yang Liuyin on the shore is dense with flowers and tourists weaving, dotted with various pavilions. The distant mountains, the near water and the clear sky are integrated into one, like a huge color picture scroll. Daming Lake has beautiful scenery all year round, especially in the crisp autumn. In spring, the warm wind blows on the lake, the wicker shakes gently and the microwave ripples; In summer, the waves in the lake are charming, green and purplish; In autumn, reed flowers fly in the lake and waterfowl soar; In winter, although the lake has temporarily lost its blue waves, it is wrapped in silver and is particularly evil.
Daming Lake is clear, surrounded by dikes and willows, and dotted with lotus pavilions. In the south, Qianfo Mountain is reflected in the lake, forming a natural picture scroll, with pavilions and pavilions along the lake and waterside promenades staggered. In the south of the lake, there is a remote garden that imitates the gardens built in the south of the Yangtze River during the Qing Xuan Tong period. There are curved bridges, cloisters and rockery pavilions in the far garden, which are very elegant. Known as "the first garden in Jinan". There is a noble pavilion on the rockery by the lake, and the scenery of Daming Lake is unobstructed. On the high platform on the north bank opposite the lake, there is a beige pavilion built in the Yuan Dynasty. Looking from the pavilion to the south, there are distant mountains near the water, and there are smoke trees on the balcony, all of which are paintings. Tie, a calligrapher in the Qing Dynasty, kept the famous sentence "Lotus on four sides and willow on three sides, a city with mountains and a half city with lakes", which vividly revealed the beauty of Daming Lake.
Daming Lake is well-known and has many tourists. It receives about 2 million tourists from home and abroad every year, making it the largest park in Jinan. Daming Lake has a long history and beautiful scenery, and there are many scenic spots and historical sites around it, including Lixiating, Tiegong Temple, Nanfeng Temple, Huibo Building, Arctic Temple and Yuanyuan, among which Lixiating and Tiegong Temple are municipal-level cultural relics protection units. Daming Lake, in particular, is a natural lake in a bustling city, which is really rare.
The formation of Daming Lake
As a natural lake, Daming Lake comes from Pearl Spring, Mengying Spring, Furong Spring, Wangfuchi and other springs in the city. It is said that "Wanquan gathers", the water quality is clear, the sky is cloudy, and fish can be seen. Daming Lake is rich in water resources, with convenient drainage, and has the advantage of "constant rain does not rise, long drought does not dry up", and the water level remains unchanged all the year round. The average water depth is about two meters, the deepest is about four meters, and the shore is about one meter. "Lotus on four sides and willow on three sides, one city with mountains and half a city with lakes" is the best portrayal of Daming Lake scenery.
The Historical Evolution of Daming Lake
Daming Lake has a long history, and the name of the lake has been in writing for over 400 years/kloc-0. As early as the Northern Wei Dynasty, it was recorded in the famous geographer Li Daoyuan's "Notes on Water Classics and Saving Water": "The water flowing in the north is Daming Lake, daming temple in the west, and lakes on the east and north sides of the temple." Daming Lake referred to in this paper is located in the area of Wulongtan today, but the waters around Daming Lake today are called "Li Shui Pi". According to historical records, Daming Lake at that time was called calendar wave or calendar water wave, reaching Zhuoying Lake in the south and Queshan and Huabu Mountain in the north. That is to say, Daming Lake, Wulongtan and Beiyuan are connected big lakes now, and the lake is dozens of miles wide. During the Six Dynasties, it was called "Lotus Lake" because there were many lotus seeds in the lake. During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, it was called "Lotus Lake" (see paragraph "Youyang Miscellany"), also known as "Li Shui Pi". In Song Dynasty, it was also called "West Lake".
Since the Tang Dynasty, the scenery of Daming Lake has been famous in the world. In the Song Dynasty, there was a poem in Ceng Gong: "Ask me where to avoid steaming, and the West Lake will be clear in ten hectares." It can be seen that this place is already a summer leisure place. In the fifth year of Xining in the Northern Song Dynasty (A.D. 1072), when Ceng Gong was well-known in qi zhou (now Jinan), in order to prevent floods, he built the North Watergate and introduced the lake water into Xiaoqing River, so that the water level of the lake remained constant all the year round, and pavilions, platforms, dikes and bridges were built along the lake, making it gradually become a sightseeing landscape. In ancient times, the lake was very wide, and today's Wulongtan area is also included. After changes, from the Jin Dynasty, Daming Lake specifically refers to the lake area in the city. Yuan Haowen, a poet in Jin Dynasty, was named Daming Lake in Ji 'nan Travel Notes. Daming Lake became what it is today when the city walls were rebuilt in the Ming Dynasty. After dredging and renovation in past dynasties, lotus and willow were planted, and by the Qing Dynasty, the beautiful scenery of "lotus on four sides and willow on three sides, an excellent city and a half city lake" had been formed.
1958, the municipal government officially turned Daming Lake into Daming Lake Park, dredged the bottom of the lake, restored the shore of the lake, maintained the ancient buildings and planted flowers and trees extensively. After dredging, repairing and expanding, the lakeshore was built, gardens were beautified, places of interest were restored and rebuilt, teahouses, hotels, cruise ships and amusement facilities were added, which made it look brand-new and better than before and became one of the famous scenic spots in Jinan.