On March 15, the website of the Forestry Bureau of Fuyang City, Anhui Province published an announcement on the "Optimization and Adjustment Plan of Anhui Yingzhou West Lake Provincial Nature Reserve" and the "Summary of Scientific Investigation Report of Anhui Yingzhou West Lake Provincial Nature Reserve" to solicit comments. It is suggested that Yingzhou West Lake Provincial Nature Reserve be integrated and merged with scenic spots into scenic spots.
Before the optimization and adjustment, the area of provincial nature reserves was 110 square kilometers, the area of provincial scenic spots was 24.32 square kilometers, and the total area of provincial nature reserves after deducting overlap was 125.12 square kilometers.
After the optimization and adjustment, the provincial nature reserve and the provincial scenic area were merged into the provincial scenic spot, and the area of the West Lake provincial nature reserve was reduced by 46.32 square kilometers after the adjustment.
After optimization and adjustment, the total area of scenic spots is 78.80 square kilometers, and the scope is bounded by roads, river embankments and administrative boundaries, which is convenient for management. The north and west sides of the scenic area are Huangzhuang Village in Jiulong Town, and the east side is Kanhe Village in Zhongshi Street, and the original boundary of the scenic area is maintained on the south side, and the 3 km 30-mile river channel is included along the catchment direction.
What is Yingzhou West Lake and where is it?
Seeing the above announcement, many outsiders will ask: What is Yingzhou West Lake and where is it?
Yingzhou West Lake is located 9 kilometers west of Fuyang City, Anhui Province, with a lake surface of 5.74 square kilometers, is a tourism and leisure resort with history and culture as the core, integrating ecological wetland tourism, leisure vacation, conference and catering as the theme. There are mainly more than 20 scenic spots such as Qinglian Pavilion, Nine-curved Bridge, Girl's Terrace, Zuixianju, Zizhuyuan, West Lake Stele Forest, Hundred Gardens, Orchid Garden, Yi Garden, and Dressing Table. There is also a 6-square-kilometer National Wetland Park adjacent to the scenic area. The core area of Yingzhou West Lake Scenic Area will exceed 24 square kilometers and the water surface will reach 6.6 square kilometers, the scale of which is the largest West Lake in China.
The historical materials provided by Fuyang City show that Yingzhou West Lake has a very long history. In 1040 BC, the concubine canonized by King Kang of Zhou was fascinated by the blue water of a lake on the west side of the tomb and established an imperial garden here, which was later Yingzhou West Lake.
In the Qin Dynasty, Ruyin County was established in Fuyang, which was called "Ruyin West Lake". In the fourth year (528) of the Northern Wei dynasty, Yingzhou was renamed "Yingzhou West Lake", and it has been used to this day.
During the Han and Tang Dynasties, Yingzhou West Lake was already very famous and became a famous place to visit. In the Song Dynasty, with a large number of scholars and doctors such as Ouyang Xiu and Su Shi coming here as officials, Yingzhou West Lake became more famous. During Su Shi's tenure as the Taishou of Yingzhou as a bachelor of Longtuge, in order to develop agricultural production, overhaul water conservancy, and left 10,000 Yellow Rivermen to dredge Yingzhou West Lake, directly to Jiaopotang, and built three sluices, and the dredged soil was piled up into the berm of Yingzhou West Lake, and weeping willows were planted all over the place, which was called Su Causeway at the time, and left: "Although the West Lake is small and Xizi, the flow is clear and abundant." In the dust of a thousand uprisings, I did not realize who was male and female. ".
After Ouyang Xiu became an official here, he was even more obsessed with Yingzhou West Lake. After retiring, he returned to West Lake in Yingzhou, where he died. About why Ouyang Xiu chose Yingzhou West Lake as a place of retreat. Scholars in Fuyang believe that there are two main reasons, one is that Ouyang Xiu likes the beauty of Yingzhou West Lake and Jiaopo wine; Second, according to the regulations of the Song Dynasty, after the retirement of officials of Ouyang Xiu's level, they could not travel more than a thousand miles from the capital in order to accept the supervision of the imperial court at any time. Fuyang is less than a thousand miles away from Bianliang City, the capital of the Song Dynasty.
During Ouyang Xiu's retirement to Fuyang, his old friend Zhao Kangjinggong (roughly over 80 years old) came to Fuyang from Nanjing (present-day Shangqiu, Henan) to see him, and the two met on the West Lake in Yingzhou.
At that time, the county guard of Yingzhou (Fuyang) was written by Lü Gong, and he built a house next to the West Lake Academy, named "Huilao Hall", as Ouyang Xiu's residence. This "old church" is bright and dark, with heavy beams and stacked frames, pillars and stone bucket arches, brick carvings, and simple forms. There is a moon door between the walls, the windows are hexagonal, and the mullioned door in front of the hall still exists in the eighties of the last century. In 2005, it was renovated by the government of Yingquan District (now a district of Fuyang City) in the ecological park in Yingquan District.
Ouyang Xiu loves Yingzhou West Lake, and the current Yingzhou West Lake belongs to the jurisdiction of Yingzhou District of Fuyang City, why would the old church be built in Yingquan District? This is because the current Yingzhou West Lake is no longer the Yingzhou West Lake of the Song Dynasty. Yingzhou West Lake, which Ouyang Xiu, Su Shi and others were addicted to in the Song Dynasty, is located in the territory of Yingquan District, which is near the current ecological park.
After the 27th year of the Republic of China (1938), due to the continuous flooding of the Yellow River, the bed of the Quan River increased year by year, and the West Lake of Yingzhou, which Ouyang Xiu loved, was silted up by sediment. At the same time, the Quanhe River accumulates water into a lake in the Sanli River and the Quanhe Gudao in Yingzhou District, with a length of 6.5 kilometers and a width of 1.5 kilometers, with an area of 9.75 square kilometers and a perennial water level between 26 meters and 27 meters. In 1984, the People's Government of Fuyang County relocated Yingzhou West Lake to build here.
There are 36 West Lakes in China, 3 of which are almost household names, but Yingzhou West Lake is less well known
Relevant data show that there are 36 West Lakes in the mainland, including 9 in Zhejiang, 4 each in Guangdong, Hunan and Sichuan, 3 each in Fujian and Jiangxi, 2 in Hebei, and 1 each in Guangxi, Yunnan, Hubei, Henan, Anhui, Shandong and Shaanxi. In the Qing Dynasty's "Leng Lu Miscellaneous Knowledge", it is said: There are thirty and six West Lakes in the world, but Hangzhou is the best.
After years of development, Hangzhou West Lake and Yangzhou West Lake have long been famous in the world, and Huizhou West Lake has also become the pearl of Lingnan, attracting many tourists every year. However, Yingzhou West Lake has never been famous. The reasons for this are probably as follows:
First, the early stage of construction is insufficient. In the 1980s, Yingzhou West Lake was mainly jointly built by several units and individuals; From around 1995 to 1996, Fuyang was withdrawn and established as a city, and the Yingzhou West Lake Management Committee was formally established, which opened the curtain on the construction of Yingzhou West Lake Nanhu District; In 1998, the People's Government of Anhui Province approved Yingzhou West Lake as a provincial scenic spot. Its construction investment and operation management are all the responsibility of the local government, and the Yingzhou West Lake Management Committee has always been a government dispatched agency, and the market-oriented operation capacity is insufficient.
The second is the impact of the epidemic. Around 2018, Yingzhou West Lake was closed and rebuilt, and adopted market-oriented operation, with a new look. Relevant materials show that the reconstruction focuses on "plain lakes" and "Northern Song Dynasty Ousu culture" in terms of nature and culture. "To revive the West Lake of Guyingzhou, we must present the vast and magnificent original ecological natural style of the West Lake Plain Lake of Ancient Yingzhou according to ancient poetry and literature, and create a cultural landscape with the culture of the Northern Song Dynasty as the core, which is dislocated with the development of Hangzhou West Lake.
However, the bad luck is that due to the impact of the epidemic in recent years, the tourism market has suffered a serious impact, and the promotion of Yingzhou West Lake has not been smooth.
This time, after the optimization and adjustment of Yingzhou West Lake Provincial Nature Reserve, I hope that Yingzhou West Lake will have better development, and I hope that it can dig deep into the background and restore Yingzhou West Lake in Ouyang Xiu, Su Shi and other ancients and 300 poems.
Special note: The picture comes from the website of Fuyang Forestry Bureau or Yingzhou West Lake WeChat