What are the historical stories in the West Lake Scenic Area?

Historical stories of scenic spots in West Lake;

Leifeng tower 1

Leifeng Pagoda, also known as Princess Pagoda and Xiguan Brick Pagoda, is located on Leifeng Mountain in Zhao Xi on the south bank of West Lake. Leifeng Pagoda was built in 977 A.D. by Emperor Wu, Emperor Yi to worship the Buddha relic. The tower was named "Royal Princess Tower" because it coincided with the commemoration of Qian Hongchu's wife Sun Shi in the Northern Song Dynasty, shortly after her death. Later, because its peak was called "Leifeng Pagoda", it was gradually called "Leifeng Pagoda".

2. Su Causeway

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 Cross Rainbow.

3. Three pools printing the moon

There are three stone pagodas in the South Lake of silver moon Island in Santan, which are said to have been built by Su Dongpo when he dredged the West Lake in Hangzhou (the existing stone pagodas were rebuilt in Ming Dynasty). Interestingly, the belly of the tower is empty, and there are five equidistant circular holes on the sphere. If the hole is pasted with tissue paper on a moonlit night, the tower will be brightly lit, and the hole shape will be printed into the lake, showing many moons. The shadows of the real moon and the fake moon are really inseparable, and the night scene is very charming, so it is named "Three Tanyin Moon".

4. Nanping Night Clock

Jingci Temple at the northern foot of Nanping Mountain was built in the first year of Zhou Xiande (AD 954) after the Five Dynasties, with a history of 1000 years. It was built by Qian Hongchu, King of Wu Yue, to support Zen master Yongming, the founder of Nanshan Buddhism, and was originally named "Huiri Yongming Temple". Located in the mountains of Nanping, surrounded by rugged rocks, it looks like a barrier. Jingci Temple was renamed in the Southern Song Dynasty, and it was also called "Four Jungles of West Lake" with Lingyin Temple, Zhaoqing Temple and Shengyin Temple.

When Jingci Temple was first built, there was a bell tower. In the 11th year of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty (A.D. 1378), because the old clock was too small, a giant clock weighing 10 ton was recast. Because the bell is very loud, and there are many holes in Nanping Mountain behind the temple, the bell rings at night, even resounding through the cave, spreading to the valley and drifting far away to most of Hang Cheng.

During Kangxi's southern tour in the Qing Dynasty, it was renamed "Nanping Night Bell" on the grounds that the dawn was about to break. "The night sky is clear, everything is silent, and the bell rings into the sky at the beginning, which makes people think."

5. Autumn moon in Pinghu

There are no fixed scenic spots in Pinghu in the Southern Song Dynasty, and it is best to go boating on the lake to browse the autumn moon. In the thirty-eighth year of Kangxi, the sage visited the West Lake and wrote the inscription "Autumn Moon in Pinghu". Since then, the scenic spots have been fixed. Today's Pinghu Qiuyue Scenic Area is located at the western end of Bai Causeway, with its back against the isolated mountain and facing the outer lake.

Refer to the above? Baidu encyclopedia-west lake