The scenic spot is described as follows:
Dongzhou Island is located in the center of Xiangjiang River in the southeast of Hengyang City, with a length of about 2 kilometers and a width of about 2 meters. The beach area is 25 mu, and the waters in the east are 2 meters wide and those in the west are 3 meters wide.
There are temples, academies, ancient trees and peach blossoms on the island, and you can see the beach in the season with little water. The island is surrounded by water, with dense trees and shade, and the environment is very quiet. Yueyang Junshan, Changsha Orange Island and Hengyang Dongzhou Island are also called the three continents of Xiangjiang River Basin. Dongzhou Island is one of the eight scenic spots in ancient Hengyang.
Dongzhou Island Scenic Area is located in the Xiangjiang River, 2 kilometers south of Hengyang, which is divided into Xiangjiang River and eastward, and its potential is like a bow, so it is named Dongzhou. Because it looks like a big ship, Beihang, it was once again named Chuanshan.
the continent is 197 meters long from north to south, and the widest point in the south is 21 meters. Liu Wen, a former Ming Taibu Temple in Zhoushang, left another place, and Wang Changying of Guihua rebuilt Wansheng Palace, which contained a bronze statue of a monk in a cloth bag, so it was also called the Ancestral Hall. In the twenty-eighth year of Qing Qianlong (1763), Dongzhou Academy was built with the waste ground behind the temple.
in the 11th year of Guangxu (1885), Peng Yulin, the minister of Guangdong Defence Ministry, donated money to relocate the Chuanshan Academy in the south of the city to Dongzhou, and renovated and expanded it into Chuanshan Academy.
I invited Wang Kaiyun, a great scholar, to give a lecture and have been teaching for more than 1 years. Yang Du, a prodigy of the Kuang Dynasty, studied here. After the Revolution of 1911, it was changed to Chuanshan Ancient School. In 1922, it was renamed Chuanshan National College, with Ceng Xi as its president. Since then, it has been changed frequently, or used for other purposes. The former site of Chuanshan Academy still exists.
Dongzhou Island Cuisine:
1. Pailou Tangyuan
Hengyang-style snacks. Soak the rice, wash it, add water to grind it into pulp, put it into a medium hot pot, add proper amount of refined salt and spiced powder, cook it, cool it a little, rub it thoroughly by hand repeatedly, make ginger into thick round strips of bamboo chopsticks, and cut it into sections about 1 cm long, that is, dumplings. Put it in a boiling water pot, add refined salt, cook it, spoon the soup into a bowl, sprinkle with chopped green onion and white pepper, and serve. The soup is clean, the pills are soft and spicy.
2. Changning bean jelly
Changning unique flavor food. It has a history of more than 13 years. It is made from the core of the jelly vine produced on the local mountain. Peel the jelly fruit, cut it open, dry it in the sun, put it in a cloth bag, soak it in clear water and rub it repeatedly until all the glue in the fruit is squeezed out; Take out the bag, and after about half an hour, all the juice will be condensed into crystal clear jelly.
when eating, cut into strips or slices, and mix with seasonings such as sugar, vinegar, garlic paste and pepper. The bean jelly is crystal clear, with a 3 cm thick powder block in hand, and fingerprints can be seen through the powder, so it is called "Six In the snow" and "Crystal Frozen".
above content reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Dongzhou Island