"Jiujiang ancient city, the beauty is in a lake", this lake is Gantang Lake. Gantang Lake was originally named Jingxing Lake. Later, it was renamed Gantang Lake to commemorate Tang Jiangzhou's secretariat Li. Gantang Lake, with an area of about 80 hectares, is a natural lake with "flowing water from the source". It faces Lushan Mountain in the south and the Yangtze River in the north. It is like a huge, crystal clear emerald inlaid in Jiujiang City, dazzling.
In fact, Gantang Lake in winter is more like an elegant ink painting, showing a unique charm. The cold wind blew gently by the lake, blowing in my face; The lake is crystal clear and sparkling. A winding stone bridge on the lake extends to the moonlight island in the lake, and the white wall of the "smoke pavilion" on the island is ethereal and illusory.
Biwa Feida's "Smoke Pavilion" is also called "Moon Immersion Pavilion" and "Zhou Yu Instructor Desk". With the evolution of the pavilion name, the historical story of "Yanshui Pavilion" has also spread. Zhou Yu, a famous Soochow player, practiced the navy in Gantang Lake, which painted this clear water with legendary colors and also painted the legend of "Zhou Yu commanding the stage". In the 10th year of the Yuan Dynasty (8 15 AD), Bai Juyi, who was demoted to Jiangzhou Sima, built a pavilion in the former site of Zhouyu Dianjiangtai in Gantang Lake, named after the word "when the river widens and the moon is full" in Pipa. After the completion of the exhibition hall, it will rely on Gantang Lake to complement each other and shine. During the Northern Song Dynasty, when Zhou Shou, the son of the famous Neo-Confucianist Zhou Dunyi, came to Jiujiang to guard his father's tomb, he built a pavilion on the levee of Gantang Lake, which means "thin cage smoke on the mountain" and named it "Yanshui Pavilion". During the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, both the Moon Pavilion and the Smoke Pavilion were destroyed, leaving only rafters and tiles. In the 21st year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1593), Huang Tengchun, the governor of Jiujiang, rebuilt the Yanshui Pavilion at the former site of the Moon Immersion Pavilion. Although the "Yanshuige" was destroyed by several wars and rebuilt by local craftsmen several times, its scale has not decreased.
Along the zigzag stone bridge, I came to the front of the needle-shaped mountain gate of Yanshuige. Under the simple and vigorous gold plaque of "Yanshuige", the full moon-shaped landing doorway comes into view. The design of the doorway is unique, which fits the meaning of the word "soaking in the moon". Fan-shaped windows with their own characteristics on both sides smile at tourists in all directions like curved eyebrows, and like slowly unfolding books, the majestic and elegant wind floats in. The "Yanshuige" complex is divided into three roads: left, middle and right. On the left are Cuizhaoxuan, Tingyuxuan and Yiting. On the right are the "Moon Immersion Pavilion" and "Boat Hall"; In the middle of the road are "Yanshui Pavilion", "Chunyang Hall", "Wuxian Pavilion" and "Guanyin Pavilion" in turn. The architectural styles on the terraced fields on the island are different and impressive; Among them, the inscribed couplets are combined with architectural features, or narrated by dragons and snakes, or painted by the spring breeze at the bottom of the pen, or painted in a freehand way, or visualized and lyrical, which makes people have to sigh the calligraphy skills and cultural attainments of literati in past dynasties.
Returning to the north shore from Jiuqu Shiqiao Bridge, I took a leisurely walk along the lake, and the "Gong Li Dam" across the lake came into view. In the first year of Tang Changqing (AD 82 1), Li Bo was appointed as Jiangzhou secretariat. He thinks that Gantang Lake is too big, which makes it extremely inconvenient for people to walk by the lake, and it has been silted up for a long time, resulting in frequent floods. Li Bo was anxious about the people's needs and thought of the people's thoughts. He took the lead in donating money to raise funds, presided over the dredging of Gantang Lake, and built a long embankment across the lake to connect the mountains and rivers in the south and the south gate of the north, "to set up a bucket door to store water and benefit the people." In the second year of Changqing (822), the dam was built, and the local people ended the past history of ferrying on the lake. After Li Bo left office, people remembered his kindness and achievements and named the levee "Gong Li Dam". At this point, the vast Gantang Lake not only has the charm and beauty endowed by the God of Nature, but also has accumulated rich historical and cultural heritage, which is world-famous and attracts Jiujiang people and foreign tourists.
Strolling to the "Gong Li Dam", it suddenly began to rain in the sky. It's past the winter solstice, it's snowing in the north, but it's raining in Mao Mao here. A cool breeze blows gently, and it rains continuously, which makes "Gantang Lake" suddenly excited, and ripples appear on the huge lake surface. "Gantang Lake" is bathed in misty rain, like a beautiful girl sowing love, rippling with tenderness and charm. In fact, "Gantang Lake", which has both the posture of "sinking fish and falling geese" and the posture of "closing the moon and feeling ashamed of flowers", is painting its own beautiful colors on the land of Jiangxi Province and Jiujiang City. ...