Historical celebrities and stories related to Daming Lake

1. In the fourth year of Tang Tianbao (AD 745), the famous poet Du Fu once hosted a banquet with Li Yong, the prefect of Beihai, at the pavilion in Daming Lake, and wrote a poem "Banquet with Li Beihai". In the poem, the phrase "The sea is here, the pavilion is ancient, and there are many celebrities in Jinan" is widely read, and Lixia Pavilion is therefore famous all over the world.

Second, Wang Xiangchun, a left-wing poet in the late Ming Dynasty, recorded in detail in the book Daming Lake in Yin Qi-"The lake is in the city, and there is nothing in the house, but it is different from the constant rain and long drought; As for snakes not appearing and frogs not singing, that's different. " Later, this article was included in Licheng County Records by the Qing people, which should be an earlier written record about the four eccentrics of Huming Lake.

Third, the famous phrase left by Tie Bao, a calligrapher in the Qing Dynasty, "Lotus flowers on all sides and willow trees on three sides, a city with mountains and half a city with lakes".

Daming Lake, located in the northeast of Jinan city center and the north of the old city, is formed by the confluence of many springs in Jinan, with a lake surface of 58 hectares and a park area of 103.4 hectares, with an average water depth of about 2 meters and the deepest point of 4.5 meters. It is a rare natural lake in a bustling city, one of the three famous scenic spots in Jinan (the place to visit the emperor in summer in Princess Zhu Huan) and an important scenic spot in Quancheng. Daming Lake, with beautiful scenery and clear water color, has famous scenic spots such as Lixia Pavilion, Tiegong Temple and Nanfeng Temple, and receives about 2 million domestic and foreign tourists every year. It is one of the core components of the world's 5A first spring scenic spot. Its famous scenic spots include Lixia Pavilion, Arctic Pavilion, Tiegong Temple and Chao Ran Tower.