The lotus flowers in Chengdu are also a major attraction.
Guihu Lake in Xindu, Chengdu, is one of the top eight lotus viewing spots in the country and has a long history of lotus cultivation.
As early as the Han Dynasty, lotus planting became a common practice in Xindu. Even after death, people would take ponds full of lotus flowers into their graves. Bricks with portraits of "lotus picking" from the Eastern Han Dynasty were unearthed in Xindu.
In the picture, village girls are riding small wooden boats and picking lotus pods on a lake covered with lotus flowers.
This just confirms the Han Dynasty Yuefu's "Xianghe Qu": "You can pick lotus in the south of the Yangtze River, where the lotus leaves are in the fields, and the fish are playing among the lotus leaves.
The fish are playing with the lotus leaves to the east, and the fish are playing with them. "Lotus leaves to the west, fish playing with lotus leaves to the north" depicts the life interest of young men and women picking lotuses, which also shows the universality and entertainment of this agricultural activity in the Han Dynasty.
The poet Zhang Shuo of the Tang Dynasty wrote in "Farewell to Guo Yuanzhen and Lu Chongdao in Nanting, the New Capital": "There are female luojiao on the bamboo path, and a stone embankment on Lianzhou.
The quietness is deep and human, and people are wandering around.
Bitan is beautiful in the early moon, and the plain forest is full of surprises.
The good time has changed to the past, and it is better to sit and carry it with you.
I will cherish my beloved for a long time, like jade and rejuvenation.
" It is truly recorded. The situation of lotus planting in Gui Lake today during the Tang Dynasty.
A contemporary scholar found out that Guihu Lake was built on the basis of the Nanting Pavilion in the Tang Dynasty from the poem "Bamboo path with female rhododendrons and lotus continent with stone embankment".
In the Ming Dynasty, the literary giant Yang Sheng'an also planted lotus flowers all over Guihu Lake, and also conducted in-depth research and textual research on lotus flowers.
In Volume 80 of "Sheng'an Collection", Yang Sheng'an wrote: "Lotus, hibiscus, also known as hibiscus.
Its stem is eggplant, its leaves are green, its essence is dense, and its root is dense. The flower is lotus root, which is actually lotus root and its root is lotus root. In Guo Puri's time, people in the north used lotus root as lotus root. People in Jiangdong called lotus root as hibiscus, and people in Shu used lotus root as eggplant. , or use the mother as the name of the child flower, or use the child as the mother leaf number.
These are confusing names and misinformation.
" From then on, Guihu lotus became famous. Then it spread throughout the world.
Since Yang Daonan rebuilt Guihu Lake during the Jiaqing and Daoguang years of the Qing Dynasty, there have been official records of lotus planting in Guihu Lake.
Lotus in Guihu Lake has been described in many aspects from various local chronicles since Jiaqing and Daoguang and poems and songs by celebrities at that time.
On the third day of Zeng Guofan's "Five Poems on Guihu Lake": "Ten miles of lotus sea, I came too late.
A small bridge leads to the wild harbor, and a broken boat lies in the west.< /p>
Herons can be hidden on the curved bank, and turtles can still be seen playing in the vortex.
It is a good time to pick lotus flowers when visiting the city.
" This was Zeng Guofan during the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty. When passing through Xindu, the county magistrate Zhang Fengshu wrote a poem in praise of Guihu Lake when he entertained him at a banquet in Guihu Lake. He said that although the lotus flowers had faded when he came, he could still feel "the beauty of the beautiful women traveling in the city through the introduction of Zhang Fengshu and others." It’s the grand occasion of lotus picking.”
In the 1990s, Xindu Guihu, on the basis of the original nearly 100 acres of lotus ponds, introduced nearly 100 kinds of lotus plants and thousands of lotus plants through the National Lotus Association.
A large-scale lotus art exhibition is held every summer to provide beautiful enjoyment for tourists.