The "Ten Scenes of West Lake" are mainly distributed in the inner lake area and the center of the lake area, which can also be called the inner ring scenery. The names of their scenic spots are: Su Causeway Xiao Chun, Quyuan Fenghe, Pinghu Qiuyue, Broken Bridge Canxue and Liulang Wenying; Huagang fish-watching, Leifeng sunset, double peaks in the clouds, Nanping midnight, Santan Moon.
The names of the top ten scenic spots not only pay attention to the beauty of symmetry, but also are rich in phonology, with the time diversity of spring, summer, autumn and winter, sunny and rainy days. They reflect the exquisite, harmonious, dignified, beautiful and far-reaching aesthetic characteristics of the West Lake from all angles and spaces, which enables writers, poets and painters to combine the objective scenery of the West Lake with their own ideas in their creation and create world-famous masterpieces.