The ancient poems about Dongting Lake are as follows:
1. "Climbing the Yueyang Tower": In the past, I heard about the water in Dongting, now I go up to the Yueyang Tower. To the southeast of Wu and Chu, the universe floats day and night. There are no relatives or friends, and there are no old and sick people. The soldiers and horses pass through the north of the mountain, and Pingxuan Tisi flows.
2. "Looking at Dongting Lake and presenting it to Prime Minister Zhang": In August, the lake is horizontal, but the water is too clear. The steam is rising over the Yunmengze, and the waves are shaking Yueyang City. If you want to save money without a boat, you will live in the shameful sage. Sitting and watching the fishermen only envy the fish.
3. "Inscribed on Qingcao Lake, Longyang County": The west wind blew the old Dongting waves, and the king of Xiang had many white hairs overnight. After being drunk, I don’t know that the sky is in the water, and the boat is full of clear dreams that overwhelm the stars.
4. "Looking at the Dongting": The lake and the moon are harmonious, and there is no windshield on the lake surface that has not been polished. Looking at the green mountains and rivers of Dongting in the distance, there is a green snail in the silver plate.
Information expansion:
Dongting Lake, known as Yunmeng, Jiujiang and Chonghu in ancient times, is located on the south bank of Jingjiang River in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, spanning Yueyang, Miluo, Xiangyin, Wangcheng, Yiyang, Yuanjiang, Han Counties and cities such as Shou, Changde, Jinshi, Anxiang and Nanxian. The name Dongting Lake began in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and was named after Dongting Mountain (now Junshan) in the lake.
Dongting Hubei receives water from the Yangtze River’s Songzi, Taiping, Ouchi, and Tiaoxian tributaries, and is connected to the Xiang, Zi, Yuan, Li Rivers and other small tributaries such as the Miluo River to the south and west. It is connected by Yueyang City Chenglingji flows into the Yangtze River.
Dongting Lake was once known as the "Eight Hundred Miles Dongting" in ancient times. In the late 1990s, according to calculations by the water conservancy department, it had an area of ??2,579.2 square kilometers (some say 2,740 square kilometers) and was generally called the second largest freshwater lake in China.
If the flood channel area of ??more than 1,300 square kilometers (one estimate is 18,780 square kilometers) of the four rivers of Hunan, Zi, Yuan, and Li and the "four mouths of the Yangtze River" is added, the total of the two will be 3,879.2 square kilometers. (or 4040 square kilometers). The lake basin has a circumference of 803.2 kilometers and a total volume of 22 billion cubic meters, of which the natural lake volume is 17.8 billion cubic meters and the river channel volume is 4.2 billion cubic meters.
Dongting Lake is an important storage lake in the Yangtze River Basin. It has strong flood storage capacity and has saved countless floods in the Yangtze River. The Jianghan Plain and the three towns of Wuhan were able to safely survive the floods.
Dongting Lake is an important strategic location in history and the birthplace of traditional Chinese culture. There are many scenic spots in the lake area, and historical sites represented by Yueyang Tower are important tourism and cultural resources. It is also the birthplace of traditional Chinese agriculture, a famous land of fish and rice, and the most important commercial grain and oil base, aquatic products and breeding base in Hunan Province and even the country.