Wuhan East Lake Scenic Area covers an area of ??73 square kilometers, of which the lake area is 33 square kilometers. It is the second largest urban lake in China. Including the land scenic spots along the lake, the area reaches more than 80 square kilometers. Wuhan East Lake Ecological Tourism Scenic Area, referred to as East Lake Scenic Area, is located in the central city of Wuhan, Hubei Province. It is a national 5A tourist attraction, a national civilized scenic tourist area demonstration site, and one of the first batch of national key scenic spots. Mao Zedong loved East Lake throughout his life and called it "the place of white clouds and yellow cranes".
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Since ancient times, East Lake has been a tourist attraction. Qu Yuan "walked by the lake" in East Lake, and King Zhuang of Chu played drums in East Lake to supervise the war (the ruins of the ancient Qinghe Bridge); during the Three Kingdoms period, Liu Bei set up an altar to worship heaven in Moshan, East Lake; Southern Song Dynasty poet Yuan Shuo Youyong "only said that West Lake is in The Imperial Capital, Wuchang New "East Lake" praised East Lake; Li Bai wrote poems on the eagle platform by the East Lake; Mao Zedong inspected East Lake 44 times after the founding of the People's Republic of China, and received 94 batches of foreign dignitaries from 64 countries in East Lake; Zhu De wrote more than 50 years ago The poem "East Lake is better than West Lake for now, but it will be better than West Lake in the future"; contemporary writer Chen Yunhe, in his essay "Yangtze River, the intestines of China; East Lake, the stomach of Wuhan", praised "I have digested many historical stories, but I am also strong." It forms the fabric of a city.”
In modern times, there are also historical and cultural sites such as Jiu Nu Dun, Tao Zhu Tower, Qu Yuan Memorial Hall, and Zhu Bei Pavilion, all of which are located here. The Hubei Provincial Museum is a national key museum with a collection of more than 200,000 cultural relics and 945 national first-class cultural relics (sets), which brings together the cultural relics of Hubei region. The chimes of Marquis Yi of Zeng, the sword of King Goujian of Yue, and the Yunxian human head are the treasures of the museum.
East Lake is the second largest urban lake in China (the largest urban lake in China is Tangxun Lake, also in Wuhan) and has a national wetland park. It has 13 specialized botanical gardens including the East Lake Plum Garden, the Lotus Garden, and the East Lake Cherry Garden. East Lake Plum Garden is China’s plum blossom research center. It has more than 320 varieties of plum blossoms, 152 of which are registered in the international plant directory, accounting for 60% of the world’s registered plum blossom varieties, ranking first in the world. 90%.
Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-East Lake