Lotus island of Yangcheng Lake

Lotus Island

synonym

Yangcheng Lake Lotus Island generally refers to Lotus Island

Lotus Island is located in the center of West Lake, middle lake and East Lake of Yangcheng Lake in Jiangsu Province, covering an area of about 3 square kilometers. It looks like a blooming lotus flower embedded in the lake, so it is named "Lotus Island".

More than 200 families, about 1200 people, live on the island, and most of them are engaged in farming hairy crabs.

There are only people walking on the island, no cars, motorcycles and other means of transportation. Every family has several boats, including small boats, oar boats and motor boats. Crab farmers usually use small motor boats when they travel, each of which is more than 60000 yuan.

In order to protect the water source of Yangcheng Lake, Suzhou municipal government has demolished all the fences used to raise crabs outside Lianhua Island, leaving only the aborigines on Lianhua island of Yangcheng Lake to raise crabs, continuing the legend of Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs.

Related Legends

It is said that the lotus island is connected with the land, and there is a temple in it. There is a big well in the temple. Every year, a white lotus flower blooms in the afternoon on July 30. Ordinary people can ascend to heaven by sitting on the lotus.

When a new top scholar came to Su for a post, he heard that many incense burning old ladies were rushing to make lotus. Every year, the incense was very popular. He felt very strange. He disguised himself as a secret visitor and repeated several times to find out the truth.

In the following year, it was said that the mother of the number one scholar would ascend to heaven by lotus. It was the day when she heard about it. In the early morning, several people carried several baskets covered by rice and firewood into the temple, and the sounds of "wheezing" and "wheezing" came from the backyard. When the time came, the mother of the number one scholar came in a sedan chair wearing birthday clothes. For a moment, the drum music was singing in unison, the cigarettes were winding up, the chanting of scriptures, the chanting of Buddhist Chants and the voices of people crowded in front and behind were mixed, and the excitement was extraordinary. The drummer stopped, and the champion stood beside the well and said, "it's a great honor for you to come here to congratulate me, folks and my mother. In order to protect my mother's safe journey, I would like to inform the white lotus immortal master of my present. " At the end of the speech, they chanted "send gold seal;" after the temple door, two big men carried a big weight which was hot and blood into the well, and then called for silver; "two big men carried lime into the well. In an instant, the white lotus in the well turned into a wisp of green smoke, making a loud "bang Tong Tong" sound, a bloody smell mixed with the smell of lime, choking people's tears.

The number one scholar then said, "the thousand year old poisonous snake, spitting out the white lotus, deceives people and kills them. It is full of evil. It will be punished for swallowing the weight and burning it to death. After that, don't believe in the white lotus rising to heaven!"

Before the thousand year old snake died, it came from a string of unearthed wells and struggled in front of the temple gate. Where it went, it sank into a deep ditch. After the impact of the lake, the ditch and river became wider and wider. Originally, an island was separated from the land. The local people called it "Lotus pile", also known as lotus island.

Main attractions

Reminiscence Garden

"Where to eat crabs this year? Lotus Island is the most authentic. " In recent years, Lianhua Island, famous for Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs, has made full use of the unique natural resource advantages of the isolated island after the removal of Yangcheng Lake purse seine culture. It has built a new wharf, opened a tourist water bus, and fully developed eco-tourism. Fishing port, fishing center, flourishing lotus Lianhua island has become a leisure Island integrating food, housing, tourism and entertainment.. Lianhua Island Memorial Park also has a strong water customs, including water Customs Museum and water marriage customs.

Crab Village

In addition to the Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs, which are well-known at home and abroad, Lianhua island also has farmhouses to taste fresh crabs in time. Among them, the most representative time-honored crabs are yipinxian crabs, shuirenjia crabs and rhubarb crabs. The local crab village undertakes friends who know how to taste crabs from all sides, and provides first-class Yangcheng Lake clear water hairy crabs, local green and pollution-free Lake fresh crabs, specialty products, etc. it is an ideal place for friends to have dinner, family self driving tour, and banquet leaders. With the help of the newly-built Lotus Island wharf and "water bus", the one-day tour of Lotus Island, a through train for tourism, has been favored by urban people in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai.

agritainment

Nongjiale offers many famous specialties, the most famous of which are hubaxian and Yangcheng Lake hairy crab.

Autumn wind, crab feet itch... And when the golden autumn, this is the best time to taste crab! Green back, white belly, yellow hair and golden claw are the characteristics of Yangcheng Lake hairy crab.

The scenery of Yangcheng Lake in autumn is beautiful, with the fragrance of reed flowers and the shimmering water on the lake. Coupled with the characteristic Yangcheng Lake farmhouse dishes and fragrant hairy crabs, it's really a supreme enjoyment! Rice after tea

In addition to the Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs, which are well-known at home and abroad, Lianhua island also has farmhouse entertainment to taste fresh crabs in time. Local Guji hairy crabs farmhouse entertainment undertakes friends who know how to taste crabs from all sides, and provides superior Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs, local green and pollution-free Lake fresh crabs, specialty products, etc. it is an ideal place for friends to have dinner, family self driving tour, and banquet leaders. With the help of the newly-built lianhuadao village wharf and the "water yacht" to play back and forth, it is favored by the urban people in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai.

Specialty food

Hairy crabs, also known as river crabs, hairy crabs, water crabs, hairy crabs or crabs. It's an economic crab.

When Osmanthus fragrans are fragrant, chrysanthemums and poems are sung, crabs become delicious aquatic products that people vie to taste.

Yangcheng Lake water hairy crabs, the first in the world, known as the "king of crabs" reputation. According to the records of Yuanhe Weiting, the river crab "is the biggest one out of Yangcheng Lake, with green shell, red feet, famous Golden claw crab, heavy weight and full taste". This is because Yangcheng Lake has unique production conditions: the water body is particularly clear, the depth is moderate, the water grass is luxuriant, the soil at the bottom of the lake is hard, the dissolved oxygen is moderate, and the calcium content is high. It has the best ecological environment and fireworks factor for crab production and fattening.

Why does "hairy crab" get its name? There are two versions. First, it is named after the method of "tonifying crab with cudgel". In the old days, crab catchers built small gates with bamboo or reed in the lake, also known as "crab crabs". At night, they hung lights on the gates. Crabs tended to light and scrambled to climb along the gates. The catchers kept the lights and caught them by hand. They could catch dozens of Jin in one night. The crab caught by this method is called "Zha crab" in Wu dialect in Suzhou area, and the one who can climb up the Zha (Zhen) is usually bigger and stronger, so the word "big" is added before "Zha crab" to show the difference, which is full name of "Yangcheng Lake Qingshui hairy crab"

Statement 2:

"Zha crab" was originally called "Zha crab". The word "Zha" means cooking method. Cooking oil pot and soup are both called "Zha" and "Zha" in Wu dialect. When you cook in a soup pot, Wu's pronunciation is "Zha yizha", so he thinks that "Zha crab" gets its name from the common way of eating crab, that is, the crab is cooked with clean water.

Crab is a delicacy in the world. Lu Chun of Tang Dynasty once praised it as "the flavor of all directions, when Xu Hanbo was the first". "Han Huang Bo" is the crab in the golden autumn. Mrs. Tang Guoli, wife of Zhang Taiyan, also has two poems: "it's not Yangcheng Lake crab. Why live in Suzhou in this life?". It fully shows the position of Yangcheng Lake hairy crab in the poet's mind.

Address: Yangcheng Lake ecological leisure tourism resort, Xiangcheng District, Suzhou

Longitude: 120.81174

Latitude: 31.4625

Ticket information: Yiyuan visit + one round trip Cruise (cruise ticket includes scenic spot ticket)