Donghu, Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province

East Lake

East Lake is located in the center of Nanchang city. There are three small islands in the lake, commonly known as Sanzhou or BaiHuaZhou. It is a famous scenic Lake in Nanchang city.

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East Lake is located in the center of Nanchang City, with a surface area of about 13 hectares. Since Tang Dynasty, East Lake has been a famous scenic lake. After the Ming Dynasty, it was divided into four lakes: East, West, South and North. There are three small islands in the East Lake, commonly known as Sanzhou or BaiHuaZhou. At present, Jiuqu bridge, Baihua bridge and Haicheng dyke (also known as "suwengdi") cross the lake to Tongzhou. On the island, there are "Shuimu Qinghua" hall, Zhongshan Pavilion, BaiHuaZhou Pavilion, SuPu and cultural relic square. The historical Donghu academy, Donghu painting and Calligraphy Association and Nanchang camp are all located here.

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Since the Tang Dynasty, many famous scholars have recited Donghu's works. For example, Li Shen, Du Mu, Huang Tingjian, Xin Qiji, Ouyang Xiu, Wen Tianxiang, Chen Yunhe and other ancient and modern celebrities have left poems praising Nanchang East Lake. in the southern and Northern Dynasties, Lei Tzong once wrote in Yuzhang Ji: "the East Lake, the east of the county and the city, the Zhou Hui Shili, is connected with the river." In the Tang Dynasty, Wei Dan organized migrant workers to build dykes and plant willows in the East Lake of Nanchang, which was also known as Weigong dyke or Wanliu dyke. At that time, BaiHuaZhou, the island by the East Lake of Nanchang, was named because of the exotic flowers and plants growing all over the island. In the Tang Dynasty, there were a hundred flowers blooming on the island, the East Lake was full of water and lotus, and there were thousands of willows on the levee. Li Shen, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, once wrote a poem praising: "after singing the Lingge, the boat comes back, and the snow heron and silver gull come around. The clouds and brocade are cut off by Xiasan and Pubian, and the moon rises and the mirror waves open on the lake. The fish is startled by the emerald feathers and the golden scales, and the lotus is torn away by the purple clothes. Huaikou value spring partial melancholy hope, a few Linshui is the plum Ouyang Xiu, one of the eight famous writers in Tang and Song Dynasties, once wrote a poem of five unique characteristics: "reward the sage Yu BaiHuaZhou". Xiang Zili, a poet of the Song Dynasty, also has the sentence of "hundred flowers are in full bloom" in his poem "butterfly loves flowers". By the song and Ming Dynasties, East Lake BaiHuaZhou was even more famous. At that time, there were more than ten pavilions on the island, and the scenery of Huguang island was picturesque. Su Yunqing, a hermit of Song Dynasty, once planted vegetables in the garden of Baihua Dongzhou, which is called Su wengpu by later generations. Among the ten famous sceneries in Yuzhang, there are two sceneries in BaiHuaZhou, namely "the moon on the East Lake" and "the spring vegetables in the Su garden". In the Southern Song Dynasty, Zhang Cheng, the governor of Yuzhang, built a "lecture hall" on BaiHuaZhou to exercise the water army. Kuang Zhining wrote in a poem: "in front of the Wuting Pavilion, the water flows everywhere, bees and butterflies swim all over Fangzhou, the westerly warship knows where to go, and wins the twilight with white gulls". It can be seen that bees and butterflies fly on BaiHuaZhou at that time, and the flowers and plants are flourishing. Tang Xianzu, a dramatist of the Ming Dynasty, once visited the lake and wrote a poem: "beautiful Nanzhou, beautiful forest and beautiful bamboo. The prime minister and Marquis gathered to visit the lake. It's a beautiful Spring Festival and the color of the lake. It's an apricot blossom building." The decline of East Lake BaiHuaZhou should be after Qing Dynasty. In the Qing Dynasty, it became the location of Gongyuan, and the ruins of the original ancient buildings gradually disappeared. During the reign of Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty, Peng Jiaping, the governor of Jiangxi Province, wrote "BaiHuaZhou", which was engraved as a stone tablet. In 1932, it was turned into Lakeside Park, and in April 1946, it was renamed Jieshi park. In July 1950, it was renamed Bayi park. Since the founding of the people's Republic of China, the people's government has planted trees, built embankments, dredged lake mud, built pavilions and curved bridges, and made it a resting place for the people. In addition, Donghu District is the name of an administrative division of Nanchang city.