Its mountains and rivers are beautiful, winding and winding, with floating islands rising everywhere, green mountains resembling black grass, and antique pavilions and pavilions hidden among the lush trees. It has the reputation of "Pearl" and has a historical record that "there are thirty-six West Lakes in China, only Huizhou is enough to merge with Hangzhou".

More than 400 literati in the past, including Su Dongpo, Li Shangyin, Yang Wanli, Zhu Zhishan, Chen Yaozuo, Bai Yuchan, Liang Dingfen and Qiu Fengjia, have set foot in Huizhou and left precious cultural heritage for West Lake; in modern times, Sun Yat-sen, Leaders such as Zhou Enlai engaged in revolutionary movements in Huizhou and left glorious footprints in West Lake. These historical monuments and revolutionary sites are integrated with the green mountains and beautiful waters of West Lake and complement each other.

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History and culture

Huizhou West Lake was a wilderness during the Eastern Han Dynasty. In the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Longxing Temple was built beside the lake, and it was renamed in the Tang Dynasty. Kaiyuan Temple, during the reign of Emperor Zhongzong of the Tang Dynasty, the Sizhou Pagoda located on the west mountain was built. During the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, Li Shangyin came to Xunzhou (Huizhou) to serve as the governor of Xunzhou. He loved the hibiscus flowers from Lingnan when he visited the lake.

When Zhang Zhaoyuan lived in Sheren Lane in Huizhou in the Northern Song Dynasty, he named the lake Langguan Lake. Yu Jing of the same dynasty wrote the sentence "There are mountains and ridges, hidden rock valleys, long streams and rivers, and the light of the lake shines on each other" is one of the earliest poems to describe the West Lake. In the third year of Zhiping in the Northern Song Dynasty (1066), Chen Cheng, the magistrate of Huizhou, managed the West Lake. He built Pinghu embankment, Gongbei Bridge, Guyu Pavilion and Huguang Pavilion on Diancui Island, and raised fish to irrigate the fields. West Lake is also called Fenghu Lake.

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