The source main archway was built at 1973. This used to be the old gate of Yuantouzhu Scenic Area, but now it is the prelude to the first of the 18 scenic spots in Wuxi. "Catfish" is an animal that looks like a turtle, and "Zhu" refers to a small land surrounded by water on three sides. Because it looks like a catfish head, it is called a catfish head. The back of the gatehouse is engraved with four characters "Huishan", which points out the characteristics of the scenery here: "The mountain is not high but beautiful and elegant, and the water is not deep and vast". Walking along the main road, you can see the 300-meter-long rhododendron slope, which is the city flower of Wuxi. In the Qingming Festival, the azaleas on trees, forests and streams are full of Shan Ye, and the mountains are all red, just like flowers. The lush trees on both sides are camphor trees, which are the city trees in Wuxi. The hotel on our right is called Hengyun Hotel, which has a history of nearly a hundred years. It is built on water. Here, we can not only taste the special dishes of "Three Whites in Taihu Lake", but also enjoy the beautiful scenery of Taihu Lake. Wuxi is a famous city in the south of the Yangtze River with a history of 365,438+000 years. There are many famous people in history, including diplomat Xue Fucheng, mathematician Hua and writer Qian Zhongshu. There is also a celebrity in the tourism industry. He is Xu Xiake, who is known as "the sage of China". He was a famous traveler and geographer in Ming Dynasty. He measured life with his feet and wrote a wonderful book, Xu Xiake's Travels.
Please look at this bronze statue of Xu Xiake, which is 3.6 meters high and made of more than 4 tons of copper. Designed by the famous sculptor Wu Weishan and cast by Shaanxi Yuda Group, it commemorates the 420th anniversary of Xu Xiake's birth and the 400th anniversary of Xiatai Lake. The statue has bright eyes and firm expression, which symbolizes his ideal, foresight, exploration of truth and courage. His feet are slightly bent, symbolizing the hardships of his wading through mountains and rivers. After artistic treatment, the figure's clothes and hemp fibers dance with the wind, like flowing clouds and flowing water, undulating like mountains and rivers, which symbolizes the historical embodiment of the integration of this "China tourist saint" with mountains and rivers. The whole statue embodies the chivalrous spirit of "exploring what people don't know, but what people can't reach" and "swimming without borders, making China strong". He settled in the source Pearl River Scenic Area because Taihu Lake was the first place Xu Xiake visited 400 years ago. At that time, he entered the canal from Jiangyin River, then arrived at the source Pearl Lake from the canal, and set off from the source Pearl to Dongshan and Xishan in Suzhou. Round-headed Bamboo is Xu Xiake's first tour in China. He has visited Taihu Lake many times in his life, and Yuantouzhu enjoys the reputation of the first scene of Taihu Lake, so he chose Yuantouzhu, the "beauty of Taihu Lake", as the location of the first bronze statue of Xu Xiake in China.
The settlement of the bronze statue of Xu Xiake has created many "firsts" in the country and even in the world. The first bronze statue of Xu Xiake, other places are stone statues and jade statues. The first young Xu Xiake, others are mostly middle-aged and elderly people. At the same time, it is also the largest investment portrait of Xu Xiake, costing more than 1 10,000 yuan, the first bronze statue of Xu Xiake in Wuxi, and so on.
Please continue your sightseeing. The archway with arched cornices in front of the lake used to be a pier in a private garden, but now it has become a symbol of the climax of the tour. There are four words on the memorial archway, which are the ancient name of Taihu Lake, the meaning of completeness, the meaning of region and the meaning of complete water, indicating that Taihu Lake is very vast, and Taihu Lake has other names such as "Zhenze" and "Five Lakes". The word "scenic spot" tells us that the most beautiful place in Taihu Lake has arrived! This coincides with Lao Guo's evaluation of "the beauty of Taihu Lake". Wuxi is a famous city in the south of the Yangtze River with a long history. As early as 3,500 years ago, Taibo, the eldest son of Shaanxi people's Zhou Dynasty, arrived in today's Wuxi Meili, which is today's Jiajiacun, and established the "Wu Gou State" for the sake of comity to the throne. It has lasted for more than 600 years, so Wuxi is the birthplace of Wu culture. After the Sui and Tang Dynasties, with the excavation of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal and the confluence of the Yangtze River and Taihu Lake, Wuxi has convenient waterway transportation and has become a cargo distribution center. Wuxi is a famous "cloth wharf", "silk market" and "four rice markets" in history. Convenient transportation has promoted the great development of Wuxi economy. By the 1940s, Wuxi had been called "little shanghai". At the same time of economic development, Wuxi has always been Wuxi County because of its low organizational system in history. So the popularity is lower than Suzhou. In 1980s, in order to expand its influence, Wuxi Tourism Bureau collected tourism slogans from the society. Among more than 4,000 propaganda slogans, the words on this stone tablet (Yuan, Jiangsu Tourism Promotion Office) were selected: "Wuxi is full of warm water" and "warm". Wuxi is the birthplace of Wuxi culture, and Wu culture advocates gentleness, which also reflects the excellent service of Wuxi tourism. As for "water", in Wuxi, which is full of water town customs, water is the soul and the core, and everything cannot be separated from water. Convenient waterway transportation has created the great development of Wuxi's economy. At the same time, Taihu Lake irrigates farmland, making Wuxi a famous land of plenty. Now, Wuxi's tourism is inseparable from water, and Yuantouzhu is famous at home and abroad for its unique scenery of "true mountains and true waters".
The back is engraved with Chinese lyrics of Wuxi line. In order to improve its popularity, Wuxi city pays special attention to combining culture, art and tourism activities in addition to using various publicity means. 1986 in may, a famous Japanese poet and composer, Daisaburo Zhongshan, and Yamada Hiroshi, president of ABC Music Publishing House in Tokyo, were invited to visit Wuxi through Hankyu Travel Agency in Japan. Soon after their return to China, they wrote and published two songs, Wuxi Travel and Qingming Bridge, which were sung by Japanese Red Star. In particular, the song "Journey to Wuxi" was broadcast on six TV stations in Japan for half a year, and the record circulation exceeded 65.438+0 million, which was popular all over Japan. Many Japanese friends learned about Wuxi from this song and traveled to Wuxi. It is also the influence of this song that drives Wuxi's economy. Now Wuxi is a famous highland for Japanese businessmen to invest. More than 1000 Japanese enterprises have settled in wuxi new district, and many of them have invested more than 1000 million US dollars. Hengyun Shibi is a famous scenic spot of Yuantouzhu, where there is a natural inlet surrounded by strange peaks and rocks. There are six words "Heng Yun" and "Bao Wuyue" on the cliff, which were written by Liao Lun, the county magistrate of Wuxi in the late Qing Dynasty. Liao Lun arrived here by boat with friends on the eighth day of the first month of the first month of Guangxu Xinmao year (AD 189 1 year). He felt that the momentum here was magnificent, so he happily inscribed the words "Huai Wu Yue" and "Heng Yun" on the stone wall, adding a lot of color to the lakes and mountains.
"Huai wuyue" describes Taihu Lake as magnificent, spanning Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. It was mainly the territory of wuyue 2400 years ago. In the meantime, Taihu Lake watered the land of both countries and benefited the people of both countries. Taihu Lake, like a great mother, has nurtured wuyue's children with her own "milk".
"Horizontal cloud" refers to the round-headed bead in the middle of the lake in the distance, only to see that the sky is exactly the same as the water, and the shore of the lake in this area is like a touch of colorful clouds in mid-air, fluttering gently. The original Hengyun Mountain Villa was also named after this Hengyun stone carving. (Look at the stone wall below. There are eight big characters on it: "Gao Ming is loyal and virtuous." Gao Zhongxian in Ming Dynasty refers to Gao Panlong, one of the important leaders of Lindong Party in Ming Dynasty. Gao Panlong is a lecturer at Wuxi Donglin College. Later, because Lindong Party offended eunuch Wei Zhongxian, it was mercilessly attacked by Wei Zhongxian eunuch party, which led to a terrible "party disaster". After Gao Panlong returned to Wuxi, he often studied in the "Water House" built in the east of Lihu Lake facing the lake. At that time, the academy was destroyed and traitors were rampant. He calls himself "the old man in the lake", does not accept guests, does not talk about current affairs, and only keeps flowers and birds as companions. He often goes to the lake beach in Yuantouzhu for an outing, and takes the meaning of "the water in the rough waves is turbid, so you can step on my feet", which means to avoid the world and be invisible, and be content. Even so, the Wei Party spared him and persecuted him every day. Gao Panlong knew he couldn't help it. 1626, 17 On the morning of March, he calmly jumped into the water and died. Later generations set up a stone tablet in Chi Pan, which read "Stop Water with a High Attitude". After War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression's victory, Zhu, a native of Wuxi, carved "the place where Gao Zhongxian stood publicly in the Ming Dynasty" on the stone wall to show his nostalgia. Just now we have talked about the origin of the name round-headed pig, so what is a giant salamander? Now let's follow me to see what the giant salamander looks like.
There are two kinds of sayings about "catfish", one is the catfish in nature, and the other is the catfish in myths and legends. In nature, giant salamander is an animal similar to soft-shelled turtle, which is called "big soft-shelled turtle" in some places. In fact, there is a difference between giant salamander and soft-shelled turtle: the maximum weight of soft-shelled turtle is only three or four kilograms, while the weight of giant salamander can exceed 100 kilograms; The turtle's kiss is long and sharp, but the catfish has no sharp kiss and a round mouth; The catfish is also called catfish, because the catfish's head is scattered with verrucous protrusions, but the turtle's head is smooth; The tortoise is oblate in shape, but the salamander is perfectly round in shape. Therefore, southerners are commonly known as "reunion", which is reunion and "surplus", which is very auspicious. It is a national second-class protected animal, and most of them grow in Guangxi.
In myths and legends, the giant salamander is the eldest son of a dragon and a turtle, with a leading turtle body, chicken feet and eagle tail, just like the giant salamander we saw before. It is made of bronze, with a length of 1.7m, a height of 1.3m, a width of 1. 1m and a weight of 700kg. 65,438+Yuan Touzhu was presented by China Bronze Culture Renaissance Company at the first Taihu Spring Art Festival in Wuxi in May, 1985. This painting "Zhenze Shenfu" was created by the famous sculptor Zhi and inscribed with Professor Zhu Fuji's seal cutting. Chenglantang was built in 193 1, modeled after the palaces of the Song and Ming Dynasties. It is the main building of "Nianzhu Chuntao", with five rooms wide and a veranda around it. "Clear" means quiet and clear horizontally, and "blue" means undulating. The name "Chenglantang" means that you can fully enjoy the changeable natural scenery of Taihu Lake here. The round-headed beads themselves changed greatly, and there was fog after the shower. And it is condescending, overlooking the four directions, spring, summer, autumn and winter, early, middle and late, rainy and sunny, with different scenery. It is really "the waves are like pines, and the clear water is like the sky." The scenery here can be compared with the scenery of Hongdu (now Nanchang) described by Wang Bo, a writer in the Tang Dynasty, in Preface to Wang Teng Pavilion. To this end, Chen wrote in the column on both sides of the hall:
There are traces everywhere in the mountains, trees are shaded overhead, and the lake is full of green fields;
Rain roll bead curtain, Yun Fei painting building, the scenery here is better than Hongdu.
Hongdu means Wang Teng Pavilion.
General situation of yuantou pig
Yuanyuanzhu is located on the bank of Taihu Lake in the southwest suburb of Wuxi, about18km away from the urban area. It can be said to be the most beautiful corner of Taihu Lake. Looking south, Taihu Lake has the spirit of Qingdao seaside; Looking north, Taihu Lake has the beautiful scenery of Hangzhou West Lake. In this natural scenery of true mountains and waters, supplemented by ingenious artificial embellishment, it has become the most ideal tourist attraction to watch Taihu Lake. No wonder Guo Moruo, a poet, commented that "Taihu Lake is the best place, after all, it is in the head" after visiting Taihu Lake. Yuantouzhu attracts scholars and countless Chinese and foreign tourists with its boundless romantic scenery of "the mountains are not high but beautiful and elegant, and the water is not deep and vast", as well as the magical changes in the early, middle and late days, the scenery of sunny and rainy days and the four seasons scenery of spring flowers, autumn moon, summer lotus and winter snow.
In the early years of the Republic of China, Yang, a native of Wuxi, bought 60 mu of mountain land here, and started the preliminary development of Yuanyuanzhu on 19 18, and started the construction of "Hengyun Mountain Villa". 1924, he divided 1 mu of land, gave more money to a monk, and moved Guangfu Temple in Houshan to Guangfu Temple through fund-raising. 1925, as the president of Wuxi Commercial Group, Yang raised funds in the industrial and commercial circles to build the "Tao Zhu Pavilion". During the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression period, it was renamed "Hengyun Park".
There is also the "Taihu Villa" built by Wang Xinru in Yuantouzhu area 1927; 1928 "Ruopu" built by Chen Zhongyan; Zheng Ming is good at 193 1 Zheng Yuan; And the retirement of He and Cai Jiansan. At that time, these scenery were blocked by Lihu Lake, and the traffic was inconvenient, so there were not many tourists. 1934, Mr. Rong Desheng celebrated his 60th birthday. He used his birthday present to build a 375-meter-long bridge on Lihu Lake, and named it Jie Bao Bridge, because its southern end is on Jie Bao Mountain. Since then, the land transportation between the north and south sides of Lihu Lake has been communicated, and the scenery of Meiyuan, Liyuan and Yuanyuanzhu has been connected together, which is convenient for tourists.
After liberation, the government merged the original gardens and villas here into the "Source Pearl Park". 1982 began to expand on a large scale, and the area was expanded from the original 480 mu to 1950 mu, which was collectively called "the scenic spot with area". There are ten scenic spots in the park (Mianzhu Chuntao, Wanlangxue, Luwanxia, the true meaning of lakes and mountains, Luding Ying Hui, hidden beauty of mountains, deep lotus, Shilifang trail, morning fog in Zhongdu and reflection of three mountains). We are going to the Spring Peach Scenic Spot in Mianzhu, which is the essence of the whole garden.