Information about West Lake in Hangzhou

1. West Lake, located in the west of Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province, is one of the first batch of national key scenic spots and one of China's top ten scenic spots in mainland China. It is one of the major ornamental freshwater lakes in mainland China, and one of the few and China's only lake-type cultural heritage sites on the current World Heritage List.

2, the beauty of Hangzhou, the beauty of the West Lake, since ancient times, there is "want to put the West Lake than the West, light makeup and thick smear is always appropriate". Hangzhou, because of the West Lake is called "paradise", West Lake because Hangzhou has become a pearl. Since ancient times, "the world's thirty-six lakes, the most beautiful is Hangzhou", the West Lake and Hangzhou, such as water and milk compatible, together for thousands of years, constituting the most beautiful people's hearts a landscape.

Expanded information:

1, the West Lake Ten Scenic Spots was formed in the Southern Song Dynasty, basically around the distribution of the West Lake, and some of them are located on the lake. Su Causeway Spring Dawn, Qu Yuan Wind Lotus, Pinghu Autumn Moon, Broken Bridge, Willow Wave Wenying, Flower Harbor Fish Watching, Leifeng Sunset, Twin Peaks in the clouds, Nanping Evening Bells, Three Pools and the Moon, which make up the Ten Scenes of the West Lake.

2, the eighties, after the selection, and added the new West Lake Ten Scenic Spots: Yunqi Bamboo Path, full of osmanthus rain, Hupeng Dream Springs, Longjing tea, nine streams of smoke trees, Wushan Tianfeng, Ruandun Huabi, Huanglong Spit Cui, Yuhuang Flying Clouds, Jewel Flow Haze.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia - West Lake (West Lake, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province)