Can you go down to see the ancient underwater city of Qiandao Lake?

The underwater ancient city of Qiandao Lake can not go down to see.

The ancient underwater city of Qiandao Lake is a flooded ancient city, located in Chun'an County, Zhejiang Province, Qiandao Lake has long been known, this reservoir is the beginning of the construction in 1959, when in order to build this water conservancy project, Zhejiang will be the original Chun'an County, Su'an County two counties merged into Chun'an County, 290,000 people have since immigrated elsewhere, the reservoir was built, the surrounding 27 townships, More than a thousand villages, 300,000 acres of good land and thousands of houses, quietly sunk to the bottom of Qiandao Lake.

The ancient city of Chun'an, also known as He City, was built in 208 AD, the ancient coin-shaped finely crafted business-shaped porch under the piece of Huizhou-style mansions, showing the new Anjiang River Huizhou commercial road hub of prosperity and affluence, throughout the ages, many literati have been here, a collection of masterpieces, humanities monuments, in the view of many experts in the protection of cultural relics, when the flooding of the city of Chun'an seems to be quite hasty!

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The Qiandao Lake tourism department in 2002 for underwater surveys, the results of divers in the underwater 25 meters found the walls of the Lion City, and stretches for several miles intact, many of the carvings on the towers and large pagodas are clearly visible, according to the introduction of the Lion City for the then Suian County County **** there are 1347 families, 5371 people, the Ming Dynasty. family, 5371 people, the Ming Dynasty period, the city is 1 kilometer wide, the history has been 1339 years.

October 1955, the State Ministry of Electric Power Industry to build the Xin'an River hydroelectric power plant, selected the site of Chun'an and Jiande junction of the Tongguan, in accordance with the needs of the reservoir storage, 108 meters above sea level below the entire submerged, September 21, 1959, Xin'an River cut off the flow of water, the reservoir began to store water, the two historic city along with more than 1,000 villages sunk into the bottom of the Thousand Island Lake.

Reference for the above: Baidu Encyclopedia - Ancient Underwater City of Qiandao Lake