Located to the west of Hangzhou, West Lake is one of the main ornamental freshwater lakes in mainland China and is also a lake-type cultural heritage in the World Heritage List. West Lake is surrounded by mountains on three sides, covering an area of about 6.39 square kilometers, about 2.8 km, north-south length of about 3.2 kilometers, nearly 15 kilometers a week around the lake. The lake is separated by the lonely mountain, white embankment, Sudi, Yanggongdi, according to the size of the outer West Lake, Xili Lake, Beili Lake, Xiaonan Lake and Yuehu and other five pieces of water surface, Sudi, Baidi across the lake surface, Xiaozhou, The Lake Heart Pavilion, Gonggong three small islands stand in the heart of the Outer West Lake, the sunset mountain's thunder peak tower and the precious stone mountain tower, thus forming a lake.
The basic pattern of one mountain, two towers, three islands, three embankments and five lakes. The West Lake was once part of the Qiantang River, and the silt formed an inner lake. In the long river of history has been given a lot of human things, both natural beauty, but also cultural connotation.
One mountain refers to the lonely mountain; the two towers refer to the Leifeng Tower and baobao tower; the three islands refer to the three-tan Indian moon, the lake heart pavilion, the gong-yuan, the three embankments refer to the White Embankment, The Sudi, YanggongDi; and the five lakes refer to the outer West Lake, The Sili Lake, the Beili Lake, the Small South Lake and the Yuehu Lake. The new ten scenery of the West Lake assessed in 1984 is cloud-dwelling bamboo trail, full of guiyu, tiger run dream spring, Longjing tea, Jiuxi smoke tree, Wu shan Tianfeng, Yuhuan, Huanglong Tuu, Yuhuang Feiyun, gem flow Xia.
The basic pattern of one mountain, two towers, three islands, three embankments and five lakes. The West Lake was once part of the Qiantang River, and the silt formed an inner lake. In the long river of history has been given a lot of human things, both natural beauty, but also cultural connotation.
One mountain refers to the lonely mountain; the two towers refer to the Leifeng Tower and baobao tower; the three islands refer to the three-tan Indian moon, the lake heart pavilion, the gong-yuan, the three embankments refer to the White Embankment, The Sudi, YanggongDi; and the five lakes refer to the outer West Lake, The Sili Lake, the Beili Lake, the Small South Lake and the Yuehu Lake. The new ten scenery of the West Lake assessed in 1984 is cloud-dwelling bamboo trail, full of guiyu, tiger run dream spring, Longjing tea, Jiuxi smoke tree, Wu shan Tianfeng, Yuhuan, Huanglong Tuu, Yuhuang Feiyun, gem flow Xia.