General situation of Yingzhou

Yingzhou West Lake is located on both sides of Xinquan River, one kilometer northwest of Fuyang City. It is the confluence of four ancient rivers: Heying River, Qinghe River, Little ru river and Bailonggou. Fuyang was named Yingzhou after the Northern Wei Dynasty, and it was a scenic spot in the Tang, Ming and Qing Dynasties.

In the Ming Dynasty, the Records of Zheng Deying's Zhou recorded that the West Lake was "ten miles long and three miles wide, with unfathomable water and boundless expanse". "The Unification of the Qing Dynasty" said: "Yingzhou West Lake is famous all over the world, with beautiful pavilions and numerous chanting, which can be compared with Hangzhou West Lake." The beautiful scenery of Yingzhou West Lake has attracted many literati to stay in Yingzhou, and it is also a tourist attraction for literati to recite poems and paint. Since Ning, seven celebrities, including Northern Song Dynasty poets, prime ministers Yan Shu, Ouyang Xiu, Northern Song Dynasty writers, historians Su Shi and Song Dynasty assistant minister Lv Gongzhu, have known Yingzhou and made immortal contributions to the construction of the West Lake in ancient Yingzhou, leaving 1 13 famous poems, plus 7 1 poem by ancient and modern poets. Among them, there are four of the eight masters in the Tang and Song Dynasties, Yang Wanli, one of the four masters in the Southern Song Dynasty, and Huang Tingjian, who is equally famous with Su Shi. Su Shi once compared Yingzhou West Lake to Hangzhou West Lake in his poems. "A thousand people are wiped out in a dust, and no one knows who is a man or a woman." It can be seen that Yingzhou West Lake was indeed the best in the world in ancient times. But later, due to the flood of the Yellow River, the West Lake was silted up, and the beautiful scenery of the past no longer existed. At present, there are only "Hui Lao Tang" and other buildings.

Bi Li glass in Shili, Pinghu, West Lake, Yingzhou is like a bright pearl embedded in the land of northwest Anhui. For thousands of years, it has attracted many scholars and celebrities to visit here and written many well-known poems. Historically, Yingzhou West Lake is more beautiful than Hangzhou West Lake.

The newly-built Yingzhou West Lake Scenic Area has a master plan of 24.34 square kilometers, forming two rings and three circles. The developed West Lake covers an area of 5.74 square kilometers with a total investment of 320 million yuan. It is a provincial-level scenic spot and a national AA-level scenic spot. South Lake is far away, with a vast surface and crystal clear. There are islands and mountains in the lake, temples and bells in the mountains, lakes and mountains, green trees and flowers competing for onions, pavilions, or surprises, flowers, birds, fish and insects, or none, but they are far away, so I really can't stay. North Lake has natural scenery, open water, willow green and pink, pine and cypress green, lotus swaying and blue waves rippling. Humanity and nature set each other off, and the pavilions in Tingzhou are very interesting from top to bottom.

The new West Lake is located at 15km west of Fuyang City, with a perimeter of 1 1.5km, a water surface of about 5.74km2 and a water depth of 1-2m. It was built on the basis of the original Li Sanhe. There are islands in the lake, ponds in the island, green willows on the shore, wheat straw on the path and flowers and trees in the water. The main attractions are: Beilin Park, the Eight Diagrams Gallery, which brings together more than 500 original works by famous contemporary painters and painters. Long Ting, Eight Immortals, Zodiac and other stone carvings are lifelike, which makes people applaud. Zizhuyuan, with rockery and swimming pool. The thatched cottage is a place dedicated to Ouyang Xiu and Su Shi. Qinglian Pavilion is a five-story antique building. Yingzhou West Lake's first zigzag bridge composed of Chinese phonetic alphabet is very ingenious. Fish Palace, two carp, has modern electric audio-visual equipment, such as entering a fairyland. There are yachts, cruise ships, tigers and so on. It makes people linger.

Wenfeng Pagoda is located on the base of an ancient temple about 2 miles southeast of the city. According to Fuyang County Records, the Kuixing Building is not high, the satellite is not conspicuous, the local writing style is depressed, and the reputation is not much. In the thirty-fifth year of Kangxi in Qing Dynasty (1796), Wenfeng Pagoda was built here to revive Fuyang's literary style. Classification belongs to the type of Feng Shui Tower, with all-brick structure and seven-story octagon, with a total height of 3 1.8 meters. Each floor has a tower ventricle, and the first floor is a single room. The north gate on the first floor is the entrance to the stairs, and there is a spiral staircase running through the top. There are four coupon-shaped doors on the first, third, fifth and seventh floors; There are three doors on the second, fourth and sixth floors in the southeast and west. The tower is a dense-eaves attic, with ridges and horns at the top and a three-bead pagoda. The iron pentagonal brake lever runs through the tip, and the shape is simple and solemn.

Wenfeng Pagoda is not only shaped like "Wen", but also full of Taoist colors. Brick carvings include longevity deer, ganoderma lucidum, dragon and phoenix, etc., which represent auspiciousness; Scholars pray for carp yue longmen; There are also Tai Chi patterns. It provided vivid materials for studying people's ideology, aesthetic psychology and Fuyang history at that time.

Wenfeng Pagoda is listed as a key cultural relic protection unit in Fuyang City.

Kuixing Tower is located in the corner of the southeast tower of Fuyang old city, also known as the turret. Climbing the stairs can overlook Huoshan Mountain in the south, also known as the Fire Tower, commonly known as "Sanpeng Tower". This building is an ancient building built during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty (1574) when Zhao expanded. In the ninth year of Tongzhi in Qing Dynasty (1870), it was rebuilt, with all-brick structure and three-story hexagon. It is 9.93 meters high, with double eaves, ridging and warping, and the top is decorated with iron dance. The hexagonal clock is made of copper (198 1 changed to iron clock during reconstruction).

There are rooms on the third floor of Kuixing Building, but they are not connected with each other. Semi-circular ticket gate facing south on the first floor; On the second floor, there is a four-round coupon window, and the brick carving on the south lintel is titled "Light and Light Shooting"; The lintel of the south gate on the third floor is the Kuiba Association.

1980 was listed as a municipal cultural relics protection unit.