What are the legends about the magnificent scenery of the West Lake?

According to legend, a long time ago, Yulong and Jinfeng in the sky found a piece of white jade on Xiandao near the Milky Way. They pondered together for many years, and white jade became a bright pearl. Where this pearl shines, trees will be evergreen and flowers will be in full bloom.

But later, the orb was discovered by the Queen Mother and sent heavenly soldiers to take it away. Yulong and Jinfeng hurried to get the orb, but the Queen Mother refused, so there was a fight. As soon as the Queen Mother's hand was released, the pearl fell to the ground and became a sparkling West Lake.

Jade Dragon and Jinfeng could not bear to part with pearls, but descended into Jade Dragon Mountain and Phoenix Mountain, guarding the West Lake forever. Their tears turned into three small islands in the lake. People named these three islands "Huting", "Santan Yin Yue" and "Ruan Gongdun", also known as "Penglai Three Islands".

Legend has it that there are three sacred mountains outside the Bohai Sea, namely Penglai, Yingzhou and Abbot. These three mountains are all places where immortals live. The terraces and palaces on the mountain are all made of gold and silver beads and kings, but the birds and animals on the mountain are all the same pure white.

The trees of pearls, jade and precious stones grow thickly, and their flowers and fruits are delicious. If you eat it, you will never grow old or die.

Liezi, a Taoist classic, records: "There are five mountains in the east of the Bohai Sea, one is Daiyu, the other is Jiao Yuan, the third is Fanghu, the fourth is Yingzhou and the fifth is Penglai."

Legend has it that there were five in Penglai Island at that time. Where are the other two? There is also a story about two disappearing mountains.

All the people who live there are immortals and saints, and countless people can fly there day and night and come back. But the roots of the five mountains are not connected, and they often move up and down with the tidal waves, and they are not stable for a moment.

Immortals and saints hate their guts and report them to the Emperor of Heaven. The Emperor of Heaven was worried that the Five Mountains would flow to the westernmost end, leaving many immortals and saints without shelter, so he ordered Yu Qiang to command 15 Grand Ao Bai to raise his head and live at the top of the Five Mountains. Divided into three classes, 60 thousand years change.

These five mountains began to stabilize and stopped flowing, but there was a giant in Lombok. He raised his feet and reached the place where Wuyue was without walking a few steps. He hooked six big aojiang with a hook, then returned to their country with his back closed, and then burned the bones of the big aojiang to predict good or bad luck.

So Daiyu and Jiao Yuan sank to the bottom of the sea, leaving only three mountains. People named the three islands in the West Lake as "Penglai Three Islands", the pavilion in the lake as "Penglai", the moon in Santan as "Yingzhou" and Ruan Gongdun as "Abbot" to commemorate the beautiful scenery of these three islands.

During the Song and Yuan Dynasties, people built the Hu Xin Temple on Penglai, and later the temple fell down. Later, records of the west lake, a local chronicle of the Qing Dynasty, recorded: "The pavilion is in the middle of the whole lake, with three pagodas outside the temple. During the reign of Emperor Xiaozong of the Ming Dynasty, the temples and towers were destroyed. "

By 1552, the magistrate Sun Meng had built Luzhen Pavilion, which was later changed to Qingxi Pavilion, the predecessor of Hu Xinting.

According to Nie Xintang, the magistrate of Qiantang County in the Ming Dynasty, there are three pagodas outside Hu Xin Temple, of which the abandoned pagoda and the south pagoda are the capital pavilions of the north pagoda, named Hu Xinting. Rebuild Desheng Hall at the base of the old temple to release it. "

Accordingly, the old Hu Xin Temple is today's release pond, and today's Hu Xinting is the base of the three pagodas. 1688, Emperor Saint Zuren inscribed "Observing Species" and inscribed "Natural Map" on the pavilion. 1727 renovation.

In addition, it is recorded in the local chronicles of the Qing Dynasty, Hushanlue: "In the thirty-first year of Jiajing, Sun Meng, the magistrate, visited here and built a pavilion on it, which was called' Lu Zhen', not long after."

"Wanli four years, Xu Ting naked reconstruction, the amount of" space ". Sun Long, the supervisor, piled stones around the lake and built a happy pavilion, but they are collectively called "the pavilion in the middle of the lake". The country has undergone a large-scale renovation, with holes carved on the left and right wings and the floor above ... "

The existing Hu Xinting was built in the south of Gushan, and in the north of Santan Yin Yue. The location of the Hu Xin Pavilion is extremely appropriate, surrounded by water and surrounded by flowers and trees, setting off the yellow glazed tile roof with upturned cornices. This color contrast is even more prominent.

Island and architecture are combined with nature, and the pavilion in the lake stands in the middle of the lake together with the three islands and Ruan Gongdun, just like the legendary Three Immortals Mountain on the sea.

On the pavilion in the middle of the lake, there are some excellent couplets left by scholars of past dynasties, such as "the country that floats in the clear, the moon in the lake", which adds to the beautiful artistic conception of the pavilion in the lake. When people look at the whole lake in the pavilion, the mountains and rivers are really charming.

The pavilion in the middle of the lake is a building surrounded by water. You can look around the building. Not only is the lake rippling, but there are screen-like mountains around it. To the west of the pavilion are the South Peak and the North Peak of the West Lake, and the scenery is very spectacular.

Visitors to this building call it "overlooking the middle of the lake", which is one of the 18 scenic spots of West Lake in Qing Dynasty.

There used to be a poem that said:

I haven't traveled all over 100 places, but the solitary pavilion of Shuiyunjian is still good.

The station is empty on all sides, with Chengtou on one side and three mountains on the other.

On the south side of Huxin Pavilion, there is "Three Tan Yin Yue". As soon as we landed, we were greeted by the Pantheon, a small and exquisite triangular pavilion, and the four corners of the "Baishou Pavilion" that echoed the triangular pavilion.

These pavilions not only constitute the spatial division of the water surface of silver moon in Santan, but also increase the level of spatial landscape and become indispensable landscape architecture. People are condescending in the pavilion, and they can overlook the surrounding lakes and mountains, watch water lilies, red, white and yellow flowers at close range, and appreciate the charming colors of "Water Fairy".

The pavilion of "My Soul Companion" and the stele pavilion of "Three Ponds Reflecting the Moon" both play an important role in forming the landscape and spatial artistic level of "Three Ponds Reflecting the Moon", and the pavilion of "My Soul Companion" adds the interest of "Three Ponds Reflecting the Moon" because of the meaning of "needless to say, we know each other".

"Three pools reflecting the moon" echoes the pavilion in the lake from a distance, forming a scene, which adds to the beautiful scenery that tourists see in the pavilion in the lake.