What is there to do at Mochou Lake? Introduction to the attractions of Mochou Lake Park

It's winter now, and Nanjing's Mochou Lake is as beautiful as spring.

Mochou Lake is located on the west side of the Qinhuai River outside Jianye District, Nanjing, with a total area of square kilometers, of which the lake area is square kilometers and the land area is square kilometers.

Mochou Lake is the second largest lake in the main urban area of Nanjing after Xuanwu Lake, and has the reputation of "the first scenic spot in Jinling". Mochou Lake is a shallow lake, formed by the low-lying water accumulation of the alluvial plain of the Yangtze River and Qinhuai River, which was originally the channel of the Qinhuai River estuary, and formed a lake due to sediment accumulation.

Mochou Lake is about 680 meters long from north to south, about 770 meters wide from east to west, and the elevation of the lake is 4 meters. In the Mochou Lake Scenic Area, there are the main landscapes such as the former residence of Mochou Nu, Yujin Hall, Suhexiang, Shengqi Building, Huayan Nunnery, Mochou Water Courtyard, Qiwen Museum, Tomb of the Fallen Soldiers of the Guangdong Army, Baoyue Tower, Begonia Boutique Garden, and Sino-Japanese Friendship Iris Garden.

The characteristics of Mochou Diluo Lake Park.

There are a large number of begonia trees in Mochou Lake Park, and every spring, the begonia flowers will bloom, some red, some white, and some pink. Therefore, Mochou Lake Park also holds an annual begonia flower meeting every year. A large number of irises introduced from Japan in Mochou Lake Park were held on May 2002 and met with visitors in the Iris Garden.

The Iris Specialized Garden is located around the North Polder Water Pavilion in the courtyard. It is the first calamus garden with the largest variety and the largest planting scale in China.

15 yuan on weekdays, 20 yuan from March 1 to June 30, October 1 to November 30. In case of major events, prices may also be adjusted temporarily.

Nanjing Mochou Lake Park is located in Jianye District, Nanjing, which is a famous classical garden in the south of the Yangtze River with a long history of 1,500 years and rich cultural resources. It has the reputation of "the first lake in the south of the Yangtze River", "the first scenic spot in Jinling", and "the first of the 48 scenic spots in Jinling". The attractions in the park are:

Shengqi Building, Yujin Hall, Mochou Female Statue, River Appreciation Hall, Water Pavilion, Baoyue Tower and other places of interest.

Mochou Lake was called Hengtang in the Six Dynasties, it was famous in the Song and Yuan dynasties, and it was even more prosperous after the Ming Dynasty fixed the capital of Nanjing. During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, the Yujin Hall was built in the Mochou Lake Park in Nanjing, and the pavilion in the heart of the lake was built, which became "the first lake in Jinling".

1. Shengqi Building: The Shengqi Building in the park was built in the early years of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty and rebuilt in the tenth year of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty (1871). According to legend, this is the place where Zhu Yuanzhang, Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, and Xu Da, the general, played chess.

Xu Da secretly used the flag to put the word "long live", but he only said that the chess was drawn, which made Zhu Yuanzhang very admired, so he gave Mochou Lake to Xu Da, and this building was called "Winning Chess Building".

2. Yujintang: The former residence of Mo Chou Nu. In the middle of the front hall hangs the landscape painting of Chen Dayu's "Jinling's first scenic spot", in the middle of the back hall is the living room, the round table sits on the statue of Mochou Nu who is embroidering, and on the left is the Mochou Nu bedroom.

The one-color mahogany luodian furniture in the late Qing Dynasty in the hall is antique.

3. Mochou female statue: the west of the Yujin Hall is the north and south halls, there is a lotus pavilion surrounded by a cloister in the east and west, the lotus pond in the middle, there is a white marble Mochou female statue of more than 2 meters high on the stone in the pool, which has now become one of the landmark attractions in Nanjing.