What’s fun in Taihu Xiangshan?
Interesting places in Taihu Xiangshan include: Xishan Mountain and Taihu Lakeside Wetland Park.
1. Xishan: Xishan is known as Dongting Xishan in the world, and in ancient times it was called Fujiao Mountain, Baoshan, West Dongting, and Linwu Mountain. It is an island in the southeast of Taihu Lake. It is located at the southwest end of Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province, away from the ancient city of Suzhou. 45 kilometers long, Xishan Island is 11 kilometers long from north to south and 15 kilometers long from east to west, covering an area of 79.82 square kilometers. It is the largest island in China's inland lakes and is connected to the Taihu National Tourism Resort by the Taihu Lake Bridge with a total length of 4,308 meters.
2. Taihu Lakeside Wetland Park: Taihu Lakeside National Wetland Park in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province is located in Xiangshan Street, Taihu National Tourist Resort, Wuzhong District, Suzhou City, on the east bank of Taihu Lake. The wetland park generally runs east-west, with It is bounded by the entrance of Suzhou Taihu National Tourism Resort, the 2-meter isobath of Taihu Lake on the south side, the Little Swan habitat on the west side, and the Taihu Lake Avenue on the north side. The winter here is controlled by Mongolian cold high pressure, and northerly winds prevail; spring is the transition season between winter and summer monsoons, and southeasterly winds prevail.
Attractions in Xishan:
Xiaoxia Bay Taihu Lake goes deep into a large bay in the south of Xishan Island, covering an area of 233.3 hectares. The bay is home to green carp, grass carp, crucian carp, mandarin fish, silver carp, bream and other tender and delicious fish. It has always been a treasure land for local fishermen to survive. There are forests of sails and fishing boats all year round. It is said that at the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, when Fu Chai, King of Wu, and his beloved concubine Xi Shi were spending their summers here, they would go boating on moonlit nights. The fishermen would join their boats prow and stern in a long snake formation, and the fishermen would stand on the prow and stern of the boat and sing loudly.
Luliliyun is located in the west of Xishan Island. The Luli area is full of continuous peaks and green ridges. During the Song Dynasty, the Guo family planted pears here. During the Grain Rain period in the lunar calendar, pear blossoms bloomed with dew, covering the mountains and fields, rippling in the sea of flowers, like clouds and snow, hence the name Luli Liyun. Since the Republic of China, pear groves have been gradually replaced by orange groves. Nowadays, the scenery of thousands of flowers blooming no longer exists, only the stone tablets with the names of the scenery remain.
The above content refers to Baidu Encyclopedia-Dongting Xishan Baidu Encyclopedia-Suzhou Taihu Lakeside National Wetland Park in Jiangsu