In many ancient poems, Yunmengze is a big lake. Is Yunmengze a mythical lake?

Meng Haoran, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, wrote a famous sentence in "A Gift from Dongting Lake to Prime Minister Zhang": "Clouds and smoke have trapped Yueyang City". So does Yun Mengze really exist in history? ?

Yunmengze in history really existed. During the Spring and Autumn Period, its main body was located in the east of Jingzhou and between Jianghan. It is the general name of ancient lakes in Jianghan Plain, Hubei Province. In the pre-Qin period, the lake was huge, with a range of 450 kilometers. Later, from the Yangtze River, the soil in the Hanshui River accumulated in Yunmengze, and began to become the landscape of plain lakes, and the plain slowly formed the villages behind it. Later, with the change of the region, the northern part of Yunmengze became land, while the western part accepted a lot of sediment brought by the river and continued to expand eastward, forming a land delta. With the accumulation of rivers, there is more and more sediment, and Yunmengze gradually disappears.

There are still many controversies about the location of Yunmengze. Some people think that Yunmengze is in Hubei, and there is another county in Hubei called Yunmeng County. After thousands of years of changes, it has split into many small lakes. It is said that Honghu Lake is one of the components of Yunmengze. Some people think that Yunmengze is in Dongting Lake area, and Yunmengze is still shrouded in mystery, waiting for human beings to explore more secrets.

With the changes of the times, we can't appreciate many beautiful scenery recorded in ancient China, but we can still imagine their magnificence through the descriptions in ancient books! ?