After dinner, the group walked through another door of the hotel and came out with a stream with a pier and a cruise ship. Mr. Wu explained that this stream connects to the Shrimp West Lake and you can reach the scenic area in just a while.

This is an antique semi-enclosed mobile antique painting boat with a spacious space. There is a long table in the middle, and it is more than enough for six people to sit on it.

In just a short while, the boat was rowing into the West Lake, and the water surface suddenly became completely wider. There was a tour guide working part-time explanation and tea making, and a boatman driving the boat at the stern.

Wang Yiyuan and the others sat on the cruise ship and began to wander on the beautiful and melodious West Lake.

The lake surface is sometimes wide and sometimes narrow. The ten-mile lake light on both sides of the shore is scattered, and the pavilions and towers are scattered. The scenic spots and historical relics are scattered. The unique natural scenery and rich cultural landscapes complement each other, passing by one by one. The cruise ship is like walking through the long scrolls of mountains and rivers, and it feels more leisurely and elegant.

This is Wang Yiyuan's first time to come to Yangzhou and also the first time he has seen Slender West Lake.

However, he must have seen the name of Yangzhou in elementary school. The poem "Fireworks in Yangzhou in March" by the Tang Dynasty poet Li Bai has recited it many times.

Later, I read famous quotes such as "A Dream of Yangzhou for Ten Years and Winning the Famous Name of Brothel", "A Famous Capital at the Left of Huai, Best Place in the West of Bamboo", and "The Spring Breeze Ten Miles of Yangzhou Road". Not only did I know Yangzhou, but I also had a longing for it.

The most fascinating place in Yangzhou is the Slim West Lake. In this way, while drinking tea, Wang Yiyuan inadvertently had this perfect encounter with the real Yangzhou and the Slim West Lake.

He couldn't help but hold Xiao Xiaoxiao's hand tightly, and the two stood on the side of the boat and looked into the distance.

Regarding the origin of the name of Slender West Lake, the tour guide also explained a legendary story.

It is said that Wang Han, a poet from Qiantang, Zhejiang, was very familiar with the West Lake in Hangzhou. When he came to Yangzhou and visited the west lake in Yangzhou, a guarantee lake that was also called "West Lake" at that time, he wrote a poem, "The weeping willows keep connecting with the decay, and the red bridge of geese teeth is like a painting, which is also a pot of gold, so it should be called "Slim West Lake". From then on, Yangzhou's "Slim West Lake" became famous all over the world.

Wang Yiyuan has visited West Lake in Hangzhou many times before. He felt that compared with West Lake in Hangzhou, although Slim West Lake seems thinner, it does not lack the charm of West Lake. From the appearance, Slim West Lake is a curved and narrow river channel, connecting the scenic spots on both sides of the long dike, forming a natural and beautiful three-dimensional landscape scroll.

The group sometimes sailed and sometimes landed on the shore, and walked along the land and the waterway. They walked along the way. Although the weather was a bit cold and there were not many tourists, they were in a good mood and contentment.

The Slimming West Lake can be regarded as a model for the perfect combination of lake and scenery. The corridors on both sides of the lake are stretched out with cloud walls, and the garden buildings are simple and colorful. The entire scenic area naturally reflects the artistic conception of "the two embankments, flowers and willows are all connected to the water, and the road to the tower and the mountains".

Walking through it, the quaint pavilions and corridors on the shore, lush trees and flowers in all seasons decorate the narrow and curved West Lake in a very colorful and beautiful way. When you move, you will see a pleasing landscape painting wherever you go.

The tour guide introduced on the side that it is best to visit Yangzhou to slim West Lake in late autumn, when the lake water is thinner, and even the mountains in the garden seem to be thinner. Only when it is thin can it appear particularly energetic and chic, just like a light and elegant painting painted by a painter.

She said that Slender West Lake is a fifth-level tourist attraction, a world cultural heritage site, with a water area of ​​more than 700 acres. This classical garden group integrates the south and the north into one. The lake area uses the division of bridges, islands, embankments and shores to form a clever combination of distinct layers, twists and turns, and borrows from each other, forming a landscape landscape with scenery outside the scenery and gardens in the garden.

Perhaps it is because of the second day of the Lunar New Year, and the weather is relatively cold, most of the cruise ships docked by the lake. There are not many cruise ships on the water, and the entire lake surface looks a bit calm and depressing.

However, even under such a scene, Wang Yiyuan also passed the poems of the ancient talented man Guo Shijing from his mind,

The bright moon climbs the sky with a quiet scenery, the river is thousands of miles apart, and the three mountains rise from afar, and the four lights are clear and clear. The boats are not confused by the road, and the tall buildings should shine on the sorrow of the beauty. The clear shadows come and go with you, and the piccolo is shining with the night.

It’s just a pity that they came not a bright moonlit night, otherwise at this moment, they would be like entering the scene, scenery, meaning, and poetry.

The tour guide said that there are many attractions in Slender West Lake, including Xiaojinshan, Diaoyutai, Wuting Bridge, Shimushi, Jingxiang Bookstore, various flower beds and small bridges, among which the most famous is the Twenty-four Bridges.

The Twenty-Four Bridges are named because there were twenty-four beauties playing flutes here in ancient times. This is a single-hole arch bridge with white marble railings, like jade belts, and like neon lights lying on waves. The White Stone Arch Bridge is twenty-four meters long and two points four meters wide, surrounded by twenty-four jade railings. The up and down steps are twenty-four steps, all of which are twenty-four.

Jiang Kui raps in "Yangzhou Slow" and says, "The twenty-four bridges are still there, the waves are shaking, and the cold moon is silent. I think of the red medicine beside the bridge, and I know who to be born every year."

Looking back to the past, on a moonlit night, the clear light was shrouded in the moonlight, and the scholars gathered in the pleasure boat. The melodious and melodious sounds of singing girls came from deep in the lake. Water, moon, lamps, flutes, famous scholars, and beauties gathered here. It makes people sigh that "the world has three parts of bright moonlit night, and two parts of rogue is Yangzhou."

The current bridge was restored and rebuilt in the 1980s. It is no longer certain where the real twenty-four bridges are, but now the twenty-four bridges are still there, for whom will the thousand peony blossoms open?

Wang Yiyuan stood on the bridge and looked around. The jade flowers fell and the willows grew long, and the wind on the lake became cooler. In the mist and rain of the twenty-four bridges, the painted boat appeared in the middle of the water.

He suddenly woke up. The bamboo stick he had asked for at Ningbo Ashok Temple and a sentence on the thin sheet of paper was almost the same as before he came to Shanghai five years ago.

Xiao Xiaoxiao stood beside Wang Yiyuan. She suddenly felt that Wang Yiyuan was tighter on her, holding her hand for some reason and even causing a vague pain.

Wang Yiyuan stood there, looking at all this in front of him without moving, feeling that they were so familiar and intimate, as if they had never been at all distance or strange.

The green mountains are faintly watering, and the grass in the south of the Yangtze River has not withered in the winter. I miss the scenery, and I am happy, and have two different states of mood. Wang Yiyuan couldn't help but sigh, "On the moonlit night of the twenty-four bridges, where can the jade man teaches to play the flute?"
Chapter completed!