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Walking or bicycling on the Lakeshore Promenade around the West Lake can be great fun.
There are parks one after another. They are Hubin Park, Zhongshan Park, Hangzhou Park.
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The lake is large, walkways are
wide ,the causeways are long. The
focus of the exceptionally beautiful city
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The Bai Causeway
Scenic and poetic
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The two manmade causeways that divide West Lake into
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Lingering snow on the broken bridge
At the north end of the causeway is the well-known Broken Bridge, so named because the bridge looks artistically broken in distance when winter snows first melt on the bridge.
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Su wrote a poem to name the lake after an astounding beauty named Xizi. he poem goes, “Water shimmering on a shiny day mountains clothed in the misty rain ,
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This was the very place where the hero and heroine met and fell in love, and later on got reunited after many hardships and difficulties.
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At the west end of the causeway is the Solitary Island. It was on this island that the China’s most traveled emperors of the last dynasty, Kangxi and Qianlong stayed as sightseers after a long distance sailing from Beijing ,through the Grand Canal to Hangzform was built on the southern tip of the island for the emperors to watch the sunrise and the moonlight .Empe ror Qianlong named the place The Autumn Moon on a Clam Lake
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Lined with weeping willow trees and peach flowers, crossed by six arched stone bridges , the Su Causeway is a landscape drawn by the painter and composed by the poet.
Each has its own charm and characteristics. You will sure feel like wandering in a China fairyland.
1.Lingering snow on the broken bridge 2. The Tale of White Snake 3.The Autumn Moon on a Calm Lake
The Su Causeway
1.Spring Dawn at Su Causeway 2.Orioles Singing in the willows 3.The Three Pools Mirroring the Moon
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Summarize:
There is a paradise above, so are there Hangzhou and Suzhou below.
The finest, most splendid city in the world…where so many pleasures may be found that one fancies oneself to be in the paradise.
West Lake is forever charming like Xizi, whether dressed gaily or plain.”
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Hangzhou's west lake
From the Su Causeway the visitors can get the best view of the Three Pools Mirroring the Moon, which was another creation of the poetgovernor Su Tungpo. It is a defining monument of West Lake. There are three water pagodas, floating on the waters, fastened to the bed of the lake. Each pagoda is about 6 feet high, with five openings