Nan Hu

The lake at night

View of the lake with Jiaxing in the background

Yanyu Pavilion on Nan Hu ("South Sea") in Jiaxing (Zhejiang)

Red boat from the South Pacific

The Nan Hu ( Chinese 南湖 , Pinyin Nán Hú "South Sea"), formerly known as Yuanyang Hu (鸳鸯湖 / Yuānyāng Hú "Mandarin Duck Lake") is located in the south of the city of Jiaxing in the Chinese province of Zhejiang .

description

The lake has a water surface of over 400,000 square meters and a water depth of around two to five meters. Together with the Xuanwu Lake in Nanjing and the West Lake西湖 in Hangzhou, it is one of the three famous lakes of Jiangnan ( Jiangnan san daming hu江南三大名湖). There is a small island in the lake on which the Yanyu Pavilion is located, a popular viewing point.

history

On August 2, 1921, the First National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party closed the agenda for the conference on a boat ( Jiangnan - type丝网船) in Nanhu and announced the formation of the Chinese Communist Party. Since then, the CCP has considered Nan Hu to be the birthplace of the Chinese Revolution.

The Red Boat from Nan Hu is on the list of monuments of the People's Republic of China (1-11, 2001) as part of the site of the First Congress of the Communist Party of China .

literature

Quanguo zhongdian wenwu baohu danwei (di-yi pi zhi di-wu pi) ( 全国重点文物保护单位 (第一批至第五批) - "Monuments of the People's Republic of China (monuments of the 1st to 5th list)"), Beijing : Wenwu chubanshe 2004, 3 volumes, ISBN 978-7-5010-1525-2 (volume 1, section: Shanghai).

Web links

Commons : South Lake (Jiaxing) - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

References and footnotes

↑ Photo of a model

Nan Hu (alternative names of the lemma)
Nan Hu; 南湖; Nán Hú; South Seas; South Lake

30,757 120,756Coordinates: 30 ° 45 ' N , 120 ° 45' E

[1] Photo of a model