东湖——中国最大的城中湖

东湖——中国最大的城中湖

作者：蒋海军

来源：《中学生英语·学生综合天地》2011年第09期

The East Lake Scenic Area is located in the east of Wuhan, a city known as “the thoroughfare to nine provinces” for its convenient transportation. It extends over 82 sq.km within which the lake covers 33 sq.km. The broad area of the water makes the East Lake the biggest “city lake” in China. The scenic area was designated by the State Council as one of the first key national scenic areas in 1982 and was valuated as AAAA scenic area by the State Tourism Administration in 2000. Two years after that it was awarded the ISO14001 Environment Quality Certificate. The magnificent scenic area attracts large numbers of tourists from both home and abroad every year.

武汉东湖生态风景旅游区位于“九省通衢”的武汉市东部，总面积82平方公里，其中水域面积33平方公里，是中国最大的城中湖。东湖1982年被国务院列为首批国家重点风景名胜区，2000年被国家旅游局评定为首批AAAA级旅游风景区，2002年通过了ISO14001环境管理体系认证，每年吸引大量中外游客。

Beautiful Hills and Ldkes 秀美的湖光山色

The East Lake Scenic Area boasts fascinating sceneries. It is divided into five zones, and four of them with over 100 scenic spots are open to the public now: Tingtao Zone (wave listening), Mountain Mo, Chuidi Zone (flute playing) and Luoyan Zone (wild goose perching). There are 12 lakes in the scenic area with 120 islands spreading over them. The winding line of the lakes is as long as 112

kilometres, along which 34 mountain peaks rolling and 10,000 mu of trees covering theabundant land. The scenery in this area is beautiful all the year round. In spring, you can enjoy the lush hills and

sparkling lakes, bird songs and a variety of flowers. In summer, it’s great fun to take a boat in the lake. In autumn when the hills are covered with maple leaves, the air is filled with the aroma of sweet osmanthus. Then in winter, the most wonderful thing is to view the plum flowers on snowy days and watch migrating birds flying overhead. Whenever you come here you will feel that you are in an elegant painting of hills and lakes.

东湖山水秀美，景观别致，风光迷人。东湖风景区共分为五大景区，目前已对外开放的有听涛、磨山、吹笛山、落雁岛等四大景区(白马景区未开放)，景观景点100多处。33平方公里的水域浩瀚，12个大小湖泊，120多个岛渚星罗，112公里湖岸线曲折，环湖34座山峰绵延起

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伏，10000余亩山林林木葱郁，湖水镜映，山体如屏，山色如画。东湖一年四季，景色诱人；春季山青水绿、鸟语花香；夏季水上泛舟，清爽宜人；秋季红叶满山，丹桂飘香；冬季踏雪赏梅，候鸟竞翔。

Rich Cultural Resources 厚重的人文底蕴

The East Lake Scenic Area is also the biggest tourist centre of ancient Chu culture. There are many historical sites which revive the Chu style and Chu charm, for example, the Xingyin Pavilion, Lisao Monument which gains its reputation for the beautiful lyrics on it, the Chu Heaven Platform at the peak of Mount Mo, the Chu Talent Park introducing a lot of ancient celebrities, the Chu Bazarre, Qu Yuan Statue and Qu Yuan Memorial Hall.

Around the East Lake Scenic Area, there are 26universities including Wuhan University,

Huazhong University of Science and Technology, and China University of Geosciences etc, and 56 institutions for scientific research at different levels, such as the Wuhan Botanic Garden under China Academy of Sciences. In addition, Wuhan Optics Valley of China—the national optoelectronic industry base, the Jiufeng Forest Reserve, Hubei Provincial Museum, and Hubei Provincial Art Gallery are also located in the area. All of these add to the attractiveness of the East Lake.

东湖是最大的楚文化游览中心，楚风浓郁，楚韵精妙，行吟阁名播遐迩，离骚碑誉为“三绝”，楚天台气势磅礴为鸟瞰整个城市提供了一个平台，楚才园名人荟萃，楚市、屈原塑像、屈原纪念馆，内涵丰富，美名远扬。

东湖周边聚集了武汉大学、华中科技大学、中国地质大学等26所高等院校，中科院武汉植物园等56个国家、省、部属科研院所，东湖新技术开发区国家光电子产业基地——中国光谷，九峰城市森林保护区、湖北省博物馆，湖北省艺术馆，文化底蕴深厚，旅游资源丰富。

Unique Gardens Within the Garden 别致的园中之园

Within the East Lake Scenic Area (and between the mountains and lakes) you can enjoy a

number of various flower gardens. The Plum Garden tops the four plum gardens in South China, and it

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is China’s plum research centre with 309 species of plum on its 1,200 mu of land. Among the 262 registered species of plum in the world record it has 152 species. The Lotus Garden is known for China’s lotus research centre with 505 species of lotus and over 20 kinds of water plants. The Sakura Garden covers an area of 150 mu with 5,000 sakura trees. It’s one of the three world famous sakura gardens (the other two are Hirosaki Sakura Garden in Japan and Washington Sakura Garden in America).

Besides, there are many other brilliant gardens, such as the Sweet Osmanthus Garden, the Azalea Garden, the Rose Garden, the Water Plant Garden, the Pine Garden, and the Bonsai Garden, which altogether form a grand gathering of beauty in the world.

依山傍湖的东湖梅园，为江南四大梅园之首，1200亩园地上309种梅花争芳斗艳。目前，国际注册的梅花品种共262个，其中东湖梅园就占了152个，是中国梅花研究中心所在地。东湖荷花资源圃拥有荷花品种505个，水生植物20多个，是中国荷花研究中心所在地。东湖樱花园，占地150亩，5000株樱花竞吐芬芳，是与日本泓前、美国华盛顿齐名的三大赏樱胜地之一。

东湖还有桂花园、杜鹃园、蔷薇园、水生花园、松柏园、盆景园等植物观赏园，这里是人间美丽生命的群芳谱。

Colorful Festival Celebrations丰富的节庆活动

The Scenic Area is rich both in waters and in flowers. The charm of the East Lake lies in the fact that there are flowers in every season and festivals in every month. The most characteristic and

notable are orchids in spring, lotus in summer, sweet osmanthus in autumn and plums in winter which form a string of flower festivals all the year round. Colorful festivals with different themes: the Folk Art Festival, the China Plum Festival, the Sakura Festival, the Peony Festival, the Qu Yuan Culture Festival and the Dragon Boat Festival, the Summer Sandbeach Festival and the Autumn Gardening Festival, etc. are held every year to attract a lot of tourists.

东湖既是花的海洋，也是水的世界。“月月有节、季季有花”是东湖的魅力所在。东湖名花荟萃，万彩纷呈，花开四季、十里飘香，春兰、秋桂、夏荷、冬梅是风景区最具特色的花卉；东湖浩淼的水域云蒸霞蔚、雾绕烟横，万顷波光浮天摇地。东湖旅游主题活动不断，每年举办民俗文化艺术节、中国梅花节、樱花节、牡丹节、屈原暨端午文化节、夏日沙滩风情节、金秋园林艺术节等活动，游客纷至沓来。

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