WEST LOTUS LAKE

      West lotus lake, now known as danyang lake located in Dangtu, Ma 'anshan, is a famous lake of regions south of the Yangtze River. As for the west lotus lake,poets have a lot of poems praise it.Li bai, a poet in the Tang dynasty, wandered around Dangtu, Ma 'anshan, reciting the lake again and again in his poems: "the lake is linked with vitality, and the storm is difficult to stop; the waters are thick ,the light of waters are shining on the lake."Famous female poet Shuqing Duan intoned west lotus lake, poem said: "the vast autumn water with white apple, fishing crab net set lake side.long into the evening clouds, only to hear the song but no one.West lotus lake has “the sunrise bucket gold "reputation, rich in the first crab of the three famous crabs in China-Huajin crab.

      The history of Huajin crab is the oldest of the three famous crabs in China. It has been very famous since the Tang dynasty.In Li bai’s later years, he livedin Dangtu,Ma 'anshan, and he wrote the famous poem”Drinking under the moon alone".It said” the crab's claw is gold, bad hillis Penglai; and drink the wine, Take the moon drunk on high platform. "It is the way to eat goldencrab with wine. Another famous poet Yaochen Mei Northern Song dynasty also had a verse: "before the bottle has taken the crab taste, That day chun soup waste on people."In the Ming dynasty, the emperorYuanzhang Zhu established the capital at nanjing, which was the most prosperous period of Huajin crab.And in Qing dynasty Huajin crab was tributed to emperor, emperor Qianlong sealed Huajin crab for the "royal crab".