Liuye Lake

Liuye Lake in Changde is located in the northeast of Changde city, Hunan Province, leaning against Taiyang Mountain, south to Yuan River, connected to Dongting Lake, and named after the shape of the lake resembling a willow leaf. Liuye Lake is part of the ancient Dongting Lake, located in the northwest of Dongting Lake, also known as West Dongting. Liuye Lake is 2.5 kilometers away from the city, with the ancient descriptions of 'dike willow fishing song', 'pine wind water belt', and 'all extremely shared victory', and now praised as 'Hunan's treasure' and 'Changde's unique'. The water area of Liuye Lake is 21.8 square kilometers, about three times that of West Lake in Hangzhou, and its scale is unparalleled in the country. The water of Liuye Lake is clear, the water area is vast, and the lake bottom is flat, which is an ideal natural water sports field. Since 1995, Liuye Lake has successfully held the Hunan Provincial Eighth Games Canoeing Finals, National Canoeing Championship, National Canoeing Championship and other events. Liuye Lake has won the praise of athletes and audiences from all over the world with its first-class competition venues and beautiful environment, and is known as a water paradise. Many famous people have left their footprints around Liuye Lake, such as Liang Song, a military general who pacified the barbarians in the Eastern Han Dynasty, Zhong Xiang and Yang Yao, the leaders of the peasant uprising in the Song Dynasty, Liu Gongchen, a scholar in the Ming Dynasty, Long Ying, a regular minister of the Ming Dynasty, Yang Sichang, a cabinet minister in the late Ming Dynasty, Kun Can, a great painter in the Qing Dynasty, and Liu Fubase, a strategist of the Wuchang Uprising, who was born in Liuye Lake.