Seoul Lake - Bongzen Square

Hancheng Lake, once the moat of Chang'an City in the Han Dynasty, and the ancient Cao Canal, is also the famous first Guanzhong Cao Canal in history, mainly used for transporting grain and grass, military defense, etc. In the 70s of the last century, the "Tuanjie Reservoir" was built to meet the needs of sewage discharge and rainwater storage in Xi'an urban area. Due to the long-term reception of urban sewage, the reservoir water environment is extremely bad, which seriously affects the construction and development of the city, and restricts the protection and utilization of the ruins of Chang'an City in the Han Dynasty. In 2006, the Xi'an Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Government made a decision to implement the comprehensive water environment treatment project of Tuanjie Reservoir, which lasted for four years, making Xi'an's "largest toilet" reborn, and "Tuanjie Reservoir" turned into "Hancheng Lake", which has become a guarantee project for urban flood control in Xi'an, a major project for the protection of cultural relics, a model project for the ecological environment, an industrial project for Xi'an tourism and a quality project for Han culture.

Seoul Lake seals the Zen Gate

Xi'an Hancheng Lake Scenic Area is 6.27 kilometers long, with an ecological water surface area of 850 acres and a landscape greening area of 1,031 acres. Yixin: It is centered on Chang'an City of Han Dynasty, and the three lines include: walking line, sightseeing bus line, and cruise line. The garden landscape, music fountain, wharf platform, waterwheel water mill and large-scale Qinling landscape miniature landscape in the scenic area make the public feel the cultural charm of the rippling waters. There are a total of 8 bridges in the scenic area, including 3 landscape bridges (Yufei Bridge, Huilan Bridge, Hongming Bridge) and 5 municipal road bridges (Shangxian Bridge, Shangru Bridge, Chongwei Bridge, Shangwu Bridge, Heping Bridge, also known as No. 1 Bridge, No. 2 Bridge, No. 3 Bridge, No. 4 Bridge, No. 5 Bridge). Relying on the construction of the "Han Family Palace", the scenic sculptures, cultural squares and Han Dynasty buildings have filled the gap in the display of Han culture in Xi'an, enabled visitors to appreciate the strong and prosperous civilization of the Western Han Dynasty, greatly improved the living environment, further promoted the employment of the surrounding masses, and realized the gathering and development of water culture and Han cultural industry.

Seoul Lake is rippling with blue waters

With water as the rhyme and Han as the soul, culture has achieved the thick background of the development of Hancheng Lake. There are not only a variety of water cultural landscapes, but also vivid Han cultural activities, opening ceremony, coming-of-age ceremony, wedding, dragon boat race and other Han-style etiquette activities, reproducing the traditional Chinese etiquette and Han culture broad and profound, Hancheng Lake Han-style coming-of-age ceremony also released the Xi'an local standard - "Han-style coming-of-age ceremony specification", filling the cultural gap of Xi'an coming-of-age ceremony industry standard. In order to meet the diverse needs of citizens and tourists, the scenic spot has launched tourism route products such as research tours, parent-child tours, summer camps, and "Yili China Tour" Han Rite experience for tourism teams, and the source market has gradually expanded to inter-provincial and international. For the public, a series of water experience products such as kayaks, motorboats, rowing, and sailing have also been launched. In addition, the scenic spot held a variety of public welfare activities and mass sports activities on weekends and holidays, leading a diversified and healthy lifestyle with sports.

Hancheng Lake - the site of the southeast corner of the wall of Chang'an City in the Han Dynasty

Since the opening of the park in 2011, the scenic spot has successively won the national water conservancy scenic spot, the national 4A-level tourist attraction, the national water conservation science and technology demonstration park, the national soil and water conservation science education base, the national primary and secondary school students' research and practice education base, the national water education base, the national ecological environment science popularization base, the national water conservancy civilization unit and other national titles, is a typical case of the integrated development of water engineering and water culture of the Ministry of Water Resources, the first typical case of high-quality development of national water conservancy scenic spots, and has also won the famous trademark of Shaanxi Province, Shaanxi Province Ping An Excellent Scenic Spot, Shaanxi Provincial Youth Education Base, Shaanxi Province's first batch of primary and secondary school students' research and practice education base, Xi'an City Civilized Unit and other honors, is the city's ecological civilization construction, display Han culture, water culture and other important windows.