Baishui Lake

Baishui Lake Scenic Attraction was built in 1958. It is located in the north of the western Sichuan plain and the southwest of Anzhou District, Mianyang. The Attraction is 664 meters above sea level, covers an area of ​​about 2.68 square kilometers, and has a water area of ​​more than 3,000 acres. The average water depth is 7 meters, and the depth can reach more than 20 meters. The Attraction is part of the National Geopark of Bioherms. It is based on the ancient conglomerate karst geological landscape and has many types of scenic resources such as mountains, forests, lakes, islands, and reefs.

In 1993, it was approved as a provincial scenic spot by the Sichuan Provincial Government; in 2005, it was awarded the National Water Conservancy Scenic Area by the Ministry of Water Resources; in 2017, it was awarded the National Luya Competition Training Base; in June 2022, it was awarded the municipal sports tourism demonstration base.

The beautiful Baishui Lake is like a dazzling pearl inlaid on the land of Anzhou. It is famous for its unique natural beauty. Mountains rise from water and water is born in mountains. Many literati and poets can't help but write poems when visiting. Among them, the famous one is that in 1999, the TV series "Journey to the West" produced by the China TV Drama Production Center was filmed here for the three episodes of "Blocked by Lion Camel Ridge", "Meeting the Fairy Peacock Terrace" and "Arhat Receiving Dapeng". The chief director Yang Jie and the famous actor Liu Xiaolingtong left the beautiful sentence "Green island floats on blue waves, gulls and herons are leisurely".

Lake Island Landscape

Baishui Lake has a beautiful environment and pleasant climate. Surrounded by mountains, the lake is wide and quiet, the water is clear, and the breeze makes the waves sparkle. There are 23 natural islands on the lake, like bright emeralds scattered on the white water jade plate, which cleverly divide and combine thousands of acres of water to form a multi-level three-dimensional scenic Attraction and a deep and winding harbor.

Flora and fauna

Bird Island, is a gathering island for migratory birds migrating from north to south. The island is rich in vegetation, mild climate, quiet environment, clear water, lush Souvenir plants and abundant fish, which attracts many rare birds such as cormorants, egrets, mandarin ducks, herons, green herons, etc. to live and breed here. It is an ideal habitat for many migratory birds. Near the bird island, you can hear hundreds of birds singing, calling friends and making it very lively; you can see groups of gulls and herons playing and enjoying themselves. In spring and winter, migratory birds travel thousands of kilometers from the far north to Baishui Lake Bird Island, fulfilling their unchanging agreement with this beautiful wetland, forming a natural water migratory bird paradise.

Baihuazhou IslandAs its name suggests, the island is a dazzling one among the 23 islands of Baishui Lake. It is named for its rich plant landscape and various flower species. As a small island reef, it is inlaid on the clear blue waves like a gem. The island is full of wild flowers and grasses, and the flowers, plants and trees are scattered in an orderly manner, showing a natural and undecorated beauty. Due to its beautiful natural environment, it has attracted many writers, painters and artists to come here to collect folk songs, sketch, experience life and create works. It is a base and source of inspiration for artists.

Lake and spring landscape

There are three boiling springs in the center of Baishui Lake. The water flowing out is white, forming a small river, so it is called Baishui River. In the late 1950s, a reservoir was built here. In the early 1980s, tourism was developed, so it was renamed Baishui Lake. 2 kilometers east of Baishui Lake is Jishi Boiling Spring, which has a history of more than 350 million years. The spring surface is more than 20 square meters. Several streams of spring water gush out from the pebbles, splashing and making a sound. It is a low-sodium drinking mineral water approved by the state. Boiling spring wine and mineral water have become famous local specialty products.

Cultural attractions

Jushui Town, 1 km west of Baishui Lake, is the hometown of Sha Ting, a modern Chinese writer. Sha Ting, formerly known as Yang Chaoxi, is a famous modern writer and revolutionary. During the revolutionary war, he was arranged by the party to go to An County (now Anzhou District) to engage in underground organization activities and was a pioneer of the An County revolution. He lived in Jushui for ten years and created famous literary masterpieces such as "Gold Rush", "The Beast in the Traps" and "Return to Hometown", which had a significant impact on the New Democratic Revolution and contemporary literature.

Since the Taiping Bridge in Jushui Town was built in the fourth year of the Jiaqing reign of the Qing Dynasty (1799 AD), the annual "Spring Festival" bridge-walking activity has been enduring and has been passed down to this day. Every year on the fifth day of the fifth month after the beginning of spring, Taiping Bridge gathers more than 200,000 tourists. They pray for good weather and avoid disasters; young parents worship godmothers and godfathers for their children to protect their children's healthy growth. Folk activities such as "crossing the bridge", "babies worshiping lions", "throwing medicine money", and "pulling godfathers" are rich and colorful. The bridge-walking event is an important festival for people to travel together in spring and watch folk performances in northwest Sichuan.

Strange reef landscape

The sponge reef in Jushui Town, Anzhou District, is a deep-water siliceous hexaradiate sponge reef of unique scale and type in the world. It is a deep-water bioreef formed by siliceous hexaradiate sponges more than 220 million years ago, which is more than 70 million years earlier than the Jurassic siliceous sponge bioreefs in Germany, Switzerland and France. The reef body of the sponge reef in Anzhou District is 40 to 60 meters high, and the largest one can reach 80 centimeters in diameter. Research has shown that the siliceous hexaradiate sponges in the Anzhou District are the ancestors of European siliceous sponges. The discovery of sponge reefs in the Anzhou District has filled the gap in the geological evolution of sponges, and also solved the mystery of the changes in the ancient Mediterranean and the origin of European Jurassic sponges.