Charming Dongting Fishing Village

The Dongting Fishing Village is located in the Wanzihu Township in the southern Dongting Lake, also one genuine fishing village. Here the unique natural scenery and ethnic folklore have contributed to the attractiveness of the place, contributing to making Dongting Fishing Village scenic resort in Dongting Lake. And It's also favorable to avoid the traffic jam into the natural beauty of the countryside.



For those visitors who prefer to have a tour and sightseeing in the southern Dongting would like to see the distinct identities of the fishing village with their own eyes. A trip along the river will enable visitors to get to admire the unique customs and life styles of the local people. The fishing rafts, coir raincoats, the cormorants, and the fishing rafts compose a typical picture of the Dongting Fishing Village, with the fire being the soul of the picture.



How can it be said that you've been to the Dongting Lake if you never go deep and pay a visit to the fishing village? Now although the Wanzihu fishing village was not unduly large, there's still a large area falling under its jurisdiction. The scenery of the Dongting Fishing Village was mostly beautiful beyond expression. Passengers are dazzled by an ever-changing landscape of the few scattered fishing villages with picturesque scenery.



The most prominent feature in the landscape is the lotus basin that is famous for its two islands with beautiful and picturesque scenery in the typical fishing-village style and the lotus basin that is the large bodies of water where the General Yangyao died a heroic death in the peasant uprising of the Southern Song Dynasty. Around the year 1135, Yangyao conducted insurgent groups to weed out the wicked and let the law abiding citizen live together in peace by holding high the great banner of peasant uprisings in the Lake District, and finally he faced execution bravely.



And in those waters where Yangyao became a martyr to a worthy cause or principle grew a broad rich mass of beautiful lotus seeds the following year, a white swan flew out from lotus to lotus and flew up. People said that it was the spirits of Yangyao. People called the place as the lotus basin in memory of Yangyao. The beautiful lotus basin provides an appropriate setting for a loyal and patriotic soul like Yangyao.



Visitors usually choose to go by swift boat that rides through the reeds into the Dongting Lake, reach the lotus basin and drink in to their heart's content the full beauty of a fishing village. Travelling on the Dongting Fishing Village, one sees everywhere fishing boats and fishing nets in front of the homesteads, like the fertile plains lying south of the Yangtse River.



Some families drove the cormorants to catch fish. Others are checking the fishing scripts. Visitors could taste the most authentic dishes in the village, enjoy undisturbed peace and quiet in isolated villages remote from town life. For every visitor from far away one unforgettable memory is that of the fishing song and the tinkle of the lake.