Taiwan Riyuetan Pool: a song of four seasons color Poetry

The sun and the moon, water sand, Riyuetan Pool is the color of the poem.May is shallow, green gray, June is of indigo blue naive, July and August are silver white, is dark green and deep, on September, is the blue clarity.

Along the 33 km ring Lake highway, or want more, on the choice of either 14 nature trail, from a distance, from near, from above, from below, the surface of a lake for a close look. Every place, every angle, will be presented to you a different appearance, but is fascinating. The cat Lan mountain trail, Jianshan trail, Qinglong mountain trails and water agency mountain trails, and known as the "Ming Tan four show", have excellent vision Lake scenery.

Riyuetan Pool cloud photograph: recommended Chinese National Geographic travel book series of "Taiwan"

Climbed the hill overlooking the sparkling lake, island, a little like a leaf duckweed, that is, Lalu island. As a community, island northeast, the circular as full as a day; on the southwest of the island, the narrow microbend Kisaragi, named Riyuetan Pool. The vast beautiful scenery, let it in the Kangxi years among the "eight Taiwan" one, known as the "overseas don't cave". By fracture water basin in Yushan and Ali Mountain and Riyuetan Pool, 748 meters above sea level, this is Taiwan's largest natural freshwater lake, the water all look to heaven falling rain. During the Japanese occupation, in order to develop hydropower, began the construction of Riyuetan Pool power station. Since only the Riyuetan Pool lake is unable to achieve the power demand, therefore from its recent martial community built a dam to intercept the Choshui River, stream, and through a length of about 15 km, crossing the water agency mountain underground waterways, water savings to Riyuetan Pool. And in low-lying areas around the lake, built water agency and agency heads and two dams, the water rose. After the completion of 1934, rolling into the water, quickly flooded a small hill, the maximum water depth of 27 meters, water area to expand the area of 900 hectares, Hangzhou West Lake larger than 1/3. So, in the green mountains in the embrace of rolling, was born in Taiwan in second Great Lakes (the largest lake Zeng Wen reservoir, also for the artificial lake).

Riyue Tan sunrise photograph: recommended Chinese National Geographic travel book series of "Taiwan"

He shines the light color, rising water, let the Lalu island area is also greatly reduced. The island, this is Taiwan's smallest indigenous groups -- the old settlement Shao people, said Shao the highest ancestor Paclan was living on the island, so people of the Holy land. Later renamed Guanghua island. In 1991, the official will be "Lalu island" old name back, and planted the Shao people's ancestral Lingshu Bischofia javanica on the island, is the Lalu Island back to the Shao people.

In the past, people living in the Plains ", the person living in" the sand". Riyuetan Pool, in their view,, is hidden in a large blue mountain, so called "Shao man-made water sand". This sounds quite a bit poetic name, also became the old Riyuetan Pool.

Picture and article source: recommended Chinese National Geographic travel book series of "Taiwan"

(Editor: Xing Peng)