唐代文豪白居易在西湖筑起白堤(Bai Causeway),西湖自此開(kāi)啟長(zhǎng)約千年的景觀營(yíng)造過(guò)程。北宋蘇軾的疏浚工程規(guī)模也很大,不僅修筑了蘇堤,還留下了許多美妙詩(shī)篇,這也是日后西湖作為文人士大夫精神家園的源頭。年復(fù)一年,代復(fù)一代,西湖經(jīng)他們的妙筆點(diǎn)畫后,真正成為文化與自然雙重景觀并存的文化名湖。有人把西湖解析成一個(gè)“正方體”,它有 6個(gè)清晰的平面,其中就包括自然景觀和文化史跡。
The long process of constructing the landscape of West Lake, which lasts more or less one thousand years, begins with Bai Juyi, a literary giant in the Tang Dynasty who built Bai Causeway in the lake. Later in the Northern Song Dynasty, the dredging project by the famous poet Su Shi also had a great scale. The poet not only built Su Causeway, but also left many wonderful poems for the West Lake, which turned out to be the very explanation why West Lake later became the spiritual homeland for scholars and scholar-bureaucrats. Year after year, generation after generation, after the stippling by all those wonderful pens, West Lake now has truly become a famous lake with the coexistence of cultural and natural landscapes. West Lake is illustrated as a “ Cube” with six clear facets, among which are natural landscape and cultural historical relics.