Why Daming Lake is more beautiful?
There is a horizontal word "Ming" on the south gate archway of Daming Lake and the stone tablet next to it. There are many versions of the word "Ming" in Daming Lake, among which there are three widely circulated versions:
The first argument is that the ancient Baotu Spring Fountain was under great pressure, and the water could reach tens of meters, so the monument was washed down many times. So in the Ming Dynasty, the Jinan government asked Hu Yongzong, the governor of Shandong Province, to erect a monument. But it was soon found that the dot on the word "Tu" was washed away by the spring water and rushed to Daming Lake, so "Daming Lake" became "Daming Lake". Of course, this statement is not true, but a folk legend.
Secondly, the literary inquisition was really tense during the Kanggan period. In order to avoid the "Ming" in the Ming Dynasty, calligraphers in the Qing Dynasty wrote more, especially after the word "Da". If they write Daming, they may face jail.
The third argument is that the word "Daming Lake" developed from the Daming Lake Monument in Jiaqing in Qing Dynasty, which was created by a calligrapher in Dengzhou, Jiaqing. This kind of "eye moon" is the writing method of posts, which is not only available to calligraphers in the Qing Dynasty, but also to calligraphy works in other dynasties. The following is the word "fu" in calligraphy of past dynasties.
Brief introduction of Daming Lake
Daming Lake is a national AAAAA-level scenic spot, located in the northeast of Jinan, Shandong Province, in the north of the old city, with a lake surface of 58 hectares and a park area of 103.4 hectares. Known as the "Pearl of Spring City". Together with Baotu Spring and Qianfo Mountain, it is also known as the three major scenic spots in Jinan.
Daming Lake has a long history, and the name of the lake has been in writing for over 400 years/kloc-0. As early as the Northern Wei Dynasty, it was recorded in the famous geographer Li Daoyuan's "Notes on Water Classics and Saving Water": "The water flowing in the north is Daming Lake, daming temple in the west, and lakes on the east and north sides of the temple." Daming Lake referred to in this paper is located in the area of Wulongtan today, but the waters around Daming Lake today are called "Li Shui Pi".