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Two Rivers and Four
Lakes of Guilin
 Li
River, Taohua River, Shahu Lake, Ronghu Lake, Guihu
Lake and the newly dug Mulong Lake are connected and
liked up. The waterway transportation makes up of Guilin's
central round-the-city water system, called "Two Rivers
and Four Lakes". More than 1000 years ago, there has
formed in Guilin a complete moat river system. Tour
and Recreation on water had been very much in a fashion
in the Tang and Song dynasty.
However, as history deposited, the river
courses were silted up and rivers and lakes were separated
and hindered, water quality became bad and cultural
relics were buried. The great pomp of Guilin on the
water didn't exist any more.
 The
Two Rivers and Four Lakes at the turn of the century
dreged the thousand-year-old Waterway and make it a
combination of historical and modern culture and a galaxy
of natural landscape and ecological harmony between
man and nature. The wonderful scene of the water city
as described in the poem "A thousand hills stand around
the city, a river flows through it" reappears.
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