Wentu/Ying Zhigang

The seasons stretch like green vines.

After the Qingming Festival, the sky in Gusu took on a hint of early summer.

But the spring is still the same. Although they are green, fat, red and thin, the cherry blossoms in Baixiang Bay support a lush tree, leaning against the spring water, smiling in the clear and intoxicating sunshine.

If you go now, please go to Ningxin Lake for a walk.

A green cherry tree that can be called the treasure of the mountain is racing against time by the lake, and the colorful flower clusters are reluctant to leave.

Green cherry blossoms are also called Yuyi Yellow, with slightly light yellow flowers and pale green petals. They are a rare variety among cherry blossoms.

Green cherries are extremely difficult to cultivate. It is said that there are no more than a dozen plants in Suzhou. In mid-to-late April every year, the flowers and leaves bloom at the same time, the leaves are tea green, the flowers are light yellow green, and the parts near the stamens are white. From a distance, they look like an elegant piece of jade.

The green cherry festival is equally stunning. Although it is not as gorgeous as the late cherry blossoms, and it is not as beautiful as the early cherry blossoms compete with the snow, it is inlaid with a piece of white in the green and a touch of red in the white, just like a socialite exiting with a faint tide at the end of a ball.

Baixiang Bay is located in the western suburbs of Suzhou, bordering the Tianchi Mountains in the north and Mudu Ancient Town in the east. It is surrounded by peaks and verdant vegetation, and a lake water rippling in it, making it peaceful and beautiful.

The name of White Elephant Bay stems from a beautiful myth.

It is said that in ancient times, Taihu Lake eels made trouble here and harmed the people. After hearing this, Samantabhadra Bodhisattva ordered his six-toothed white elephant to descend to the world.

After three days and three nights of fierce fighting, the six-toothed white elephant finally subdued the eel spirit. Samantabhadra Bodhisattva also ordered the divine elephant to transform into a mountain to protect this land and water forever.

If you want to find a place in Suzhou where there are few people and beautiful scenery but can take children crazy with you, White Elephant Bay is the best place.

Baixiang Bay has a green coverage rate of more than 80%. It is a famous "urban green lung" in Suzhou. Many villagers nearby have long-lived people, and they can still afford heavy crop work when they are over seventy or eighty years old.

As a "working-hearted person" living in the city, just breathing the fresh air and watching the geese and white geese swimming in the lake is enough to show off in the circle of friends.

How can the cute geese and white geese come ashore and "live happily with you" under the flowers and trees and in the greenery? It is completely tempting to confuse the flood of childlike innocence.

When I went, it happened that swans were hiding in a secret place and incubating the crystallization of love. Otherwise, watching people in pairs give you a heart-to-heart relationship in spring water would really abuse a single dog.

The wild geese here are all lone rangers, stumbling forward and ignoring them.

Perhaps nature is a "flower heart". One year, a group of wild geese passed by here and stayed for a few days. When they left, they also "kidnapped" the two grey-headed geese cultivated by the scenic area.

Of course, how can White Elephant Bay be without elephants?

The innocent "family of three" and "little elephants playing in the water" are dotted throughout the scenic area. In the green forest, a mother elephant rolls up her baby elephants to play, two little elephants by the stream play in the water, and there are also blind people touching the elephant and other entertaining sculptures.

Walking into the elephant museum, you can get into close contact with "prehistoric elephants" such as mammoths, shovel-toothed elephants, and cogged elephants.

When you pass by them, the elephants will make a chirping sound, and also make movements of swinging their noses and tails.

If you are impatient with taking care of your children, just go and see the scenery and leave your children in the Kingdom of Juwu.

This is a playground for children. Tall mushrooms, huge sunflowers and corn create an Alice's wonderland.

Passing around the fat village chief holding a scepter in his hand, there is an elephant slide, climbing up the elephant's tail and sliding down the elephant's trunk.

When you are tired from playing, you can still lie on the huge banana and bask in the sun.

The world is in a hurry, so give yourself a reason to be empty. It will only take half a day to come to Baixiang Bay.