Honghu

Honghu is a county-level city in the municipal region of Jingzhou, in the south of Hubei province, People's Republic of China. The city lies on the northwest bank of the Yangtze River, across from Hunan Province and Xianning, Hubei. It is named after the adjacent Hong Lake, which since ancient times has periodically flooded. The traditional Chinese holiday Duanwu Jie, celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, features boat races which are run on Hong Lake. By means of its famous lake, Honghu City produces forty kinds of fish and an abundance of plants, such as lotus, reed and a type of black algae.

Honghu is Hubei's largest freshwater lake, located in the scenic Jianghan Plain south of the Yangtze River in Hubei Province, which is one of the seven major freshwater lakes. Honghu was awarded by World Environment Foundation as the "best protection life lakes practice Award" in World Assembly of Life Lakes , the wetlands have begun to declare National Nature Reserve. Honghu Lake is one of the most abundant organic content water in Hubei, and is an important category of China&#