在湖北的民谚中有“黄州的豆腐,鄂城的酒,武昌的鳊鱼,芝麻湖的藕”。芝麻湖,位于长江中游北岸浠水县巴河镇境内,正是巴河注入长江的会合处。这里是民主斗士、爱国诗人闻一多的故乡。芝麻湖方圆一千多亩,与近万亩的望天湖遥相接壤。周围山丘环抱,湖口为一长堤,有闸门锁住。湖光秀丽,景色宜人。湖泥深厚,乌黑肥沃,为莲藕生长提供了得天独厚的条件。在这里流传着芝麻湖藕的许多动人的传说。古时候,有一只丹顶仙鹤口含一粒晶莹碧绿的莲籽,从波涛汹涌的南海冲天而起,向北飞去,仙鹤飞过长江,太累了,想歇口气,可刚一张口,那粒莲籽从口里脱落,随着一道闪光,掉进了芝麻湖里,次年,芝麻湖里绿荷莹莹,红花朵朵,湖面上白雾蒙蒙,经月不散。从此,芝麻湖就有了丰厚茂盛的莲藕了,而且不用下种,不怕水淹,这种传说带有神话的色彩。然而,芝麻湖藕也确有它奇特的地方,说 Minyan in Hubei in the “Huangzhou tofu, Echeng wine, Wuchang catfish, sesame Lake lotus root.” Sesame Lake, located in the middle of the Yangtze River in the northern coast of Xishui County, Pakistani town, it is Bahe into the Yangtze River will meet. Here is the hometown of democratic fighters and patriotic poets Wen Yiduo. Sesame Lake a radius of more than 1,000 acres, and nearly acres of hope Tian Lake remote bordering. Surrounded by hills around the lake for a long embankment, a gate lock. Beautiful lake, pleasant scenery. Lake mud deep, black and fertile, for the growth of lotus root provides a unique condition. Here are many moving legend of sesame Lake lotus legend. In ancient times, there was a top of the celestial cranes with a crystal green lotus seeds, skyrocketing from the choppy South China Sea, flying north, crane flying over the Yangtze River, too tired, and want to take a moment to breath, just a mouth, that Seed lotus seeds shed from the mouth, with a flash, fell into the sesame lake, the following year, the green lotus Ying Ying Ying, red flowers blossoming, white fog on the lake, the month is not scattered. Since then, sesame lake has a rich lush lotus, and without the next species, not afraid of flooding, this legendary mythology. However, sesame Lake lotus does have its peculiar place, said