苏东坡第二次任职杭州时,适逢大旱,葑田已占湖面的一半,令他十分痛心,疾呼:“若再不整治,更二十年无西湖矣!”决心疏浚西湖,保住这一人间瑰宝。但整治西湖需要大量的人力物力,且当时还有人出于私利强烈地反对。出于拯救西湖的一腔热情,苏东坡亲手撰写了《乞开杭州西湖状》,上书朝 Su Dong second time in Hangzhou, coincides with the drought, Hida has accounted for half of the lake, so that he was very sad, shouting: “If you do not remediation, more than two decades without West Lake!” Dredging West Lake to keep this Human treasure. However, the remediation of the West Lake requires a great deal of manpower and resources, and at that time, others strongly opposed it for personal gain. Out of a passion to save the West Lake, Su Dongpo personally wrote the “begging to open the West Lake in Hangzhou-like”