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Kunming Lake

Kunming Lake

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Kunming Lake inside summer Palace in Beijing, covers 3/4 of its total area. Once Kunming Lake in summer time Palace Bejing was natural lake composed of several natural spring water lakes of northwestern suburbs in Beijing. it absolutely was called Qili luo, large lake and so on. The predecessor of Kuming lake in summer time Palace in Beijing was called as Wengshan lake since the predecessor of Wanshou hill is named as Wengshan. Wengshan lake is also called as West lake because of its location which is situated throughout the west of Beijing.
Beijing was money of Yuan Dynasty. Water experts, Guo Shoujing chaired the construction of Tonghui river, bringing Shenshan spring in Changping and water in West Hill into the lake. Then the lake grew to be to turn out to be considered a reservoir to provide for water transportation in Beijing city.
Nowadays Kunming Lake could be considered a well-known attraction in summer time Palace Beijing. Most site visitors would prefer to go to Kunming lake when enjoying summer time Palace Beijing.

Posted by fei4423 01:02 Archived in China

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