Lake Kunming
See also: Kunming (homonymy)
The lake Kunming () is the central Lac field of the Palais of summer to Beijing in Popular republic of China. With the Hill of longevity (万寿山), the Lake Kunming is the gasoline of the landscape part of the gardens of the Palate of summer.
With a Surface of 2,2 square kilometers, the lake occupies approximately the three quarters of the surface of the Palate of summer. It is low depth, with an average profondeuiur of 1,5 meters. It is used for the Patinage on ice at the time of the rigorous winters.
History
The Lake Kunming is a lake created by the man. Its predecessors were called pond of Wenshan (hill of the earthenware jar) and lake Xihu . They were tanks used for the water provision of the city and the irrigation during more than 3.500 years. Guo Shoujing, a famous astronomer and engineer of the time, transformed them into a tank for the capital of the time of the Dynastie Yuan in 1291. The conversion of the place into an imperial garden was financed by the Empereur Qianlong, and of carried out work of 1750 with 1764. During the creation of the gardens, the surface of the lake was increased with a labor which reached 10.000 men. During years 1990 and 1991, the municipal Government of Beijing undertook the first Dragage lake since 240 years. Some 652.000 cubic meters were extracted, like 205 Japanese bombs dating from the Sino-Japanese war.
Structure of the gardens
With its three large islands, the Lake Kunming represents the central element of the traditional Chinese garden and its hill acceuillantes in the middle of the sea . The three islands are called Nanhu (Lake-south), Tuancheng , and Zaojian , inspired by the legendary islands of Yingzhou (瀛洲), Penglai (蓬莱), and Fangzhang (方丈), where the immortal Eight would have lived. Many details are inspired by natural landscapes of the area of the south of the Yangzi Jiang. In particular, the Western dam is an evocation of the famous dam Sudi (苏堤) on the Western Lac of Hangzhou. It diagonally cuts the southern part of the lake. Like the dam Sudi , the Western dam is connected by six bridges, of which each one with its distinctive style: the bridges Jiehu, Binfeng, Jing, Lian, and Liu. The principal bridge of the lake is the Pont with the seventeen arches, which connects bank Eastern with the island of Nanhu, which represents the mythical island of Penglai. Near the bridge, on Eastern bank, a bronze statue of an ox is. According to a Chinese legend, Yu Large the used a bronze ox to prevent a flood. As the statue is on the edge of the lake in direction of the prohibited Cité, it was undoubtedly set up to protect the latter from the floods.
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