Taiye Lake
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Taiye Lake or Taiye Pond was an
Taiye Lake was immortalized in the early 1410s when the
Name
The literal meaning of the Chinese characters 太液池 is "Great Liquid Pool" or "Great Liquid Pond".
Prior to the Taiye Lake watershed system in Beijing that still exists today known as North, Central and South Seas, the name "Taiye" had honored several lakes in imperial gardens or palaces in various locations that once served as capital cities of imperial China. An early example of Taiye Lake is located in the city of Xi'an. Two lakes named Taiye existed in Xi'an (known as Chang'an). The earlier Taiye Lake was excavated in the Han dynasty by the Emperor Wu in the 1st century BC as part of his Jianzhang Palace (建章宮, Jiànzhānggōng). This lake, along with the Kunming Lake, was a necessary addition to the city's water supply after the expansion of the capital city under Emperor Wu's reign.[2]
The second Taiye Lake in Xi'an was excavated in the
There are older Taiye Lakes in Beijing, too. In 1151, Beijing (known as Zhongdu) became the capital city of the
The still-existing Taiye Lakes in Beijing were first created in the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty when Beijing was reconstructed as Khanbaliq (Dadu) after the previous Beijing city had been seriously damaged during the Mongol conquest of the Jin dynasty.
History
The lake was first constructed as part of the Jinshui River
During the Yuan dynasty, the ruined site of Zhongdu and its more meager water sources were abandoned in favor of the Gaoliang watershed.[2] The imperial engineers Liu Bingzhong and Guo Shoujing directed the construction of the new Imperial City of Khanbaliq (Marco Polo's Cambaluc & the Chinese Dadu) around Zhangzong's former palace and Lake Taiye, which was an important part of the capital's water supply.[2] The lake was expanded until it covered the area of the present northern and central "seas" and three palaces were built around it. The purity of the reservoir was protected by law: from its source at a spring on Yuquan Mountain to Lake Taiye, the Jinshui was given separate passes where it crossed other streams and commoners were forbidden to bathe, wash clothes, water livestock, or dump trash along its course.[9]
Under the
After the establishment of the Manchu-led Qing dynasty in the 17th century, the new government reduced the extensive Ming-era parks around the lake, enclosed the smaller present-day area within walls attached to the imperial palace, and began calling the separate sections by their modern names. Successive emperors built pavilions and houses along the lake shore, where they held court during the summer.
See also
References
- ^ Hou Renzhi. The Works of Hou Renzhi, pp. 56 ff. Peking Univ. Press (Beijing), 1998.
- ^ a b c d e f g Du Pengfei & al. "History of Water Supply in Pre-Modern China" from Evolution of Water Supply through the Millennia, pp. 169 ff. Accessed 16 November 2013.
- ^ ""燕京八景"名不虚传,有些正适合踏青赏春~". 2022-03-22.
据说,"太液秋风"原名"太液晴波",因其天气晴明,波光潋滟而得名
- ^ Whiteman, Stephen. "From Upper Camp to Mountain Estate: Recovering Historical Narratives in Qing Imperial Landscapes", pp. 14 ff. Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes: An International Quarterly. Taylor & Francis, 2013. Accessed 16 November 2013.
- is "Gold Water".
- ^ Hou, Eve. "Nine Dragons, One River: The Role of Institutions in Developing Water Pricing Policy in Beijing, PRC", p. 6. Univ. of British Columbia, 2001.
- ^ Other names include the Taining (t 太寧宮, s太宁宫), the Shou'an, and the Wanning (t 萬寧宮, s万宁宫) Palace.
- ^ Rinaldi, Bianca. The Chinese Garden: Garden Types for Contemporary Landscape Architecture, p. 137. Walter de Gruyter, 2011. Accessed 16 November 2013.
- ^ Du Pengfei. 中国古代的城市给水 ["Zhōngguó Gǔdàide Chéngshì Jǐshuǐ", "Water Supply of the Cities in Ancient China"]. China Historical Materials of Science and Technology, Vol. 1, No. 19, pp. 3–10. (in Chinese)
- ^ Wan, Maggie C.K. "Building an Immortal Land: The Ming Jiajing Emperor's West Park". Asia Major, 3rd Series, Vol. 22, No. 2 (2009), pp. 65-99. Accessed 15 November 2013.