Moon Lake (Ningbo)

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Moon Lake
West Lake
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Moon Lake
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Location Haishu, Ningbo, Zhejiang
Coordinates 29°52′10″N121°3′22″E / 29.86944°N 121.05611°E / 29.86944; 121.05611 Coordinates: 29°52′10″N121°3′22″E / 29.86944°N 121.05611°E / 29.86944; 121.05611
Type Man-made lake
Max. length1.03 km (0.64 mi)
Max. width0.22 km (0.14 mi)
Surface area0.2 km2 (0.077 sq mi)
Shore length12.6 km (1.6 mi)
1 Shore length is not a well-defined measure.

The Moon Lake, also known as the West Lake, is a man-made lake in Haishu District, Ningbo, Zhejiang. It is a municipal conservation zone for history and culture in Ningbo. [1]

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Literary reference

A Ningbo-born novelist Qu You wrote a fiction called Peony Dengji (牡丹灯记, Janpanese: Botan Dōrō also known as 怪談牡丹灯籠 Tales of the Peony Lantern ) (in the collection of Jiandeng Xinhua ). It describes a love story between ghost and a man during Fang Guozhen period. The story took place at the Moon Lake. Japanese scholar Koyama Issei identified many of the locations, including Central Lake Temple, Central Lake East Bridge, Zhenming Ridge and Xuanmiao temple, that would fit geographically and architecturally of the places mentioned in the story. [11] The story was adapted as one of one of three Kaidan tales in Japan. [12]

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  2. 古湖心寺保护纪实 [ permanent dead link ] The poem read "横桥通废岛,华宇出荒榛,风月逢知己,湖山得主人" where ""横桥" and "华宇" indicate Central Lake East Bridge and Central Lake Temple.
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