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44: 444:'s Cambaluc & the Chinese Dadu) around Zhangzong's former palace and Lake Taiye, which was an important part of the capital's water supply. 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. 366: 253:
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
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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
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of the new one. The lake now comprised the three present-day "seas", which were divided by bridges, but continued to be known collectively as Taiye. The grounds were known as the
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showing the gardens and three palaces around Taiye Lake, as well as the original three islands. The city walls of Zhongdu and Beijing are also noted.
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in the south. During the reconstruction of Beijing, a Taiye Lake was built near the palace of Jurchens. The relic of this Taiye Lake is in today's
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when Beijing was reconstructed as Khanbaliq (Dadu) after the previous Beijing city had been seriously damaged during the
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There are older Taiye Lakes in Beijing, too. In 1151, Beijing (known as Zhongdu) became the capital city of the
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was located well south of the site, in a separate watershed. Zhangzong constructed the Daning Palace (
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The name paid tribute both to the new dynasty and to an earlier imperial canal in the
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The lake was first constructed as part of the Jinshui River canal system under the
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in order to legitimize his removal of the imperial capital away from
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The still-existing Taiye Lakes in Beijing were first created in the
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Building an Immortal Land: The Ming Jiajing Emperor's West Park
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in downtown Beijing. The northern lake makes up the public
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Taiye Lake was immortalized in the early 1410s when the
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in the 1st century BC as part of his Jianzhang Palace (
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lake shore, where they held court during the summer.
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and others retreated to it to escape life at court.
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The second Taiye Lake in Xi'an was excavated in the
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West Park, Beijing

Chinese
太液池
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Wade–Giles
artificial lake
imperial City, Beijing
Jin
Yuan
Ming
Qing
dynasties
China
Kublai Khan
Forbidden City
Beihai Park
Zhongnanhai
Communist
People's Republic of China
Yongle Emperor
poetry
painting
Nanking
Xi'an
Xi'an
Han dynasty
Emperor Wu
Kunming Lake

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