Places held in image, memory, and landscape
Moon Lake in Ningbo
Dug in the Tang as a city reservoir and shaped into ten islets under Zeng Gong in the Song, the lake became Ningbo's scholarly heart from Song and Yuan times.
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- New Tales Told by Lamplight: The Peony LanternFictionQu You
On Lantern Festival night the maid Jinlian leads the way with a double-peony lantern and Qiao follows Fu Liqing home; a neighbour peeping through the wall sees a powdered skeleton beside him under the lamp, and in a dark room of Huxin Temple the same lantern hangs before her coffin.