Lake Gé

Lake Gé is Gehu, also called West Ge Lake or Shazi Lake, between Wujin and Yixing. Ming accounts describe it as part of a connected water system receiving water from Tao Lake and passing it eastward towards Taihu. Channels also linked its shores with the Grand Canal, making the lake one part of the larger network around Changzhou.

The Ming hydraulic treatise San Wu shui kao records the dredging of Baihe Creek in the sixth year of Wanli, 1578. The creek connected the canal to the north with Gehu to the south and with waterways towards Danyang. Such named channels and recorded works give the lake a history of water management: its connections depended on maintaining passages through the densely interlinked rivers and lakes of southern Jiangsu.