Lake Qīngkěn

Lake Qingken lies in a shallow depression on the Songnen plain, amid the grasslands and wetlands north of the Songhua River. Its slightly saline waters belong to a landscape dotted with lakes and marshes, where the extent of open water changes with the seasons. The lake was recorded under the Qing as Qingkenbo, a roughly ring-shaped body of water with a sandy or muddy shoal in its middle. Low shores make its boundary with the surrounding plain a gradual one.