Lake Tài

Lake Tai spreads across the lowlands of Jiangnan, its wide waters dotted with islands and surrounded by a dense network of rivers and canals. Among its best-known heights are East and West Dongting, the latter also called Bao Mountain. Beneath West Dongting lies Linwu Cave, celebrated in Daoist tradition as a cavern of the immortals. Old accounts gave the lake an immense extent of thirty-six thousand qing, a measure as much of its fame as of its shoreline.