Yǐngzhōu

Yǐngzhōu lies on the plain of the Yǐng River, west of the Huái. Its West Lake attracted scholars and officials, among them the Sòng writers Ōuyáng Xiū and Sū Shì. Both served at Yǐngzhōu and wrote about the lake’s scenery, leaving a literary tradition in which its waters were remembered alongside the more famous West Lake of Hángzhōu.