Lakeside City Of Dongting Lake Editorial Image

Dongting lake, China s second-largest freshwater lake is located in northeastern Hunan Province. It is a large shallow body of water surrounded by mountain chains。It is also known as eight- hundred Li Dong Ting Lake& x28;The Li is a Chinese length unit equal to 500 meters or about 1, 640 feet& x29;. An impressive characteristic of the lake is it is inter-nested. Depending on the season, concentric ridges of land appear in the lake in many areas. this is because the lake acts as a flood basin for the yangtze river。 The appearance of Dongting Lake changes throughout the different seasons,sometimes even during the same day. Many ancient Chinese poems and stories were written about the beauty of Dongting Lake。