Lake Dongting

  • Chinese: 洞庭湖 (Dòngtíng hú)

Lake Dongting in Hunan province is the second-largest freshwater lake in China, at 2820 sq km in area. It is the subject of one of the classic "Eight Views of Xiao and Xiang" of poetry and painting.

References

  • Lee Jeong Mi, "Cultural Expressions of Tokugawa Japan and Choson Korea: An Analysis of the Korean Embassies in the Eighteenth Century," PhD dissertation, University of Toronto (2008),158.