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<strong>北京大学</strong>英语新闻网/<strong>Peking</strong> <strong>University</strong> <strong>News</strong><br />

By Ning Jing<br />

<strong>Peking</strong> <strong>University</strong>, Beijing, Nov. 6th (2006): There is a Stone Fish on Weiming Lake<br />

<strong>of</strong> <strong>Peking</strong> <strong>University</strong>, swaying its tail and frolicking vividly, which was once set in<br />

Yuanming Yuan, the royal gardens <strong>of</strong> Qing Dynasty.<br />

Stone Fish is a memento from Changchun Yuan in Yuanming Yuan and was built in<br />

1747. Once, there was a big fountain in Changchun Yuan, which was surrounded by<br />

four sheep and ten eagles gushing water from their mouths into a pond. Stone Fish<br />

was just the adornment in the pond. After World War Two, Yuanming Yuan was<br />

destroyed, and Stone Fish had been sold. Years later, the lord <strong>of</strong> Langrun Yuan<br />

bought it back. When the 1930‘s seniors graduated from Yenching <strong>University</strong>, they<br />

bought Stone Fish for their campus and set it in Weiming Lake.<br />

The position <strong>of</strong> Stone Fish in Weiming Lake is quite perfect, because a wonderful<br />

scene can be seen in sunny days while there is enough water in Weiming Lake. The<br />

inverted image <strong>of</strong> Boya Tower in Weiming Lake is just point to Stone Fish, and the<br />

top <strong>of</strong> Boya Tower was exactly inverted reflected into the mouth <strong>of</strong> Stone Fish.<br />

Edited By : Ning Jing<br />

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