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|l = Great Liquid Pond |p = Tàiyèchí |w = T'ai-yeh Ch'ih |psp = }} Taiye Lake or Pond was an artificial lake in imperial Beijing during the Jin, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties of China. The beauty〔Hou Renzhi. ''The Works of Hou Renzhi'', pp. 56 ff. Peking Univ. Press (Beijing), 1998.〕 and utility〔 of the lake was responsible for the siting of Kublai Khan's palace and the position of modern Beijing. It continues to exist but it is now known separately as the "North", "Central", and "South Sea"s, the three interconnected lakes just west of the Forbidden City in downtown Beijing. The northern lake makes up the public Beihai Park while the southern two are grouped together as Zhongnanhai, the headquarters for the Communist leadership of the People's Republic of China. Taiye Lake was immortalized in the early 1410s when the Yongle Emperor commissioned ''The Eight Views of Beijing'' (), recording the capital's chief sites in poetry and painting in order to legitimize his removal of the imperial capital away from Nanjing. It is best remembered in China today from the scene of "Clear Waves at Taiye Lake" (, ''Taiye Qingbo'').〔Whiteman, Stephen. "From Upper Camp to Mountain Estate: Recovering Historical Narratives in Qing Imperial Landscapes", (pp. 14 ff. ) ''Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes: An International Quarterly''. Taylor & Francis, 2013. Accessed 16 November 2013.〕 ==Name== The literal meaning of the Chinese characters is "Great Liquid Pool" or "Pond". The name honors two separate lakes Taiye constructed in the early imperial capital of Chang'an (modern Xi'an). The first was excavated by the Han emperor Wu in the 1st century BC as part of his Jianzhang Palace (, ''Jiànzhānggōng''). It and Kunming Lake were both necessary additions to the city's water supply after Wu's expansion of his capital.〔 The second was excavated by Emperor Taizong of the Tang beside his father's Daming Palace, after the capital had been removed to the southeast to account for the damage to and growing salinity of the capital's original water sources.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Taiye Lake」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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