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Hubei (the north of the lake), got its name from its location, that is, to the north of the Dongting Lake. Hubei, a province with thousands of lakes, is a well-known land flowing with milk and honey. Hubei, with its interweaving watercourses and star-studded lakes, takes on a pastoral scenery of widgeons, lotus, and water chestnuts everywhere, harvest with rich and fragrant rice and has attracted numerous bel-esprits and literators to praise and to long for it. Hubei is a place propitious for giving birth to great men, as the lakes of Hubei have nourished the people and places as well. This book, The Lakes of Hubei, was inspired by the facts mentioned above. The Lakes of Hubei gathers more than 360 pictures and 53 proses of on-the-spot record. The photographers and writers are protectors of the environment of rivers and lakes who concern themselves greatly with the interviewing, and reviewing data and information, have made one after another archive for every lake and river. In this book, the lakes of Hubei are not only charming and gentle, like landscapes in oil, but also loaded with history and plenty of poems and proses. Beautiful sceneries and supernatural stories demonstrate in great detail what the lakes have gone through history. After seeing these pictures and reading the proses, you will have an imaginary doubt about the watery and indistinct villages in the fog that are like fairies flying over the lake; and it will seem as if the flocks of aigrettes and geese are flying before your eyes. The Lakes of Hubei is expected to bring readers this kind of artistic conception.