Weiming Lake is the largest artificial lake in the campus of Peking University, located in the north-central part of the campus. The shape is u-shaped. There is a stone fish sculpture in Hunan, and there is an island in the middle of the lake, which is connected with the north bank by a bridge. There is a stone boat at the southern end of the central island of the lake. There are Bell Tower, Linhuxuan, Flower Bed and edgar snow on the lakeside, and Boya Tower on the east coast. It is one of the landmark landscapes of Peking University.
Boya Pagoda is located on the mountain southeast of Weiming Lake. Imitate the burning Buddha pagoda in Tongzhou and the brick pagoda with dense eaves in Liao Dynasty. It used to be a campus water supply tower, and its unique design concept is a stroke of genius in the construction of Yanyuan Garden.
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The historical development of the unnamed lake;
In the 1920s, it became a part of yenching university, and the school asked designer henry killam murphy to plan the campus layout. This lake was named the unnamed lake by Qian Mu.
1952, yenching university was revoked by the administration, and Peking University moved from the city center to the former site of yenching university. Since then, the unnamed lake has become a part of the campus of Peking University.
In 200 1 year, the "Weiming Lake Yanyuan Building" was listed as a national key cultural relics protection unit. Since then, students have called the Weiming Lake, Boyata and the library "a map of the lake with one tower".
Boya Tower Design: Boya Tower is designed with reference to the Fire Pagoda in Tongzhou. The burning Buddha Pagoda was built in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, but it was rebuilt after several times of destruction. According to legend, it was built to collect the relics of the burning Buddha. The tower enshrines the remains of the burning Buddha master and collects Buddhist relics, so it is called the burning Buddha Pagoda.
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