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An excerpt is quote here : "Cups flow along the winding water and we appreciate music while watching operas". The ditch in the pavilion is 27 meters long. The water in the ditch come from a well behind the rockery. Water is fetched from the well, and held in a vessel. The water flows to the ditch from the holes at the bottom of the water vessel and then streams back to the well. To amuse themselves, the emperor and his officials would sit by the ditch composing poems and allow cups of wine to float around the circulating water. Similar pavilions can also be found in the Zhongnanhai and Yuanmingyuan palace compounds at the Chengde Summer Resort. |
