Which lake is the "lake" in Hunan and Hubei?

The lake in Hunan and Hubei refers to Dongting Lake. This lake is the most important storage lake in the Yangtze River Basin, with a strong flood storage capacity, which has allowed the Yangtze River to survive countless floods, and the Jianghan Plain and the three towns of Wuhan to pass through the flood season safely. Dongting Lake is also the most important strategic location in history, the birthplace of traditional Chinese culture, the lake area attractions are very much, represented by the Yueyang Tower as a historical site is an important tourism and cultural resources.?

Dongting Lake in ancient times called Yunmeng, Jiujiang and heavy lake. He is in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River on the south bank of the Jing River across the Yueyang Xiangyin chaotic into, Changde Anxiang, Henan County and other counties city, the name of the Dongting Lake is the beginning of the Spring and Autumn Period and Warring States period, because of the lake in the dongting mountain and got its name. Dongting Lake north of the Yangtze River Songzi, Taiping, lotus root pools, tune string four mouths to water. The South River West Street knows the far away water and some small tributaries, injected into the Yangtze River by Chenglingji of Yueyang City. Dongting Lake in ancient times used to be called 800 miles of Dongting, the 20th century 90's according to the water conservancy department estimates, it has an area of about 2500 square kilometers. Together with the Yangtze River to think about the magnificent area of more than 1,300 square kilometers, the total is still more than 3,800 square kilometers, of which the natural lake area of 178 a cubic meter.

Hunan Province and Hubei Province in the lake refers to the Dongping Lake, Hunan and Hubei were originally named Hubei Province, Hukuanghang Province, he means the vast area south and north of Dongting Lake , and the two places because of the location of Dongting Lake named Hubei Province is located in the north of the Dongting Lake is therefore named Hubei Province Hunan Province is located in the south of the Dongping Lake in the lake, so he is the name of Hunan Province. Now the panorama of Dongting Lake are in Hunan, but in the past. But not so, the division of Hunan and Hubei originated in the Song Dynasty, when it was once divided into Jinghu Hubei Road and Jinghu South Road. This road is the provincial administrative division.

During the Ming Dynasty, the two provinces were merged to form the Hubei-Guangzhou Department of General Affairs. In the Qing Dynasty, the Hubei Province was divided into Changdefu and Yueyangfu, both of which were elevated to prefectures, but were assigned to Hunan Province, so the current Changde dialect is like Jingzhou dialect.