Huajiachi
Huajiachi
Location	Jianggan District, Hangzhou, Zhejiang
Coordinates	30°16′22″N 120°11′24″E / 30.27278°N 120.19000°E / 30.27278; 120.19000
Type	lake

Huajiachi ( simplified Chinese: 华家池; traditional Chinese: 華家池) is a lake in Hangzhou, Zhejiang.

Introduction

The lake is located in the Huajiachi Campus, Zhejiang University. It is the second largest lake in Hangzhou after the West Lake.^{[ citation needed]} Along the lake there is a Chinese pavilion named Huxin Ting (湖心亭). The lake has a water surface of more than 90 mu (over 55,000 m²) and an average depth of 2 meters. ^[1]

Hua ( traditional Chinese: 華; simplified Chinese: 华) is a common Chinese surname, and jia ( 家) means family in Chinese; so Huajia implies that this place probably belonged to the Hua Family in the ancient time. Chi ( 池) stands for lake. And the Zhejiang University campus is just named after this lake.

About six-hundred years ago, it was wasteland nearby, and a highly ranked official Mr. Hua during Ming Dynasty Hongwu Era (1368-1398) once passed-by and first settled down there, opened the wasteland.^{[ citation needed]}

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