Why is it called Lake Diana? Where does it come from?

Diana Lake, formerly known as Yandang Lake and Shaosheng Lake.

According to legend, the Eight Immortals in ancient mythology crossed the sea from Penglai, Shandong Province for the first time to collect medicines. Due to the obstruction of the Dragon King in the East China Sea, they had to turn to Guanyin Bodhisattva in the South China Sea for help. On the way, because Han Xiangzi's immortal driving skills were unsuccessful, the other seven immortals joined forces to dig the ground here and let Han Xiangzi ride together. The Eight Immortals went to a wild goose in Nanxi, Zhejiang Province, and met Guanyin Bodhisattva. The Eight Immortals bowed down to discuss the dharma and went back to the East China Sea to collect medicine. Because Han Xiangzi was enlightened by Guanyin, his earthen platform was placed on Yandang Mountain (now Yandang Mountain). Because Yandang Mountain was excavated from this place, the deep pool formed by excavation was named Yandang Lake after the mountain. After several storms, the pool surface has been continuously expanded, and a vast Yandang Lake has been formed here. ...

With the vicissitudes of history, the crust here has changed slowly, and the altitude of Yandang Lake has gradually increased, gradually forming a hilly area, and the east of the hilly lake has entered today's Taihu Lake. Because there are many faults in the hills here, groundwater is exposed to the ground through geothermal heat, forming a "four-time soup" soup spring, and its hills are also called Tangshan (Nanjing Tangshan). The lake west of the hill is interpreted as the lake around the ancient Jianye. ...

According to legend, during the Six Dynasties, the ancient capital of Jianye dredged waterways. When surveying along Niushou East, it was found that there was a spewing hot spring here, but it was uninhabited (sacred), so it was named "Shaosheng Spring". Because of the high temperature of spring water, it is difficult to build roads, let alone mulberry. In order to achieve the great cause of the empire, Sui and Tang dynasties spared no expense to block this spring, and immigrants opened it up as a farming mulberry. This place is also called "Shaosheng Village" by the name of Quanquan (now Jiangning Shaosheng).

In the thirty years of the Republic of China, another person went to Shaosheng Village to dig hot springs in order to do something big. Nai Hot Springs didn't exist, but they dug up the "gold ingot" of Sui and Tang Dynasties, leaving a bay with clear water and clear pools.

The land of Shaosheng, the dry land of Dongshan, the morning dew and auspicious rising, in order to attract more Chinese and foreign tourists to visit here, the local government re-planned, and expanded a bay of clear water into a lake, making it a pearl of Shaosheng in Jiangning. ...

During the forty-six years in * * and China, the education department hired a group of Chinese and foreign experts to inspect the location of universities here. The British Education Counsellor, one of the members of the expert group, saw the lake and cried with emotion: The scenery of this lake is comparable to our princess! From then on, the British princess was called Diana, and from then on, the lake was called Lake Diana.