Atlas of China
Chagan Lake 查干湖Chágān Hú
5A scenic area · Songyuan, Jilin
- Time needed
- Half a day to 1 day
- Days to budget
- 1 day
- City
- Songyuan
- Region
- Jilin
- Type
- Nature
- Listed as
- 5A scenic area
About Chagan Lake
Chagan Lake is a shallow freshwater lake of several hundred square kilometres in the north-west of Qian Gorlos Mongol Autonomous County, the largest natural lake in Jilin province and described by state media as one of China's ten largest freshwater lakes. Its headline is the winter fishing: from mid- or late December to about February, fishers cut holes through ice 70 cm to 1 m thick, draw a net more than a kilometre long beneath it and haul it out with horses turning a capstan, a method on China's national intangible heritage list since 2008. A fishing and hunting culture museum stands by the lake, and in the warmer months the area is promoted for spring outings, summer lotus and autumn birdwatching.
How to get to Chagan Lake
About 50 km by road (about 32 km in a straight line) west-north-west of Songyuan city.
Nearby
Also within 20 km: Prince Zhong Stele (Kuli Stele) 清追封和硕忠亲王碑 (10 km).
On the map
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