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The former site of Ailianchi is located in the compound of the municipal government at No.6 Chengbei Road, Shaoyang City, Hunan Province. In the fourth year of Song Zhiping (1067), Zhou Dunyi, a famous neo-Confucian, set up a pond to plant lotus in Shaozhou during his administration in Yongzhou. The pool is square, more than ten acres wide, and dried up with the river. The pool is surrounded by walls, and weeping willows are planted around it. The lotus petals in the pool are all over the building, and the fragrance is quiet and unreal, not lotus root. It is said that Zhou Zi's famous "Love Lotus Theory" was written here, hence the name "Love Lotus Pool".