"Lakeside" is a collection of modern Chinese poems written by **Li Ying** and published in 1984. The creative background of this collection of poems is that Li Ying lived for a period of time in a small village on Junshan Island, Yueyang City, Hunan Province, China, from the winter of 1983 to the spring of 1984. This small village was surrounded by a lake, so Li Ying Call this little village "Lakeside".