A little-known story about the great Republican-era painter Chang Ta-chien, who traveled all the way to Dunhuang and spent many years copying the ancient frescoes in the grottoes there, says that everywhere he stayed, he would have a pond dug and an enclosure put round it.
一則民國大畫家張大千的逸聞，說的是大師千里跋涉敦煌臨摹壁畫多年，張大師到哪兒都要鑿池築園，在當地池裡養過一隻瀆鳧。