East Lake is made of four areas, Ting Tao, Moshan, Luo Yan Island and Museum of Hubei Province.

One end of Moshan features a Daoist temple built over the putative site of where one of the characters in Romance of the Three Kingdoms performed special Qimen Dunjia rites before the famous battle of Red Cliffs.

No one knows precisely the actual location, but the Moshan site was an archeological dig in the early part of the twentieth century.

Water quality has deteriorated since because of 180,000 tons discharge of wastewater (domestic sewage and industrial) into the lake per day.

[4] In clockwise order, starting from the southwest corner: Several causeways cross the eastern part of the lake, providing access to recreational fishing sites and beaches.