The original version tale !

It does have a story about Mochou Lake, but it`s a tale, i am not sure about if it`s true.

Mochou is from Luoyang, Henan Province, her mother died when she was a child only she and her father live together, father died when she was 15 years old, she dong have money to bury her father so she has to sold herself to a official`s family as a maid, and married to the son of this official.

One day Emperor Liang Wu Di came to this official`s house  to visit him and saw Mochou, he fell in love with her at the first sight, but she already married, so Emperor Liang Wu Di made her husband die and try to pick her to Imperial Palace.

When Mochou found out this she would rather die than go to Imperial Palace, so she jumped into the Lake, and them her story was spare aways, people named the lake as Mochou to commemorate her.