The Li men jostle to sell me supper, all of it live: white-breasted waterhens, little egrets, a black-crowned night heron and a spot-billed duck, the only duck where male and female look alike.

According to ancient records, the Chinese people to live in Green's home on a blue duck analogy of the river, so named for the Yalu river.

Surrounded by reeds and lotuses, Mandarin Duck Island is the greatest attraction of Baiyang Lake. It is well equipped and tourists can conveniently tour, go shopping, entertain, eat, live and travel.