The Queen Mother holds the Peach Banquet at the Jade Pool and invites the gods to eat the peaches of immortality.
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In 《西游记》, 孙悟空, left off the guest list, eats the peaches of the orchard he was set to guard, then slips into the Jade Pool and drinks the wine laid out for the banquet, the start of his havoc in heaven.
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Real lakes borrow the name. Heaven Lake in the Tianshan, 天山天池, is called the Jade Pool after the legend that King Mu of Zhou met the Queen Mother there.
