“在天坛北面,有一片波光闪闪的湖水,这便是金鱼池。” 这是1957年北京出版社出版的《北京旅游手册》中的一段描述。当时金鱼池是作为北京的公园和名胜古迹推介给读者的。书中还有两幅金鱼池今昔对比的照片:一幅是解放前金鱼池旧貌,低矮的草房和浑浊的水坑;另一幅是经过挖掘疏浚后的金鱼池新貌,环绕湖边的是洁白整齐的栏杆,戴着红领巾的少先队员在湖边玩耍,湖中有畅游的小船。从书中的《北京市主要街道图》上我们可以看到金鱼池位于天坛公园北门外偏西,池与天坛祁年殿南北遥对,池之北为晓市,池西为粪厂(今名粉厂),池东为牟家井。池的轮廓样子像一块金元宝,面积有40多万 “There is a glittering lake to the north of the Temple of Heaven, which is the Goldfish Pond.” This is a paragraph from Beijing Travel Guide published by Beijing Publishing House in 1957. At that time, Goldfish Pond was introduced to readers as Beijing’s parks and historical sites. The book also has two photos of the past and the goldfish pond contrast: one is before the liberation of the old goldfish pond, low grass and muddy puddle; the other is after excavation dredging the new appearance of the goldfish pond, surrounded by the lake Side of the white neat railings, wearing a red scarf young pioneers playing in the lake, the lake has a small boat. From the book “Beijing’s main street map” we can see the goldfish pond is located west of the north gate of the Temple of Heaven Park, pool and Temple of Heaven Qixian Temple north to south, pool north of the city of Xiaoxi, Chihsien for the manure Fenchang), East Chi Chi Mu wells. The outline of the pool looks like a gold ingot, an area of ​​400000