Xike spring

Xike spring

Xike spring, located in the northwest of Damao peak, is the most famous ancient spring among the 19 springs in Maoshan. The spring water is warm in winter and cool in summer. The water quality is sweet and does not dry up in case of drought. Chen Yi, a poet of the Ming Dynasty, once wrote a poem praising: "if you clap on the pool, the spring under the pool will collapse four times. Ask noisy boiling, scattered as beads broken. In order to ask what is the reason, people say that the lung is here. The news communicates with people, and the air moves with the air. " More than 2000 years ago, this place was crowded and bustling.

Happy guest spring in Damao peak

Xike spring is located in the northwest of Damao peak. The perimeter of the spring is made of rubble, with a diameter of 3 meters. When tourists come to the spring and clap their hands, bubbles will emerge from the spring pool, like a string of pearl necklaces. Careful tourists have found that the Xike spring has another difference: ordinary water drops make a clear sound in the water, while the Xike spring makes a dull sound in the water. What's more amazing is that after the Xike spring water bubble is finished, it immediately gathers from all sides to the center of the bubble, and forms a circle, which shrinks and shrinks until it disappears. This circle looks like an oil flower floating on the water surface. If you stir the spring water with your hands, the above phenomenon will also appear when the water surface is still. However, there is no greasy feeling when you wash your hands with this spring water, and you only feel that your hands are smooth and comfortable. From ancient times to the present, many scholars came here to observe, called it strange, and wrote poems as a memento. In the early 1990s, the TV series "China Spring" produced and broadcasted by Shanghai film studio was shot here. The "welcome spring" in the play is the Xike spring in Maoshan. In 1986, the welcoming spring in the TV series "spring of China" refers to this spring. In June 2002, the scenic spot carried out the restorative development of Shenquan. With the Taoist idea of "harmony between man and nature", the scenic spot integrates ancient and famous trees, sacred springs, historic sites, pavilions and pavilions into a natural landscape painting. Xike spring contains the aura of heaven and earth and the immortal spirit of Taoism. It is called "three strange things": the first strange thing: Ke Laiquan likes to be strange. As long as tourists stand by the spring and double-click the palm of their hand, strings of bubbles will appear at the bottom of the spring, like jade beads surging and welcoming guests. Therefore, Xike spring is named. Second, the spring is covered with oil. When Xike spring is calm, there will be a film like thing on the surface of the water, bubbles will come out, water waves will disperse, the film like water will split again, suddenly gather again, and then slowly return to calm, its shape and scenery is like oil and water, so it is called "oil surface cover". The third is that the water flows up strangely. The water level of Xike spring is about 8 meters higher than that of its east ditch. According to the gravity of the earth, the water from the mountain should flow down the East ditch, but unexpectedly it flows into the hiker spring.

Xikequan, Pingba County, Guizhou Province

Xike spring in Pingba County, also known as pearl spring and spray pearl spring, is located in toupu village, 5 km south of Pingba County, Baiquan County, Guizhou Province. Built in the Ming Dynasty, this spring is a descending spring. The spring water flows from the dolomite fracture. The water quality is clear and transparent. Because it flows through the fracture of carbonate rock, there are many bubbles. When it is still, there are even one or two strings of bubbles. If people come to the well or talk or laugh, or clap or stamp their feet, there will be clusters of pearls coming out from all sides of the pool. Strings of bubbles come up from the bottom of the well, which seems to welcome guests The pool is sparkling, so it is called Xike spring.

Introduction and human history

Xike spring belongs to the karst wonder of karst landform. The well is semicircular and covers an area of land

With an area of 16 square meters, the upper part is 3.4 meters square of the spring, and the lower part is the vegetable washing pool and the laundry pool, both of which are 3 meters square. Xu Xiake, a geographer and tourist in the Ming Dynasty, once visited the well. He called it "the best spring in the world with a string of pearls" and recorded it. According to records, Jiao Xicheng's xikequan stele, written in 1551, stood on the roadside, saying that his well was "filled with laughter, bright pearls and jade, boiling from the base, the wind and the moon shining brightly and shining brightly" and "the Hakka language should be echoed from left to right." The spring pavilion was built beside the well and the ancestral temple was built. Later, it was destroyed by the war. In 1672, Gan wenkun, the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou Province, wrote the record of the fountain of pearls and sighed that "the spring of pearls was abandoned in the hazelnut". According to the research, from the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty to the period of the Republic of China, there were 18 kinds of records about the fountain, such as Guizhou Tongzhi

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Legend

About three kilometers southwest of Pingba County, there is a Tunpu village called xiatoupu. There are more than 200 families living close to the mountains, with beautiful mountains and rivers, flat dam and simple folk customs. There is a magic well in front of xiadoupu village. It used to be called pearl spring, but now it is called Xike spring. The well never dries up in spring, summer, autumn and winter, and the water is as clear as a mirror. Xiatoupu people drink well water all the year round. Women's lips are red and white, their faces are peach blossom, and their bodies are slim. Men's bodies are light and healthy, strong and handsome. Taking Xike spring water to make tea, the fragrance is overflowing, nourishing the lung and skin, and prolonging life. Most of the people in xiatoupu have fewer diseases and have a long life

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What's more strange is that when people laugh and clap their hands at the well, strings of pearly bubbles will gush out of the well. If they clap their hands continuously, the water will gush continuously. Therefore, this well is well-known far and near. It is one of the eight ancient sceneries in Pingba, accounting for the first 100 wells in Pingba. Xu Xiake, a geographer and great traveler in the Qing Dynasty, once visited xiatoupu to investigate Zhenzhuquan. He recorded it in his travels of Xu Xiake, which is highly appreciated.

Xiatoupu was called shazuopu in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Xiatoupu used to be a post station on the ancient road between Yunnan and Guizhou. It was an ancient post road from Central Guizhou to Yunnan. It went out of Pingba County and meandered to Anshun City in the southwest through xiatoupu. In history, many dignitaries and nobles, rich businessmen and literati have passed through the ancient post road and drunk the Xike spring water, leaving many wonderful and moving stories among the people.

During the reign of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty, an official from the capital was appointed to work as a Taoist priest in Yunnan. Daotai, with more than 20 family members and entourage, set out from the capital and traveled all the way to Yunnan. From the ancient post road in Central Guizhou to xiatoupu village, the only daughter of Daotai suddenly complained of abdominal pain, which was unbearable. She fell off the sedan chair to rest. The accompanying medical officer diagnosed it as cold Qi disease. The girl is still young and frail. She has been in the boudoir for many years and lacks exercise, so she has a cold illness since she was a child. This time, she went to Yunnan with her father in the wind and the sun. In addition, the mountain road is rough and bumpy, so she didn't want to have a relapse.

Although the doctor diagnosed her illness, she had no place to buy medicine. Daotai regarded her as the apple of her eye. She was very anxious for a moment. In the remote area, there is a long way to go. Daotai has no choice but to go to a doctor in a hurry. He sent a medical officer to xiatoupu village to ask the common people if there is a good medicine for the cold. The medical officer saw an old farmer carrying two wooden buckets to an old well in front of the village to carry water. He went to ask. The old farmer laughed, pointed to the water in the old well and said, "this well is called pearl spring. It's very effective in treating diseases. Let the patients have a try."

The doctor used the old farmer's ladle to hold half of the water in the ancient well and let the little girl of Daotai drink it. In less than half an hour, the cold disease disappeared completely, and there was no pain at all. Daotai looked at the ancient well as clear as a mirror, and even said a few strange words, thanks to the old farmer, and went west in the sedan chair.

Three months later, suddenly one day, eighteen soldiers came with eighteen mules and brought a big stone tablet. The army and the Han Dynasty paid the people at the bottom of the shop to erect the stone tablet beside the Pearl Spring. There are many people around the stone tablet. Only when the scholars in the village read the inscription on the stone tablet can people understand what happened. It turns out that after Daotai arrived in Yunnan, everything went smoothly and won the hearts of the people. I didn't realize that I had more than three months, but my little girl's cold disease broke out again. I went to all the doctors in the city of Yunnan, but they couldn't cure her well. Daotai remembers that on his way to Yunnan, his little girl fell ill and was cured by drinking water from an ancient well near Pingba city. That well is really amazing! Daotai asked people to make a stone tablet to record the incident. Eighteen soldiers and Han people were sent to transport the tablet to xiatoupu and stand beside the pearl spring to protect the well from damage. Daotai asked Junhan to take 18 mules with them and carry 18 loads of pearl spring water back to Yunnan to treat her illness.

After the stone tablet was erected, the army and the Han Dynasty carried eighteen loads of pearl spring water back to Yunnan with mules. Since then, I haven't been able to transport water again. I think Daotai girl's cold disease has been completely cured. The stone tablet stood by the pearl spring all the year round. It passed day by day and year by year. After five or six hundred years of wind and rain, it stood still. Until the 1960s and 1970s, when the "Cultural Revolution" Movement broke the "four old" and established the "four new", it was smashed by the "Red Guards".

Since the establishment of this stone tablet in the Qing Dynasty, the reputation of Zhenzhu spring has been growing day by day. People far and near know that there is a well in Pingba. People from all over the world walk along the ancient post road and come to watch the Pearl Spring. They clap their hands and laugh a few times. They let the ancient well gush with pearly bubbles and watch the wonderful scenery. Then they drink a well of water and go on the road with a good mood.

A few years later, strange things happened one after another: one day, a woman in xiatoupu got up early in the morning and went to the ancient well to pick up pearl spring water. When she fetched water from the bucket, she caught a half foot long red carp. All the people in the stockade came to see the fish. There was a gold earring hanging on its beard. The word "Yunnan Dali" was written on the gold earring. It was analyzed that the fish might have been brought and released by passers-by from Dali, Yunnan. Some people infer that the ancient well of Zhenzhuquan is not deep enough, it is not dry in the dry season, it is not rising in the busy season, it is clear all the year round, and the water source is far away. Maybe there is an underground water channel leading to Dali, Yunnan. There are many different opinions, but they can't solve the mystery.

Soon after, a more strange thing happened: the ancient well of Pearl Spring dried up all at once! There was no more water in the well, but hundreds of water snakes and frogs came out of nowhere

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