Longjingquan

Longjingquan

Longjing spring is located in Fenghuangling, west of West Lake, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province. It is an exposed karst spring. The original name of Longjing spring is Longhong, also known as Longqiu. It is a spring named well, and a well named village. Longjing Village is one of the five famous producing areas of West Lake Longjing tea in the world. Longhongquan has a long history. Longjing spring is not dry due to the great drought. The ancients thought that it was connected with the sea and had a hidden dragon, so it was named Longjing. It is also known as "the third spring in the world".

geographical position

Longjing spring comes from the mountains and rocks. It tastes sweet. It doesn't dry all the year round. It's as clear as a mirror. The water of Longjing spring is composed of groundwater and surface water. The proportion of underground water is relatively large, so the underground water is below and the surface water is above. If you stir the spring in the well with a stick, the spring below will turn to the surface and form a water dividing line. When the underground spring sinks again, the water dividing line will gradually shrink and eventually disappear. It's very interesting. It is said that this is due to the difference in specific gravity and flow rate between the existing spring and the new spring. However, some people think that it is due to the high surface tension of Longquan water.

Longjing Temple

Beside Longjing spring, there is Longjing temple, which was built in the seventh year of Baoda in the Southern Tang Dynasty (949 AD). There are also scenic spots such as Shenyun stone, Dixin marsh, yipianyun, etc. nearby, there are Longjing, xiaocanglang, Longjing tea, birdsong spring, etc.

Longjing

To the west of Longjing spring is Longjing Village, which is rich in West Lake Longjing. Longjing tea is famous for its green color, fragrance, mellow taste and beautiful shape. Since ancient times, many celebrities have come to Longjing to visit, drink tea and taste spring, leaving many beautiful poems praising Longjing spring tea.

Longjing is located in the southwest of Hangzhou West Lake, near the watershed of longhongjian upstream between nangaofeng and Tianma mountain. With beautiful mountains, gurgling springs, dense trees and quiet environment, it is a famous scenic spot outside the West Lake.

Historical allusions

In the 13th year of Zhengtong reign of the Ming Dynasty (A.D. 1448), a "dragon throwing bamboo slip" was found in Longjing, on which was engraved a message praying for rain from the "Dragon God of Shuifu" in chiwu reign of the eastern Wu Dynasty. It can be seen that Longjing was already famous during the Three Kingdoms period. Because there is a spring well here, which is not dry in a severe drought, it is said that in ancient times, when there was a drought, I came here to ask for rain. I thought that this well was connected with the sea, and there must be a dragon in it, so I called it "Longjing" (also called "Longhong" and "Longqiu"). There is Longjing Temple beside the well. It was first built in 949 A.D. in the second year of Qianyou in the later Han Dynasty and has a history of more than 1000 years. There used to be a saying of "eight sceneries" near Longjing, but now there are only three. Next to Longjing spring, there is a huge limestone stone, about 2 meters high, which looks like Youlong. It is engraved with the word "Shenyun", so it is called Shenyun stone. Next to the road below Longjing temple, there is a huge stone more than 3 meters high, which looks like clouds. This is a cloud. A cloud, northeast of the road, there is a pavilion, formerly known as two old Pavilion, according to legend is the Northern Song Dynasty presided over the Longjing Temple eminent monk discern just out of Fenghuangling to meet Su Dongpo place. Su Shi has visited Longjing many times, leaving behind "people say good water is also good, under the eternal jiaolongtan.".

In longjingquan area, a large area of exposed limestone layers are inclined to Longjing. Such geological conditions create favorable factors for groundwater to continuously converge to longjingquan along bedding fissures. In geomorphology, Longjing spring is just below the watershed pass of longhongjian and Jiuxi, where surface water collects. To the west of Longjing spring is the towering Qipanshan Mountain, which has a large catchment area and luxuriant plants on the surface, which is conducive to blocking the infiltration of atmospheric precipitation into the underground. These infiltrated surface water enters the crisscross limestone karst fissures, and finally flows down the Longjing along the bedding fissures and gushes out of the surface. As the supply source of Longjing spring is quite rich, it forms an inexhaustible spring.

Because of the abundant source of Longjing spring water, certain head pressure and flow velocity, a negative pressure area is formed near the well pool. Before overflowing, the water in the original well pool first converges to the negative pressure area. Due to the effect of surface tension, the water above the negative pressure area rises slightly in front of it, forming a boundary with the negative pressure area. This is the unique Longjing spring“ The "water dividing line" seems to divide the spring water into two parts, which is more obvious after the rain due to the large amount of spring water supply.

Longjing green tea

In addition to spring and scenery, Longjing is famous both at home and abroad for its high quality and world-famous "Longjing tea". Many tourists come to Longjing to taste the fragrance of Longjing flowers. Longjing tea is green in color, flat in shape, smooth and neat. It is famous for "green in color, rich in aroma, sweet and refreshing in taste, and smooth in shape". Every spring in March, spring flowers bloom, "Shifeng", "Longjing" up and down, layers of tea forest a new green. In manpo tea garden, there are three or five groups of tea picking girls, with tea baskets around their waist, singing tea picking tunes and laughing at new teas, which brings a lively scene to Longjing mountain village. Longjing Village is rich in Longjing tea, especially Shifeng Longjing.

tourist resources

Now Longjing is a scenic spot integrating spring name, tea name and place name, and integrating spring interest, tea green and scenic beauty. There is an endless stream of tourists enjoying the water, enjoying the scenery, drinking tea and having a rest.

Address: Fenghuangling, Xihu District, Hangzhou

Longitude: 120.10975027084

Latitude: 30.223513578394

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