Cape spring

Cape spring

Cape Ganquan is located in the southeast corner of Shenquan Town, Huilai County, Guangdong Province. In the Song Dynasty, it was a fresh water spring on the beach. In the Ming Dynasty, it was built into a spring well. At that time, Su Fu, a child prodigy, wrote a one legged couplet: "it's easy to pick up and carry without exhausting. It's only plain to soak in brine and steam.". During the reign of Emperor Qianlong of Qing Dynasty, Wang Wei, the magistrate of Huiyi County, built a sweet spring Pavilion, carved Su Fu's couplet on the pavilion column, and erected a stele to write articles. For hundreds of years, Shenquan has attracted many literati to continue the couplet. In the Qing Dynasty, sages chanted the poem "there are wonderful sceneries at the end of the world, and there is a sweet spring at the corner of the sea". Later, it was renamed "Cape spring".

Cape spring

Cape Ganquan is located on the coast of the South China Sea and in the south of East Guangdong. There is a beautiful port city with a long history - Shenquan town.

Many magical legends have been made up about the Cape spring, which has evolved into a "divine spring". During the reign of Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty, Wang Wei, magistrate of the county, built a pavilion beside the well, carved Su Fu's couplets on the pillars of the pavilion, and wrote on a stele. There is a sentence in the poems of the Qing Dynasty that "there are wonders at the end of the world, and there is a sweet spring at the Cape", which gives rise to the nickname of "sweet spring at the Cape". Couplet; already Huilai County thermal power plant; "choose to carry but not exhaust, let brine soak salty steam, only standard plain." "There's no end to pulling and conveying, no end to counseling, no end to everything."

Into the hometown of child prodigy

On the coast of the South China Sea and in the south of East Guangdong, there is a beautiful port city with a long history - Shenquan town. It is the gateway of Huilai, the largest fishing port of Jieyang and the main port of foreign trade.

During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, there were immigrants from central China and Fujian. In 1372 ad, the prodigy Su Fu was born in this beautiful seaside town. At the age of 8, the child prodigy, with his supernatural thinking and ingenious imagination, wrote the famous poem "thirty night moon poem" and shocked the government and the public. It was appreciated by Zhu Yuanzhang, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and was chosen as the child prodigy.

Shenquan has a long history and splendid culture, especially children prodigy's Kirin color pen shining with a dazzling halo, so that this beautiful port city exudes the unique charm of ancient culture and modern civilization.

It's often said that

"When it comes to benefit, it comes to God, and when it comes to God, it comes to spring." In the southeast corner of Shenquan Town, there is "Cape spring", which was near the beach in ancient times. In the Song Dynasty, people found a fresh water spring beside the beach. The spring water is sweet and clear. It is inexhaustible and can remove heat and evil. It is more magical than medicinal stone. In the Ming Dynasty, people built it into a spring well. A sweet spring pavilion was built next to the houquan well. A stone tablet was erected in the pavilion. During the reign of Emperor Qianlong of Qing Dynasty, Wang Wei, the magistrate of Huiyi County, wrote a tablet record of Su Fu, a child prodigy, who led people to draw water here. There is a saying: "therefore, the spring is shown by people, and the city is also known as the spring." This may know the origin of the name of "Shenquan".

A pavilion column on the left side of the stone tablet

There is a child prodigy Su Fu's one legged couplet: "choose to carry and never exhaust, let the brine soak salty steam, only standard plain." The one legged couplet of child prodigy attracted literati, scholars and generals to write the second couplet. Although there are good couplets, because the first couplet was written by a child prodigy, no one has ever engraved the second couplet in the pavilion column, making the child prodigy's first couplet a unique scenery forever.

"Yuhua pagoda" stands about 200 meters south of Ganquan. It was built in Qing Dynasty. It is a seven story octagonal solid pagoda. It is a sign of the return of fishing boats. From afar, it looks like a rafter, writing magnificent poems on the blue sky. There is a couplet written by Wang Wei, the magistrate of Huiyi County of Qing Dynasty, in the gate of the Pagoda: "the shadow of the river flows into cangming, the waves are quiet, the whale and the giant salamander are early seen; the cloud and the Han are high marked, the star is touched, the dragon is rising." Under the tower, new octagonal piers and abutments are built around the railings, and the scenery is elegant.

Along the cement road of Yuhua pagoda to the west, winding to the south, and then to the west, is Xigang wharf. It is said that this is the best place to see "mirage".

It's recorded in books

The mirage in Shenquan town is one of the three major mirages in China. It often appears in the southwest of Shenquan port at the turn of spring and summer.

It is said that one afternoon in March 2005, a large orange cloud appeared on the southwest side of the port, slowly drifting eastward. All of a sudden, some colorful clouds turned into sailboats and sailed here by the wind. Those sailboats came together and turned into an arched bridge. Neon lights were flashing on the bridge and the traffic was scattered. Since then, the mirage has changed a lot and is extremely beautiful.

The south side of the West Port is the harbor, and the bend of the harbor is the south bank. Close contact with the sea, barefoot on the soft beach, under the feet came the breath of the sea. Holding a handful of sea water is not interesting to splash; holding a wisp of sea breeze in your heart makes you feel proud.

With the development of economy, people's aesthetic taste is becoming more and more elegant, and "moon watching on the south bank" has become a new landscape of Shenquan since the reform and opening up.

Every year on the night of the Mid Autumn Festival, people in Shenquan town and surrounding towns, men and women, old and young, take a ferry to the south bank with fireworks, red candles, fruit drinks, dried squid and moon cakes. Some are surrounded by sand walls on the beach, lighting fireworks and candles, tasting wine and chatting with each other; some are playing in water and waves, picking up shells, enjoying the moon and watching the sea, sharing the happiness of family. Young men and women date here and pray to yueniang. On the night of the Mid Autumn Festival, it has become a "Valentine's Day" for young people in Shenquan and its surrounding towns.

Looking at the sea

Another beauty of Shenquan is the Yandun in the southwest highland. When you climb here, you can see the sea from the south. It's a unique realm. I saw the vast expanse of smoke, the flying gulls, the boats undulating with the waves. When the fishing boats go out to sea, thousands of sails race, such as a warship going out to battle. When the fishing boats enter the harbor, they are like ten thousand horses galloping, and like a sea of soldiers returning triumphantly. The scene is very spectacular. The view of the sea from a high altitude broadens people's horizons, makes them relaxed and happy, and makes them think freely. This is "Yandun Wanghai".

Address: southeast corner of Shenquan Town, 236 provincial road, Huilai County, Jieyang City

Longitude: 116.31115930596

Latitude: 22.96621148241

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