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Two horizontal parallels, two vertical parallels, and the intersection of two sets of parallel line segments create a simple and unpretentious Chinese character: well. The "well" is realistic, with only four strokes, like a top view, indicating that it nourishes life, irrigates the grain, and also waters a culture. "Well" is also a passion for the big idea, the book plunges into the earth and the sky, the book crosses the end of the world, not only let people see the well spring deeply, but also let people read the inexhaustible cultural stories in the long years, and taste the intertwining of the well culture and the Chinese civilization.
Since its invention, the well has become one of the important water sources for the chinese nation to flourish. The well that nourishes life, the well that irrigates the grain, the well that politics, the well that the military ... In the long years, the well flows out of the inexhaustible jade liquid of culture. In terms of the types of wells, there are more or less earth wells, tile wells, brick wells, stone wells, brick (stone) wood mixed wells and so on. As the capital of water culture, Wuxi also has countless ancient wells full of stories, which are either located in the mountain jungle, or lie quietly in front of the xiaoqiao people's homes, or scattered around the community of the village, which not only nourishes the local residents, but also spreads a wonderful local story.
1. Octagonal well
Octagonal Well is located on the east side of Xiangfu Temple in Lingshan Scenic Area, Mashan Street, Binhu District, Wuxi City. The existing octagonal well pavilion is all made of carved Jinyun stone pillars and stone slabs. It is supported by eight stone pillars inscribed with dragons. The inner side of the stone slab is carved with eight immortals and flowers and birds. There are eight dragons at the top of the pavilion, and the dragon head is outward, facing eight directions, reflecting the saying that there is a hidden dragon in the octagonal well. The four characters of "Octagonal Well Pavilion" were inscribed by Elder Mingshan.
The inscription records a legend about the octagonal well: it is said that in ancient times, there was a green dragon of Zhenhu Lake hidden in the well. At that time, the Huanglong of the East China Sea often entered the Taihu Lake to make the tide, the lake flooded, the disaster was everywhere, and the people did not have a good life. When the green dragon saw it, it burst out of the well into the lake, fought the Yellow Dragon, returned triumphantly, and lived in seclusion in the well. The bad place along the current well is what the Green Dragon did when it came out in anger. Folk nostalgia for the green dragon, known as "Dragon Well". Later, it was also said that every time Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty came to Xiangfu Temple, he would boil tea with well water and taste it, which was called "Double Dragon Society" by posterity.
Octagonal well
2. Ge Xianjing
Ge xianjing is located in the former site of Yunju Daoyuan in Xicun Community, Mashan Street, Binhu District, Wuxi City. Ge Xianjing, also known as Danjing. In Nishimura's Shrine, it is the most valuable spot in Masayama's many good springs. Gexian Well is two feet in diameter and about four feet deep, and the water quality is clear and does not dry up for many years. Ge Xian: Refers to the two ge, that is, Ge Xuan and Ge Hong. According to legend, this well is still the residence of Ge Xuan in the Jin Dynasty, and ge Xuan and Ge Hong used the spring water in this well to dissolve when they were practicing Dan here. Shenxian Temple, also known as Yunju Taoist Temple. It is the place where Ge Xuan and Ge Hong practice Dan, and there are relics such as the Baopuzi Meng altar. Ge Hong's work "Baopuzi" was first written at the Yunju Taoist Temple, and later completed at Luoshan.
Ge Xianjing
3. Sword Well
Jianjing is located in Wuxi Binhu District Mashan Street Guzhu Community Shengziling, on the rock on the west side of the Zhenwu Palace, about five feet in diameter, about five zhang deep, up and wide, cut down, shaped like a sword sheath of the well, called sword well. The top of the sword well is covered with wild roses, surrounded by wisteria, cool and elegant, and has a unique interest. Legend has it that Emperor Zhenwu of Wudang Mountain and Guanyin Yun of the South China Sea traveled through here, and saw the light on the Shengzi Ridge, and both of them knew that it was a treasure land. So each of them calculated, they both wanted to monopolize, and after consultation, the two of them took an object from their bodies and threw it into the sky at the same time, and whoever landed first, this treasure land belonged to whomever they belonged. Guanyin felt an Arhat coin on his body, and Zhenwu drew a sword from his waist and threw it into the air at the same time. Only to see the two things whirring and falling at the same time, impartial, the sword of Zhenwu plunged straight into the ground from the square hole of Guanyin's Arhat Qian, poking out a large hole in a huge rock, and suddenly became a stone well, which is the "sword well". According to records, the Zhenwu Xinggong Temple built by Emperor Zhenwu on this mountain beam was full of incense throughout the ages, until the 23rd year of the Kangxi Dynasty also added the Ling Palace, and the main hall was rebuilt in 30 years. Today, the "sword well" is still there, and the water is still as clear as before after the rain. The perimeter of the well is newly repaired and well preserved.
Sword Well
4. Jiang Chongzhen's hometown of Yuanjing
Jiang Chongzhen's hometown is located in front of the residence of Cai Village in Hudai Town, Binhu District, Wuxi City. Jiang Chongzhen is the Southern Song Dynasty Champion, the character is good and noble, the number is a plum, since childhood, intelligent, never forget to read. In the sixteenth year (1223) of Emperor Jiading of Song Ningzong, he was successively awarded the title of Jianjian Army and ZhaoqingJun. For the sake of honesty and honesty, cherish the people and love the people, and dare to give advice. He died of illness in his hometown in 1249. In honor of Jiang Zhuangyuan in his hometown, Zhuangyuanjing named the well he had used in his hometown Zhuangyuanjing. The wellhead is still good, the villagers still take the well water to wash it, the well has been covered with iron, and the well is repaired with cement.
Jiang Chongzhen's hometown is Yuanjing
5. Kaihua Fangquan
Kaihua Fangquan Ancient Well is a thousand-year-old well located in The South Spring Xuren Bridge, Taihu Street, Binhu District, Wuxi City. The wellhead is square, with a square fence and an antique well pavilion. According to legend, Ge Hong of the Eastern Jin Dynasty took water from a well to refine Dan Jishi. After the Ming Dynasty Yiren He Rujian raised the jinshi, he rebuilt the bridge well. On December 28, 2005, the people's government of Binhu Town, Binhu District, rebuilt the ancient well. The ancient well is built with a square fence, and an antique well pavilion is added to protect the historical monuments.
Kaihua Fangquan
6.Rokkakui
Hexagonal Well is located in the middle of the south step of the bronze statue of the Giant Buddha in the Lingshan Mountain Scenic Area, Mashan Street, Binhu District, Wuxi City. There is a well in the middle of the Ginkgo Square of Xiangfu Temple on the left side of Dengyun Road, called hexagonal well, which is an ancient well of the Tang Dynasty. According to historical records, the Xiaolingshan monks of the Tang Dynasty dug a well in the tea garden on the west side of the temple, a tea house well, for the purpose of cooking and drinking. Tea Saint Lu Yuyun traveled to Maji Mountain, looking for tea to Xiangfu Temple, found that the well spring was sweet and clear, highly respected, by being famous, after the stars moved to the bucket, after several wars, the well was still there, but the spring water became less, and the scenery was no longer there. Because the ancient well is located in a busy place in the scenic area, it is better remediated.
Rokkakui
7. Rong Lane Yang Lane Ancient Spring
Rongxiang Yangxiang Ancient Spring is located in Wuxi Binhu District Rongxiang Street Liangqing Road south, southeast of Plum Garden. The spring has a well circle at the mouth of the spring, the spring water is inexhaustible, shallow during the day, and it is full at night. During the Ming Dynasty, the Yang clan found it when settling down, it was found for drinking, and then gradually silted up, and then re-dredged in the early Republic of China, and built a path to the spring. In 2002, the circle was re-added to the ground. The ancient spring is now in the southern green belt of Liangxi Road and Liangqing Road Intersection Road. Due to the continuous use of nearby residents, the well circle has been damaged.
Rong Lane Yang Lane Ancient Spring
8.Ceiling Fountain
Patio Spring, also known as Xu Quan, is located in Xuquan Beverage Factory, Lujiang Village, Hudi Township, a suburb of Wuxi. According to legend, Wu Zixutun, the minister of the State of Wu, was in Lujiang, because the lake was muddy, and it was difficult for the military and the people to drink water. After discovering a depression that did not dry up all year round, Wu Zi immediately ordered his soldiers to dig it, and when he got a spring, he paved it with rocks to form a pond. The pond is rectangular, and the spring is seven or eight feet above the lake surface, and it is inexhaustible. Wu Zi said happily, "This is Heaven helping me Wu Junye." It was named Tingting Spring (a Tianjin Spring, also known as Xu Spring).
The water of this spring originates from the foothills of its northern mountains, so it is called the mountain patio. The water quality of the patio spring is mellow, sweet and refreshing, and it can be injected into the cup to raise the mouth of the cup without overflowing, so it is praised as "the first spring in the lake and mountain". This spring has been around for more than 2,500 years, and lujiang villagers have been drinking this spring for generations. The Southern Song Dynasty Xianchun's "Biling Zhi" said: "The east and west two wells are under the patio peak". This shows that during the Southern Song Dynasty, there were two patio springs. Only one sip remains. Built with rectangular blocks of stone. Well width 1. 5 meters, length 1. 95 meters, the water surface is about 2 meters higher than the water surface of Taihu Lake. In 1937, when the Japanese army invaded the Lu River, their military map was marked with a patio spring, and two soldiers were sent to guard the well day and night. After liberation, a regiment of the People's Liberation Army stationed in Lujiang drank the water of the patio spring every day, all year round.
Ceiling Fountain
9. Wu's well
Wu's Well is located on the west side of Hang Wenqing Residence in Zhangqing Community, Mashan Street, Binhu District, Wuxi City. The Wu Family Hall is the residence of Wu Yi, a ming wanli jinshi. At the beginning, there was a Nanmu Hall, which was magnificent in scale, which can be described as a carved beam and painting building, magnificent, and a famous luxury building for hundreds of miles. Later, the Wu family fell in the middle of the road, and this house was demolished and sold by a rich man in Dongshan. Wu's Well is located on the southwest side of the former Wujia Hall, and is now located on the west side of Hang Wenqing Residence in Zhangqing Community, Mashan Street. The well is about 2 meters deep, made of green bricks, and is a well of wu's family, which was dug by the ancestors of the Wu clan in the Ming Dynasty. The well is still in use.
Wu's well
10. Wu Wangjing
Wuwangjing is located on a hillside in Wanfeng Community, Mashan Street, Binhu District, Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province, on the north side of the ruins of WuWang's Summer Palace, which is part of the site. WuWangjing is located in the Wuwang Summer Palace, which is said to have been built by Wu Wanglu, and WuWangjing was called Wuwang Ancient Palace Well. The Tang Dynasty poet Luo Ye once had the "Two Songs of the Ancient Palace Well of Wu Wang", one of which was: "After the ancient palace was flattened, I saw that the cultivators had chiseled it out again." I found the jade engraving, and at that time, who was given by Grace. "In 1983, the local villagers re-dredged the well, which was about 7 meters deep, with rocks and stones, and the water was very clear. It exists in a peach forest, basically no one comes, and it is generally preserved.
Wu Wangjing
11. Snow Wave Bade Dragon Pond
Xuelang BadeLongtan is located in the tea room on Xuelang Mountain in Gedai Village, Xuelang Street, Binhu District, Wuxi City. Bade Longtan is located on the west side of Xuelang Mountain in Binhu District, and was excavated by monks during the Reign of Qing Shun. During the Kangxi Dynasty, Zen masters continued to practice. There is water in the pool all year round. In the old days, it was drinking water in the nunnery. When Xuelang Street was built on Xuelang Mountain, Bade Longtan was able to be repaired in full front. It is currently well protected and the spring water is clear.
Snow Wave Bad Dragon Pond
12. Hidden King Spring
Yinjun Spring is located in front of Meiliang Xiaoyin (Xu Shuwei's former residence) in Taowu Village, Mashan Town, Binhu District, Wuxi City. Xu Shuwei's former residence (also known as Meiliang Xiaoyin) is located in Xiaoshu Bay under the Taowu Ridge in the southeast of Mashan Mountain, and is the former residence of Xu Shuwei, a famous doctor in the Southern Song Dynasty. Xu Shuwei, the word Zhike, the number of one hundred sand, and the number of near the spring. The year of birth and death is unknown. In the fifth year of Shaoxing (1135), the fifth jinshi, the official Hanlin scholar, who had vigorously advocated the resistance to the Jin dynasty, and later saw that Emperor Gaozong of Song was partial to the south of the Jiangsu Province, had no intention of making a big move, committed adultery and harmed loyalty, lost power and humiliated the country, and saw that the general trend had gone, so he abandoned the official and returned to this place. He personally valued the three reins of the tree and got the name of the three reins of the old house. Xu Shi is proficient in Qi Huang, immersed in medicine, medicine is famous far and wide, does not receive any money, there are "Class Proof Puji Ben Fang", "Typhoid Song" and other famous books. There are more than 30 original buildings in the former residence, but due to its long age, only one entrance and two courtyards remain. The well is said to be a relic of the time.
Hidden King Springs
13. Longan Spring
Longyan Spring is located in the south of Zhangqing Village, Mashan Street, Binhu District, Wuxi City, and the south of Jingnan is a small river bang. Longyan Spring is located in The Village of Lingqing, in front of Day Mountain Tsui, also known as Day Mountain Spring, is the largest spring in Mount Ma. The diameter of Longan Spring is more than one inch, about three feet deep, the spring is turbulent, the spring is wide, the water quality is clear, and the water taste is mellow. The drought does not dry up, the rain does not overflow, and it can be drunk by thousands of people. It has been renovated and has protective measures such as stone monuments and well bars.
Longan Spring
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