Why is Fuzhou a hot spring city?
Fuzhou is a hot spring city. In the northeast of the city, there is a hot spring belt, starting from Shudou in the north, reaching Wangzhuang in the south, Wuyi Road in the west and Liu Yi Road in the east. It is 5 km long from north to south and wide from east to west 1 km. Hot springs overflow, boiling beads and steaming springs. The exposed area of hot springs accounts for about 7% of Fuzhou, and there are hot springs in Gui Hu, Tang Hong, Hongyu and Pukou in the neighboring areas. In these places, hot springs abound, so there is a saying that "bathing in Fuzhou". Fuzhou has a long history of using hot springs. During the Jiayou period of the Northern Song Dynasty, there were more than 40 kinds of official soups and private soups, which were used for bathing, health preservation and treatment. There are14,000 tons of hot springs in Riyong, Fuzhou.
Hot springs are generally composed of shallow medium-warm water and deep high-temperature water, with excellent water quality. Water contains dozens of minerals beneficial to human body, such as sulfur, calcium, magnesium, iron, fluorine, chlorine, radon and sodium. Taking a bath in the hot spring pool after traveling can not only relax muscles and relieve fatigue, but also have a certain effect on treating skin diseases and rheumatoid arthritis. Fuzhou Jintang Hot Spring Resort is currently the largest scenic hot spring resort in Fuzhou.
The bathhouses on Fuzhou Hot Spring Road are all made of real hot springs, such as hot spring bathhouses and waking spring bathhouses, which are all the consumption levels of the working class. Tea Pavilion Fan Shi Fuzhou Tea Pavilion Fan Shi Music originated in Chating Street, Taijiang District, Fuzhou. Located in the north of Taijiang District, it is a famous handicraft street in Fuzhou. According to the poem "Rongcheng Late Ci" written by Zheng's poetry anthology "Copying Poems from Shame and Deficiency" in Qianlong period of Qing Dynasty, Minshan Temple was crowded at night and children played outside the moon for ten times.
These poems are enough to reflect the lively and joyful occasion of Fan Shi music in Fuzhou at that time. Traditional musical instruments include flute, bucket crown, coconut beard, cloud gong, wolf string, gong, cymbal and drum. With the continuous development and evolution of music, sheng, wooden fish and other musical instruments have been added. Fan Shi's musical instruments are very old. As early as the Northern Song Dynasty, when Fujian musician Chen Liang and Le Shu lived, there were records of wolf strings and fiddling pipes. Fan Shi's music can be played in two forms: sitting and walking, and its arrangement is very particular. It is mainly used in folk activities such as welcoming gods, people's weddings and funerals, family banquets, etc. The tunes of Fan Shi's music are mostly based on the relationship between man and natural society, reflecting certain artistic conception, and some even show ancient legends and stories.
The capital of banyan trees came to Fuzhou, full of green trees. Among the green trees in the whole city, the most striking is thousands of banyan trees. Fuzhou banyan was planted in a large area in the Northern Song Dynasty. In order to fight floods, Zhang Boyu, then the magistrate of Fuzhou, advocated that every household should plant banyan trees, and vigorously advocated that people should plant banyan trees, and the wind of banyan trees spread throughout Fuzhou. So the name Rongcheng has been passed down to this day. The banyan trees in Fuzhou bear witness to the history of Fuzhou. In the forest park in the northern suburb of Fuzhou, there is an ancient banyan tree with a huge crown, which is called the king of banyan trees. It is said that this tree has a history of nearly a thousand years and was planted when Zhang Boyu advocated the cultivation of banyan trees. The crown of this ancient banyan tree is the first in Fuzhou.