White Horse Spring's Folk Stories
White Horse Spring is not only crisp and thoroughly brewed, but also warm in winter and cool in summer, and always keeps the water temperature above 10 degrees Celsius. In winter, the hot air fills the air in the pool, and the village women by the pool are not cold and their hands are not stiff; In summer, if someone steps into the swimming pool, they will grin with cold and shrink their feet as if they were gone.
"White Horse Spring" has no big spring eyes. Spring water gushes out from the bottom sand of the pool and never stops all year round, even in the dry year. It flows through Xiacun Village, Shanwai Village, Laohuwu Village and Changtanglong Village in Xia Yan, and flows to Jiangshan Port via Baidufan.
According to legend, the original cave of "White Horse Spring" is not in Shangcun, a natural village in Xia Yan, but in Shishan, a village in the northern suburb of Chen Da, which is the mountainside between Ba Du and Jiudu in ancient times. From the establishment of the county in the fourth year of Tang Wude to the early Northern Song Dynasty, there were villages in Jiangshan, which were unified by the county and the township. From the fourth year of Xining in the Northern Song Dynasty, they were all located below the township, and they were all located below. Since the fourteenth year of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty, the following maps have been compiled: county *** 12 township, 44 capital 133. Around the eighth year of Yongzheng in the Qing Dynasty, the capital and map were changed to Zhuang, and 12 township was 88 Zhuang. Badu Chongshan Township, Houliantangzhuang area; The nine capitals of Xujiang Township were in Chen Zhuang at that time.
It is said that in the sixth year of Daming Qin Long, there was a drought in the north of Jiangshan. Huang Chen locals killed a widow's son because they tried to fill White Horse Spring with white bellies. The widow complained to the county government. Magistrate of a county thinks that the disaster comes from White Horse Spring, and immediately orders the closure. At that time, the water volume in White Horse Spring was as big as a 18-foot waterwheel, and there were many Koizumi's eyes in the northern suburbs and Li Antang. The water-cooled rice is rusted, so are the people and gentlemen here. Immediately, seven stone ridges were built, seven dogs were killed, seven iron pots were built, and White Horse Spring, who could turn water with tung oil lime, was sealed. In the late 1980s, at the foot of the rocky mountain in North Point, there were still several stone mortars that turned water into "White Horse Spring". Just closed, "White Horse Spring" water in the cave noisy for three days and three nights. On the fourth day, Wu Qixing (about five or six cars and water) gushed from Shangcun in Xia Yan Natural Village and Qian Dian Village in Hushan Street (formerly Qian Jing Village in Hejiashan Town). Therefore, these two newly gushing springs are both called White Horse Spring (there are also half-cars of water from Tang Qingwu, a natural village in Daling, but they are not called White Horse Spring). In order to prevent serious water disputes from happening again in White Horse Spring, a new murder case has been found. At that time, the government listed White Horse Spring as an official spring and erected a monument for it.
The ancient county records: "White Horse Spring, under the real rock, everything is boiling, the water is 892, and the irrigation is very poor ..."
Shao Zhonglu's Notes on the White Horse Pass Spring: ... A place in White Horse Spring, the nine capitals, is contested by many people. Those who hold the inheritance contract of their ancestors and those who hold tax collection books ... are all named Baima Guanquan ". Officials are also public. Every time water is used, it goes up and down ... This lawsuit can beat Du, and everyone is convinced ... "
Wang Hao's White Horse Spring Survey: "It can be found that the source of White Horse Spring's general trend originated from Jiudu, three miles away, and the mountains are the eight capitals ... Although separated by mountains, there is a gap, which is about an acre. It is the land of Wang Zhishu, with eight capitals under it and flowing down the river without any perforation ... consistent with the word "up and down" in the tablet. This summer, due to the drought, Mao Tingzi and others were put into Ba Du from the mountain gate, but Mao Qiu and others obstructed the control, followed by Zhou Yilin and others, saying that Tingzi and others crossed the mountain and the county personally surveyed its water, which was really a downstream faction. Check the old records of the apocalypse, and there is no word increase or decrease with the recent records, and the corresponding records remain unchanged ... "
Visible, folk legend is right, White Horse Spring did come from Jiudu before, but its water not only flows in Jiudu, but also flows to Ba Du. The magistrate of a county in the fifty years of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty took things seriously, not perfunctory. It took a lot of effort to investigate the scene, go deep into the masses and consult the old county records of the Ming Dynasty. The verdict in this case is fair and clear, and he is a responsible official.
God dedicated such magical water to the local people. Instead of being grateful, they hate White Horse Spring. Everyone says that the bad water in White Horse Spring will make them pregnant! The reason is that the spring water is abundant and the fields and canals accumulate water all the year round. In addition, it is warm in winter and cool in summer, which is very suitable for the reproduction of Oncomelania hupensis. Schistosoma japonicum miracidium in water enters Oncomelania hupensis, becomes cercaria and remains in water. Workers are very easy to be drilled out by cercariae, and schistosomiasis is rampant among farmers in farmland here. A few popular jingles here in the past are enough to illustrate the seriousness of schistosomiasis here. It says:
White Horse Spring is so cool,
They are all like pregnant mothers;
There are several people in the theater,
The man was crushed to death with his chest at the bottom.
Previously, people didn't know that the potbellied disease was caused by Schistosoma japonicum entering the human body through pores and harming the liver, but mistakenly thought that it was caused by eating water somewhere. This is not wronged Bai Machun!
In the 1970s, with the help and guidance of the government, people here eliminated snails and sent away the plague of schistosomiasis. Shangcun people use White Horse Spring to build tap water; The township government of Zu Feng has also built a water diversion channel here, introducing the water from "White Horse Spring" into the Long Huayuan Reservoir, and irrigating a large number of grain fields after basking in the sun on the way, benefiting one side of the people.
2/kloc-today in the 20th century, White Horse Spring, especially its inscriptions, is regarded as a cultural heritage by people, and sometimes people visit it!