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HuQiu is located 3.5 kilometers from SuZhou city, the capital of
JiangSu province. It is a famous resort in JiangSu. For over two
thousand years it has been called "the most beautiful resort in Wu
(today's JiangSu)".
It is said that the Tea Saint LuYu lived in HuQiu for almost ten
years. Here he worked hard to make his tea book and study the
relationship between tea and water. He digged a spring out of the
rocks in HuQiu. The water was very good for tea. He called it the
fifth best water. The water even amused the
emperor. Since then the JiangSu people started to drink and
cultivate tea.
Another Tang Dynasty scholar Liu Bochu called HuQiu Spring "the
third best spring". Today "the third spring" is still engraved on
the stone cliff beside the spring. |
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