Hui Quan on the HuiShan Hill (Top picture: the calligraphic title "the No. 2 Spring" at Hui Quan Spring. )

HuiShan is a small hill in WuXi city, JiangSu Province. HuiShan is famous of its springs, especially HuiQuan, the so-called "the second best spring" by the Tea Saint LuYu.

The water of HuiQuan Spring comes out of a stone hole on the hill and flows through three water pools. The first pool was considered the best of the three, because it is closet to its origin.

Since it was called the second best spring by LuYu, HuiQuan has attracted hundreds of scholars and celebrities here to try its water. In the HuiChang era (814-846 AD) of Tang Dynasty, the Prime Minister Li DeYu lived in the capital Chang-An city, more than one thousand miles from HuiQuan, he ordered the local governors to send HuiQuan water to Chang-An for his daily drinking. It has been a notorious story in history.

In the Song Dynasty, the Emperor HuiZong assigned HuiQuan water as a royal contribute and sent the water to the capital BianLiang regularly. In the Qing Dynasty, the great Emperors KangXi and QianLong both visited HuiQuan and tried the water by themselves.

There are also so many poems and articles about HuiQuan. Today, there is a small kiosk by the HuiQuan spring, with some engraved calligraphy written by famous calligraphers. In the 20th center, the Chinese folk blind musician AhBing came here, inspired by the amazing peace and refreshment of HuiQuan, he created  he monumental Chinese ErHu music "the Moon Reflecting in the HuiQuan".