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JinShan Hill is a small hill in ZhenJiang City,
JiangSu Province. It is located on the side of the YangZi River. It
is famous for its JinShan Temple which attracts millions of tourists
every year. About half a kilometer west to the JinShan hill, there
is a well-known ZhongLing spring. In Tang Dynasty it was called the
NanLing water and ranked as the best water by the scholar Liu BoChu.
ZhongLing spring was probably the most special spring
in China: it was located in the middle of the YangZi river, and
always merged in the river water. Therefore it was very difficult to
get the real ZhongLing water: it could only be obtained at specific
time (between 11am - 1 pm, or 23pm - 1am) in the day, with some
special device, such as a rope with a specific length and a brass
bottle. Only when people
 dropped
the bottle to the cave in the bottom of the river at the special
time, they could get the real ZhongLing water. Otherwise it was only
the water of YangZi River. That was why it is highly valued by many
tea drinkers.
The real ZhongLing water is very good for the tea drinkers. With
this spring people can make very delicious tea. Man scholars and
celebrities wrote down articles and poems about this spring.
In the recent one hundred years, the YangZi river has moved its
river bed to the north. Therefore the south bank of the river has
extended. Today the ZhongLing Spring has emerged from the bottom of
the river and connected to the land. The local people has built a
kiosk and a stone fence on its side. On the fence the calligrapher
Wang RenKan wrote down "the No. 1 Spring". Now it is a famous resort
in ZhenJiang City.
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