According to legend, Huishan Spring was tasted by Lu Yu in Tang Dynasty, so a Lu Ziquan was named "the second spring in the world" by Qianlong Imperial Seal, located in Xi Hui Park at the foot of Huishan in the western suburbs of Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province.
Huishan Spring was called "the second in the world" by Lu Yu, the "Cha Sheng" in the Tang Dynasty. Kun Li, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, called it "humanistic spirit".
According to legend, in Tang Dynasty, Lu Yu assessed the world water quality as 20, and Huishan Spring was listed as the second spring in the world. Later, famous tea men Liu and Zhang in the Tang Dynasty called Huishan Spring the second spring in the world, so people also called it Er Quan. Shen Li, a poet in the middle Tang Dynasty, once praised: "In front of Huishan Bookstore, there is a clear spring under the pine and bamboo trees, which is the spiritual liquid of the world and crystal clear." Wash your mind, the water you get from tea is delicious. "In Song Huizong, this spring has become a day to pay tribute to the court. Zhao Mengfu, a scholar of Hanlin in Yuan Dynasty and a great calligrapher, wrote the five characters "The Second Spring in the World" specially for Huishan Spring, which is still well preserved on the back wall of Quanting. At that time, Zhao Mengfu also sang a poem about this spring: "Huishan Spring, an ancient temple in the southern dynasties, wrapped in the name of Er Quan, went to the north after your kindness, and wild flowers sang and birds sang." "
origin
Huishan Spring was excavated by Lingjingcheng in Wuxi from the first year to the twelfth year of Tang Dali (766-777). Huishan got its name because Zhao Hui, a monk from the ancient Western Regions, built a house nearby to practice. In ancient times, there was the word "Hui" and "Hui", so it was called Huishan. Huishan spring originated from an ice cave and flowed out to become a spring water. The spring pool is first built into an upper pool and a middle pool. The upper pool is octagonal, with eight small square columns embedded with eight stones as columns, and the depth of the pool is more than three feet. The spring water in the pool is of good quality, transparent in color, sweet and delicious. The middle pool is next to the upper pool, square, light in water and unique in flavor. In the Song Dynasty, a big rectangular pond opened below, which was actually a fish pond. Yang Lite, a sculptor in the Ming Dynasty, carved a decapitated head on the wall of the lower pool. This decapitated head looks like a dragon, commonly known as a stone faucet. The spring water in the middle pool is injected into the big pool through the stone faucet and spews out all the year round. There is an Yilan Hall in front of the pool for tea drinkers to taste tea. Su Dongpo once wrote a poem here, saying, "It will be full of dust."
history
Huishan Spring is famous all over the world, and tea drinkers from all over the world come here to draw the second spring water, especially the dignitaries. When Li Deyu, the prime minister, was in Tang Wuzong, he was addicted to drinking Er Quan, so he ordered the local officials to send someone to Chang 'an, three thousand miles away, to make tea by a "delivery shop" (a special transportation agency similar to a post office). Su Dongpo was well versed in the saying that "Shelley tea smells different" in Song Dynasty. During the reign of Xi Ning, he "took only a small group of moons in the sky and tried Er Quan in the world". After he tasted it, he praised it again and again, and compared the spring water to milk water, telling people that "the milk water army should be Hui Quan". When Zhao Gou, the first emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty, was forced to flee south to Wuxi under the pursuit of Jin Jun, he still liked the tea in Huishan Spring. The Er Quan Pavilion by the spring was built by local officials to welcome Zhao Gou.
In the Northern Song Dynasty, some dignitaries and celebrities in Beijing often traveled thousands of miles by boat to transport Huishan Spring to Kaifeng. In order to prevent water from deteriorating after a long journey, people have explored the method of "folding and washing Huishan Spring" in practice. According to the fourth volume of Qingbo Magazine in Hui Zhou, Huishan Spring was transported to Bianzhou by water and drenched with fine sand, so it was called folding Huishan Spring as new. Rain with fine sand, that is, filter water with fine sand to remove its dust, dirt and odor. Huishan spring water was also a gift given to each other at that time. Ouyang Xiu, a great writer, wrote ten volumes of Records of the Historian in 18, and asked his good friend, great calligrapher and tea master Cai Xiang to preface it. Ouyang Xiu called it "the words are particularly exquisite and precious to the world". In order to reward Cai Xiang, he carefully prepared four kinds of gifts, one is a moustache chestnut brush, the other is a copper pen container, the other is a large and small dragon group tea, and the other is a bottle of Huishan spring water, which counts as a fountain pen. In the Ming Dynasty, people who paid attention to tea tasting longed for the name Huishan Spring, but after all, foreigners could not get Huishan Spring, so they had to be Huishan Spring instead of Zhenhuishan Spring. Zhu Guozhen in the Ming Dynasty described this method as follows: first, boil ordinary water, put it in a vat, put the vat in a shady place in the yard where the sun can't shine, and open the cylinder cover until the moonlight is bright at night to withstand the moisture of dew at night. After three nights, gently scoop the water into the porcelain altar with a ladle. It is said that making tea with this kind of water is no different from Huishan Spring (Chong Zhuang Xiao Pian), so the spring water made by this method is called "self-brewed Huishan Spring".
water quality
Huishan Spring is a kind of landscape, that is, flowing groundwater is filtered through cracks in rock formations, so it contains few impurities and is "sweet" and "light" and suitable for "frying tea". Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty measured the water volume of famous springs and Huishan Springs in various places as per barrel 1204, which was only slightly heavier than that of Yuquan Water in Beijing. In recent years, after many tests, the spring water of Wisdom Mountain contains minerals such as calcium, magnesium, carbonate and trace radon, with high surface tension. The water does not overflow a few millimeters above the cup mouth, and the water quality is clear and transparent without any harmful substances. Compared with the drinking water quality of the World Health Organization, the United States, Japan and other countries, it is indeed the best drinking water in the world today.
Alienation and addiction
Because Huishan spring water is "excellent", many ancient tea experts come to discuss it. Shu Hua summed up the "three differences" and "three loves" of Huishan Spring in A Brief Introduction to Er Quan: "There are three differences in springs, two pools in pavilions, a round pool in sweetness, no square pool and one difference; A mirror is clear, dry, and flowing freely, and two differences are also; Spring is chilly, like cutting, which is sweet and warm, and is beneficial to the spirit house. There are even three addictions: boiling will cover charcoal fire and inferior copper and tin utensils. If they are paid in a pot, they will be unbearable and addicted; Wine country tea bowl is a great achievement, cooking and drinking is ground, anti-refined boxing, and two addictions; " Wood products will taste bad when used temporarily, but they will remain unchanged for a long time in the basin, which is also a three-addiction "This" three differences and three addictions "is actually a detailed analysis and summary of the characteristics of Huishan spring water and the taboo of tea cooking.