There is a ditch three feet above the ground. The water flows all year round. No cattle or sheep come to graze. Only monks come to wash their hair. The meaning of this poem is that the well is three feet wide and has only one passage. There is water flowing at any time of the year, but the cattle and sheep cannot drink water, and there is no grass. Only monks come to the well to get water to wash their hair.
This is a guessing game, a time-honored intellectual game that originated from the Chinese Eight Diagrams of the Book of Changes. Guessing means guessing something or text within a specified range through given suggestive text or images, etc., and according to certain rules. Among the forms of riddle guessing, Chinese lantern riddles are the most common, and the characteristics of Chinese characters and Chinese language are often used to consciously solve riddles.
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History
The Sandalwood Well is a large well famous in Dongkou County for thousands of years. The well is surrounded by naturally grown stones. , this well has been feeding thousands of people here for thousands of years, irrigating thousands of acres of grain fields here. The oldest man in Tanmu Village can’t tell clearly. Some say it’s hundreds of years, and some say it’s hundreds of years old. Said to be thousands of years old.
The water in the sandalwood ancient well comes from underground rivers, and there will be no drought for hundreds of years. Water comes from the mouth of the cave. The water flow is so large that it is used to irrigate farmland.