Jump at Shengquan Spring,you will be rich all your life.
You must go to Shengquan Spring if you are in Beijing Fund Town; You must have a sip of the Shengquan Spring water when you go to Shengquan Spring; You must have a jump by the spring from Shengquan Spring after sipping. Why?
When you had a sip of the spring water that the Emperor Qianlong praises, have a slight jump by the spring, and at one moment, all the springs in the Shengquan Spring will flow out like jewelries and jades. That is as the legend - Jump aside the Shengquan Spring, live without lack of shilling!
Scientific Exploration of the "Spring Spurts for Shaking"
In the Fund Town, "spring spurts more severely once shaking occurs near the spring. Those originally invisible mouths of the spring appear just after someone stamps or jumps, in the countless number!" a local villager said, the mouths of spring seem to "understand" what people are thinking -- more "calling", more spurting.
Learning about such introduction in the Fund Town, visitors cannot help stamping and jumping aside the spring "Shengquan". With this, the wonder really happens - countless mouths of spring appear at the sound of the actions, bubbles emerge continuously from the bottom of the water to the surface, rippling as the pearls. By the time when the surrounding quiets down, spurting spring mitigates over time.
Why does "spring spurts for shaking" in the Fund Town occur? Is the spring really intelligent?
The place where Shengquan Spring locates has been being abundant in spring since ancient time. According to the local inscription, Guanyin Bodhisattva draft the holy water from the Jade Vase to scatter and transform into sweet and fresh water of Shengquan Spring; it is also said in a folk legend that Shengquan Spring is a fortunate spring that the Shangfang Mountain Ancestor fetched from the 72 springs in the mountain to relieve the drought in Cangzhou. This legendary stories reflect that the local villagers admire and pursue the kindness.
A massive water source exploration was implemented in Changgou Region of the Fund Town in 1975, for the first time, revealing the source of the "heaven-gifted water": the orogeny makes Yanshan Mountain and Taihang Mountain form two subterranean mountain ridges in this area so that the underground water from the west and the north directions gathers here. The upturning of ridges that close to the ground surface shapes the mouth of springs. Therefore, Shengquan Spring spurts for thousands of years without drain.
As for the mystery of the "spring spurting for shaking" in the Fund Town, one of the reckons is the hot spring phenomenon. The water of Shengquan Spring keeps permanent temperature 14℃ to 16℃ perennially. The hot water spurts out to the surface along the cracking under the high pressure and forms the hot spring. The reason for the "spring spurting for shaking" is similar to the principle of the pressure cooker.
In the Fund Town, another speculation is that accumulated sediment is transformed into a mud layer in the mouth of the spring. The specific gravity of the mud is larger than that of the water, resisting the normal running of the spring underneath. When shaking occurs near the mouth of spring, the mud and water in the mouth of spring change their specific gravity though mixing and sediment of the small grains of sand, which smoothens the path in the mouth of spring for spurting.
The Good Moral of "Jumping Spring Implicating the Money"
"Jumping spring implicating the money is a legend though, spring (Quan) and money (Qian) were closely connected indeed in ancient China. A Chinese dictionary Ci Yuan (The Origin of Words) explains: "Quan" (spring) is the name of ancient coins.
The coins had been called "Quan" since Zhou Dynasty. In the section Quan Fu of the charter Di Guan in Rites of Zhou, Jia Gongyan noted: "Quan and Qian are different names in ancient and modern time (both referring to the money)." It was named "Quan (spring)" because coin flows like spring. "Quan Fu" is the governmental body in charge of managing the fiscal and trade as well as mintage affairs .
The word "Quan" appeared on the coin at the end of Eastern Han Dynasty at the earliest. Wang Mang, the emperor at that time, replaced "Qian (money)" with "Quan (spring)", coining currency with different values including the 6 kinds of "Quan" currency as one of the values. Thereafter, the Kingdom Wu under the regime of Sun during the Three Kingdoms Period coined different coins including "Big Quan of Five Hundreds" and "Big Quan of One Thousand", Tang Dynasty and Five Dynasties coined "Qianfeng Quan Treasure" in the years of Qianfeng and "Yongtong Quan Goods" respectively. Therefore, "Quan" representing "Qian" was widely used and passed down.
Descendent intellectuals in the Fund Town liked using "Quan" to call "Qian" in particular, because "Quan" means elegance and modesty. Hong Zun of the Song Dynasty, wrote the first book on the study of Chinese coins of the past dynasties, 15 rolls in total, including more than 300 kinds of coins of all dynasties before the Five Powers within and out of ancient China. The book is simply named as "Quan Record" .
The Emperor Qianlong by the time stopped over at South Zhengxing Palace and visited the Shengquan Spring.
In the Fund Town, the theory of "Quan" and "Qian" sourcing from the same root and the concept of "keeping water to make money" in the traditional philosophical system of "Fengshui" endows more meanings of wealth to Beijing Fund Town. The answer to "Jump aside the Shengquan Spring, live without lack of shilling" remains undiscovered, waiting to be explored and found out by everyone.
Let's keep the sense of secret and expectations when wandering about around hills and waters in the Fund Town.
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