20220223 Gray soup water is famous

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While on duty during the Chinese New Year, I received a call from an out-of-town tourist asking if he could go to Ningxiang Huitang to soak in the hot springs during the Chinese New Year. After asking where he was, it was a medium-high risk area, and he was advised not to come for the time being. After the epidemic stabilized, he was welcome to visit Huitang.

Why would a foreigner want to go to Huitang for a hot spring bath when his family is reunited? It must be because of the reputation of Huitang Hot Spring.

Ningxiang Huitang Town is famous for its hot springs. Gray soup hot spring, referred to as Tangquan, is commonly known as gray soup pot. The water temperature of the hot spring is more than 80 degrees all year round. It is a high-temperature hot spring. It rolls like boiling water and can cook eggs and sweet potatoes. It's called soup, just right.

Huitang Hot Spring has a long-standing reputation. It has a history of more than two thousand years.

There is a record in Jin Shenghong's "Jingzhou Ji": "There are hot springs in Xinyang County (the former name of Ningxiang County). The winter moon has not yet arrived, and when you look for miles away, you can see white steam floating in the air. Like smoke, the upper and lower colors are reflected, and the shape is like a sparse thing."

Pei Xiu, the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty, Zhu Xi, Zhang Shi, the scholar of the Song Dynasty, Yi Zu, and Tao Ruding, the academician of the Imperial Academy of the Ming Dynasty, all visited Futang here. , chanting in the wind.

Xue Xuan, a scholar in the Ming Dynasty, once left a good saying: "The water and hot springs are favorable for drinking, and the rain comes in the dragon's cave to admire the magic."

The Qing Dynasty scholar Liao Sen's poem "I also want to find pleasure in Yishui, the mountains are worse than the Huaqing Palace" is a popular poem.

Wang Wenqing, the censor of the Qing Dynasty, and Wang Kaiyun, an academician of the Hanlin Academy, once went to Huitang to hold the Winter Falcon Poetry Party and the Duck Wine Party, leaving behind a string of poems and anecdotes that were passed down to future generations.

Gray soup duck grew up drinking hot spring water. It has tender meat, rich marrow and delicious taste. It is known as "soup duck", also known as "grey soup tribute duck". In the Qing Dynasty, local officials used it as a tribute, which could reduce taxes and was valued as a delicacy.

In the "Compendium of Materia Medica" written by Li Shizhen, a medical scientist in the Ming Dynasty, it was recorded that hot springs and boiling springs contain sulfur. Even if the water is hot, it still smells of sulfuric acid. It is mainly used to treat various types of wind, muscle and bone contracture, stubborn skin numbness, hand and foot paralysis, no eyebrows and hair, scabies and other diseases in the skin and joints. Huitang Hot Spring has a preventive and curative effect on skin diseases. Many skin patients come from far away to bathe in the hot spring. It is said that it can relieve itching and relieve pain, and can be cured after several times.

Huitang hot springs and natural scenery, which are both wonders and medicinal properties, have now been developed into international hot spring tourist resorts and leisure resort towns. There are many 5A-level hotels and hot spring sanatoriums in the town, attracting daily tourists. Like weaving, guests and friends from all over the world.

Guests from far away, don’t be anxious. When spring returns to the earth and the epidemic goes away, the beautiful gray soup will open up its treasure land to welcome the distinguished guests, and the spring breeze will greet the God of Wealth.