Information on Wangfang Hot Spring in Liling City, Hunan Province

Magical Spring Pond There is a natural pond in the middle of the ridge in Wenquan Village, Wangfang Town, Liling City, covering an area of ??more than 30 acres. The water in the pond is warm in winter and cool in summer, so the locals call it a spring pond. The water in the spring pond is so clear that you can see the sand and stones on the bottom of the water. Fish and shrimps are swimming, and the aquatic plants are swaying. You can see clearly. Interestingly, the lower the temperature is in winter, the higher the water temperature is. Even in the ice and snow, the water temperature in the spring pond is above 10 degrees Celsius. Therefore, Quantang is deeply loved by the local people. The spring pond is full of water all year round. The strange thing is that there is no water source around, and the water surface of the pond is 6 meters higher than the water surface of the river more than 400 meters away. The spring pond has never been dry when there was no dry water in its history. The water from the spring pond irrigates 900 acres of fertile farmland in 18 groups in Wenquan and Maple Village. Even in a severe drought year like last year, the harvest of these fertile fields will not be reduced due to water shortage. Quantang is a natural treasure house. It has inexhaustible natural fertilizers. There is a kind of moss growing in the pond, and the fertilizer effect is quite good. When the weather is fine, local farmers pick up the moss, dry it and put it in the fields. Local Mr. Wu told us that before liberation, Quantang supported many poor farmers. These poor farmers fished out the moss and exchanged it for rice in wealthy families. A load of moss is exchanged for a liter of rice. There are endless fish and shrimp in the spring pond. The local people never need to release fry and can eat fresh and tender fish and shrimp every day. The carp inside is golden in color and delicious. The largest carp weighs 3 to 4 kilograms, and crucian carp has more shrimps. A hard-working farmer can catch five or six kilograms of shrimps in one morning. Quantang has always been named "Gong", and anyone can come here at any time to catch shrimps and fish.

Quantang is a natural paradise for local people. People of all ages in Quantang Village can swim. In summer, the spring pond is a paradise for children, where they swim, play and fish. Even adults and children from surrounding villages come to the spring pond to swim. It's midsummer, and no less than 200 people go to the spring pond to swim and take a shower every day.

Local farmers are also optimistic about this natural market, and they have set up stalls by the pond one after another to start a "tourism economy". They can say that they have all the swimming supplies they need