There is an ancient well sheltered by a pavilion in the Langjing Lane, Xiyuan Road, Jiujiang district. The well circle has deep rope mark and the wall of the well is full of moss. The water in the well is clear and limpid. This is the earliest historical relics in Jiujiang, and it was also referred to as the Guanyin Well and Rui Well.
According to Jin Zhang Jian 's "Xunyang Records”: This well was built by a great soldier named Guanyin of the Western Han Dynasty in Gaozhu six years (201 B.C.) while he was leading his troops stationed in Jiujiang, hence the name Guangyin Well. The well was filled with water many years later. During the Three Kingdom period, Sunquan was once stationed in Jiujiang. He found the place suitable with the well located there and have Shi Hanjing the inscription with the article: "Chinese six year Ying Yin marquis opens." Next cloud: "300 years later will be filled and will be opened by a famous man not filled for hundred years." Sunquan gloated and thought it to be auspicious, thus named the well Rui Well.
"The wave well's wave sound" was one of the ten scenic areas in Jiujiang in ancient time. Li Bai thought the well was near Yangtze River, and the mouth of the spring interlinked underground, thus the river has wave. Su Shi's view is: the well has the mouth of the spring at the bottom, underground is filled with brave aquatic, thus the well water has the wave sound. No one knows who is right, and no one is interested in the answer after more than a thousand years.
A man named Sang Qiao has recorded this issue in "Lu Mountain Matter" during the Ming Dynasty and during the Jiajing year, someone dug a well to dig the mouth of the spring in Xunyang Beimen. The well water emerged mighty waves with sound and so was corresponding with the river. The flow couldn't be stopped so this person panicked and padded the well. It seems like the spring mouth will form the wave well when being dug so we seemed to have found the answer of the wave well riddle.



Name:Jiujiang Wave Well (Lang jing)
City:Jiujiang
Address:
Admission:Free

This article was posted on 2007-09-25
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