The Five Dragons Pond is located in the west of Jinan, Shandong Province. It is also known as Wulong Pond, Longju Spring. The Jin "Famous Spring Tablet" located here described the gray bay spring. It is located in the north of the Luoyuan Bridge, 100 meters east from the moat. The pool is built with stones and is rectangle in shape. The length is 70 meters and the width is 35 meters with the water depth of 4 meters. The pool's water gage is 25.80 meters and it wells up water from year to year. The water volume is 8,600 to 43,000 cubic meters per day.
There is a legend that the deep pool is not measurable. The legend has it that it will rain every time there is drought; therefore a temple in the deep pool side (Yuan Dynasty) was constructed. Peek from within; there are vivid shape statues with dragon head, dragon beard and body in five directions of the dragon immortal. They are the five sons of the dragon king to guard the place; hence the place was named as Five Dragons Pond. The water temperature is about 18 ¡æ It steams here during the deep winter. There are several red fishes in the pool, where the length is several feet and the thickness like barrel. The year from which the breed was reared is unknown.

Name:Jinan Five Dragons Pond Spring Group (Wulongtan Quanqun)
City:Jinan
Address:North Gate of Baotu Spring Park
Admission:CNY5
Hours:7:00am-7:00pm
Tel:0086-531-86921741

This article was posted on 2007-09-25
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