Chapter 47 From drinking mineral water, I think of "the best spring in the world"

In recent years, I do not know which nutrition experts in Europe and the United States suddenly discovered that drinking mineral water is the most beneficial to the body.This initiative, no matter men, women, old or young, everyone drinks mineral water.Recently, an authoritative professor in the United States on groundwater research said: "Taiwan's groundwater is extremely rich in reserves, and contains iodine, phosphorus, iron, calcium, inorganic salts and other ingredients. Normal, high cholesterol, poor blood circulation system, thyroid and other diseases, not only have the function of treatment, but also have the effect of prevention. In terms of beauty, there are nutrients that moisturize the skin, prevent acne, and help development.” Therefore, The first step is to send two proud students to Taiwan for prospecting, sampling, analysis, and testing. If the preliminary measurement is satisfactory, he will come to Taiwan in person for re-examination and re-inspection to confirm and expand its use.

The author remembers Dr. Miller, one of the world's top ten famous doctors, when he first gave lectures at Peking Union Medical College Hospital in the 16th or 17th year of the Republic of China. He also talked about the issue of drinking water. He said: "Water is an indispensable and important substance in everyone's body. There is no danger of life if you don’t eat in the sky, but if you don’t drink water for three days, you can’t live. From this, we can see how important water is to our life. Some people who don’t know much about hygiene like to drink distilled water often. It is the least nutritious water. The water we drink every day must contain an appropriate amount of minerals to promote the metabolism of the human body. It is standard drinking water.

"Some people, especially children, like to drink soda and cola as a daily drink, because soda and cola have more sugar and calories. For obese people, excess calories are not good for the body, especially for people with diabetes, which is more likely to cause illness. Deterioration. Some people say that beer is the best drink, and the biggest benefit of beer is diuresis, but drinking too much and taking in too many calories will still damage the kidney function. Especially the more you drink, the more you will expand your belly, which is also a burden. So strictly speaking, drinking mineral water with a proper amount of minerals as a drink every day is really beneficial to human beings!" During his lectures at Peking Union Medical College Hospital, he was able to practice it himself, and went to Yuquan in the western suburbs whenever he had the opportunity Get some spring water from the mountain for daily drinking.

The emperors of all dynasties in China, Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty, knew how to pay attention to drinking water.Wherever he goes, as long as there is spring water in the locality, he will always try to teach people to drink and taste it. If he thinks the water quality is clean and meets his appraisal standards, he will always give him a good name, or give him the first place in the evaluation. Several springs.At that time, although there were three famous gardens in the suburbs of Beiping, Yuanmingyuan, Jingyi Garden, and Summer Palace, and three famous mountains, Cuiwei, Xiangshan, and Miaofeng. Extremely crafted, great sightseeing area.It is a pity that there are too few water sources. Not only the green bamboos and cang vines in the palace gardens in the western suburbs are all due to the spring water of Yuquan Mountain, but also the lake water in the three seas, and the Shihongqi grass in the Royal Garden is also thanks to the gurgling and clear flow of Yuquan. It's thriving.

Although Yuquan Mountain is rugged, it does not occupy a wide area. The spring water rushes out of the chaotic rocks like snowballs.The jade dragon walks through the pool and merges into a pool of water. The wind spring is lingering, clear and clear to the bottom, so the spring water has a strong compression force, propping up the sky and bursting into the ground, and the stars are clustered together, which is magnificent and abrupt.This small lake has a towering terrain, touching rocks and spewing clouds, vibrating rocks down, dragging to rush to the spring, and converging from the lakeside into a three-foot-wide stream. Because it is Yuquan betting, everyone calls it Yuhe.Don't look at this trickling stream, which flows eastward into the canal of Beitongzhou. In the past, China's north-south waterway transportation, and the northward transportation of grain, rice and groceries from Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces all depended on this waterway to subsidize the lack of land transportation.

Emperor Qianlong appraised the famous springs in various places. As a result, the spring water of Yuquan Mountain was designated as "the best spring in the world". It can nourish Qi and lighten the body, nourish and nourish the skin.In particular, the smooth flow of materials from the north to the south is a great achievement, so it can be called the best in the world.Specially in front of the Dragon King Temple at the foot of the mountain, the imperial pen and the stone are used to mark its prosperity.It is said that since the Ming Dynasty, the drinking water in the imperial palaces of the Ming and Qing dynasties was transported into the palace by boat from the Yuhe River, and it was only in the Tongguang period that the water was transported in a carriage with a yellow flag.Yuquan Mountain From the Liao, Jin, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, the emperors of all dynasties listed Yuquan Mountain as a summer palace. It is indeed a good place to escape the summer heat.In particular, all the landscapes are authentic, simple, elegant, and elegant. I think this is the least affluent garden among the official royal gardens in Beiping.Ding Wenjiang, a geologist at the time, said: "The spring water of Yuquan Mountain is one of the world's famous mineral springs, and the scenery of Yuquan Mountain is also an ancient painting. , That is really a fool who has neither eyes nor taste." Mr. Ding's words, I felt the same way at the time, so they are deeply imprinted in my mind until now.

The author was very active when he was young. During the summer vacation, when I went to Xishan camping with a few friends, I passed by Yuquan Mountain. Everyone planned to drink some spring water to rest their legs before going to the city. In Yuquan Xuanzhu, there were bursts of refreshing cold waves, and the heat disappeared immediately. Four or five people wanted to jump into the lake for a good swim.However, Yuquanshan Soda Company set up a factory nearby to make soda and draw mineral springs. At the same time, the vortex of the spring water has too strong suction, and tourists have always been prohibited from swimming in the lake.The administrator guessed our intentions at a glance, wandering around and looking around.

Among our companions was Li Weinian, who was the holder of the 400-meter record in my country's participation in the Far East Games.Since tourists cannot go into the water, he asked the administrator to go to the lake to salvage. The administrator said that the spring water is warm in winter and cool in summer, and it is extremely cold in the hot summer, so no one in the garden dared to go down to salvage.As soon as Li Weinian heard this, he immediately jumped into the lake without taking off his clothes, followed by Ni Yinxin, a student from Tsinghua University, who followed the camera at the bottom of the lake, but couldn't touch it.The four of us on the shore saw that the situation was not good, so we immediately connected the camping tent ropes together, tied one end to a tree, and the four of us went into the water in a single file. However, just after entering the water, the water temperature was biting, and the suction was so strong that it was unbearable. get rid of.Maybe Li and Ni's Xiashui area is the main vein of the spring.The four of them gritted their teeth, and they finally clenched their teeth and did not let go of the rope. They dragged Li and Ni out of the water after a desperate struggle.Li is a good athlete, with a strong physique and a clear mind. Ni Jun is a white-faced scholar, and he is dying when he is pulled up.

There is a small teahouse outside the gate of Yuquanshan Palace that sells Nanlu shochu on behalf of them, so we bought a large bottle of burning knives. It took two hours for Li and Ni to stretch and bend their limbs freely, and the camera was no longer needed.As soon as we left the garden gate with our heads down, we passed by a small shop. The old shopkeeper had already cooked a steaming pot of brown sugar ginger soup, and invited each of us to drink two bowls to drive away the cold. The old shopkeeper said: "Everyone knows that the spring water is warm in winter and cool in summer, but no one would have expected that the spring water in Yuquan Mountain would be so cold that the marrow would condense and crack the bone. Yan Chasan took the golden seal of the nine-headed lions of the eight government inspections. Although some of them are exaggerated by the ministry of speech, some of them are indeed well-founded and not just talking about it. Let's take Yuquan as an example, and Bishuihantan It’s not the same. My small shop has been open for more than 20 years. Every summer, there are always three or two groups of students. When I came to Yuquan Mountain, I didn’t feel the benefits of the best spring in the world.” While talking, he poured ginger soup out of a rice bowl, “Look.” Sure enough, the ginger soup overflowed the bowl, and it was as thick as a silver dollar, but the soup didn’t overflow, enough It proves that the weight of the spring water here is different from that of ordinary river and well water.

Later, when the author returned to Beiping, I once tasted Lu'an melon slices soaked in Yuquan water.From then on, I realized that the tea in the imperial palace was rarely drunk alone with red and green tea leaves. Although the types of tea used in each palace were different, most of them were mixed with melon slices, pearl orchids, narcissus, and Longjing.Because the drinking water in the palace is the mineral spring of Yuquan Mountain, several kinds of tea must be blended to show its beauty of fragrance and clearness. Jinan, Shandong is a city with the most springs in North China.The locals say that there are 72 famous springs inside and outside the city, and of course the Baotu Spring in the west of the city and the Pearl Spring in the Supervisory Office are the most outstanding among them.But after the author tasted it, the water of Baotu pearls was used to make plain tea, to clarify Yiman, and it was as sweet as sipping dew.But after changing scented tea, it tastes green and pungent. As the saying goes, it smells like cooked soup. I don't know why.

At the foot of Feilai Peak in West Lake, Zhejiang, there is a cold spring, which is a well-known spring that has been passed down through the ages as "Where does the peak come from, and when does the spring get cold?"The water from this spring is used to make tea, and the cup does not overflow. Although the spring water is sweet and smooth, it is not cold.According to old tourists from the West Lake: "The temperature of the cold spring is lower than other springs on average throughout the year, especially in summer, and it is not so cold that it hurts the skin. Therefore, some people say that the cold spring is not worthy of its name. Actually wrong." I have seen and drank a lot of spring water in Taiwan, but most of the spring water in Taiwan belongs to hot springs and is suitable for bathing rather than drinking.There is a cold spring in the Suao area, and most people go to the cold spring to take a bath.Once I specially took some hot springs for tea. After tasting it, it was a bit like the Sixth Spring of Pingshan Hall in Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province. Ganping Shuyu is very interesting, but the tea used should be green rather than red. I don’t know if there are any friends who study the classics of tea. This feeling.In addition, one year the author traveled with a large group of people to Yanzikou Tianxiang in Hualien. Passing the Changchun Ancient Temple on the Changchun Bridge, a torrent rushed down the high rock cliffs like a dragon.The author wiped his sweat with a towel on the jagged rocks. Unexpectedly, Fengquan Lingling is very similar to the cold and beautiful spring water of Yuquan Mountain. Unfortunately, I didn't bring a bottle and can to try it.If this water is Daoshan Spring, the water quality must be a top-quality mineral spring. Recently, Taiwan's nutrition experts and medical authorities have also advocated drinking natural mineral water, and a company in Taipei has begun to sell mineral water for human consumption.Hong Jun, Chief Physician of the Civil Aviation Administration, has researched that people with diabetes who drink 1,000 milliliters of natural mineral springs a day for a long time can gradually reduce blood sugar and blood lipids.If this kind of clinical trial is effective, everyone will probably drink mineral water as a daily drink; the value of mineral springs will be lively for a while.