Words About Guangdong said, “the water in the well is rich in minerals and sweet in taste and is the saliva of jade”“Zhao Tuo often drank the water and his skin was moist and smooth. He lived to over one hundred years without his hearing and seeing declining.” If there is enough evidence that the water in this well has such great effects, it is highly valuable in development and utilization.
With an important location, good-quality water and so many beautiful tales, King Yue Well easily attracted the attention of the palace and local authorities and inevitably fell exclusive to them.
Liu Gong, the king of South Han, had the well to himself and called it “Yuelong Spring” and “forbade the common people to use it”. Shu Dongpo, a great writer of the Northern Song Dynasty once wrote in a letter :“All the Guangzhou residents enjoy drinking the water in it, but only the officials have the access to the well”. Shang Kexi, King Pingnan in the early Qing Dynasty ordered his men to build brick walls around the well and to guard it and to warn: anyone who drew the water without permission would be flogged forty times.
During the years of Tianshun's rein of the Ming Dynasty (1457-1464), the Tongpan (the official in charge of trial) of Guangzhou prefecture listed the King Yue Well among the top ten renowned springs, which ranks the eighth. In the early years of the Republic of China, a warlord Long Jiguang wanted to cleanse the well and ordered tens of his men in turn to pump water.It took them two days to finish, which follows that the well has a large capacity. In old days in some famous teahouses in the city, the tea, made with the water from the well, attracted customers in an endless stream. In the 1950s, a number of residents still fetched drinking water from King Yue Well. After the 1960s, the environments around it got destroyed. The well failed to be maintained for long, and silt piled up at its bottom. Gradually, the water in the well became undrinkable. As a result it just remained a place of historic interest. In 1983, Guangzhou Municipal Government began to protect King Yue Well as a relic. Meanwhile, some persons suggested developing and applying the water culture resource of King Yue Well; even some persons had the idea of making use of the land by demolishing the well. Between the years of 1996 and 1997, a big dispute on “demolishing the well or keeping it” was widely reported by media, luckily ending in recovering its original appearance.
Now, King Yue Well has become a beautiful scenery zone. Behind a white horizontal stone board inscribe with King Yue Well, a pebble-paved path winds, its way to the well, which means a long history. A green tiled pavilion has been constructed the upper side. The walls and pillars printed in red and upturned eaves pointing to the sky. The pavilion is of classic beauty and in elegant taste. The decoration on the top of the pavilion is an imitation of the bronze scarlet Bird unearthed from Nanyue King Tomb. The architectural style of this is the same as Nanyue King Tom. The penetrating walls and the jade green garden are another view in the zone. Before long, a preliminary plan was put forward to recover six irrigation ditches starting from King Yue Well in the north to Jade Belt River in the south. Experts had an idea that six irrigation ditches all leading to the sea, will be reproduced in this way and King Yue Well is focused on. Great attention is being paid on the plan. |
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