The Hot Spring River, with its flowing water, grasses, trees, bridges, wigwams and pavilions, and neon colors, is a beautiful jade belt quietly surrounding the northern part of Fuping County, telling the history of the vicissitudes of life and witnessing the magnificent transformation of Fuping today.
The Hot Spring River is named after its water, which is slightly warm in winter. Its source in the village of Nanshe Longwang, the river on both sides of the springs starring, like a sow's breast, folk commonly known as the "Sow River", and its downstream beaches are rich in reeds, also known as the Reed River. River from the northwest and south, around the floating mountains to the old county north and east, to the village of Nanyang halachuan spring into the southeast to the head of Lintong into the realm of the sink Shichuan River into the Weihe River. The territory is 25 kilometers long, are 4 meters wide, with a watershed area of 600 square kilometers. In the past, the hot spring river water gurgling, weeping willow, reed lush, rice lotus, fish fat crab cross, fishing iso people shadow, raccoon creek women, constitutes a vibrant, beautiful and moving natural picture.
The Hot Spring River is the mother river of Fuping, she is warm and moist like jade, nourishing the land of Frequent Yang, nurturing the civilization of Fuping. Qing Yi people Hui Zhisuke "tour hot springs" poem Yun: "Cham Cham warm wave far, according to the flow of interest is not rare. The trees are deep and the warblers' voices are fine, and the stream is quiet and the waves are faint. Empty green even nesting pavilion, wild smoke hidden fishing isle. In the fall wind, the white egret still flies under the reed." Qing Yi Han Wen "hot spring spring bath" poem praise: "sun warm red dipping jade wave, fat fragrance near from the Han Palace over. Thin platform cloud sprinkled sky root rain, Fending dragon turned the bottom of the river. The shadows of the fishermen are all over the place, and there are many laughing women in the streams of Wunsa. Zhongshan can be like the victory of Mount Li, do not envy Huaqing to Su'e." The hot spring riverbed is green mud bottom, the river valley is narrow and deep, both sides for the gully terrace. After the seventies, due to the upstream construction of reservoirs and groundwater overdevelopment, hot springs river cut off the flow of the loss of the past scenery, had no choice but to become a reception of sewage and flooding of the "Longshu ditch", people often cover their noses, in the county and the old man's memory of searching for the hot springs river's youthful elegance and beauty of the legend.
Walking into the Hot Springs River Wetland Park, all year round, the scenery is very different, each with its own characteristics. In spring, see the grass and trees spitting new buds, ginkgo river willow show new branches, white magnolia spitting, quiet in the bright moon lake to listen to the spring tide; in summer, around the quiet path, see the green shade, pole pole bamboo to meet the wind, tail tail golden scales Xiang shallow, ten miles of frogs to celebrate the harvest, the square dance in the happiness thick; in the fall, the persimmon fragrance, hawthorn point red, a piece of the maple leaves to write the autumn; winter, the green pine proudly, the waxed plum smiles, if a flying snow, silver! If there is a snowfall, the silver armor, that is a northern scenery, a Chinese landscape scroll. (Zhao Xiangwu)