At the foot of Tangshan Mountain, 6 kilometers northeast of Chaohu City, there is a resort for convalescence, rehabilitation, vacation and excursion, the Half Tang Hot Spring Tourism Resort. Its unique and magical hot springs tourism charm, attracting guests from all over the country to vacation and leisure, convalescence and health care, holding meetings, negotiating business, is a hot spot favored by tourists.
According to the "Sui Book - Geography" in: Xiangan County (that is, today's Chaohu City) has a half of the Yangshan Mountain, the mountain has a soup, 2 mouth flow of hot springs, less than 1,000 meters away from each other, one for the cold springs, one for the hot springs, the two springs at the confluence of the cold and hot in each half. People marveled at the wonder of this spring, and called it "half-soup".
Half Tang spring water, hot and cold, clean and clear, out of the ground generally in 55C, containing more than 30 kinds of internal elements, of which each milliliter contains 80 to 120 eman radon gas, rare in China. It has been identified by the national authoritative scientific research institutions that Half Tang produces both hot springs for bathing and mineral springs for drinking, with superior grade and excellent quality, comparable to the world-famous 8 major mineral waters for drinking, and has extremely precious development value. The spring water has obvious therapeutic effects on more than 50 kinds of diseases, especially on the motor system, nervous system and skin diseases have the best therapeutic effect.
According to the Huan Yu Ji, "All those who hold the disease drink and bathe in this soup, no effect"; men and women, young and old, after this bath, all have "worry as if the muscles and bones change" of the relaxation of the feeling of pleasure. Therefore, the ancients called the half-soup "the place of nine blessings". Hot springs contain more than 30 kinds of active elements, can treat a variety of diseases, but unfortunately for thousands of years did not get the rational development and utilization, has been "kept in the bosom of the people do not know." Until the spring of 1938 when General Feng Yuxiang returned to his hometown, donated funds to build a half-ton bath, only half-ton hot springs really play its role.
As early as the spring of 1937, General Feng Yuxiang returned to his hometown of Zhuko Village with his entourage and stayed here for a month. One day he brought his adjutant and two guards in civilian clothes, over the test knife mountain to visit and bathe in the hot springs. At that time, there was no real bath in Hantang, only a short wall blocking a pool, rain and snow because of the wind and rain and often unbearable to use, and there is no women's bathroom. General learned of all this, extremely distressed. Republic of 26 years, half of the soup how there is no women's bathroom? General has always advocated equality between men and women, and immediately found the head of security, the squire, proposed that the old custom should be eliminated, the construction of women's bathrooms.
The chief said, "The township is poor and can't get the money." The general recruited the adjutant and asked, "How much money do we have left?" The adjutant replied, "Sir, we planted trees in Xiaofoling, built the school building in Yuanshan, and subsidized the poor have already exceeded the spending plan, and the rest is only enough to cover our expenses for the reverse journey." The general pondered a little, that is to say to the bailiffs and burghers, "I will come back next spring to build the half-temple bath."
General Feng did not renege on his promise, in the spring of 1938, the general returned to his hometown and once again with his entourage to the half-tang. This time he donated 2,000 silver yuan, personally handed over to the local gentry Li Ruhai, Sun Yelin, for the purchase of bricks and wood, building men and women's bathrooms, leaving a Zhao quartermaster supervise the project.
Not in January, twelve brick and wood structure of the bathroom was finally completed, the north six for women's bathrooms, south six for men's bathrooms.
The day of completion, the villagers spontaneously set off firecrackers to celebrate the birth of the women's bathroom. Because the bathroom is General Feng donated funds to build, he has long said that no bath money, whether rich or poor, noble or lowly in this bath are equal, so the bathroom door crowded with men, women and children of the four townships and eight neighbors. At that time, the Chao County Governor Guo Rutai emotionally to, pen on the Tang Dynasty poet Luo Yin's poem "drinking water fish heart know cold and warm, Maundy people feet to know the hot and cold."
And as a couplet engraved on both sides of the bathroom door to remember the general's feat.
General Feng donated funds to build the half-soup bathroom, there are two new initiatives: that is, the half-soup for the first time there is a real bathroom; Chao County also for the first time there is a women's bathroom. Unfortunately, after the fall of Chao County during the war, the Japanese invaders set up a stronghold in the half-soup, burned, killed, looted and plundered, resulting in the half-soup bathroom destroyed after the reform and opening up, the province, the local government, the city accelerated the pace of the development of hot springs resources, but also strengthened the management of hot springs tourism resources.
A block of different styles of sanatoriums, resorts, hotels, such as spring, rising, building groups scattered, pink walls and tiles, magnificent and elegant, rows and rows of a building hidden in the shade, sanatoriums bloom in the four seasons, fruits end of the year, the environment is quiet and elegant, medical equipment is advanced, strong technical force. In recent years, the resort has built open-air hot springs tourist pools, tennis courts, bowling alleys, gyms and other amusement facilities, and planning to build a golf course.
Recently, 10 sanatoriums, resorts and hotels have jointly established the reception center of the half-spring hot springs tourism resort, *** with nearly 2,000 beds, which can receive more than 200 people to participate in the meeting at the same time and receive more than 3,000 people for meals.
Half Tang Hot Springs Tourist Resort is close to the new people of Hechao Wuhu Expressway, Chao containing the highway from the south through, every day there are dozens of classes of buses to and from Hefei, Nanjing, Wuhu, Ma'anshan, and the county, Henshan, the public **** car to and from Nestle City, half Tang, the traffic is extremely convenient. The general's soul has passed away, but the general's heart will be remembered in people's hearts. General can be consoled is today's half of the soup, has long been playing the brand of hot springs, pavilions abound, become a retreat, leisure, vacation, tourism resorts.