shiyan lake hot spring shenzhen Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/shiyan-lake-hot-spring-shenzhen Sat, 25 Feb 2017 17:43:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.5 SHIYAN HOT SPRINGS SHENZHEN http://toursmaps.com/shiyan-hot-springs-shenzhen.html http://toursmaps.com/shiyan-hot-springs-shenzhen.html#respond Sat, 11 Mar 2017 12:20:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=233586 To Xiao Liu’s surprise we descended the mountain relatively unscathed and set out for Shiyan and its hot springs. These springs have been famous for centuries. The first mention of them that we’ve been able to find is in the Ming Dynasty Chronicle of Xin’an County, the county that subsequently became Shenzhen and Hong Kong. In the eighth year of the Tian Shun Emperor 1464, the Chronicle listed Shiyan Hot Springs as one of its Eight Great Sights and praised its medicinal qualities and steaming waters. We wound through factory towns; dusty streets set amongst spectacular mountains and soon we

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