Guide Hot Spring

Guide Hot Spring, situated in the valley of the south of outside mouth of Dragon and Sheep Canyon and over 20 li away from the county, rises on three sides with dangerous rocks and folding peaks. The stones on the mountain are burned black with little vegetation covering on the mountain. The deep valley and stone chinks spurt Hot water, which becomes hot spring. From the surface of the spring steam rises, this is too hot to be touched by hands. Put a ware containing eggs in the hot spring, the eggs can be boiled within twenty minutes.

One can take a shower about 200 meters off the spring mouth, but the temperature is a little bit high. It is a beautiful legend that in the beginning at the creation of the world ten suns hung in the sky, which burn hot weather everywhere, people can not live. At that time a hero called Houyi shot down nine suns with his consummate archery, leaving one sun in the sky; in this way the disaster was settled down. But the nine suns didn't take that lying down; they got into the ground scattering on the ancient China and displaying their prowess. The one in Yongzhou stayed in the underground of Wende Hot Spring; it was scorching hot, which made ground water often boiling and spurting out of the ground to form a hot spring. People who suffer dermatosis, cymodynia and physique ache and so on, from Qinghai, Gansu and Sichuan or other neighboring provinces, walk for a long distance to the spring for curing and recuperation.