The 9 springs that can be recalled in the village of Tiechangbao are:
1. Guotaigou spring.
The Guotaigou Spring is at the end of the west end of the Guotaigou, and the water output is not large, and it is because of this spring that the Guotaigou Reservoir was built here around the 1968s. It is only because of the leaking water in the dam that the reservoir is now in a state of abandonment.
2. Sweet spring eyes.
Ganquanyan is located on the north side of Mantou Mountain, below the southwest end of Lingoudong Mountain, on the side of the road leading to Changyuandi. The amount of water produced is okay, there are a few purple-red round boulders around the spring, we call the stone of that color azuki because it is close to the color of adzuki beans and is very hard. (At that time, there was a legend that the plane would lose control when it came here, reduce the flight altitude, and it was suspected that there was ore in Lingou Cave Mountain, and it was the attraction of the ore that affected the flight of the plane, and later the relevant parties had come here to investigate whether there was ore.) Is the name of the iron factory related to this place? In the fruit tree field on the south side of the forest dog cave mountain, I did see something like slag that seemed to smelt ore. After all, China's ancient iron smelting industry began in the Western Zhou Dynasty, more than 3080 years ago. In the 60-70s of the 20th century, many ironworks fort men went to Qiupigou, Jiguan Mountain, Ma'anshan, Lao Song Xigou, Beishimenzi, and Cone Mountain Gorge in winter to cut firewood, set off in the morning, cut enough 8 bundles to use the flat shoulder back, when passing by Ganquanyan, there was the "post station" of the firewood bearers, we all had to rely on those few giant bean stones, put down the picks to rest, and at the same time to replenish water, that is, to drink water in Ganquanyan.
3. (East) Dafeng Mountain Spring.
Located on the north side of Li Song's tomb, below the sunny slope of Dongdafeng Mountain, there is a small spring, trickling, which provides a sweet spring to quench the thirst of our children who come to Dafeng Mountain to cut yellow fur.
4. Big apple tree ditch spring.
The big apple tree ditch is located in the south of Li Songfen, there is a big apple tree on the west side of the ditch, on the edge of the ditch in the northeast corner of the apple tree field, there is a spring, this spring is not everyone can go there to drink water casually, because it is close to the apple tree, the fruit guards do not allow others to approach the fruit tree field, and we can not go to this spring to drink. It is only in autumn, when the fruit is harvested, that you can go here to cut firewood or scratch the leaves of the fruit trees to see the true face of this spring.
5. Baitu Cave Spring.
This spring is located on the west side of the white soil cave ditch, and the soil on the edge of the ditch has collapsed, and I can see not only the spring of bubbling water, but also the white soil in the soil layer. Except when we come here when we dig white soil, we rarely come to such a far place.
6. Han Quanyan.
Han Quanyan is named because it is located in Han Xuezhongdi, this spring is bubbling non-stop, the water flow is large, the water quality is good, it is close to the village, and the farmland of the three teams is in the vicinity, so this spring is the most beneficial to the three teams. Around 1970, my family's own land was divided here, and I had to work in the fields in spring, summer, and autumn, and drink water from this spring every day.
7. Poplar ditch spring.
The poplar ditch spring is located at the southernmost end of the ditch. Because someone dug a big pit under the spring to store water, and when there was too much water, the spring was flooded, so we didn't drink the water very often. Moreover, it is very close to home, about 300 meters, and when you are thirsty, you go home and drink water.
8. Wolf ditch spring.
The wolf ditch is on the south side of the Nanshan beam, the spring is located at the east end of the wolf ditch under the south side of the bottom of the ditch, because it is far away from home, inaccessible, if there are few partners in the same company, we rarely go to the wolf ditch spring to drink water. But when the grease tree and the Bibi tree bloomed, we went down to the bottom of the ditch and went to the southern slope of the wolf ditch to collect these flower branches.
9. Bingdianzi Spring.
Bingdianzi Spring is located on the shady slope of Dongdafeng Mountain, which is the junction of the Iron Works, Wang Fengtai 18 Team, and Dongsonglingzi, and the residential area is the farthest away from here, and it is a place that is inaccessible. I went in once, that is, in the winter of 1975, the production team sent me to participate in the fruit tree team Chuansong Luozi, the fruit tree captain Fan Yinrong had a serious facial expression, demanding, we dared to stop and look at the spring, only care about labor, no time to patronize the spring, so I don't know the true face of Bingdianzi spring. The reason why it is called Bingdianzi is because the water flowing from the spring in winter forms a large sheet of sparkling white ice.
Why do you know so much about the springs on the hillsides around the village of Fort Ironworks? Because there were no mineral water bottles or thermal water bottles in that era, in short, there was no container for water that could be easily carried, but the glass bottle at that time was a metal cap, and the bottle was not tightly covered after opening, and it was impossible to carry water with him to work, and people could not do without water, so they could not do without the spring, and the spring left a deep impression on me and our substitution.
A few years ago, I went to the springs, Ganquanyan, and Hanquanyan of the Guotaigou Reservoir to take a look, and these springs are no longer as clean as they used to be, and no one has pulled out the grass around them, and some springs have been dug up. Now that there is bottled mineral water and pure water, there is no need to drink the "pouting tail tea", and the spring has completed its historical mission.