The magical ancient well in Huzhen Old Street

There is also a magical ancient well at the corner from Xia Jie to Zhongjie. It is difficult to confirm when this ancient well was built. The ancient well has two parallel circular well sites, which look like a pair of eyes looking up at the sky, hence the name "double-eye well". Next to the well, there used to be an "Eye Well Temple", in which two carved golden dragons were enshrined, walking in clouds and spitting out clear springs. The "double-eye well" is not deep and crystal clear. But no matter how long the drought lasts, or how many people take water continuously, they keep the original depth and are inexhaustible. Nobody took water for several days, and it never overflowed. "Eye well" water quality is clear and sweet, warm in winter and cool in summer.

For thousands of years, residents of Huzhen have been drinking it every day, and passers-by also like to taste a few "double-eye wells" to quench their thirst. Founded in Jiaqing period and popular in nearby counties for a hundred years before liberation, "Yixing" winery yellow rice wine is famous for its spring water from binocular wells. What is even more surprising is that the water in the "double-eye well" can also be used to treat diseases. In hot and cool summer, if the child has prickly heat, it will disappear as long as it is washed with water for several times; In the cold winter, there are chilblains on your hands and feet. Just soak in the well several times. It is called "divine water"! Until the early 1980s, before the waterworks were built in Huzhen, the water in the "double-eye well" had been nourishing the people of Huzhen.

Today's "double-eye well" is full of historical and cultural connotations. Every year around October of the lunar calendar, many residents still carry water home to brew yellow wine!