{"id":2471,"date":"2019-09-17T11:15:16","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T11:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.seafog.net\/QuickNotes\/?p=2471"},"modified":"2019-09-17T11:15:16","modified_gmt":"2019-09-17T11:15:16","slug":"jinan-the-spring-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seafog.net\/PeresRamblings\/jinan-the-spring-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Jinan – The spring city"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Jinan is the “Spring City”- Here “spring” is not the name of a season… but rather rather the meaning of “spring” referring to water coming up from the ground. (This recognizes Jinan as a town with an abundance of water that springs up from beneath the ground.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My hotel is a short walk from a number of popular springs, which tend to be wrapped in extended gardens and park areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I visited the “Five Dragon Pond” site, and “Baotu Spring”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Enclosing the old part of Jinan is a somewhat rectangular, spring-fed canal. One tourist brochure uses the word “moat” to describe it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Next, I visited a neighborhood that includes a large Confucian temple complex and a series of old residential alleys that have been mostly converted to shops. To get there, I rode in a tiny three wheeled contraption (In America we call these “tuk-tuks”, using their Thai name). This bone-jarring ride involved careening from street to street in a vehicle that seemed to ignore all traffic flow rules.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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