Jing Men-- My Hometown
By A Yahoo! Contributor, 6/17/06
Standing in front of a map of Wuhan, you are easy to ignore a small city named jingmen, she is so small that many people haven�t heard it at all. I felt so embarrass when she confused many classmates who asked me � Is jingmen also called jingzhou? I know it! It�s a very famous city in the history of china.� I explained, � Jingmen is not jingzhou. They are two different cities in WuHan.� They nodded their heads but asked me the same questions next time.
Jing Men is a city surrounded by two big mountains-�dong bao� mountain and �xi bao moutain�, which possess beautiful nature scenery and friendly citizens. There is a street called � zhong tian street� is the most prosperous place in jing men. Hundreds and thousands of people come here for shopping every year. If you went to jingmen, you couldn�t miss this street, where would tell you many things about jingmen and jingmen people.
�Dragon spring park� in Chinese �龙泉公园� is the only park in jingmen. There is a very romantic story about the �dragon� and �spring�. Long long time ago, a farmer has five beautiful daughters who were very famous in the village, one day, a dragon came to the spring which was the only water sources of the citizens. People hadn�t water for drinking for a long time, and many people were dying. The leader visited the dragon and asked him to leave here. In fact, the dragon was a kind creature and sympathized the people, but he still had a request that he wanted a girl to go with him, because he was lonely. The leader backed to village, and told the request of dragon to the citizens. But nobody wanted to contribute his or her daughter to the dragon except the fifth daughter of the farmer. She met the dragon and promised she will consort with him forever. 5 years later, the daughter backed the village with a very handsome boy; she introduced the boy as her husband to her parents. What�s more, she told information to the leader that terrible calamity would come to the village. Indeed, a fire damaged the whole village, however, nobody died. From then on, people found that the girl and her husband disappeared. It�s said that the boy was the dragon, and lost his all magic for saving the people, and left the village with his wife. However, his magic always protests the people who lived here.
Beside the park, many things in Jing Men use � dragon spring� as their names, for instance, the �golden dragon spring� beer, the dragon spring middle school and so on.
So welcome to jing Men! I�m sure you will fall in love with her, and were attracted by her own features and culture. You could discover more detail information about Jing Men by yourself!