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Origin of the name

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Legend of the origin of

Crescent Moon Spring in, Mingsha the formation there is a story: Once upon a time, there is no Mingsha Crescent Moon Spring, and a sound Temple. Eighth day of April a year, the temple held the annual Buddha Day, the men and women in the temple to burn incense and worship Buddha, worship. Buddhist activities to "sprinkle holy water", abbot abbot the serving bowl sound Temple the ancestral holy water, placed in front of the temple. Suddenly he heard a loud heretics Warlock challenge, to be assessed by a battle of wits with the abbot abbot. I saw Warlock sword practice, murmuring, all of a sudden, incredibly hard, the wind comes up, sand from overwhelming sound Temple buried in the sandy bottom. Strange bowl of holy water in front of the temple was left intact, but also on the place, and pull out all the Warlock spell to bowl filling with sand, but despite how much witchcraft, the bowl is always not into a grain of sand. Until the bowl is formed around a sand hills, the holy water bowl or Enron before. Warlock had no option but to leave bitterly. Left a few steps Suddenly he heard a roar, the bowl of holy water, half inclined to become a crescent springs, Warlock into a pool of black stone. Original bowl of holy water of the Buddha Sakyamuni gave raids the monastery abbot, from generation to generation, designed for people good luck charm, so called "holy water". Heretics the Warlock sin injure the people, apparitions punishment, bowl pour Quan, the formation of the Crescent Moon Spring.

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Causes

There are four people today explanation of the origin of the Crescent Moon Spring:

A saying of the ancient river residual lake. Crescent Moon Spring is a ancient river of the party near the river, a long time ago, the party river diversions, most of the ancient river quicksand drown, only the Crescent Moon Spring for some low-lying due to underground undercurrent outcrops, together into a lake. The lake supplies continue to be underground undercurrents, and thus can not be depleted.Measurement of the 1950s, Crescent Moon Spring water from east to west 218 meters at its widest point 54 meters north-south, with an average depth of 5 meters, maximum depth of more than 7 meters.

The second is the fault seepage spring. Crescent Moon Spring south side of an east-west fault, the hanging wall raised the underground aquifer, the footwall to a nearby water table, potential flow out into the spring.

The third is wind erosion lake. The original wind erosion depression with wind erosion exacerbated when the water table depth is reached, the crescent-shaped sand dunes bay formed Quanhu. As the sand hills north-south high, middle and low, go to the top of the low-lying land wind from the East blown into the mountains, the sand always under the action of the wind along the mountain beams and sand on the volume-oriented, so the sand does not scrape the spring, the sand around the Crescent Moon Spring the mountains always remain like the shape of the ridge like edge, this form shaquan coexistence wonders.

Si Yue dug. Crescent Moon Spring in the shape of semi-new moon vivid, like artificial deliberately modified, combined with "manhole" in the ancient records, since well said to be the result of human labor.

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Alias Yakcheonsa

This is derived from a legend, when Tripitaka Buddhist sutras, the way to Dunhuang, because it is the boundless desert, no water and no food, white Ryoma has died (local white Mata is buried white Ryoma), monk trudged finally about to fall, the Bodhisattva see in the eyes, to wish him success, Zijin bottle dripping a drop of Goldwater, and instantly appear in the vast desert the puddle crescent-like springs and spring in a species called the "Seven grass, you can cure all diseases, the name" Crescent Moon Spring "after this spring, so the monk rescued, continued westward days ahead, Crescent Moon Spring has been to have survived until today. 

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