Sanfen Suo Wenquan

Sanfen Suo Wenquan — 'Three Points Lock Hot Spring' — is a naturally sulphurous geothermal spring in China, its name perhaps referencing a geographical feature — the convergence of three streams or ridges at a single point — that gives the spring site its distinctive character and its role as a navigational landmark in the local landscape. Three-point convergences in Chinese landscape tradition carry cosmological associations with the meeting of heaven, earth, and humanity, and a hot spring at such a junction may have been understood as a site of particular natural potency and spiritual significance. The spring provides naturally sulphurous, warm mineral water in a geographically and symbolically resonant Chinese setting.