Hailed as the No.1 Divine Water, the Yuye Spring is beside the Wanding (All-Settled) Bridge and before the Divine Water Pavilion beneath the Golden Summit of Mt. Emei in Sichuan Province. The Emei Tea is produced in the area around the Yuye Spring, As far back as the Northern Song Dynasty (960 - 1127), poets Huang Tingjian and Su Dongpo visited the mountain and tasted the local tea brewed with local spring water. They left behind them many literature works in praise of local tea and spring water. Now, a stele before the Yuye Spring still bears the poems inscribed in different dynasties. The Emei Tea brewed with the water from the Yuye Spring has always been praised as the best tea-making recipe by scholars in the past dynasties.
Though over 1,000 years old, the Yuye Spring still remains running even in severe drought. Its water is clear, bright, and refreshing. An extraordinary spring, it has been praised as the Divine Water from the Heaven and the Underground Sweet Spring. It is indeed a rare high-quality mineral water for drinking. In addition to its outstanding appearance and taste, it contains small amount of radon and silicon dioxide and is conducive to human health.
