Visitors to Sai Temple (Thuy Lam, Dong Anh, Hanoi) are not only surprised with the unique architecture here but also surprised with the small well that never runs out of water, in winter there is always a toad sitting on its mouth. well. Sai Temple is located on Sai mountain, the temple of Taoism Than Tien worshiping Huyen Thien God Tran Vu. This is the largest mountain of the seven sacred mountains that Dieu Son (7 thrones of seven stars), folk legends say that the feng shui of Sai mountain is called “Quy Xa shape”. This place still preserves the original statue of Duc Huyen Thien Tran Vu. According to legend, Huyen Thien Tran Vu is the guardian god of the North, once reincarnated as the son of the king of Tinh Lac (China). According to the Management Board of Sai Temple Relics: The temple dates from the reign of Thuc An Duong Vuong 2,200 years ago. The temple has a close relationship with Co Loa citadel and Quan Thanh temple. The book of Dai Viet historical records toan Thu says: “At that time, Thuc Vuong built a thousand-foot-wide, snail-shaped citadel, so it was called Loa Thanh to fight against the invaders of Trieu Da. This city was built almost finished and fell, the king took it. cause concern, so the army set up an altar to pray to heaven and earth and to miracle rivers and mountains. Thuc Vuong was led by the god Kim Quy (Golden Turtle) to That Dieu Son Mountain to destroy the white chicken (Bach Ke Tinh), so half a month later, the citadel was completed.” The king asked about the cause of the fall, at that time. The golden turtle appeared and said clearly: It is because of the spirit of the mountains and rivers in this region, hiding in That Dieu Son, there is a white rooster that has lived for a thousand years and has become a star. Since ancient times, Sai temple was considered a holy temple to fulfill. Kings and lords for many generations came here to pay their respects, but seeing that traveling wastes money and effort of the people, the king granted a decree for the people. Villagers perform a ceremony to process the fake king. Every year, the procession of the “living king” takes place on 11/1 m of the calendar. Currently, That Dieu Son still prints many ancient imprints, including fairy wells, fairy ponds, horse footprints and beautiful natural scenery created by heaven and earth. In particular, in the Sai temple complex, there is a stone block above which has a small well. The special thing is that the well is only the size of a puddle, but it has been around for a long time and is called Co Tien well. This well is related to the legendary story of the fairies who came to earth to help An Duong Vuong build a snail. The strange thing is that this well is small, but it is located on a rock, the well has water all year round. With beautiful architecture and landscape associated with many legends and historical events of the country, more and more people and tourists come to Sai Temple.

The Riverview Company has dug numerous wells in Arizona over the past six years. Photo: Guardian. Cynthia Beltran arrives in Sunizona, the center of Cochise County in the state of Arizona, USA in the fall of 2020. Although the area lacks potable water, Beltran can’t do anything because of financial constraints. Also due to lack of money, she accepted to manage 100 USD a week to buy water, instead of spending 15,000 USD to deepen the existing well in the new apartment. With a man with only a part-time job, Beltran soon surrendered to the $100-a-week payment and was forced to live with the help of his neighbors. “I’ve run out of options,” she said. Beltran is not the only case of the Willcox basin, which is about 5,200 square kilometers in Arizona. According to the state Department of Water Resources (ADWR), 78 wells dug between 2015 and 2019 have dried up. This number could increase to 100 in a few months. Several homes in Sunizona have been abandoned because the owners cannot afford to deepen an existing well or dig a new one. However, even with the ability to pay, there is no guarantee the drilling will be successful. Sunizona residents attribute the situation to the fact that Riverview, based in Minnesota, began digging wells with depths of 300-800 meters. They’ve been doing this since the beginning of 2015, and they’re causing the groundwater level to drop more and more. Riverview is not the first well drilling company in Sunizona, but they are the largest and deepest digging organization. Within 5 years, from January 2015 to November 2020, the number of wells in the area increased from 494 to 898. Kevin Wulf, a spokesman for Riverview, acknowledged the impact of the increase in the number of wells but believes it is not the only cause. “It is rumored that we came to dry the valley, then left. But no way, we do.” There is no question that Riverview changed the economic landscape of the Willcox Basin in just a few years. The company turned this place into an economic center thanks to the dairy farming and trading industry. They spent $38 million to buy Coronado dairy cows and bid for 2,600 hectares of land in the Kansas Settlement, north of Sunizona, on the day they started their business. To date, the company has spent about $180 million more to own more than 20,000 hectares of land, mostly agricultural land. The size of the company’s cow herd is estimated at about 150,000 cows. Sources close to Riverview say that the parent company prefers to invest in Arizona because the natural and climatic conditions are similar to the California valley where they have been successful. In addition, in this western state, there is no law regulating the amount of water pumped by each farmer household. “The Willcox Basin is the Wild West. The water there is free to use without any strings attached. As long as you have money to drill a well, you have water and no other planning or reporting,” said Kristine Uhlman, a retired hydrologist at the University of Arizona. Surrounded by five mountain ranges, the aquifer of the Willcox Basin is abundant. Before large-scale agricultural pumping started around 1940, the aquifers there had enough water to service Tucson, the nearest major city at the time, for 970 years, ADWR reports. Unlike the Southwest, the saline part of the aquifer of the Willcox Basin is only about 30 meters, and most of it is fresh water below. Uhlman says that in some areas, groundwater can be several kilometers above the surface. Because of this speculation, the Riverview Company and water-starved farmers have been descending into the valley for about a decade. However, due to lack of management, from 1940 to 2015, the groundwater level here decreased from 60 to 90 meters compared to the pre-development level. A retired ADWR official said the rate of decline increased from 0.6-1.2 meters a year before 2015 to 0.9-1.5 meters a year after 2015, when Riverview arrived. business. A water well in Arizona has risen by nearly 1 meter due to drought. Photo: AZ. According to an independent study by ADWR, Riverview drilled about 21% of the 315 new wells between January 2015 and October 2019. Specific numbers were not disclosed, but Riverview spokesman Wulf said: “Our total water usage is carefully monitored internally. We support state law that requires the measurement of all rural wells. This proposal has stalled in recent years, because of objections from other farmers.” Riverview’s claim to reduce water use causes a lot of skepticism. Two veteran local farmers, Joe Salvail and John Hart, say that while many residents have left their homes due to lack of water, Riverview has ramped up off-season planting, maintaining a two-crop-a-year rate. These factors increase the total amount of water used. In 2015, a group of farmers, ranchers, and government officials proposed the installation of meters on wells. Even so, the plan has created deep divisions within the community and the state legislature. “The leaders back then had no say. Almost no one wants to talk about it anymore,” Hart said. The prospect of Sunizona in particular and Arizona in general, in the long term, is forecasted to be bleak. According to ADWR research, if pumping levels are kept at the current level, water levels will drop by as much as 280 meters in the Kansas Settlement by 2115, compared with 1940 levels. According to the agency, most of the water remains in the strata The reservoir will be so deep that it will be almost impossible to pump up. “The reality is Riverview is drawing water from the bottom. It’s like when you suck water from a bucket, you’ll have water until it’s empty. While people with shorter straws, they get nothing.” hydrologist Uhlman commented. In addition to the state of Arizona, the US also issued an urgent notice about the risk of water shortage in the state of Nevada. The main reason, according to the US Bureau of Reclamation, is climate change causing less snow and ice to flow into lakes and rivers. In addition, hotter temperatures dry the soil, causing more river water to evaporate as it flows through the drought-stricken western United States.

Wells of Phu Ly Bac village (Thieu Trung commune, Thieu Hoa) were restored. The noisy city, the hustle and bustle of living deeply imprinted on every alley, street corner, next to the shops… The feeling of wobble when the day is dry makes me miss my hometown, my childhood bareheaded, barefoot, and smoke. Burning fields with the smell of straw, remembering the wells of the country’s cool, clean water… I miss my grandparents’ house at the far end of the village, in front of a vast rice field. My parents were busy at work, so I often stayed with my grandparents, so my childhood was full of running sessions with my neighbors picking figs, mangoes, going to the fields to wade through water, catching grasshoppers, locusts, and pears. chicken grass in the field… But perhaps the most memorable are the summer days, after running and shouting and screaming, they all pulled together to the well at the end of the village to compete with each other to drink cool and sweet sips of water. … Until now, when I think back, I still imagine myself touching that water, enjoying the taste of the old days. I remember the yard of the well was very large, paved with red bricks. Around the well are some bamboo bushes wrapped tightly by vines. In the season, the vines bloom with purple petals on the background of cool green leaves. In the windy afternoons, the bamboo stalks swayed and creaked, the bamboo leaves swayed and then dropped into the well yard very gently. The well is as big as a small pond, paved with large, smooth stones from the well mouth leading down to the water surface. The village well is the most crowded when it is dark, the villagers come home from work to take a bath and then carry water to fill the jar in front of the house to cook. In the evening, boys and girls in the village invite each other to the well to play and chat. After a long day of labor, the village girls have the opportunity to release their long hair, fragrant with the smell of locust, in the wind. I have 6 cousins. Summer is coming, when cousins ​​are sent to their grandparents’ house, the days when the small house is full of laughter, chirping, arguing of children, the sound of grandparents scolding their grandchildren. During the day, we often climb guava, climb star fruit to pick down the fruit, add a little salt and then eat it deliciously. When they were bored, they invited each other to the village well to drink water to fill their stomachs, then play umbrellas to eat mandarins, great-grandchildren… Grandfather used to use water from the village well to cook, make green tea, and sometimes sweet-smelling jasmine tea at the top of his lips. . The kettles are like an excuse to connect the wartime story, the story in the village… of my grandfather and his peers at the chess games in the alley. As for the children, we sat on cots waiting for her to come back from the market with bags of popsicles, sheets of sugar cane, and sometimes a few crispy rice cakes with the smell of sesame… In the summer afternoons to hide from sleep, we ran to the well to play, watch our faces reflected in the well and then laugh. Someone naughty picked up a few small pebbles and dropped them into the well, watching the waves of water spreading and disappearing without stopping. Then we dreamed and told each other about our future wishes, which is to go everywhere, do great things, become great people… We grew up, and the village urbanized and concreted everywhere. I regret and feel pity when the old trees are gradually uprooted, the village well is no longer there because there is clean water. Floating with the month of May, hardened with many emotions, only the nostalgia for the countryside, the village well, the childhood innocence is still intact. I still miss the idyllic village well filled with joy in memory. That place has the moonlight shining in the deep well, illuminating every corner of my beloved village, the moonlight following me into my summer night dreams and illuminating my soul every time I find myself playing with… back to my childhood, back to the well full of dreams at that time.

The skylight is not only to create a decorative highlight for the house, but also a place to recharge and recharge air to help exchange and circulate the house with fresh, fresh air. Therefore, in the design process, it is necessary to carefully calculate so that the location of the skylight must meet the aesthetic factors, suitable for the use of the use and must meet the feng-shui standards. The effect of opening a well Opening a well is a way to ventilate the home with new air. Therefore, with Dai Nam feng shui, when arranging the location of the sky well, teacher Nguyen Trong Manh – Master, the leading feng shui expert in Vietnam always carefully calculates, and often places the sky well in a prosperous way to catch the source Sand energy benefits through the sky well into the house. Or based on the layout of each house to calculate the setting of the sky well so that the house has valuable ventilation lines such as: For the cross supply, the first of the better, … to create a rich, rich owner. Notes when opening the sky well When opening a well, attention should be paid to making the roof to be active in the regulation of light and sun protection, to avoid rain. Calculate the position of the skylight to decorate and create highlights for the house. Sky wells are located in any bearing, the decoration must be followed to suit that azimuth. For example: Which bearing can place ornamental plants, yellow light, white light, or rockery or waterfall, … to ensure the balance of yin and yang. Sky well in feng shui In feng shui, the skylight is arranged in the right position it will bring extremely great values ​​to your home. When the house is ventilated, it will be a favorable condition to increase good energy, dispel impurities, … From there it will have a direct impact on the health and development of family members and is also a great space for us to highlight the house more luxurious and fresh. than. * Information is for reference only.