Black Tiger Spring

The Black Tiger Spring is a socially huge artesian karst spring situated in the city of Jinan, Shandong Province, China. The spring is positioned as the second most noteworthy among the 72 named springs in Jinan after the Baotu Spring. The water of spring comes from tolerably profound flow and rises up out of a water-filled limestone collapse a lofty precipice. From the mouth of the surrender, the water is piped to stream out of the mouths of three decorative stone-cut tiger heads into a square-formed spring pool. From that point it keeps running into the old city canal, alongside which the spring is found. As indicated by the custom, there was a dark shake lying before the collapse antiquated time.

The name of the spring is said to be gotten from the shape and shade of the stone, which took after a dark tiger, and the sound of the water spouting past the stone being reminiscent of the thunder of a tiger. The antiquated design of the spring is portrayed in a lyric by the Ming Dynasty writer, Yan Bizeng. The Black Tiger Spring is situated on the south bank of the old city channel, near the southeastern corner of the canal. A bit toward the east, on the contrary site of the channel stands the Liberation Pavilion that remembers the entry of the triumphant People's Liberation Army in Jinan.