余寓居忻州五十年,竟不知有“香泉红叶”为忻县(今忻府区)八景之一,颇感遗憾,亦甚惭愧,乙未寒露后二日,有友见过,言“香泉”之胜迹。时值高秋,层林当红,何妨作一日之薄游,以观究竟,言讫兴至,遂驱车而往访之。车出忻州,东南行五十里,至坡头村,已届阳曲境。村之迤西二三里,有山若“八字”屏障,南北两翼皆东向展拓,惟北翼差小耳。而双翼沟壑间,皆草木杂树,有谷不见底,有水仅闻声,正草木之盛也。车徐行,忽见一巨 I lived in Xinzhou fifty years, actually do not know “Xiangquan Hongye ” for the Xin County (now Xinfu District) one of the eight King, quite regrettable, but also ashamed, B was not cold after 2 days, friends seen, the words “Xiangquan ” of the track. High autumn time, storming popular, why not make a day of thin tour, in order to look exactly the case, the words Xing Xing, then drove and visited. Car out of Xinzhou, southeast of fifty lines, to the first village, has been the song landscape. Twenty-three miles west of the village, a mountain if the “character” barrier, north and south wings are all eastward extension, but the north wing of a small ear. The wings between the gully, are all planted trees, there is no bottom of the valley, there is only heard the sound of water, vegetation is also Sheng grass. Xu line cars, suddenly see a giant