汤山温泉是全国四大温泉疗养区之一。它地处南京江宁区汤山镇。汤山温泉水质优良，含有钙、镁等30多种微量元素，水温常年保持在50℃-60℃，且冬夏温度相差不大,对关节炎、风湿症、高血压等多种顽症疗效明显。汤山温泉早在1500年前的南北朝时期就闻名遐尔，泉水清澈见底、四季如汤，王公贵戚、文人墨客常常慕名而来，更衣沐浴，流连忘返。清代著名诗人袁牧在此盘桓多日，写下了《浴汤山》传世诗篇；唐代画家韩晃说：“女有恶疾，浴于汤泉，应时而愈。”并为此建圣汤延祥寺，酬谢泉神。从此以后，历代均奉汤泉为圣水。

　　As one of the four major hot-spring sanitariums in China, it is situated at Tangshan town, Jiangning area, Nanjing. Featured by excellent water quality, Tangshan Hot-Spring contains over 30 kinds of trace elements such as calcium and magnesium. The water temperature remains at 50 to 60 degrees centigrade all the year round, without much difference in winter and summer, hence exerting an obvious curative effect on a number of chronic and stubborn diseases such as arthritis, rheumatism and hypertension. Tangshan Hot-Spring was well-known as early as in the Southern and Northern Dynasties 1500 years ago. The spring water, which is so limpid as to reveal the bottom, is hot in four seasons。For its fame, princes and relatives of nobles as well as literati often came to take a bath, enjoying themselves so much as to forget to go home. Staying here for quite a few days, Yuan Mu, a famous poet in the Qing Dynasty, wrote a poem named “Taking a bath in Tangshan Mountain” handed down from generation to generation. Han Huang, a painter in the Tang Dynasty, said:“A bath in Tangshan Hot-Spring can quickly cure women with malicious diseases.” As a result, Yanxiang Temple with sacred hot water was built in honor of Spring Deity. Since then, people have all been venerating it as sacred water. 曹建新 译