Tianxian of the Wujiang River, a man who often ships

Earlier, in the Wujiang River, which was once called Tianxian, all the people who used to go sailing need to know that he is a description of the relationship between water potential and beach situation. The whole words is "dry qi Li, wet fu Tower, do not wet Richi gorge". It is very appropriate to generalize a regularity phenomenon of Tianxian Shoals in Wujiang River.

Dry and wet, refers to the change of flood and Shinshui. The meaning is: in Shinshui, the seven-mile beach, in flood level, the Tower beach, in the water is moderate to normal water levels, Richi gap risk.

I have to write it down here, but also for those who now have a trip to the Wujiang River, to provide an understanding of the former perspective of the Wujiang River.

The Wujiang region belongs to the Himalayan uplift and is typical of karst landforms. Since the origin of the Weining County of the western border area of the "roof" of Guizhou, the tributaries of the 100,000 sq km watershed have come to water, the force split mountains Qianshan, roaring halt more than 2000 meters, through the whole of Guizhou to Chongqing Fuling and Yangtze River Rendezvous. Deep rock strata of the river, causing frequent collapse of the two sides, the riverbed is larger and more than the reef, to gorge Deep beach, called Tianxian.

A few decades ago, my college teacher wanted to take us to the Wujiang River internship. He first go back to say, you go to Wujiang River, also have to pay attention to the language there, casually read "Dry qi, wet fu Tower, do not wet Richi gorge", said this folk language, said very good.

Wujiang River is a lot of dangerous shoals, but also because of the changes in the shoreline and riverbed, beach of the sinister situation, will be changeable with water potential. This simple, appropriate, catchy, from the folk, thoroughly tempered, is the characteristics of the Wujiang River shoals the perfect description. From this feature derived words also: "Wujiang Beach Lian, 10 ship nine Dozen Rotten" "traveled the world road, sad Wujiang River du" and so on.

I have a taste of the worst dangerous shoals of Wujiang River. Wujiang River Dangerous Shoals, the most dangerous is xintan. This beach is located in Dejiang County, Guizhou province. Waves into the peak of the jump, Roar like thunder, Mist Full Valley. Seen in an early age, the maximum flow rate per second here is more than 9 meters. That year I took a motor boat up the beach, to add a stranded wire cable traction, to the waves, when the boat waves across, like a car uphill skid. People sit in the cabin, feeling the ship is shaking, the hull was shaken by waves, issued a soul-stirring clicks.

As famous as Xintan, there are Dejiang County beaches and Gongtan in Youyang County, Chongqing. This beaches in the past because of beach waves, can not navigable, is the Wujiang River famous three big closure dangerous shoals. The Xintan in Guizhou, the tide, and has a "natural Xintan tide, immortal also difficult to cure" argument. Up or down the ship, to this beaches, have to stop the boat dock, rely on people carry horse carrying freight transport goods, this formed the River River Ancient town. Located in the lower reaches of the Wujiang River, the oldest ancient town of Gongtan, old house Ancient Street, riverside winding on the green slate stone steps, with the foot stepped out of the channel groove, expressed a long history. Now it has become a tourist town.

In the Wujiang River on the boat, cliff, sometimes visible chisel out of the narrow trackers road, and then is due to the riverbed uneven and boil repeatedly the long river, a little careless, fall in the river, there are escape. Therefore, there are folk songs also sang: "Husband tow wife Sad, ten to eight or nine not time." ”

It is said that the famous Dujiangyan, in the original construction, Li Bing father and son rely on the experience of water control farmers, and the Wujiang waterway dredging and dangerous shoals remediation, but also witnessed the wisdom of ordinary workers. For example, to allow the closure shoals to be navigable, it is necessary to get rid of the reef that is obstructing the raging river. The ship cannot go, people cannot be near, this once was a major technical problem. Workers in the river over the horizontal pull a cable, with pulley hanging explosives slide to the front of the reef down, so that the water to the explosives tightly pressed on the reef, and then detonated on the solution.

The Wujiang River runs in the Deep Gorge, cross the strait to pull but cannot line, the regulation waterway and the dredging dangerous shoals, must take the waterway. Wujiang River channel Team workers told me, put on the boat cooking utensils and food, a drive out, often is two or three months, sometimes even find a camping ground is difficult, light mosquito bites is a big problem.

At that time, the fairway team has a last name of the engineering and technical personnel, has been in the Wujiang River for more than 10 years, learning is the waterway regulation of the professional. He said that the Wujiang River is a hydroelectric bonanza, sooner or later it will be developed step by step. The annual appropriation is limited, the waterway can barely navigable, once the cascade development, we do everything, will be buried in deep water, think of it depressed.

His words have now become a reality. In May this year, Guizhou Wujiang River main stream of the last one power station sand Tuo power station put into power generation, nine hydropower stations in Guizhou Province in the Wujiang River in turn, the Raging Wujiang River, was cut to nine knots. Chongqing in the Ukrainian section, also under construction of power plants, some have been put into production. The whole Wujiang River, already everywhere is Gaoxiapinghu Pinghu, changed a scenery.

Walking through the mountains and lakes, looking at the high Dam power station, the young tour guides, has been unable to point out, which place cliff, once has the narrow trackers road, also cannot say where is the dangerous shoals, the risk to what extent.

With, hair? "Dry qi, wet fu Tower, do not wet Richi gorge." This once very characteristic description of the Wujiang river risk flow characteristics of the language, also disappeared, no wonder even Baidu also search. Perhaps the volunteers, also ignored, I even in some counties in Wujiang City, also did not turn to the book. However, such language, including other features of similar areas of the language from the folk, or should be collected and collated. Such language, carrying people's understanding of nature, carrying the story of people living in the meantime, carrying a heavy history, when we remember such language, and to cross-examine a series of why, history is open to us to understand the door.