North Jiangsu Diary (3) (http://laotu.51.net/gs7.htm)
Hongze young so cool! In our front of the camera'm not. The posture of generals. May 5, 2002 switch to overcast with rain rain
Also night slept well, though a hard board bed, plus a layer of foam added a bottom of a blanket, but still can not sleep, really the "golden nest silver than its own nest kennel." Dr. Shen sleep last night do not want a house with outsiders, and the two old comrades crowded together, they are talking about a foot odor and heard you snore, it seems is not good companions, which, only "stall secretary" Chen did not problems, sleep would come on when the two who also did not understand the gibberish. Play will be able to sleep really a blessing! To get up early when the first Some faint, and good outside, a light rain, the rain pouring more sober look & feel.
Due to rain, we can not stay in a hotel and other days is good, so we decided to work towards it along the lakeside road to the Xuyi county, where good where to play.
Hongze Lake is a freshwater lake in northern Jiangsu Province, China's five largest freshwater lakes in the fourth-largest freshwater lake. It is developed in the alluvial plain of the middle reaches of the Huaihe River was originally a poor draining of the pools of water into the lake after the pond, so Hongze an average of only four meters deep within the lake due to shallow level, bank slowdown, again higher than the bottom of a lake in eastern North Jiangsu Plain, 4-8 m, and therefore become a "hanging lake", in the past is necessary to hit northern Jiangsu Huaihe River flood Yi Fa. Our car on the exercise of the lake flood control embankment on the east coast, so when we see Chairman Mao's "must take the Huai River cure" legislation in the lake east of the stone when we would not be surprised. After treatment, the Huaihe River water in the Hongze buffered rivers, and each of the two Northern Jiangsu Irrigation Drainage sub leaked into the Yangtze and the Yellow Sea.
Lake east of the highway is built on a dam, therefore, we were enjoying the coastal scenery,
A wreck, that is, a place to play, but also learn from.
Hongze and Gaoyou Sanhe is between the controlling gate to regulate the two lakes of water and spilled into the Yangtze River water flow. Did not sail on the lake, but the forest of trees on shore, shoreline setbacks, sat in the car looked toward the window, and sometimes air up Huo Liang, misty sky, sometimes suddenly come from the raw bays where plants with a drifting boat, favorably with its view on the Bay of Taihu Lake 18.
Rain into strands of rain drift. In Hongze County, Trois-Rivieres bays inside the boundary of a dozen fishing boats parked. Sat a long time, we also need to relax, see the rain has little more, so I
Xuyi County, Jiangsu Province, is a good eco-agriculture counties, a good ecological protection in recent years, great efforts to develop tourism resources, Lobster Festival is a Xuyi tourism brand, look, big lobster in to welcome us.
Ming Zu Ling Shinto. Ling Qu Despite its small size, but it is our ancestors, but Beijing Ming Tombs. They get off and fishermen chatted about the days they smoked one asked us, they are excited from Shanghai, a fisherman told us that they are in Shanghai before Tomb Sweeping Festival, in the side of the Yangtze River estuary fishing eel fry. Ah, our side of the Yangtze River estuary in Baoshan, where is the eel's spawning ground, the annual festival around the river is full of fishing on the surface of "software gold" eel fry vessels, fishermen from the coast and the Yangtze River, did not expect this hundreds of miles away in Hongze fishermen to go fishing there, it really let us Dunsheng out a "narrow strip of water" to the intimacy. And fishermen a cooked
Emperor Ji Ling performances, mighty no better style.
Tomb stone former military attache to stand for hundreds of years, has been silent buddy's "Changqiangduanbao" In light out until the car is still shouting gratification, think of it this is out of date for the first time "in-depth life."
After a three rivers, a short while on the Huaihe River to the south into the Hukou Hongzehu Xuyi county town Xuyi county town is really a beautiful place, cities built along the Huaihe River, the city with its mountains, the mountains are the city, beautiful landscaped converged together, the real The beautiful mountains. Xuyi the past two years great efforts to develop tourism resources, vigorously lobster festival, the "Shi Sanxiang lobster," got to Nanjing, Shanghai and other cities along the way we passed the local restaurants are everywhere, "xuyi lobster." This produced a strange phenomenon down in Shanghai, where the small farms more than triple the money a pound, in the five Gaoyou
Submerged in the underwater tomb of the Ming Zu outside Rochester, where I stand exposed surface of the east gate of stone tenon. Behind the Huaihe River.
Million pound, in the Hongze is eight dollars a pound, but is really nearer xuyi more expensive, the locals explained that because of their lobster is cultured, non-polluting. Car to Xuyi we went straight to Mingzu hills.
Ming Zu Ling is located in Xuyi west, is the first Ming emperor Zhu Yuan, great-grandfather, grandfather's Yi Guanzhong, but also the emperor grandfather's actual burial ground. Fall of the Qing Emperor Kangxi 19 years, the Yellow River wins Huai, Ming Zu Ling was overwhelmed at the end of Hongze Lake has become China's "mystery of Pompeii." In 1963, the Hongze Lake water level drop Ming Zu Ling reproduce the light of day, but the wooden buildings have disappeared, and only later discovered by the repair of the statue base, it reflects the past Mingzu hills and majestic and spectacular. After the Cultural Revolution, the state funding of the Ming Zu Ling carried out the repairs and build a dam to protect the Ling Qu. Us to hold Ji Ling Ling Qu coincided with performances by mighty team, traveling clothes, the team compiled the basic antique, a move one type is very decent, and asked-to-know is a professional theater actor, only hills
On the Huai Ming Zu Ling outside of our "floating restaurant"
The owner is very kind-hearted, open boat after the race before running for our wines to buy food. Area still under development, is planned to construct and visitors are not many performances of this size appears to cast than the number of visitors down.
Ling Qu little one will turn times, and in the travel-ling-ling outside the Huaihe River Water Mingzu outside the Rochester site, we feel hungry, and discovered that it is nearly 1:00 in the afternoon.
"To our dinner on board it." Driving a small wooden boat to take us to swim the river fisherman women enthusiastically invited us. "Possession you cheap enough to eat."
"Where is your boat?" We asked. She refers to the Huaihe River side of a parked cement boat told us that. "Go, there are fish or shrimp."
Also Yam, so wild, unique charm of "floating restaurant" We are arrived unstoppable. The owner surnamed Chen, honest and kind-hearted, until after we have been busy on the cement ship went grocery shopping. Fisherman women are his wife surnamed Liang, husband and wife
The owner's children, because we are being treated Funakura Oscar-winning friend ousted, in order to allow them to toe the line, one person gave a packet of noodles.
Dr. Shen initiative to special treatment for burning the ship, prescribing the hands of the fisherman obviously can not do it live, points, several fires were not lit to. Lian-Sheng three girls, and made the economic downturn at home, income depend on this point of the old cement vessels engaged in leisure yellow sand transport. A moment, good food burning on the table filled with dishes bowl Sheng, buddy fond only 80 yuan a checkout.
15:00, according to plan we have embarked on the road back to the city. High-speed, over the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge, this time it began to rain cats and dogs, and mixed with lightning and thunder, the exterior field of vision is poor, this change in itinerary, vertical Ma On Shan.
Stay overnight in Ma On Shan.
Cheers! In the "floating restaurant" We are finally lunch meals, and there snakehead, there are clear shrimp, there is dried fish, and eggs, with green peppers and other vegetables, with wine and meat, the real wealth of many "food."
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