Each time, I saw the Yangtze River estuary and that the vastness of faction, Shuitianyise on the balcony in the first Seibo, is that bit by bit of the snow under glaciers; it is cove springs spewing; it is farmers front of the house babble of the brook flowing; yes Fei Liu and down waterfalls, breaking the barrier of the mountains are converging to a vast stirred up the river, straight into the East China Sea. On several occasions, I sat seagoing vessel, in the daytime or at night, through the Napianhunhuang waters, Jiang faces the wind blowing, I always have a dream, like the Yangtze River all the way along the West go, see it must Unlike here, the scenery. Poems cloud "window containing Xiling Snow Chiaki, the door parked at Soochow Wanli ship", with the upper reaches of the atmosphere and ancient atmosphere of the Yangtze River, and communication of the snowy, West Sichuan, Jing-Chu, and Soochow, which is what a magnificent pictures!
Chu Shi Three Gorges - Yichang - Wushan Yangtze hung risk, than the Three Gorges. The name of the Three Gorges, for many years Ruleiguaner. The Three Gorges are Li Bai "vessel has passed thousand mountains," the chic, the Three Gorges is more "difficult roads of Shu extremely difficult for" the lament, heard of all this is really not worth the first-hand experience. Gezhouba I stood on the upper reaches of the Castle Peak clamps the shore arrangement, Taotao meandering river flowing down from the distant hills; is Yimapingchuan downstream, the river open, Shuitianyise, in a mist, the Yangtze River into Tianjin Tou. Stand on such a watershed, not help amazing mighty force of nature, but also sad at the thousands of years, it brings endless downstream flooding, people here look how tiny.
In Wushan Quwang speedboats, I stood at the window, he served as fierce winds approaching. High-speed boats speeding in the Xiling Gorge upstream where the two sides of Castle Peak Only a river confrontation, a cliff, there springs and streams down from time to time have clean and clear water from the cove turn out to import this Hunhuang waves, there are some like flying the rainbow bridge cross between two mountains, mountain river washed the foot is bare rock thousands of years, a section of the ravine along the flow direction, like a knife ax carved into the rock over the depths. Sky, clouds, clouds lingering in the mountains, just as a simple but elegant ink-wash painting. All this scenery, has witnessed the number of singing folk songs of the boatmen, shoulders pulled hard on the shore before the tow line trackers, they are in order to survive under such a beautiful display of human tenacity, commitment and endless vitality. Overtaken by events, carrying my airship walk through that kind of scenery, the rapids of the river does not constitute an obstacle for us, the two sides to the scenery behind the rapid passing away. And I seemed to see that those who truly trackers still in the shore, all as in a dream.
Distance, the Three Gorges dam looming ahead. A copper-gray walls from far and near, more and more tall, gradually clear up front. Airship speed close to the dam, so I was able to observe it at close range. Arranged in a trench of the dam surface, a lot of construction machinery are located in various locations the dam, the whole site a busy scene. More recently, and have looked up it, we are on the diversion channel, the cross-section along the dam, close grazed, this time, you will feel the dam is extremely ambitious, people can not help but admire the modernization of today , human alter the natural great strength. Drifting far away, until the dam disappeared in the vast landscape between. Hope that this people across the country spent a great cost benefit of the Three Gorges dam to the people, the benefit of the Yangtze River Mother River. Until the time of "high Gorge out of Pinghu", I will definitely come back to see new life of the Three Gorges.
We continue to further the hinterland of the Three Gorges, after Xiangxi, after Badong county, the Yangtze River downstream of an increasing display completely different ancient beauty, I feel like being in a few years ago of the wild times, it was a flawless ink. Since over millions of years, the Yangtze River flowing so quietly, watch the sky, but the last hundred years, people broke its silence, completely changed its appearance. Well-being of the people affected by the Yangtze River at the same time, has faded the color of its simplicity, we only have up, and then further on, to recover in the downstream long lost beauty. I now dimly saw it, could be here in less than a year after the humans have completely changed the minds of unspeakable regret and contradictions.
It was pointing a cry, see, Goddess Peak! Raised his head,那座by the people through the ages lips in front of the mountains out there. Perhaps my perception is not high, luck is not enough, can not see the shadow of Goddess may be through the boundaries of this range, we can truly enter into the Southwest. Looking forward to the southwest than six months ago, we have come.
Wushan impression of the afternoon, our ship turned a mountain, a county seat in front of Wushan up. This is my first time ever seeing a mountain hillside, from the pier to the road there is a large section of stone steps Road, rows of houses from low to high, the roof of a house is often behind the other one The foundations of the house, it is so spread out into the hillside, though only some ordinary buildings can look up from below, or feel a kind of awe-inspiring, and more three-dimensional sense. All of this right has been living in the plains of us, it is very fresh and interesting.
Carrying a large bag, climbed above the road from the pier, and then catch a ride to Metro. Park in a more above, has to go through a winding mountain road. Orientation has been described here is not our usual vocabulary of the "Old and" the, but "above below" original and interesting. Metro construction of a new opening in the hillside out wide on the ground, could see here just build the air can even smell the smell of cement and paint. Is building a large square, a huge network Huzhu cement around the mountain, and even the entire gable sealed up with cement, the ground here is really too fine for the more expensive. Building on a high hill on the western palace, as I am afraid that here was the best buildings, but also widening the distance with the people. New Town as a whole 10 million new Chinese cities, there is no feature at all.
To find a good home, we go down to the old town. We followed a winding road into the Old City, as if into another world, the Old City as an ailing old, old way, as is an instant collapse. Mind most shocking is that everywhere in the demolition of the old house fell down produce a lot of dust filled the streets, there are a several thousand square meters of open ground all Duanqiangcanbi, we have just arrived, we deeply feel to a parting of the pain, an end of the year at the end of one's feelings. Walk through the lanes in the deep, and there are seven points down in Shanghai Lao Chengxiang similar to people who stay here still seem to live peacefully. Yamashita is a farewell to the old gray throes of the Old City, the hill is decorated with mosaics and marble Metro, metabolism so in a space and time to show, for the people here, the mountains means a new, more convenient life, even though we bid farewell to the former Old House and lifestyle. I am afraid that such a scene in the world only to see the Three Gorges in the present, can feel so close to destruction and a new life, sparking a lot of thinking, is my lucky.
At night, standing on the New Town road side, leaning against the fence on the virtue, as high-rise home was on top of a sight glance. The Yangtze River has become a thick black streamers, to bypass the city, disappeared in the dark of the foot; while the Old City a few dim lights shining in the silence to spend its last moments; the foot of the Metro was a dazzling, the life exuberant.
Small Three Gorges early in the morning, or rather is not yet dawn, we went down to the dock, and got into a similar motor and the West Lake cruise ship, the ship should be filled with qualified personnel to open. Waiting for sail, when looked from the bottom upward, the streets, more and more people on the ladder, they wore the hat of a variety of tourist groups, like ants, generally concentrated to the pier last night was also slightly significantly crisp suddenly cropped up in cities so many people.
Were filled, the ship finally opened, on board a tour guide and several boatmen, the destination is a horse across the river mouth. The boat turned around the corner Daning mouth, across the fishing boat clear of the water immediately changed, and we started along the Daning upstream. I first note that the chisel, etc. on a cliff high in the distance square hole, the square hole at large in the shadow of the ancient, after the millennium snow had been brine transport, but also transported over the army, until today is still so prominently embedded in a cliff describing the vicissitudes of life years.
Explanation of the never-ending tour of the canyon through which the name of interpretation to see what kind of rock, or hill, like life, to tell the tourists here, the ancient legend. I do not mind the description of these man-made, but quietly and looked quietly to experience.
Water is becoming increasingly clear, completely different from the great Three Gorges Lane Hunhuang; mountain is even more handsome Smart, but also completely unlike major Three Gorges Xiongqi seems to live in miniature of the Three Gorges, and yet some different kind of landscape. Water sometimes rapid, sometimes calm, the boat across the waves, slowly forward, I am just along a river of history, there is no dust, no noise, fled to the depths of time.
Dama crossing the mouth, we disembarked, put on straw sandals, wooden transfer to continue along the horse to cross the river upstream, and this is a small three gorges. Wooden boat can take up to 10 individuals, there are four local boatman, three young point in the bow is responsible for pulling fiber, an old helm at the stern. They red-chested, was tan bronze skin in the sun under the shiny light exposure. After a shoal, when three young boatman effort was bent over, head down, shoulders and whole placed on a rope with tough forward, behind the Lao Chuanfu then shouted melodious chant. Both sides of the cliff Bizhai than ever before, the rise will only see the strip of sky, with pure spring water directly to stream falls, the underwater pebbles clearly visible. Exposure to such a scenario, I was completely out of the troubles of heart simmer childlike innocence and happiness. Along the way, could see a lot of trackers, their ancestral live in our view, a place full of beauty, but they are isolated in this and the tenacity to survive the mountains, they are hundreds of thousands of lives in China, the bottom of the labor a microcosm of the people from these people, and in the end you can see what is plain, hard-working and optimistic.
Water upstream for about six years, we have multiplied backtrack on the boats. Though there are several rafting experience, which can still be confused find any. We have a water fight, in the rapids rampage, or even stepping on pebbles into the water pulling boats go completely into the embrace of nature, the harvest of the drift only happiness.
Then return to the mouth down the river and returned to Wushan. To be less than two hours, we got on a team bound for Chongqing, Yichang, passenger ships, to continue our journey.
Boat trip to Chongqing city quietly traveling in Qutang, we have again returned to the big Three Gorges Xiongqi Wei-in. In this section of the Yangtze River is particularly narrow, the main channel is not straight in the central location, ship to sail the Huzuohuyou, sometimes very close from the shore, it seems that you can reach out to an unexpected touch the rocks. A closer look, you can see the cliff on the north shore, where tens of meters away from the river, there is an embedded rock crevice, stone hill and there is between the connected. There is no doubt that this is the path of the Three Gorges on foot, and seems to be very historical look. Look from below, dangerous abnormal heart can not help but scared. In the original plan, is ready to go for some of the Three Gorges, but to the absolute safety of four girls, only give up the idea. I know, this Road through many of the Mix, there will be a lot of people continue to be careful, and then carefully ah!
The sky dimming, we are finally moving to the Kuimen. Slid into a straight cliff on both sides of the water, the river is more narrow-beam, water is more turbulent. Looking at the haze of the cliff, and my heart is a kind of shock that can not be made, use the "dignified" to describe has been too weak. In the crevice below, can be clearly seen in red characters, "Kuimen world-hung." From Kuimen out impressively in the aim of Baidicheng and Fengjie county, looking back at Kuimen, it guarded as a guardian of the earth Bashu, stand, where thousands of years did not fall. Developed in traffic today, I still truly feel the difficult roads of Shu.
Evening, sitting in viewing the stage, blowing cool river wind, watching the stars flicker on the vault of heaven to see both sides of the little lights and think about as far away as Shanghai's family and friends are doing something, certainly not me such a leisurely bar. Heart drunk.
The next day, with friends on the deck of the bow, sat one afternoon, chat, enjoy the scenery. An Italian old man alone to travel to one side just practicing the Buddha in India learned of the draw out power, so that children can teach him Chinese. Passenger counter-current progress, constantly moving around behind the scenes. I appreciate the eyes of all, they are with my normal life completely different, I am silent and experience the journey in order to bring me happiness.
My position, on both sides of the low mountain, in 2003, this time, the river will be swallowed up. First met, we must bid farewell forever, mind can not help but there is a ray sense of loss. The new Three Gorges Project will be a new landscape, to the Three Gorges Project is completed, I will definitely come back.
Then, after a late morning, we arrived safely in Chongqing Chaotianmen terminal.
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