Towpath Adventures of Wu Gorge walk before liberation, Chuanjiang tow the boat station was established at up to 24, more than 20000 a year to the size of wooden ships tow the boat. But at that time a very rudimentary facilities, in addition to Green Beach, Beach is used to vent the steam engine, the rest are human. After the liberation, China has continuously improve the Chuan River channel, endangering pedestrians and from ships and property safety of dangerous shoals steady decline to the end of 2002, only 7 on the Chuanjiang tow the boat stops, but also fully realized the mechanized. According to the Yangtze River Waterway Bureau Director Li moment the sea channel, at present, Youzha moraine, iron Beach, two streams, small temple-based, five pull-Japan sub-stations have been evacuated fiber shallow, only the remaining two stations are only tow the boat Retention ship, the original bustling tow the boat stops calm down, empty. So far, more than 140 tow the boat Chuanjiang workers have also lost their means of survival for generations tremendous hardships facing diverted.
Towpath Adventures of the Three Gorges on foot the ancient culture into the Remembrance Boat Tracker
Chongqing Wushan yaling Text Photo courtesy: zyw river sunsets and other images
(Photo: "Three Gorges Ancient Xian Road," the long river sunset photography)
With the June 30, 2003 deadline approaches, the Three Gorges Dam two water storage in the Three Gorges, and trackers, fiber Road, trackers will be even more bizarre story of stone. The legendary Three Gorges Palestinian strange existence, Three Gorges river folk culture and folk attracted more attention, unique charm of the Three Gorges trackers stone, fiber Road will gradually disappear in people's sight. Inch of the Three Gorges were flooded, there is an inch of history disappear forever, there is buried a foot culture is submerged, there is also the spiritual home of Three Gorges Yi Zhang sleep underwater, disappeared in the waves where I shall come back since then it will not gorge in bizarre meet a cordial conversation, heart pain coming slowly, that endless melancholy, but unfortunately the changes Nanshe feelings no way to eliminate. Gaoxiapinghu, Bibo Chung Chui "new Three Gorges" will be displayed in front of visitors. Let us witness the truth of history changes, the original taste of the old style of the Three Gorges, the Three Gorges magnificent look to the new prototype.
(Photo "deep beauty of the Gorge," the long river sunset photography)
Experience the first dangerous section library sleeve Towpath Towpath
"Library cap Fiber Road" Wu Gorge north shore, due to lower reservoir cap Beach Goddess Peak is named. About 30 km away from the Wushan county, sitting fish canoe boat around 1 hour to be able to. Climb a big rock by the artificially created out of dozens of class narrow stone steps of the ladder, followed by only one person close to the rock traversed by more than 10 meters-long rampage Rock Road, Road must not be guest, the wrong car. Front-end is a few tens of pieces of stone weighing hundreds of kilograms out of the connection of base section of cliff, where legislation has two stones, one is fifteen years Guangxu Gap Road re-opened the process of repair records, one is the reign of Emperor Qianlong continued repair "Library cap Fiber Road" as well as donor record.
(Photo "Gallery cap Towpath" ZYW Photography)
March 9, Zhou Wei Bei three sisters did not dare to lotus country, hoping to see one last great River of No Return, whitewater rapids of the "Old Three Gorges", and experience the changes taking place in the Three Gorges landscape. Use your feet to track down traces of their ancestors, history of heart to the sentiment changes, inconsistent with a pen to record the moment of reversal. Genial isthmus facing the wind along the river by canoe down the small fish, more than 40-year-old boatman, and his 12-year-old son, work boats (Village Gorge Wu Gorge looking descendants of the old boat tracker), skilled driving skills enable us to the river the Rulvpingde. I asked the kids why not go to school, his father said he would not go, anyway, does not require a lot of sailing is rough work culture, I also lack a helper boat to reach the legendary punctuality danger Towpath odd - base cap Towpath. Echoed from that piercing ears is always the boatman's chant: "creation to shout to yo, creation to shout Oh, hey creation to shout creation to shout Hey, Chuang rapids, hey yo; brothers, yo, hey yo Hey, Doo-Jin to yo, but also with啦; woman kang, yo Hey yo, and so we are back to yo; Hey ho, birth to a son, ho hey, Kaozhuang Yuan, hey yo yo ... ... is also included. "taste of the Yang Jiong's" Gorge "" The Three Gorges 7 Barry, the only words Gorge long. cavernous rock is not very heavy, gray peaks Ling. Precipice cross a natural barrier, Jin Zhang Mei Tai rotten. nightfall clear view, without wind waves mad. Zhongxin Wu Suo tread, boating Yihe injury. Mountain Air Night ape Xiao, Zheng-off James Sang tears. "verse of the hidden bitterness, really was the" only under the brow, but also on the heart "of burnout. Remembrance is the literati often mentioned proposition. Experience the odd dangerous roads until the trackers that moment that I suddenly understood more deeply than the reading of poetry and literature is.
(Photo "move marks numerous" ZYW Photography)
When we went there, it is 10 o'clock, there is no cloud of the block Wushan, there is no Asaka magnificent carving. Just to see Wu Li's thrilling to be prohibitive for some memorable and special life-long "road." Daqing stone rough outline of a simple, monotonous dark color. I began to surprise in the year mason trackers, how can the magic of hard stone for the channel. Most of about 1 m along the cliff at large in some areas, weeds thorns all over. The new hair up in these young leaves, the sunlight shining crystal Yingying the green and gazes out at the Three Gorges handsome desperate, completely forgotten his right where Who am I? Is the integration of the Three Gorges have become divorced from the apes? Or a child leaves with a few pieces to avoid shame Wushan Savage?
We went to adventure, and the resulting panic and a playground can not match the train rolling.
I am curious to embark on approach roads, and then move forward, brother prompts the body closely aligns rock, their backs the Yangtze River, Shouzhua in Niu Bizi stone, go sideways like a crab! I am obedient to a step by step walk past, but also a careful appreciation of Cliff been trackers, such as the body of polished copper mirror a place, we see his calm composure hosting the Games. No insurance Qiexi secretly feel completely normal heartbeat. Big stone steps to the daring to go, where the stone steps to the staircase in the city not as wide Zhuo, but had to foot ramp on top in order to carefully crawl. Short-sighted dull eyes staring at the rock and surrounded by very quiet. Why I did toe the line, a rare opportunity, I secretly look at the Yangtze River, looking back at Panorama.
"Enlightened and read back to them." Originally I was hanging in the towering cliffs of a bare foot, 20-storey big rock on the rock block, such as a skyscraper of grass grows. After the river, people on the ship I can no longer discern beauty and ugliness, feeling heart beat faster, eyes gradually blurred. I subconsciously want to bend over, but the younger brother of the side roared: "Hold, and do not get on the ground! Get on the ground would have been dead!" (Fiber Road 25cm width of only about), boatman behind firmly grabbed my arm, took me by rock walls in light. I thought that under the finished! ! ! I want to dedicate themselves to adventure and glorious Towpath ... ... in my mind a blank, do not know how hard the two boatmen's arm, walked the safety zone. (That is the younger brother of two boatmen arranged to protect my security, this is something for the future.) Boat that 12-year-old deftly walked to work at three times, it seems to me to show his courage and fearless, childish Can laughter made me feel greatly ashamed, but awe, his bones reflected in the portrayal of the Boat Tracker perseverance is the year. Perhaps the year's trackers also have such a small kids alone!
The distance came the melodious folk songs: "the cliffs of water DC, 10 saw nine people were unhappy, not seen the sun all day long face, saw the stone monkeys Lut ... ..." flying along the cliff cliff Rock Road, the original passer-by can see the waterline on the forthcoming flood Plants "Water boxwood, Myricaria laxiflora, the Chinese text of the mother of Adiantum." people still struggling to see the Forest Service to protect rare plants such rescue excavations. Also saw cultural relics management department of Chongqing is a large-scale rescue boat tracker heated stone.
(Photo "Three Gorges rare plants Adiantum" ZYW Photography)
We visited an archaeological excavation of ancient tombs have been inside a few with a complete skeleton, where supine with, perhaps a certain time the bones of the water is difficult trackers it, because it is too simple, and no coffin, and buried with the number of large age varies. Visitors who have a stranger took a tooth want to go back as a souvenir, we oppose them, frighten, he said, if the middle of the night dreaming someone how do you have teeth? You come back here come? The man had to immediately put the teeth back into the original position.
(Photo "The ancients graves" zyw Photography)
Thoughts on flying at night in the Yangtze River quiet dedication of the Millennium Trail, a number of young and vigorous bear the tow line to rush through the small group, how many of the old boatman elderly sick at your feet, how much Feisa of sweat, how many tears Acacia, the number of pain ... ... you can not keep a long time to reduce the mark can not be a long freeze-frame the history of Feng Gong, unable to retain the singing voice bold trackers ... ... yes, everything can not keep. Time of peeling off all your amazing feat of the legendary, a sightseeing tour of the passing never to see you, you receive the most recent is the goat, photographers and explorers. Never thought it was just fun only and Towpath to modification and cover in addition to all expressed a pure theme - the Three Gorges brave and difficult trackers, displaying the full content of Montagnards simple.
Strange things after the two sides time washing the walls, river erosion, Gap wind caress, all the wild beauty, natural vigorous, is Jiaoniang ears oath, is dependent on the mother murmured admonished exist. Sights on the Three Gorges Boat Tracker feet! The footsteps of trackers is a highly, if you are not in a devout attitude lit candles mind, you can not read the foot of the Boat Tracker mark which strings behind the trackers can not be read deeply shallow Road remain in the fiber footnote.
(Photo, "strange things rock" zyw Photography)
Back to the boat, brother described the Wu Gorge trackers stone types, examining various Gorge Stone Boat Tracker Boat Tracker negative fibers on the left traces: it is the Boat Tracker bamboo rope, grind the deep rift the body stone is the soul of the Boat Tracker freeze-frame the real painting on the stone, but also a little-known fossils of modern trackers. It is thousands of years of blood and tears and the Yangtze River Three Gorges Boat Tracker witness to the history of water transport misery. Can be divided into the following categories:
(Photo 7)
"Outstanding marks on the rocks of the fiber," Fiber abra fiber, the tow line to the river rock in the riverside prominent place, with the prominent rock friction, over many years, will be hard rock grind of a Road, huge, deep ditch.
(Photo "outstanding fibers on the rocks marks" zyw Photography)
"Boat tracker foot stone winter pen marks" in a number of fixed fiber Road, trackers energetically forward in order to tow the boat, foot on the stone left a deep imprint of the heel. One can imagine the hardships trackers.
"Slippery slide stone marks," Wu Gorge Road, the majority of fibers are in the South, only a few parts of the rapids at the same time two sides need to pull, in the north shore only, and is a one-way street from east to west direction, in order to save time in the downhill time trackers to sit down a slippery slide, a long time, rock was raw bright as a mirror.
"Boat tracker close stone marks" Some advantageous place, fiber Road is too narrow, half-rock on through the stone walls must be close if they are not left out of the force under the towering cliff, thousands of years, Cliff has been posted bright polished smooth over the wax fought Also the United States.
"Clutch of Niu Bizi stone" in the advantageous Department Towpath rocks, artificial build out for trackers Shouzhua stone to increase the safety factor. I interrupted: time did not invent the modern rock climbing as a tool for those who do, if anything, that they can not afford to feed families to earn.
"Twist Beach pillars" of varying lengths, respectively, the thickness of the section inserted in stone stone, in ancient times is the whitewater rapids on the boatmen tow the boat, you need to have one or more columns to help stabilize the boat, without being Corrigan Lower to the aids over time strangulation hard stone pillars mark out the lines in fiber.
(Photo "twist Beach pillars," available online)
"Boat tracker boat tied to the stone marks" climbed over a mountain ridge after another, been through a beach another beach. Chuang dangerous shoals in front again, and temporarily stop the boat, tied to a stone. Mouth cigarette smoke, eat dry food, drums mouth momentum. Gap stroke due to large waves, the ship under the severe bumps, numerous boats have rest here, mooring rope will be pulled out of the stone a few feet deep trough.
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"Bear-like bear-like, our music teacher had a fool of myself." Originally, I was photographed, and can be pictures of that time I was also not too afraid, and later because the younger brother of the bear kind of busy I did not save the record. I remind myself how lucky I am alive, I practiced real body trackers strategically located and difficult road. Written record that a certain starting a little-known Three Gorges Boat Tracker farewell.
(Photo "terrified" zyw Photography)
March 10 inspected the Gorge there is a place called Deep Creek chain
The next day, we visited the same boat deep in a place called the Gorge Creek chain, re-built in Kangxi 11 years (1673) boatmen speaking at the Three Gorges of the cliffs on horizontal, straight, oblique three chains, clothing and over 7 stone eyes, 99 hoop, the chain under the 33-step stone steps, the most a foot wide, but in the next overlooking the surging river, the terrain is very dangerous, specifically for trackers and passers-by to climb up and down chains, many years ago, many people had been fall to their deaths in this high risk of convex rock bottom. But the hospitality detain a guest of the branches is an even bigger file its Road Nogi Furuto scattered plunging to the ground, simple but vigorous. Full of wild flowers emitting a faint fragrance of thorns, happy to take a look at mildly birds chirp the meantime, the really "I do not know the grass of the Dove Spring and Autumn." Chains are now gone, we always take special care in fact, they are heavy to walk past, without much emotion and reverie. Wushan do not expect the beautiful clouds and rain, sea water droplets do not care about freedom, I can not imagine that the trackers had really gone through suffering. You and I both far but in close proximity to the ancient fiber Road, I used the mortal frame of mind for its concern and regret: This is not a boat tracker fiber figure aisle lost soul enough, and now you want to up the water, and is always flooded in the Jiang's hard to see the light at the end of the dark stand it do, who come visit, and pay homage to, cry ... ...
(Photo Chen Kefu oil painting "Boat Tracker feature on the Beach")
Wei-stretching of the Wushan 1 million peak of gods rock, deep gorges and beautiful space, fog, the endlessly rising peaks, actual situation and white, is secluded from the United States to a good place. Wu Gorge West Side are being erected in Wushan Yangtze River Bridge will become natural moat for the thoroughfare, and that ship pulled slowly on the trackers, and then instead of "a stone hand-planed board feet of sand, tow the boat humpback rock climbing, wind rain Gorge walking, earn to support their mother ... ... "They are in turn scattered floating down where immigrants out? The Three Gorges Shuiguang sky fiber Road will no longer appear in their backs. Towpath crawling along the Three Gorges is a natural tour, but also read the history of Letters. Here, each fiber Road are concentrated in history, thousands of years, the river stirring and washing, the pain and struggle unknown trackers are permanently remain in the fiber cross-Strait Road. Three Gorges fiber Road, from the ignorance of our ancestors toward civilization, a witness, the collection of historical memory of our ancestors who, curious people can easily obtain from it the history of the fragments.
(Photo is the new "Wu Gorge Bridge" design model)
Has completed a fiber Road, we are also early hungry stomach, picked up locally in the Yangtze River while the water firewood, one can find a big rock under the wind raised the wildfires, boil played a wild fish soup, taste the local mountain people mining the spring of the wild. Everything is so primitive simplicity of the Secretary-General of Chongqing Municipal Association of the old painted rocks come up with just painstakingly pulled out from a crevice in the past Paleolithic stone tools, learn to 204 million years ago, Wushan ape-man in the slate on the careful do scrape the meat experience; I sandwiched with tree branches out of steamed buns baked aroma is reverberating in the gorge, kicking up clouds of tourists crossing Tunkou Shui; have a kid is rushing to hand in a fire, grasping food into the mouth devoured; thin thin film is a stone plate; substantially round Moulin is a soup bowl ... ... everyone eating, laughing, crying, exclaiming, Qianqianjunzi off the mask of modesty, but wild and full of uninhibited carnival together. A rare physical and mental relaxation, the return of the soul. I asked the boatmen, in previous years, trackers how to cook to eat, he indifferent smile, without you eat a good, sometimes not eat, the boatman who was never lunch. With his dignified ... ... I turned the topic, begged the old boatman say the story of long ago, he looked at these city people so happy, they looked at the river, half a moment meditating, drinking water instead of one with the Yangtze River wine, the Qing Qing already high-pitched throat, speak up.
(Photo "Riverside picnic" zyw Photography)
Listen to the old boatmen spoke of "Wushan apes Ganchangcunduan" story Huanwen generals leading the troops into Sichuan, through the Three Gorges, there are a soldier seized a small monkey would like to bring the road to play. Females Zisi eager children, followed by the direction of boat travel, flew along the fiber Road wail, cry and miserable, has been run over 100 miles on the road a long time refused to leave. Then simply jump on board, was struck and killed. 1 boatmen broke open the females in the stomach a look inside the intestines are cut into sections and she begins. Huan Wen chiefs learned of this, very angry. Shouted: "You Kuaigun disembark go, I do not want that his men." Boat people be moved to the whole, that would be the mother monkey Bingyong buried in a rubble pile, with a monkey deep into the jungle Department. Later, after the Three Gorges ship where there is there is a long sound of Australopithecus whine. After the inspection, "Shi Shuo Xin Yu" 〔〕 dismiss 23rd recorded "Ganchangcunduan" This is the moving story. The adventure is not surprising encounter with the coexistence of the Three Gorges Boat Tracker that people "ape-ming sound of Tears 3 James Sang," a long mournful Wushan Ape, learning called francoisi. But according to villagers, Guandu and other places often sounds miserable monkey infestation.
Another mason and boatmen speak Gorge does not make people like a "stone in particular wind" of the story: Legend of a married woman surnamed Shi You Lang, Youlang is far out of business, not to discourage his wife from. As a long time out of Youlang not return, his wife miss illness, passed away, sigh, saying: I Hen Buneng blocking his line, so this. Where the future business travels, my dead body into a big drag his words. Therefore referred to as "Stone in particular wind" is also called the wind. Poem "Wind Resistance Wushan speech" on the quoted "stone especially the wind," "Three Mo complex 3 North Korea, the 10-line 9 attempts. Gracious stone especially the wind, such as the expressive female Italian ... ..." In fact, boatmen are most afraid of "Stone In particular style." He also humorous doggerel to tell self-deprecating: "raising a child MO study of masonry, every day hanging in the rock, the opposite to a gossips, a hammer in your hand. ... ..." User-friendly a few words, tells his old mason Xiu Xian Road bitterness.
Li Bai, a few thought the first line of the ship into the water, the rate of speed compared to the strong poetry. Write a boat off the water of the Three Gorges Project is also rapidly: "North Korea speech Bai Di Choi, the Trinidad Jiangling day also, the two sides ape voice sings not live, vessel passed thousand layers of mountains." "Pakistan and swift rivers Rujian Palestinian boat to Ruofei. "Write the slow boat to go the Three Gorges, Sheung Shui, also:" Wu Gorge clip blue sky, Palestinian water Jauze. Pakistani firms could enter the water, blue sky without that time. 3 audience with oxen, three OK too late twilight. 3 North Korea has three twilight, not feel temples as silk. "also illustrates the difficulty of roads of Shu," Wu Gorge 700 years, Pakistan three times the water song. "(Pakistan, the Three Gorges water is also the setbacks, such as the word Pakistan. Ancient people also known as the Three Gorges of the Palestinian people.) if there is no fiber Road, there is no day and night trackers and hardships to pay, there is no wind, the Three Gorges aid, Li Bai and Du Fu, the people can freely access to the Three Gorges, known in the world do? Yuefu folk song "Wushan high" recounted: "Wushan ah, the tall and majestic; Huaishui ah, depth stream anxious. I want to return to the home of the East, why is it able to return? Because there is no vessel can cross the river. The river was so rough surging, I can only stand waterside sights, not stop the tears wet clothes. wandering far away wandering thought to go home but can not go back and ask how do I do? "proof of boat, trackers, fiber Road for the the Three Gorges channel, out of the Sichuan played an indelible role.
Want to come back will be seen and heard on record in order to enter the Three Gorges of the duty of every citizen. Time was tight, there are omissions of the Department, please include.
Padding: At the same time as the acceleration of the progress of the Three Gorges Project, the Three Gorges Reservoir to June 2003 will achieve the initial water storage, water storage, water level will reach 135 meters elevation, the world-famous Three Gorges landscape will be what kind of change do? . Current rating protection, 108 cultural relics will be 39 related to inundation, which flooded the whole nine natural landscape, cultural landscape 16, semi-submerged natural landscape 6, human landscape 8; 16 sites involved in a Department, the two spots 11, three spots 12, a number of Plank Road and a number of ancient rock carvings will be submerged. At the same time, the Three Gorges reservoir water, it will form a canyon and rafting rivers 37, 15 caves, lakes and 11, islands 14.
Author: yaling
