Three Gorges Stone , Sichuan River Elf and Three Gorges Soul
Taoling
After autumn every year, Three Gorges Reservoir Area stored water. The wide river surface is rippling with blue waves and blue sky, forming a landscape of the same color as the water and sky, and blending with the green mountains on both sides of the shore, it is beautiful. I often stand on Binjiang Road , staring at the blue river water of the lake for a long time...
Once upon a time, the pebbles everywhere on the river were sold at small stalls at Wanxian Wharf Night Market. The pebbles are red, white, yellow, green, green... all colorful. Each is wrapped in a small box. The transparent plastic cover is covered with visible and natural patterns, like clouds, water, boats, or various figures and animals. Of course, the pattern must use its imagination. Most of the customers were outsiders who came out of the riverside overnight and wandered around, and the stall owner patiently taught them to identify them. The pebbles with patterns cost two or three yuan per piece, and the ones are high cost seven or eight yuan, which is a bit expensive. On the stall, the most common one is solid color and no pattern pebbles. They are larger and have a few handwritings. They outline an ancient scholar, or orchid , or fisherman, or sailboat, and write words such as "diligence", "thinking", "smoothing", and "struggle". The price is much cheaper, ranging from a few cents to two or three yuan. The painted one is particularly good and large, and can be sold for five yuan. No matter which one, the ones sold the most are at low and medium prices. This was in the mid-1980s.
These pebbles are given a nice name: Three Gorges Stone. The small Three Gorges Stone was an important tourism product in Wanxian City back then, and many families rely on it to "make a living".
Although it can be seen everywhere by the river, I have never picked up the Three Gorges Stone. I made up my mind and spent two or seven cents to buy one for my first love girlfriend Ayi. This price is a few cents more expensive than the ticket for my return to , Yunyang, . The patterns on the Three Gorges stones are like boats. The master recommended us to choose, saying that they symbolize "a boat is smooth". I don’t know if Ayi’s Three Gorges Stone is still there?
The original novel editor of Shanghai's " Mengya " magazine Lin Qing , who once wrote a post in " Xinmin Evening News " to recall that in 1991, he went on a business trip to Wanxian. The Three Gorges poet Bai Mingjiu accompanied him to the night market and bought a unique Three Gorges Stone for him. For decades, in late winter and early spring, he has placed the Three Gorges Stone in the Narcissus basin, accompanied by the Narcissus bulbs to blossom.
In the early autumn of 11992, I visited the Little Three Gorges of Daning River for the first time. The boat was on the wharf of Dachang Ancient Town. More than a dozen children came up at once, most of them were girls. They held a big bowl in their hands or held a small basin, and there were colorful pebbles in it. They kept calling out: "Uncle, my elder brother, please buy a Three Gorges Stone!" "Brother and sister, these Three Gorges Stones are beautiful, buy one!" Daning River are full of pebbles beaches. These pebbles are directly picked from the riverside and sold to tourists. Although it is more colorful than the Wanxian Wharf Night Market, it has not been packaged and modified, and it is too primitive and simple, and basically no one buys it. At that time, the poor and scared people did not have the concept of original ecology. These children don't bother tourists to sell them.
After visiting the ancient town, when we returned to the boat, a little girl with short hair and round face, holding a bowl in one hand and a Three Gorges Stone in the other hand, handing it to the lady in front of me, saying, "Big sister, I'll give it to you!" The big sister was originally an actor in the art troupe and changed careers to our unit. She didn't answer, nor did she stop, but just slowed down and asked a little strangely: "Why should I give it to me?"
The little girl did not hide anything: "You are the most obedient!" The eldest sister's face was filled with joy, stopped, and took the pebbles. Seeing this, the other children next to me also scrambled to give the eldest sister, Three Gorges Stone, saying, "Welcome to , Small Three Gorges again!" I walked behind her and got one from a little boy: "Help us promote it, let more people come and play!" The people who were walking around curiously, and they all got one or two small pebbles that they gave each other.We were moved by the simplicity of the children. Someone said, "Big sister, please give them a song!"
So, by the river in the ancient town, there were crisp and beautiful singing voices floating:
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Small back basket. Swaying and laughing, my mother carried me down the stilt building
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The children were stunned and stood in a row on the stone embankment without moving, watching us get on the boat. The boat slowly left the shore with the singing, and they suddenly remembered and waved their hands one after another.
I have many friends around me who collect the Three Gorges Stones. Before the Three Gorges Project water storage to the second phase of the water storage, they ran all over the river beaches and dams in the reservoir area, looking for the stones they like, used woven bags and pulled them with small cars, and moved them home dozens of tons, and specially rented a house to install them. The colorful patterns on the stone surface are like Impressionist paintings and works, and the eccentric symbols are like ancient rock paintings... A strange-shaped stone, a friend said it was a "structural stone", which looks like a freshly released "hamburger". Nature is also naughty and actually created two "dog shit". I don't want to touch it or not, and I even feel a little disgusted.
My friend took out treasures and explained them to me like the stall owner of the night market that year. He gave me names and placed them on the base of the imitation of mahogany. He looked very satisfied. Suddenly, I lost interest. He built the vivid Three Gorges Stones in a few words in the "grid", and this "grid" may not be suitable for them. The tacky imitation mahogany base is even more "like a thorn in the throat".
In addition to pebbles, the rocks on the shores of the Three Gorges are also called Three Gorges Stone. They are in various shapes, some like waterfalls and books, some like turtles and eagles, like samurai armor, like mature crop fields, like plump women lying bathing in the sun... In 1961, when the famous educator Ye Shengtao took the people's hand over the Three Gorges, he described in his diary: "The stones at the roots of the mountain are of various shapes, which are very interesting. Some are like the texture of dead trees, some are stacked, some are like the list of beans, some are like steamed cakes with beans, which are difficult to describe." It really gives people a stunning beauty. Now, they store water with the Three Gorges Project and sank in the river.
In 2017, a publishing house in Chongqing published the commemorative album "The Three Gorges of Forever" for these rocks, and invited me to write it, and I happily accept it. The rocks are rolling in the sunset, and each bunch is like layers of veil. I wrote "The golden curtain flutters, the melody flows"; the concave and concave, round and smooth rocks are spreading on the riverside to bathe in the sun, with "Fluent and Beauty, Open and Beautiful"...
What I like most is a picture of "boatman stone", a piece of limestone with edges and angular irregularities, which is rubbed by fiber vines for many years, leaving three deep grooves in the middle. The text is suitable for realistic: "The deeper the fiber marks of the rocks on the shore, and the thicker the calluses on the shoulders of the radial beard."
In addition to this fiber mark stone, the Three Gorges fiber stone also contains "fiber piles", "bull nose stones" and "eye stones".
The radial beard pulled hard, and the fiber cane was tight and straight. But there are bays in the river, people can take detours, but they can't walk on the fibers. A piece of rock column is set up at the bay, and the fiberglass is carried on the column body. As a break point, the fiberglass takes a detour. The radiator is called a fiber pile. Over time, the stake body is covered with deep and shallow groove marks.
There are many various fiber piles in the Three Gorges. Chuanjiang The water flows rapidly. When the radial beard pulls the fiber, when encountering an emergency or when the physical strength is exhausted, tie the fiber vine to the fiber pile to stabilize the boat. About twelve kilometers below the east exit of Qutang Gorge, the place name is Sanluzi. The water here is very fast. The boat on the water has pulled the fibers here. The robe wants to take a breath, but the fibers cannot be tied to the shore. One year, a local gentry erected three stone piles to tie cables here, and this place name was created. In 1881, Li Xun, a gentry from Guizhou, set up two rows of columns on the burying dam above the Xilingxia Beach with granite, tied the fiber vines firmly on the columns, and placed the other end on the wooden boat off the beach. A wooden winch was installed on the boat to push the winch to the beach. This method saves effort and is called running cables. When the wooden boat was flying across the beach, it also tied the vines to the pillars and slowly hung them down. This method is called hanging.
is not suitable for standing fiber piles. The radiator just drills a hole in the rock, and can also tie a fiberglass to "travel cables", "release hanging" and "rest".The boatman called the stone hole "the bull's nose", like a cow, and his image.
Ming Dynasty human geologist Wang Shixing , there is a passage in Volume 5 of "Guangzhiyi", which means (translated into vernacular): "The skill of the boatman in the Sichuan River is better than that of a hundred steps through Yang. The boat goes downstream, as fast as flying, and is about to hit the rock. When he sees him use a rod to hit the rock, the boat quickly avoids it. If there is a slight mistake, it will be smashed in an instant. The lives of more than 100 people in the ship are all in his body." The "pointing rod" and "using rod to hit the rock in the river or on the shore" in the text refer to poking the rod to the rock in the river or on the shore, so as to spread the boat so that it will not hit it. There is an iron tip at the front end of the rod. Day after day, year after year, dense holes are poked out on the rock. This is the eye stone in the boater stone.
Some people use the role of the boatman stone as the soul of the Three Gorges. Let me add: The pebbles are the elf of Chuanjiang.
The Three Gorges Project is about to store water, and I often wander, linger on the shore, and wander. I saw someone taking away the boatman stones on the shore one by one, and I was moved and wanted to collect one. They told me: "Eight hundred yuan per person, the fiber marks are three to five hundred."
looked at the round stone pillars that looked like the body of a radial beard, and the concave groove marks were like ribs. I felt uncomfortable and had to give up. But it's always a bit regretful.
In the early spring, I came to the national ecological town of Sanxia Reservoir District Wuling , and they planned to build the "Three Gorges Strange Stone Museum". Ms. He Jia, the former president of the Three Gorges Stone Appreciation Association, who was traveling with her, felt that the preparation venue was relatively small and could not place their "treasures". I suggested: No matter how big the venue is, don’t tie the Three Gorges Stone to a fixed space to make it "live". There is a huge natural river bay formed by the water storage in the Three Gorges Reservoir area. It is the Dragon Boat Festival Dragon Boat Race Training Base. The descent belt on the east side of the river bay is a large grassy slope, like a paved green field, and the water and the shore are intersected in an orderly manner. Isn’t it the best to embellish the Three Gorges Ferry Stone and a unique reef stone in the river, combining nature with humanities?
Actually, I am a little "selfish". In this way, I can often go to see the boatman stone to resolve the regret in my heart.
Editor: Luo Yuxin
Editor: Chen Taiyong
Review: Wang Cheng
