What else does Gaoyou have besides salted duck eggs?

Ms. Anne Curian of France, when talking about her impression of Wang Zengqi's novels, said that Wang Zengqi's novels contain water: "The Chronicle of the Great Nao is like this; "The Ordination" does not write about water, but it is full of water feelings. ”

Indeed, "water-based" is a major feature of Wang Zengqi's article. Wang Zengqi affirmed her evaluation: "I thought about it, it is really so. It is very natural that my hometown is a water town, a small city in northern Jiangsu - Gaoyou. Next to the canal. He further said in "The Depths of the Pu Pu: Self-Introduction": "My novels often use water as a background, which is a very natural thing. The people and things in the memory are mostly with a little bit of water vapor, and people's personalities are more calm as water, flowing like water, and clear as water. ”

Wang Zengqi's hometown of Gaoyou, on the edge of the Grand Canal, is a typical water town. Wang Zengqi said that the water in his hometown is always soft, peaceful, and flows quietly, and his words are like peaceful flowing water, flowing quietly. The beautiful natural landscape and the superior growth, learning environment and personal aesthetic taste have provided favorable conditions for Wang Zengqi's creation. There is water in many of his works. Even if you don't write about water directly, there is a feeling of water. He always said in many articles: "My hometown Gaoyou is a Ze country, and there are often floods. There is Gaoyou Lake in the territory, and there are more tourists than cruise ships on the lake, including many rioters and inkers, who have written some poems. "His works seem to have been washed in clean water, drenched, wet, refreshing, with the characteristic water of the River Town; like the diamond horns that have just come out of the water, tender, crisp, sweet and refreshing.

In "Self-Reported Home", Wang Zengqi admits that "water not only became the background of my novel in self-consciousness, but also influenced the style of my novel."

"Water nature" is particularly prominent in Wang Zengqi's prose creation, and it is also the key to distinguishing his novels from other vernacular novels. The material is taken freely, showing looseness and leisure. Wang Zengqi said that the structure of his novel is "painstakingly managed casually", and his prose is even more so, the text seems to be thrown around at random, and there are few traces of deliberateness, but the literary tone is penetrating, and the exquisite structure of its structure is intrinsic and natural, and it is based on the inner rhythm, such as the flow of clouds and water.

On October 10, 1981, at the invitation of the leaders of Gaoyou County, Elder Wang returned to his hometown, where he had been haunted by dreams for 42 years. Elder Wang first went to the Dongfeng Commune in the Self-Irrigation District (now Jiejia Town) to visit the water replenishment station, and then to the Chuanqing Commune in the Wei District to visit the Irrigation Station. Elder Wang said, "I have been to these two commune villages when I was a child, and now I can't recognize them at all. "At that time, I was the head of the commune's cultural station, and I had the honor of accompanying Elder Wang on a commune steamship to the reeds to collect wind, and at that time he was very interested and asked me to write about the reed struggle.

Mr. Wang Zengqi's soul haunts the water of his hometown, and he has always been concerned about the water conservancy of his hometown for a short time when he returned to his hometown. On the afternoon of October 16 of the same year, he discussed the water conservancy construction in his hometown with water conservancy experts at the county embankment management office, and also borrowed materials such as the "Special Journal of Transport Workers" and "Notes on Surveying" from the water conservancy engineers, and visited the Jiangdu Water Conservancy Hub. Elder Wang sighed: "I visited the Jiangdu Water Conservancy Hub, and I didn't know anything about those modern machinery, I just thought it was spectacular." But I know that from now on, the canal is so big that it can be discharged; There is little water, and water can be transferred from the Yangtze River. Not only are there no dangers of drought and flooding, but the lives of tens of thousands of people have been guaranteed. When he learned that since the founding of New China, the water conservancy construction in his hometown has made great achievements, not only basically controlling the flood disaster, but also developing artesian irrigation and shipping. Elder Wang especially praised the self-irrigation areas for "shouting for water, not closing the gates, putting water on flower shoes, and watching the water hit the umbrella." Wang Lao later wrote a novel, "Hometown Water," which was published in the literary bimonthly magazine China, edited by Ding Ling and Shu Qun. This may be the first novel to publicize the Gaoyou Irrigation District, and the only novel to publicize the Gaoyou Irrigation District in the past 40 years.

From September 29 to October 7, 1991, Wang Zengqi returned to Gaoyou with his wife Shi Songqing for the third time, and the last time he returned to his hometown. The wanderer who has been outside for a long time took a steamship to sail the Grand Canal and Gaoyou Lake, and became the "old Mandarin duck" on the lake.

On November 26, 2021, the 72nd Executive Council of the International Irrigation and Drainage Commission announced the (eighth batch) Of The World Irrigation Engineering Heritage List, and the Li Canal-Gaoyou Irrigation District was successfully selected, becoming the first World Irrigation Engineering Heritage site in Jiangsu Province. If Elder Wang is still there, I don't know what kind of article he will write.