(Zhang Demin)
She is a little-known river;
It is a silky river;
It is also my mother river, and it is also the river of my life!
Because, compared with the famous big rivers, she is simply a "small witch and a big witch", which cannot be compared. If the Yangtze River and the Yellow River are big rivers, then the winding and winding Lu River in my life is just a trickling stream.
The Lu River, also known as the Lu River. The source is in the Qinggray Ridge of Maoshan outside the General Pass in Xinglong County, flowing through Jixian District and Pinggu District, turning southeast through the east of Sanhe, from the south of Qiaotou Village in Sanhe City to the north of West Sizhuang Village in Baodi District, and then flowing east along the boundary of Jixian and Baodi districts to Zhangguzhuang and the Zhou River (also known as the Thistle Canal) to meet and flow to the gushing Bohai Sea.
She - is a meandering, slender silky, obscure river. The water is gurgling, all year round; The water surface is clean and crystal clear; Duck on the water, fish fly shallow bottom; Shimmering, shining gold; The sails are shadowed and the boats are sung, the fishing songs are sung late, and the beautiful scenery wins the south of the river.
I have seen many wide, narrow and rapid, gentle rivers, one by one, rushing and noisy, untamed, imposing, magnificent, magnificent and beautiful. However, what I miss and attach to the most is the thin Lu River in my heart, embedded in the North China Plain. She was always so peaceful, quiet, and clear, with slight ripples, silently, and without looking back, flowing forward and towards the sea.
It is a flowing life, a flowing poem, and a flowing song.
You see her like silk, the grass is green and red, the warbler is chirping and the bird is chirping, walking Mo Lin Yin, Chunhua Qiushi. The jade belt, thin as silk, bright as a mirror, the farthest majestic Yan Mountain, the willows on both sides of the river, the Yin fruit forest and the prosperous villages, the flowing vehicles, the pedestrians passing by, and the rolling white clouds in the sky, all of which are reflected so real, vivid, and have become infinite touching and deep memories in her life.
I grew up drinking water from the Lu River. In the fifties of the twentieth century, I was born in a larger village on the west bank of the Lu River, called Xingrenzhuang. According to the research of place names: the village was founded in the early Tang Dynasty. The origin of the name comes from the fact that in ancient times, land transportation was not convenient, and water transportation was more convenient and economical. Therefore, rice, salt and other daily necessities from the Hangu, Ninghe and Baodi areas in the lower reaches of the Jixing Canal and the Lu River were transported by water to the wharf on the river in the east of the village, and then transferred by land to Huangzhuang, Yangzhuang, Sanhe, Dachang, Xiadian, Tongzhou and Shunyi, Miyun and Changping in eastern Beijing. The riverside east of Tianchang Rijiu Village has become a larger water and drought wharf, and has also become a famous commodity distribution center in a hundred miles. In the area along the river, people gradually built tea houses and restaurants, and the larger car shops were Zhang, Wang and Zou. At this time, merchants from the south and north and carts and small cars carrying things ate and stayed in these shops at night, which was called "rest" in the local vernacular. Over time, the middle word was simplified and called "rest". Later, the villagers and outsiders who hauled things felt that the word "Xie'er" was not very elegant, and they both felt that the east-west road behind the village was full of pedestrians from south to north, and then with the influence of Kongmeng's Confucian thought, they felt that "people" were not as good as "ren", and it was better to call it "Xingren Zhuang". According to the elderly people in the village, in the late Tang and early Ming dynasties, it was named "Xingrenzhuang". Forget it, let's not study the origin of the village name. Let's talk about the Lu River in that bay, otherwise, it will be a bit "wrong topic".
In the fifties and sixties of the last century, the Lu River was much wider than it is now, and the water flowed continuously throughout the year, and the clear river water was clear and clean, and it was crystal clear at a glance. When you step on it, there are yellow, soft sand slabs under your feet. The river flows slowly along the "W" shaped channel in a clear and quiet way, and the fish swim leisurely in the water. In the early sixties, electricity was installed in the village, electric lights were installed in the household, and a rice flour processing factory was established in the village. In the spring, the members installed pumps near the river and used the water from the river to irrigate their fields. In particular, during the era of the "Great Village of Agriculture," the largest "eight-inch" pump was installed at the deep water bay of the river in the southeast corner of the village, and a main canal that ran through the flood control dike and stretched four or five huali east and west in front of the village was built, so that more than 2,000 mu of land had a guaranteed water source, and the wheat yield in summer increased year after year. In summer and autumn, it is a good place for people to cool off and cool off. Families do not have to prepare solar energy as they do now, but go to the clear, white river water to take a bath. Especially at night, the section of the river outside the embankment opposite the village street is a concentration for men's bathing, and two or three hundred meters downstream, there is a special place for girls and daughters-in-law to bathe, as if the customary rules and precepts, its territory is sacred and inviolable. We were still young, and after dinner, we went to the river with the adults to toss around. In elementary school, the first thing I did after school was to put down my school bag, pick up a sickle, carry a basket to cut grass for the pigs and sheep at home, and come back with a basket of grass to write homework. The children also always go around the ground on both sides of the river, swimming in the river when they are tired, and washing in the river when they are dirty. That comfort and relief are still fresh in my memory.
Lu He is not always so quiet and tame, bowing his head to his ears. When the rain or heavy rain falls during the flood season, the upstream drainage water flows downstream, and the three or four mile-wide channels and loops between the embankments on both sides of the river are full of floods, which looks very scary, and when the people are quiet at night, you can hear the flood "mooing" like a cow's roar. The most terrifying thing was when I first remembered the flood. In the early sixties, natural and man-made disasters were not alone. At that time, the levee was low and short, not as tall as it was after the restoration of the levee in the seventies. For two years in a row, the eastern end of the village burst its embankment, flooding and rampaging through the village. Because the village has been built for a long time, the streets in the village are low-lying, the homestead is high, and every family blocks the gate with earth bags to prevent flooding, and the north-south and east-west streets are one or two meters deep. I remember blocking the embankment, and hurried boats up the street, carrying much-needed stakes, sacks and other items. After that, for more than a dozen days before the water receded, boats became the only means of transportation for people to leave the village. Although the flood at that time brought disasters and difficulties to people's production and life, when the flood receded, leaving behind thick silt slabs full of rivers, bringing fertilizer to the land without cost, the next year will definitely be another rich summer harvest. Until the early seventies, there were floods every year. When we were fifteen or sixteen years old, every flood season, we had to bravely go to the "middle stream to hit the water". In winter, the clean river becomes a white glacier. I often go to ice skating with my playmates, have snowball fights, and have fun, which is still vividly remembered today.
Water is the source of life and the core of the ecological environment, and rivers are important carriers of water resources. Later, I went to school and worked in the commune and county (city), so I was far away from the Lu River, which nurtured me. But every holiday, when I go home to visit my parents and two elderly people, I can't forget to walk back and forth on the towering embankment, let go of the reins of thought, let go of the galloping thoughts, to fully appreciate the passing years, and recall the longing and joy of childhood. When I walk along the river, I am really worried about the future of the river. Due to climate change, the reduction of precipitation, the interception of upstream water storage projects, the overexploitation of groundwater, and man-made environmental pollution, the upstream source replenishment is eliminated, the river water dries up, and the riverbed cracks. The fruit trees and willows, green grass and red flowers, birds and cicadas on both sides of the bank have disappeared, and as far as the eye can see, she sees the bare embankment beach, and the rancid stagnant water, which makes her lose the beautiful face of the former blue water and blue sky. I hope that people will deeply realize the harm of man-made destruction of the environment, and everyone will do it, starting from me, to restore a peaceful and blue hometown, and a blue and clean river.
Water is the soul of life, the source of economic development, the carrier of history and culture, and the charm and aura of the city. A comprehensive, coordinated and sustainable scientific development path must attach great importance to the protection of the ecological environment, and the rivers that nourish human civilization should be carefully protected. Fortunately, in recent years, the Sanhe Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government have intensified the treatment of the Lu River, shutting down heavily polluting factories and mines, building sewage treatment plants, reducing garbage discharge, strengthening river management, widening and strengthening river embankments, planting grass and trees on both sides, so that the Lu River can be effectively protected.
Luhe, your calmness, tolerance, wisdom and calmness have brought me many unforgettable joys.
Lu River, my mother river!