【Human Geography】The "beauty of five harmony" brewing in the Minjiang River ‖ Jingcheng

The "beauty of five harmony" brewing in the Minjiang River

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The south wind of the snow-capped mountains melts the snow juice and turns it into the water of the Minjiang River.

The fusion of snow juice and milk milk is the praise of Fan Chengda, who served as the envoy of Sichuan and the governor of Chengdu during the Southern Song Dynasty, to the Minjiang River. Compared with the common beauty of the mother river on the earth or on the land of China, what are the outstanding flashes of the Minjiang River, which gave birth to the "land of abundance"? We believe that the unique beauty of Minjiang lies in the fact that she has brewed, grown, nurtured and reconciled the five kinds of beauty, so that the color, taste, character, luck, scenery and so on of Minjiang are "vast and vast, and the ointment of Hui Ze is flowing and moist".

The magnificence of the water is strong in the "water of the Minjiang River"

"The water of the Minjiang River comes from the sky" is not the attached "water of the Yellow River", but there is another source and exquisiteness of the cave: a common saying from the common people, such as the contemporary painter, Liang Shimin, director of the Sichuan Art Museum, etc., "Li Bing and his son and Dujiangyan" creation notes specifically include a folk proverb that circulates between the mouths and ears of the common people in Shudi, "The water of the Minjiang River comes from the sky, and the farmers in Chengdu suffer every year." The other few sentences are from the elegant words of poets of previous dynasties, such as the Tang Dynasty poet Zhang Hu's "Sending Shu Guest" said that "Chu Ke goes to Minjiang, and the southwest refers to the end of the day". The meaning of this sentence is also very clear - the Min River is at the end of the sky in the southwest. If Zhang Hu's sentence is still more subtle, then the next three are much more straightforward: the Song Dynasty poet Chen Rong's "Two Songs for People to Endow Hengzhou" "Minjiang Hanyuan comes from the sky, and it is not as safe as the wind overnight"; Qing Dynasty poet Huang Yu "Dujiangyan" "Minjiang comes from the sky, and the magic chisels through the ancient pile"; Contemporary musician Yuan He's "Dujiang Water Tune" "Shushan continues to open up, and a Minjiang River comes up from the sky".

Obviously, this "heavenly" is rich in tremendous energy, which is magnificent, destructive, and nourishing.

Of course, whether it is the proverbs of the common people or the poems of the poets, they are all attached to the surging source of creation of the water of the Minjiang River. The Minjiang River has two sources, east and west, and the source is in Songpan County at the southern foot of Minshan Mountain: the west source Panzhou River originates from Langjialing in Songpan County (elevation 4610 meters); The eastern source of the Zhangla River originates from the Gonggang Ridge in Songpan County (elevation 3727 meters). The data show that the Minjiang River has a drop of 3560 meters, with an average slope of 8.2‰, as a typical representative of the river drop between the first and second tiers of the mainland, if the Minjiang River is gentle, if it is a thunderbolt when it is high, it is a fertile field for thousands of miles, and it is angry to flood a country. Therefore, it is also defensible for later generations to say that "the water of the Minjiang River comes from the sky". Not only the descendants, but also the predecessors were deeply moved by the magnificence of the Minjiang River. As one of the main tributaries of the Yangtze River in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, the Min River was regarded as the source of the Yangtze River. There is a scripture as proof - "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" says, "Minshan, the river comes out." "The Book of Water" says, "Minshan, the river comes out." It can be said that without the magnificence of the water of the Minjiang River, there will be no historical origin of the Yangtze River, and there will be no "a Minjiang River coming from the sky".

Li Bing and Dujiangyan

Second, the beauty of the mountain is beautiful, and the show is in the "embroidered hibiscus smiles"

The Shu Mountain, where the Minjiang River originates, flows through and closes, has an extraordinary beauty.

Minshan Mountain, the origin of the Minjiang River, the northwest and southeast direction of the mountain range is more than 700 kilometers, and there is a saying of "thousands of miles of Minshan" since ancient times. It is worth mentioning that the Gonggang Ridge in the eastern source of the Min River means "all like mountains" in Tibetan. Or the storm in the dark, after the great man led the Red Army from here, he also left behind the joy of "more like the snow of Minshan Mountain, and the three armies will be happy after the three armies", which is a double superposition of the joy of the show. From the plateau down to the Longmen Pass, Qingcheng Mountain and Yulei Mountain come to us. Qingcheng Mountain, which is divided into Wang Yuechang, and the heaven and earth are cut off as the fairy township, and the Yulei Mountain, which is "the spring of the Jinjiang River comes to the world, and the floating clouds of Yulei become ancient and modern", embrace the "three heritages" - the world cultural heritage site, the world natural heritage giant panda habitat, and the world irrigation engineering heritage list of three world heritage sites, which are also the "heritage" show. The Minjiang River rushes from the Chengdu Plain, it is the Meishan between the Min'e and the eyebrows in the distance, and the 880-year-old Peng Zu "was born in Si" and named after the Pengshan, this group of mountains - including the long eyebrows of Meishan, the benevolent phase of Renshou, and the longevity of Pengshan, all contain the meaning of longevity. In particular, Pengshan, as "the only hometown of longevity in China that has been demonstrated by multidisciplinary experts in the country", is also known as the place of "returning to the origin" of the thousands of miles of Minjiang River, which is the "longevity" show of Minshang's health. To Leshan, Lingyun Mountain, "Buddha is a mountain, the mountain is a Buddha" treasure, and the Buddha foot of the Minjiang River, Tsing Yi River, Dadu River three rivers confluence, people can't help but indulge in the "benevolent Leshan, wise people Leshui" and its wonderful understanding, this is the Confucianism and Buddhism blend of "music" show also. Then over the two Ping Mountains - Jinping Mountain in Pingshan County and Cuiping Mountain in Cuiping District, the Minjiang River hangs up the cloud sails, breaks the screen, and pours into the rolling torrent of the east of the big river, the three provinces of the chicken, the convergence of the two rivers, and the elegance of a city, which is the show of "cooperation".

The "joy" of Minshan is tenacity; The "legacy" of Qingcheng is thick; Pengshan's "longevity" is raised in Mianyuan; The "music" of Leshan is wisdom; After crossing Pingshan, the "he" is wide. In the bones and veins of the mountains and rivers, there is the delicate spirit of the Minjiang River, "the clouds and mountains are like splendor, and the Qingjiang River flows for thousands of miles".

Third, the beauty of the wind and beauty of the humanities has nourished the first class of Chinese literati

Zeng Guofan, who enjoys the reputation of "the last Confucian sage of the feudal dynasty", once said: "Chu Ke first came to inquire about customs, and Shu people were heroes from ancient times." This sentence is not a polite remark, because only in the cultural circle, the delicate spirit of Minjiang has nourished the first-class cultural figures from Xia to descend the wind god. For example, in "Minshan Daojiang", Dayu, a water control hero who passed through the door three times in 13 years and did not enter; For example, the "Chengdu people of Shu County" recorded in the "Historical Records" are similar to the saint Sima; For example, the two protagonists mentioned in "Nanyang Zhuge Lu, Xishu Ziyunting" in "Burrow Ming", Shu Prime Minister Zhuge Liang and Shu Yangxiong, one of the four masters of Han Fu; For example, Li Mi, who moved the world with a "Chen Qing Table"; For example, boarding a boat from Chengdu (or at Hejiangting Wharf, or Minjiang Wharf in Chongzhou) went down the Minjiang River, singing the "Emei Mountain Moon Song" all the way to the poet immortal Li Bai; For example, on the Minjiang River, "looking at each other for sixty miles, drinking the glass river together", a scholar with Min'e snow waves and Jinjiang spring Su Dongpo Su University; For example, Yang Sheng'an, the champion of the Ming Dynasty, who was born between Mintuo and wrote "The rolling Yangtze River is passing away, and the waves are sweeping away the heroes...... Even Li Zhen, who regarded himself as a "heretic" of Confucianism, was greatly moved: "If there is no one in Minjiang, it is enough, and when one comes out, it is Li Qixian, Su Poxian, and Yang Shuxian."

As the old saying goes: one side of the water and soil raises one side of the people, and one side of the people makes one side of the culture. Li Houqiang, a well-known scholar, said that the mountains and rivers through which the Minjiang River passes are beautiful, and there will inevitably be more great writers. The thousand-year-old snow ridge comes out, and the clouds float up. This is the water of the Minjiang River, dry clouds, nourishing the Minshang people's courage, carving dragon heart, full of culture.

Fourth, the abundance and beauty of grain have watered the core circle of "Tianfu granary".

A history of China is a history of water control and a history of growing grain based on water.

Thanks to Li Bing and the water control people before and after him, the once wild Minjiang River was finally domesticated into a beneficial water for the benefit of the people. Since the Dujiangyan of the Minjiang River without a dam to divert water was built, the Chengdu Plain was "water and drought from people, do not know famine, there is no famine year, the world is called Tianfu". There is data to prove it: "Historical Records" says that "the canals of irrigated fields are trillions"; "Huayang National Chronicles" said, "Irrigate the three counties and open up paddy fields." So Shu is fertile for thousands of miles, and the number is land and sea"; Zhao Puchu said, "The Great Wall has been out of use for a long time, and the monuments are left in vain." It is not as good as Dujiangyan, Wanshizi irrigation"...... If these data are approximations, they can be refined: the Minjiang River basin covers an area of 135,000 square kilometers, and Sichuan covers 126,000 square kilometers, accounting for 25.93% of the province's area. In 2022, the grain sowing area of Sichuan Province will be 96.953 million mu, ranking 6th in the country, and the grain output will be 70.21 billion catties, ranking 9th in the country. Among them, the Minjiang River basin is the premier granary. Because of this, General Secretary Xi Jinping specifically pointed out when he came to Sichuan to inspect: "The Chengdu Plain has been known as the land of abundance since ancient times, and it is necessary to strictly abide by the red line of cultivated land, protect this treasure land of grain production, grasp grain production tightly, and build a higher level of Tianfu granary in the new era." To this end, Sichuan specially issued the "Action Plan for Building a Higher Level of "Tianfu Granary" in the New Era", proposing to promote the overall layout of one belt, five districts, 30 clusters and 1,000 parks in accordance with "1531".

The mellow beauty of the five wines has brewed the longest flavor of the wine

Some people call the Chishui River the River of Fine Wine, because Moutai, Langjiu, and Xijiu have been brewed on this river; Some people also call the Grand Canal the wine river of Jiangsu, because this river has successively brewed mung bean shochu, Shuanggou Daqu, Yanghe Daqu, and osmanthus sweet rice wine...... From this point of view, we deserve to call the Minjiang River, which gave birth to Dongtian Milk Wine, Shuijingfang Wine, Quanxing Daqu Wine, Wenjun Wine, and Wuliangye series wine, as China's beautiful wine river.

In June 2022, General Secretary Xi Jinping came to Yibin at the confluence of the Min River and the Yangtze River to inspect the work. Standing at the mouth of the Sanjiang River and inspecting and learning about the local efforts to promote the ecological restoration and protection of the Yangtze River basin and the implementation of the ban on fishing in the waters of the Yangtze River, he said earnestly: We should "try our best to protect the water quality of the upper reaches of the Yangtze River with the standard of being able to make fine wine, so as to benefit the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and the entire basin." On the 2023 June Five-Year World Environment Day, the Sichuan Provincial Department of Ecology and Environment issued the "2022 Sichuan Provincial Ecological Environment Status Bulletin", and the water quality of 13 key river basins in the province is excellent, among which the excellent water quality rate of the Minjiang River and other rivers is 100%. The water is good, and this one is also. In recent years, there is a famous comment in the liquor rivers and lakes: "The five who beat the iron and the third who runs the water". Wuliangye is firmly the king of the strong fragrance type, and the soy sauce type Moutai is the national liquor duo, and these two are also returned. On the table all over the world, as long as there is a place where Chinese hold wine glasses, we can always hear Li Bai's toast to invite Mingyue, the minister is the fairy in wine, Hu'er will exchange for fine wine, and the ship will buy wine Baiyunbian; will always talk about Su Dongpo's statue of the river, poetry and wine in the prime of life; always laugh at Yang Sheng'an's pot of turbid wine...... With these poems, the wine of the Chinese has a soul, and these three return.

The spring breeze is thousands of miles away from the Minjiang River, blowing fragrant mash to the fullest. Yes, it is the Minjiang River that reconciles the harmony and difference of the five kinds of beauty, and the beauty is the same, so that there is still pity for the hometown water, thousands of miles of Yibin Qingyan patronage, and there is also the endless lovesickness that has not been lifted and forgotten and regretted for the return of Dongwu.

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Source: Sichuan Provincial Office of Local Chronicles

Author: Jing Cheng (Special Researcher of Sichuan Provincial Network Public Opinion Research Center, Sichuan Academy of Social Sciences, Secretary-General of Big Data Laboratory of Beautiful Metropolitan Area, General Manager of All Media of Sichuan Pictorial)

Contributed by: Ya'an Local Chronicles Compilation Center, Ya'an Rong Media Center