"Is there a sea in Huzhou?" "Yes—every time I stand by the smokey Taihu Lake, it's like seeing an endless sea!" This is a conversation I had with a friend from out of town in WeChat.
Maybe it's my experience of working a long time in the Navy, after returning to Huzhou, as long as I have time, I like to walk around Taihu Lake.
On the day of the ambush, the comrades working on the navy ship casually shared a few wallpapers from the sea, which melted my heart at once - at that moment, I seemed to be back on the blue sea...
Whether the sea is beautiful or not depends on the transparency of the sea. The transparency of the waters of the Bohai, Yellow and East China Seas is very low, because they are very turbid due to the sediment brought by the rivers entering the sea from the mainland and the sediment on the seabed. Even in summer, the transparency of the sea water does not exceed 10 meters.
The South China Sea is completely different, with the transparency of the sea waters in the Xisha, Zhongsha and Nansha Islands reaching more than 30 meters, and even reaching more than 40 meters in some places. The Zhongsha Islands are submerged 20-30 meters underwater, but due to the high transparency of the sea, you can see the colorful corals of the underwater reef and the fish swimming in it.
Another effect of the high transparency of seawater is the beauty of water color, which is also an important factor in whether seawater is beautiful. The water color is divided into brown, yellow, green, blue and several different grades from low to high, the higher the level, the bluer the water color, the more beautiful. Judging from the color of the water, the South China Sea is the bluest sea in China, that is, the most beautiful sea in China.
Due to the turbid color of the Bohai, Yellow Sea and East China Sea located near the sea, it is impossible to appreciate the purest beauty of the sea. Before I first arrived in the South China Sea, like many people, I thought that the color of the sea was like this.
It was not until the first voyage with the ship to the depths of the South China Sea and the real sight of the blue sea that the previous misconception was corrected.
Our ships departed from Haikou Port in Hainan. As the ship drifted away from the shore, the color of the sea changed from light blue to dark blue, and even the waves of the side of the ship became extremely white—at that moment, our ship was like a moving center on a circular blue wallpaper, surrounded by seawater except seawater.
From a high vantage point, the bow is like a sharp sword, splitting the blue sea and sailing toward the depths of the sea, the intoxicating sunset seems to have come to send us off, leaving a shining track on the sea.
"Our ship enters the rain zone, please ask all departments to check the watertightness of the hatch..." Instructions came from the ship's radio. The rain on the sea came and went, and the dense raindrops smashed on the deck, making a clicking sound, and the sea surface was misty, and it was impossible to distinguish which was the sky and which was the sea. I had only come back from my workout on the back deck just ten minutes earlier, and apart from the fog, there was no sign of rain at all.
The day in the South China Sea is the face of a three-year-old child, and it changes when it says it changes— and the rain lasts for more than ten minutes, and the sunlight shines through the clouds on the blue sea.
A scene of surprise appeared: after the heavy rain passed, a faint rainbow suddenly appeared on the right side of the clouds - the colors gradually became clear... Almost instantaneously, the sky suddenly transformed into a huge arch: a rainbow bridge of seven colors spanned the entire ship, beautifully illuminated by golden sunlight. Someone suddenly shouted excitedly: Look, double rainbow! Sure enough, above the arched rainbow, there was another "rainbow" with a larger arc and a slightly lighter color. The meteorological instructor accompanying the ship explained to us that the inner layer was "rainbow", and the ribbon in the outer circle should be called "neon", and the rainbow appeared at the same time, which should be called a "celestial wonder".
It was a really great honor for me to have the opportunity to land in the Nansha and Paracel Islands by chance.
The sea area where the South China Sea Zhudao is located has an incomparable beauty of water color. Blue alone is infinitely changing: sapphire blue, sky blue, light blue, dark blue, because as the depth of the sea changes, the angle of sunlight incidence changes, and the color of the sea water also changes.
The sea is sometimes green: apple green, green onion, emerald is sometimes yellow: goose yellow, orange, sand yellow, mango yellow are accustomed to the offshore seawater, if you have the opportunity to see the seawater of the South China Sea, you will be impressed.
The vastness and eternity of the sea will set people off so small, and those who are full of ambition, those who love and hate, those who achieve fame and fortune, before the vastness of the sea, seem to be less important. Perhaps in the vast sea, we will let go of the mustard, stay away from prejudice, and embrace without emotion.
This summer, I want to see the sea with you - only when you face the sea will you know that we are so important and we are so unimportant...