The reservoir ditch has not been watered since I can remember. At least for more than twenty years. The fishing on a boat was in my dad's impressions when he was a kid. This year's rain was heavy and long-lasting, and half a ditch of water was stored in the reservoir ditch. In the mudflat area, six white swans were unexpectedly found playing, and these white swans from the Mongolian plateau either spent the winter here or continued to migrate like the south.
Reservoir ditch
On the dry and rainy Loess Plateau, vegetation is sparse and ravines are longitudinal. It's windy, dusty, and the sky is always gray. I have been in Gangnam for a few years, and the beauty of Gangnam is always enviable. But it is close to shanxi's mother river, the Fenhe River, but her amount of water is not as good as a small river in the south. So I often fantasized about how nice it would be if there was never-ending water flowing in that deep ditch. Water can give birth to civilization and nourish all things. The gentle and wide channel is a natural highway. It can boost a city's economy. The Fenhe River, which runs through the county seat, really hopes that its future water will be as deep and wide as it is now.
The amount of water in the Fenhe River on the second day after the peak of the flood
As the second largest tributary of the Yellow River, the Fenhe River rushes down from the north. In the southern part of Xindi County, it encountered the Emei Ridge block, so it turned to the west, leaving a large bend. The Xindi people call this place Fenhe Bay.
The famous Tang dynasty general Xue Rengui accidentally injured Xiao'er here, leaving a classic drama "Fenhe Bay".
Longxing Temple, Xindi County
Xindi County. This county town, built during the Sui Kai Emperor's reign, is a product of the heyday of the Fenhe River. The history of navigation on the Fenhe River can be traced back to the Spring and Autumn Period. The Jin state suffered from drought and asked the qin state to borrow grain. The Qin grain fleet set out from Yongcheng along the Weishui River, escorted the grain from west to east for 500 miles, then switched to land transport, crossed the Yellow River and traveled north along the Fenshui River to the capital of the Jin Dynasty. During the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Liu Che took a boat to Fenyin (present-day Wanrong County) five times to sacrifice Hou Tu. In the autumn of that year when he was forty-four years old, Liu Che wrote down the ancient song "Autumn Wind Words" in "Pan Lou Boat Xi Ji Fen River, Horizontal and Middle Stream Xi Yang Su Bo". During the Sui and Tang dynasties, the Fenhe River, as the nearest river of Chang'an, undertook the heavy responsibility of transporting grain. The New Book of Tang Dynasty And The Chronicle of Food and Goods contains the words "Yi Cao Jin, Dai... The rent was lost to the warehouses, and instead of entering Wei, where he was three years old, he slipped seven million stones, and saved three hundred thousand taels of land transportation." It can be seen that the navigable capacity of the Fenhe River is still very strong. Unfortunately, the forest vegetation in Shanxi in the late Tang Dynasty was artificially destroyed, resulting in turbid water in the Fenhe River, and the amount of water decreased year by year, and even stopped flowing many times. When the amount of water in the Fenhe River finally returned to the appearance of the Tang Dynasty, it was indeed a disaster for the people.
Search and rescue crew in the flood
Shuncheng Street in Xindi County is a good place for Xindi people to relax. There is not only a cinema, but also a variety of snacks. When disasters came, the embankments were the first to burst here, and floods poured in from here, rushing into the streets of the old town. None of the shops on the streets were spared from being soaked in turbid yellow water. Those villages next to the Fenhe River, the people's houses, furniture soaked in the water. Tens of thousands of people have been displaced. Fenhewan Market, the new Dai people after losing the water transport rely on land to run out to cover the markets of Shan, Shaanxi and Yu provinces. It is also difficult to avoid the fate of being drowned. The losses were heavy.
When all the disasters come, they can only make the new people more cohesive. When the people's children and soldiers jumped into the cold river, when the villagers spontaneously organized the carrying of sandbags, when the people of the county donated money and materials, when the hot meals in the rear were continuously delivered to the front line. Thought-provoking scenes can be seen everywhere.
In 1045, Mr. Fan Zhongyan, who was worried about the country and the people, visited the Pond of the Sui Dynasty (Sui Dynasty Garden, Xindai County). Do "Daizhou Garden Pool". After describing the scenery, he still did not forget the suffering of the people. "Climb to ask about folklore, still Tao Tanggu."
Tang Yao's legacy still circulates in this land.