- Number three
Water is impermanent, and people have no long form. When the moon is full, it loses, and when the water is full, it overflows.
China's land area is vast, with the two mother rivers of the Yangtze River and the Yellow River, as well as the Jialing River and the Han River, as well as five major freshwater lakes such as Poyang Lake in Jiangxi Province, Dongting Lake in Hunan Province, Taihu Lake and Hongze Lake in Jiangsu Province, and Chao Lake in Anhui Province. There are many rivers in the motherland, and the major water systems contain abundant water resources. Adhering to the concept of "the unity of heaven and man, the tao of nature", the ancient people built a great water conservancy project according to the situation and local conditions. The famous ones are Dujiangyan, Zhengguo Canal, Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal and so on.
After the founding of New China, the state successively built the Gezhouba Hydropower Station, the Liujiaxia Hydropower Station, and the Three Gorges Water Conservancy Project in recent years, which played a huge role in the country's agricultural development and industrial construction. As long as water resources are rationally utilized, they will realize the huge potential of inexhaustible use.
The water drips into rivers, and the rivers converge into lakes and seas. After the photosynthesis of the sun ☀️, the rain vaporizes and turns into clouds, and the clouds finally turn into rainwater ☔️ under the right humidity conditions and scatter to the earth...
Smooth wind and rain, grain and abundance have been people's desires and expectations for thousands of years. Only by conforming to nature, maintaining normal ecological balance, and maintaining the normal water cycle of nature can people live and work in peace and contentment. On the contrary, floods continue to occur, and the people are not happy.
The southern floods of 1998 caused great losses to the country and the people. This year, the exceptionally large flood disasters in Zhengzhou, Shaanxi, Shanxi and other places in Henan have not been encountered in a hundred years, and the losses are huge. People seem so small and powerless in the face of nature. Torrential rains, floods, and cities in the north instantly turned into a vast ocean of Ze country... Looking at the patches of crops and rice fields destroyed by the flood is heart-wrenching. Nature's punishment of man cannot be stopped. We can only learn lessons from it and increase our experience, and prevent problems before they occur. As the saying goes: water can carry boats, but also can overturn boats.
The ravages of the flood make us sad, respect for the laws of nature and the maintenance of ecological balance are immutable laws. We can only make good use of all modern scientific and technological means, more rational and scientific allocation and utilization of water resources, so that it can better serve us. Just as Li Bing's father and son built the creed of Dujiangyan: Heaven and man correspond, according to the situation, and follow the water, the water will obey our passwords and let us drive and use it, so as to benefit mankind for all generations.
"Water, seemingly soft and boneless, can become imposing, surging and overlapping, incomparably powerful; seemingly colorless and tasteless, but it can sprinkle out vast green fields, fruitful fruits, thousands of purples and thousands of reds; it seems to be low in itself, but it can steam up nine clouds, for clouds for rain, for rainbows for Xia...
It seems that people are curing water, but in fact, people understand water, conform to water, and obey water. Only in this way can we unite heaven and man, selflessly and selflessly, and live forever.
This is the Word. ”
This passage of Mr. Yu Qiuyu's article "Dujiangyan" in his "Cultural Journey" is the best answer to him.
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On the afternoon of September 25, the lunar calendar was in Xi'an