Volume 2 Chapter 22

Of course, one thing to note is that the Three Gorges are not closely connected, so don't panic when you see two wide valleys on the way, whether we are lost or not. The Three Gorges is called the Three Gorges and is composed of three canyons, namely Xiling Gorge, Wu Gorge and Qutang Gorge.

The scenery of the Three Gorges is beautiful, the green mountains and clear waters, the so-called outstanding people, it is said that the beautiful places of mountains and rivers have the spirit of beauty, and can give birth to outstanding talents. The cultural landscape and historical and cultural heritage of the Three Gorges also add a lot of color to it. Chu culture and Sichuan Shu culture two cultures blend here to form a unique Bashu culture, in the Three Gorges, there are not only famous poems through the ages, Li Bai's "Chaofa White Emperor City" and the dragon boat race on the fifth day of the fifth month of May to commemorate Qu Yuan, the basket world of Badong and the unique wedding customs of the Tujia people, the stilted building" and the patio house of "backwater returning to the pool" and so on.

So on the next journey, we will feel the extraordinary charm of the Three Gorges one by one

Tourists, please note that our boat is about to enter the first canyon - Xiling Gorge. Xiling Gorge is the longest canyon in the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River, with a total length of 76 kilometers, and is called Xiling Gorge because it is located in the west of Chu's Xisai and Yiling. Here, Ouyang Xiu left the famous sentence "Xiling landscape is the best in the world", which shows his beauty. However, as it is often said, the beauty is like a fairy, and the heart is like a snake and scorpion. Xiling Gorge is dense in the middle of the line, and the beach and pond are all ghosts and sorrows. In the past, there have been many accidents involving shipwrecks in this area. On the north shore of Qingtan there is a "White Bone Tower", named after the accumulation of the bones of the shipwrecked boatmen. Of course, with the progress of science and technology, effective remediation and mature coping methods, the spectacle of the beach and the magnificent scenery of the boatman fighting the current is no longer seen. Instead, the quirkiness is even more prominent. There are three beaches and four gorges in this section. Leaking Beach, Qingtan, Kongling Beach, Dengying Gorge, Huangniu Gorge, Ox Liver Horse Lung Gorge and Bingshu Baojian Gorge. We are currently in Nanjin Pass, and in a minute, the door of the new world opens to us, ah, please see, a magnificent picture of mountains and rivers falls into view. There are no peaks and no cliffs, and there are springs of water. The gorge wall is clear and pleasant, pure and unvariated. This is the famous Dengying Gorge, also known as Mingyue Gorge. You can close your eyes and try to imagine the kind of pure world formed by the moonlight on the mountain in the dark night, when the moon hangs over the western mountain, and the mountain light and water color under the moonlight.

Take a boat to the west, look south, you can see a row of steep stone walls, under the cliff nine winding and drooping green ridges, like the Nine Dragons running to the river, the momentum is very majestic. The stone wall that came out of nowhere is the Yellow Cow Rock, and the river valley under the rock is the Yellow Cow Gorge. The Ox Gorge is full of rocks and dogs. In the meantime, the river is like a nine-curved ileum, the bubble whirlpool is like boiling water tumbling, the water is in danger of the reef, and it is known as the Yellow Cow Beach. The origin of the name of the scalper runs through the mythical story of Xia Yu opening the river and controlling the water. Legend has it that the Jade Emperor sent Xia Yu to the mortal world to control the flood, and at the same time sent the gods of the lower realm to assist him. When he led the people to dig the current Ox Gorge, the gods turned into sacred cows to help. Someday. At dawn, a woman brought tea to the man who was curing the water. When she came to the river, she suddenly saw a huge, majestic ox, surrounded by the glow, angrily hitting the mountain with its horns, and suddenly the sky and the earth cracked, and the sound was like thunder. The maiden was dumbfounded and cried out loudly. The shout alarmed the sacred cow, and he jumped off the edge of the mountain, leaving the image between the stone walls.

This is people's beautiful imagination of conquering nature, and the ox symbolizes the great creativity of the people to transform the rivers and mountains. The ox helped Yu to open the river, and the ancients built the cattle temple at the foot of the mountain to sacrifice in a timely manner; Today, the Huangniuyan Eco-Tourism Zone, a national debt support project with an investment of 390 million yuan, is under construction.

Wuxia Gorge is the most complete canyon in the Three Gorges, famous for its deep and beautiful scenery. The most famous in Wuxia is the twelve peaks of Wushan, the peaks are wonderful, just like a string of emerald green gems inlaid on the riverside, among them, the goddess peak is the most charming, it can be imagined as the goddess of "the clouds in the morning, the rain in the twilight". Because the humidity of Wuxia does not disperse, it is easy to become clouds and mist, and the clouds and mist can be seen at any time or entwined on the mountainside, or floating on the surface of the river, therefore, when the ancient Sao people and ink writers traveled to the Three Gorges, they felt the deepest than the clouds of the Three Gorges and the rain of the Three Gorges.    There is no one who uses Wushan Cloud as a metaphor for love than the Tang Dynasty poet Yuan Zhen. He said in "Leaving Thoughts - Five Songs: Fourth": "Once the sea was difficult to turn into water, except for Wushan, it is not a cloud. Take the second flower bush lazy review, half of the edge of the cultivation and half of the king. That's probably the only one, just you. I don't dare to say that if you have seen the clouds in Wushan, there are no clouds in other places, which makes you feel that it is not a cloud, but it can be said that she is the only one in the Three Gorges. In addition to the 12 peaks of Wushan Mountain, there are also small Three Gorges in Wuxia. Wuxia Small Three Gorges is the pearl in the crown of the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River, and it is a desperate situation in the world. The small Three Gorges is majestic and beautiful, the cliff of Longmen Gorge is towering into the clouds, the clouds of Bawu Gorge are ethereal, and the water of Dicui Gorge is tender and verdant. The small Three Gorges are more beautiful than the big Three Gorges, so it has the saying that "the Three Gorges landscape is the best in the world, and the Ninghe landscape is the best in the world".

Out of the Daning River, we ushered in the end of the Three Gorges tour - Qutang Gorge. Qutang Gorge is the shortest canyon in the Three Gorges, from Daxi Town in the east to the White Emperor City in the west, the total length is 8 kilometers, although it is short, it has the majestic momentum of "controlling Bashu in the west and collecting ten thousand gullies, and connecting Jingchu in the east to press the mountains", it is a magical natural picture scroll and cultural corridor. It is known for its majestic beauty. We walked through this section of the river, there was originally a big gap, resting a stack of rectangular wooden boxes very similar to bellows, our predecessors were very imaginative to say that the box was put by Luban, but in 1971, the mystery of the bellows was solved, the funeral had a far-reaching impact on our traditional Chinese culture, and the discovery of bellows made a great historical contribution to China's funeral culture. It's just a pity that after the impoundment of the Three Gorges, the bellows have been sleeping at the bottom of the river. We don't have a chance to see this ancient and unique culture at the moment. However, there is a majestic gate for everyone to see. The poems of the ancients called Kuimen as: "The water will be ten thousand, Qutang fights for a door", and people often call it "Emei is beautiful in the world, Qingcheng is secluded in the world, Jianmen is dangerous in the world, and Kuimen is strong in the world". Please take out your 10 yuan yuan, and the pattern on the back of it is Kuimen. Open the door of wealth, okay, everyone look at the place where I point, that is the west gate of the Three Gorges, the gate of wealth in everyone's hands - Kuimen Pass. When the ship sails out of the west entrance of Qutang Gorge, you walk to the stern of the boat, and when you look up, the panoramic majestic posture of the Kuimen will be displayed in front of you. This is the best place to take a commemorative photo. Now, on the stone wall of the river, there is still engraved with Sun Yuanliang's "Kuimen is the hero of the world, and the ship and plane pass lightly." ”

After passing the Kuimen, we came to the White Emperor City. The White Emperor City is the best place to see the "Kuimen World". The famous poets of the past dynasties, such as Li Bai, Du Fu and Bai Juyi, have all ascended to the White Emperor, traveled to Kuimen, and left a large number of poems, so the White Emperor City has the reputation of "Poetry City". It is backed by mountains on one side, surrounded by water on three sides, backed by the high gorge, facing the Yangtze River in front, the momentum is very majestic and magnificent, and it is a famous scenic spot on the Three Gorges tourism line for a long time. Li Bai "resigned from the White Emperor and the clouds, and thousands of miles of Jiangling were returned in one day." The apes on both sides of the strait can't stop crying, and the light boat has crossed the ten thousand mountains." In "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", the White Emperor City Tuogu happened here.

So far, our trip to the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River has come to an end, and today we have visited and watched the natural scenery and cultural history of the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River, which also left a deep impression on us. Thank you for your support of my work, and please give me some advice. I hope you all have a pleasant visit and all the best, thank you! The two countries of Wu and Shu were destroyed, and the Sun-Liu coalition army only used 50,000 people to win the entire war, and the most important turning point was in this Chibi battle. Not to mention that this is one of the few examples in military history where less wins more, the story of the Three Kingdoms that happened before and after this battle is enough for us to come here to remember this history.

Chibi Scenic Area is located in the northwest of Chibi City in the southeast of Hubei Province. "The two dragons fought to decide the male and female, the Chibi building ship swept the ground, the fire shone on the sky and the sea of clouds, and Zhou Yu broke Cao Gong here." The "Red Cliff" in the poem of Li Bai, the great poet of the Tang Dynasty, is the ancient battlefield of the Three Kingdoms that everyone wants to visit today. Chibi is now the only ancient battlefield site in China that still has its original appearance, and it attracts Chinese and foreign tourists with its rich and profound cultural connotation. Why can the Battle of Chibi defeat the many with fewer and the inferior over the superior? Let's roam the red cliffs, hang the ancients, and explore the mysteries. The rich cultural connotation contained in the Battle of Chibi is mainly "good and skillful". Nowadays, the market competition is in full swing, and the world's people who chase life goals are as strong as forests, if you can appreciate the wisdom of the ancestors from Chibi tourism and use the past for the present, it will be worth the trip.

Dajiangdong goes to the waves, the eternal romantic characters, a song "Nian Nujiao. "Chibi Nostalgia" makes us feel the magnificent scenery of "the waves crashing on the shore and rolling up thousands of piles of snow" in the poems of Su Da Wenhao. Here I have to mention the two red cliffs in Hubei. Wen Chibi in Huanggang, Wu Chibi in Xianning. After Su Shi was demoted to Huangzhou, which is now Huanggang, he suddenly sighed with emotion on the cliff that seemed to be the Red Cliff War by the river, and wrote "Red Cliff Fu" with a pen, and the actual Red Cliff War took place on the riverside of Chibi Town in Chibi City. That's where we went.

Tourists and friends came to the Three Kingdoms Chibi Ancient Battlefield Scenic Area, which was rebuilt in 2005 and is now divided into a ruins area and an antique building area. The seven powerful characters of "Three Kingdoms Chibi Ancient Battlefield" at the entrance were inscribed by former President Xi on November 4, 2007. The relics area includes the Conferral Hall, the Fengxiao Nunnery, the thousand-year-old ginkgo, the Three Kingdoms Sculpture Garden, the Baifeng Platform, the cliff stone carvings, and the Chibi Cultural Relics Exhibition Hall. The antique building area is mainly composed of the racecourse, the Chibi Tower, the golden city, the earth city and the Shenwu platform.

The place where we are now is Chibi Jitou. Chibi Jitou is located on the south bank of the Yangtze River, we look around, in the Yangtze River south of the riverside plain only this Chibi Mountain, it is like a sharp sword obliquely inserted into the heart of the river, there is a great tendency to cut off the Yangtze River. Looking up at the other side, that is the Wulin Ancient Village where Cao Cao was stationed in the past, where human and horse bones up to 1 meter deep have been found, as well as bronze horse shoes marked with the year name of the year. Ulin was a narrow corridor in the past, divided into upper, middle and lower three parts, the upper Ulin is Cao Cao's infantry, the lower Ulin is the cavalry, and the middle Ulin is Cao Cao's headquarters and the place where the water city is located.

Let's look at the Yijiang Pavilion again. Yijiang Pavilion was originally Zhou Yu's forward observation post and command post, named after the Chibi Mountain such as Kunpeng's wings obliquely inserted into the heart of the river, and was built by Cai Hanqing. Please look at this couplet on the pavilion pillar, which is abbreviated according to the poet Zhu Yizhun in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. Let's look at Shanglian: the river is ruthlessly red, and when the lease was hung, who didn't know the good way to prosper and dominate. This is to say that fire and water are merciless, and war is merciless. During the Battle of Chibi, the river here was red by the relentless fire, and now when we look back on those years, we will naturally think of this famous example of winning more with less and defeating the strong with the weak. Zibu refers to Zhang Zhao, an old minister of the Three Dynasties of Eastern Wu, and an official and a long history. Xingba is Gan Ning, a young naval general in Eastern Wu, who was originally a subordinate of Jiangxia Huangzu, and after defecting to Eastern Wu, he offered advice to Sun Quan, first taking Jiangxia and then Jingzhou, in order to consolidate the foundation of Jiangdong. This proposition was strongly opposed by Zhang Zhao, and at the critical moment, Sun Quan distinguished right from wrong, tried to eliminate dissent, and adopted Gan Xingba's good strategy. This joint is based on the dispute between Gan Ning and Zhang Zhao, and praises Sun Quan for his good policies. Let's take a look at the next couplet: the lakes and mountains are blue, leaving behind the traces of victory, and I still think that Zhou Lang is worth Lu Di's wind badge. Zhou Lang refers to Zhou Yu, during the Battle of Chibi, he mainly attacked by fire, burned Cao Cao's army chain of water cities, and burned Cao Cao's grand blueprint to the ground. Lu Di refers to Lu Xun, according to the "Three Kingdoms, Wu Zhi, Lu Xun Biography": in the 24th year of Jian'an (219 AD), Lu Xun and Lu Meng used a strategy to seize Jingzhou, and in the first year of Huangwu in Eastern Wu (222 AD), Liu Bei led an army of 700,000 in Shu to avenge Guan Yu and crusade against Eastern Wu. Lu Xun led his troops in Yiling, used fire to attack, and burned Liu Bei's company camp for 700 miles. Liu Bei retreated to Fengjie, Sichuan, and died in the White Emperor City. The two of them have made great contributions in the annals of history and are known as the "Three Kingdoms and Two Fires". After the founding of the country, Zhou Yu and Lu Xun faced the crisis twice, and they had to consolidate the foundation of Soochow. And because when the two of them made meritorious contributions, they were both in the weak crown, and they were opposed by Zhang Zhao and others, and Sun Quan had the ability to exclude public opinion, reuse young generals, and build a miracle for all generations. "Romance of the Three Kingdoms: Wu Zhi" commented on Sun Quan: "Can bend down and endure humiliation, be talented and virtuous, have the wonder of hooking and practice, and the masterpiece of the British, so he can be good at Jiangbiao and become a Dingzhi industry." The whole couplet integrates scene, lyricism, and history, and uses the stories of several civil servants and military generals in the history of Eastern Wu to make contributions to the Eastern Wu regime, and praises Sun Quan for being able to know how to make good use of people at critical moments and is a wise monarch.

Speaking of which, everyone knows that during the Battle of Chibi, Zhou Yu was the commander-in-chief of the Sun-Liu coalition army. The stone statue of Zhou Yu in front of us was inaugurated in the autumn of 1990 and designed by Cheng Dexing of the Hubei Provincial Museum. The shape of Zhou Yu's statue combines the dual advantages of Han portrait stone carving, Northern Wei stone carving and modern architectural art, combining realism with freehand, considering both the historical environment and the service of tourism, and emphasizing the latter. Zhou Yu's robe design reflects this characteristic, from the front, the east wind blows, and the robe floats to the northwest, which coincides with the southeast wind direction of Kong Ming's altar sacrifice; On the reverse side, it looks like a stone wall, which is consistent with the "red cliff". The design of the base is unique. The pattern carved by the knife and axe symbolizes the stormy waves that hit the shore, and the three levels are a metaphor for "rolling up a thousand piles of snow", which is taken from Su Shi's words, he