With a total length of 14 km, it is a tributary of amur river and is famous for its rich gold.

Yan Zhi ditch is located in Jingou Forest Farm, Mohe County. Its geographical coordinates are 122 05' east to 122 34' north to 53 15' north. Also called "old dog" and "old golden dog". Since the late Qing Dynasty, this place has been a holy land for gold panning. Yanzhigou is also called Laojingou. With a total length of 14km, it is a tributary of amur river and is famous for its rich gold. It has been 100 years since it was discovered, and the sand here has been washed away dozens of times. However, gold can still be found today, which shows the rich gold reserves here.

Legend of Yanzhigou

Laojingou, also known as Yanzhigou, is located about 40 kilometers away from Mohe County. It is the season when the mountains are closed by heavy snow. When the car came down from the mountain road, Laojingou (now a forest farm) presented a white clearing, and the houses on the mountain were covered with bloated snow. The gold rush that took place here a hundred years ago, the blood and sweat of the gold diggers related to Huang Cancan and his fate, were buried in this cold silence and emptiness. There are no relics of that year in the forest farm where smoke is curling up. The "rouge" related to this old golden ditch left an unknown grave on the hillside one kilometer away, which was called the prostitute grave. Is there a lingering fragrance of "rouge" in the whistling north wind?

The rouge ditch in the novel

One hundred years ago, the American writer Jack London described the gold digger who went to the west in his short story The Valley of Gold. Lonely prospectors sifted out gold particles by the lonely river. So he dug holes along the gold vein (the gold vein is below the stratum), and rows of holes pushed into the last gold pit and a gold nest in the valley in an inverted V shape. After several days of digging, he found a golden nest. In the sand layer of gold vein, there are not only fine gold particles, but also gold nuggets mixed with ores and rocks. The mine is too deep for him to reach. At this time, the shadow of another prospector was hit by the light outside. Either he dies or the people above him die. It was the people above who died in the novel. Laogou "Gou" is a tributary of the Emur River, about 14 km long. It is said that in 1883, an Oroqen hunter dug a grave for his mother in the valley (when burying his horse) and found gold nuggets. Slatchen, a gold mining engineer in Blaveshchensk, took people into the Mohe River Basin.

Extremely spiteful, plus * * * and country'

There are yellow sand, green sand and green sand, and the best one is golden vein, with about 22 gold per 6000 Jin. A year's Textual Research in the North also includes Jinwozi: "The mountains on the border between Russia and East produce gold, and Daoguang produces refined gold nuggets with a weight of 17 kg in five years. The surrounding blocks weigh two or three pounds. " Dig out the sand in the gold vein, and then sieve the gold with tap water. There were wooden machines for screening gold. "The Russians gathered 4,000 Chinese and Russians on Mohe Mountain, with more than 700 rooms for major events and more than 500 kilns" (Volume 4 of Heilongjiang, Xu Zongliang). By the beginning of 1985, the population of Mohe reached 10000, mainly Russians, followed by China, Koreans, Jews, Germans, French, Poles and Americans. There are more than 150 shops in Laogou area. In addition to bakeries, hotels and department stores, hotels, baths, casinos, concert halls and so on. Built one after another. Under the control of the Russian government, these illegal gold miners established the autonomous power of illegal mining-city hall. Historically known as "Tulga * * * and the country (Mohe)". At that time, this "independent kingdom" was said to be in the white clearing of Laojingou. At the center of this independent kingdom is a square called Eagle Field, where there used to be a hotel. When gold diggers gamble, they use coins with an eagle on one side and an eagle on the other as gambling tools, so they guess whether the eagle wins or loses, hence the name "Eagle Field". There is a tall building with a window of 1 1 in front of the square, which is the "city hall" of the gold mine. In front of the gate, there is a tall pillar with a heavy clock hanging on it. Two iron cannons were placed on each side of the clock post. There is also a cone-shaped monument in front of the "City Hall", with the church on the left and the warehouse and ammunition depot on the right. On both sides of the square are neat "Million Streets", and the shops and hotels on the street are mostly European-style buildings and civil structures built of logs. 1886, the Qing government sent troops to ban the so-called "Turkestan Republic" and forcibly expelled all illegal gold miners from the country. 1In May, 887, Li Jinyong led a delegation to Mohe. After two years of preparation, Mohe Gold Mine officially started construction at the beginning of 1889. In view of Li Jinyong's contribution to Mohe gold mining, Mohe county government built Li Jinyong ancestral temple on the hillside near Laojingou.

Prosperity and desolation

Coming out of Li Jinyong Ancestral Temple, I drove through the snowy road in the jungle. On one side of the road, through the trees, I can see the snow "ditch" of Laojingou in the valley. Snow is blown into snow fog and swims on it. Not far away is the grave of a prostitute, which has become a tourist attraction. The mountain road leading to the cemetery is paved with a boardwalk and a rest pavilion. Many plaques are erected along the road, engraved with beautiful poems handed down from prostitutes in past dynasties. The wooden house at the entrance is an exhibition room, which contains some daily necessities used by prostitutes in those days, such as cosmetic mirrors and jewelry boxes. According to historical records, during the exploitation period, there were 65,438+million workers, 30 brothels and 65,438+million prostitutes in Laojingou, Mohe. In addition to prostitutes selected by Li Jinyong from some cities in the south, prostitutes from Russia, Japan, South Korea and some cities in northern China are also in an endless stream. The local people pointed to a flat woodland surrounded by wooden fences and said that it was the grave of prostitutes. I saw that the trees were sparse and empty, and if there were graves, they were all buried under thick snow. It is said that graves can't be seen in summer. After the graves of these unknown prostitutes were buried, there were no relatives to cultivate the soil, and the graves were already deserted.

Accompanied by Sun Xijun, Minister of Propaganda Department of Mohe County Committee, he visited some prostitutes who became better after liberation many years ago. These centenarians are almost extinct now. He has his conversation record in the forthcoming book about Laojingou. My friend Li Qi is a poet. When he saw the grave of a prostitute, he was very moved and left a very amazing poem: "This is a sight that most people have never seen. The wild flowers blooming all over the mountains are shocking. If blooming is an action, then the action of wild flowers can be said to be fierce. In the depths of the Daxinganling Mountains where wild flowers are in full bloom, spring is brought to the extreme. " This is the first paragraph of this poem. In a season when wild flowers called Dazixiang are in full bloom, Li Qi comes to see the grave of prostitutes. In this poem, France