A trip to the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River

The Three Gorges of the Yangtze River, which I have admired for a long time, finally has a chance to travel. This month 14, I joined a rural tour group in Wuyang Town, Nanchang County and started a three-day trip. Wealthy farmers are no longer the farmers of the old times who rely on loess. They are already looking for a new noble way of life. In addition to square dance, tourism is also one of them. There are also several retired village cadres, as well as Mr. Zhou, who retired from primary school. This time they took part in a pure play group that didn't go into the mall.

Get on the bus from Nanchang county at 6: 00 a.m., a 35-seat bus, 10 hour. At 4: 00pm, I arrived at my destination, Yichang Station, expressway, Ma Pingchuan. The scenery along the way is always exciting.

Mr. Zhou was a happy man on the bus all the way. He is not tall and particularly talkative. The jokes on the road constantly enliven the depressing atmosphere of long-distance bus rides and become the central figure on the bus. Lao Yang, who was sitting in my last row, was very confused about the vast grassland along the expressway in Xianning, Hubei. How much food do you think these fields will produce?

"There must be traitors who abandon the soil and hide the truth." Lao Yang said.

"You know a fart! This is the need of wetland protection and ecological restoration. Not all places can be used to grow grain. " Teacher Zhou retorted.

"Maybe this large grassland is a flood discharge area and nothing can be planted." I said.

Farmers who have been farming for generations have deep feelings for the land, and Lao Yang is always saddened by the losses caused by these tens of thousands of acres of wasteland. After all, food is the most important thing for people. Although he eats peasant food, he cares about the governor's heart. As the saying goes, every man is responsible for the rise and fall of the world.

Before the trip, I arranged to visit Jingzhou to visit the ancient cities and museums of the Three Kingdoms. But when passing through Jingzhou, the bus didn't mean to stop and kept going. After Jingzhou, I asked what was going on, and then said that the itinerary had changed. The scenic spots here in Jingzhou are being renovated and changed, which is a bit unexpected.

Entering Yichang, a young man in a bright light green jacket came over, not tall, about thirty years old. The tour guide said that this is the tour guide. The tour guide introduced himself with a grand local accent: "My surname is Xiang, you can call me a tour guide or a young one. I will provide you with a tour guide service in the next three days. Welcome to visit the Three Gorges. " The guide spoke very slowly and the volume was very low. I sit in the last row. I really don't know what he said if I don't listen carefully. Compared with the tour guide I remember, the tour guide should be a lively young and beautiful girl with clear speech and fluent standard Mandarin. But now the tour guide subverts the three officials and feels more like a leading cadre than a tour guide.

"Now everyone look to the left, this is the Yangtze River, and the day after tomorrow we will come to this cruise terminal by boat. Yichang City is a prefecture-level city in Hubei Province, which has jurisdiction over 13 districts and counties, with an area of 2 1000 square kilometers, a population of 4 million and a regional GDP of more than 420 billion. " The car was full of noise before the tour guide finished speaking slowly. Some said they saw a bridge, some said they saw a big boat, and some sent snacks to their neighbors in the aisle, which felt like a farmer's market.

"Please be quiet and respect me, ok? ! "The tour guide is in a hurry. Passengers who talk loudly seem to turn a blind eye to this. "We can't whisper." I don't know which of the passengers should answer. The tour guide stood there silently and motionless, and the passenger in front loudly reminded: "Be quiet and listen to the tour guide!" " "Be quiet here. The tour guide saw that it was not as quiet as he imagined, and his face showed an unhappy expression. He simply sat in the position of the tour guide and said nothing more.

The bus arrived at Gezhouba Park and found a place to stop. The tour guide said, let's go and see the scenery on the river bank. The day after tomorrow, I'll show you a rising tide lifts all boats over the dam, and then we'll meet again in half an hour. The tour guide disappeared after speaking.

Walking along the river, on the other side is an island with an area of several square kilometers. There are many high-rise buildings, among which Gezhouba Municipal Building is the most prominent. This river is a tributary of the Yangtze River, with Gezhouba Project. The dam started in May 197 1 year and was completed in February 1988, with a dam height of 47 meters, storage capacity of 158 billion cubic meters and an average annual power generation of 140 billion kwh.

It may be cloudy. It's just after 4 pm now, and I feel it's getting dark. Some beautiful women and aunts in the village took time to take pictures of Tik Tok, while others quickly found the toilet. It's so open in a strange place that I don't feel strange at all They all seem to have seen the world. There are many local residents walking, playing chess and badminton along the coast, and a group of people are singing to welcome the 0/00th anniversary of the founding of the Party/KLOC. The river bank is very lively.

This is a free scenic spot. Get on the bus after taking photos and arrive at the tourist hotel for dinner in half an hour. The cost of this trip is 600 yuan. We provide standard room accommodation for breakfast, dinner and evening, and are responsible for other meals. Dinner arrangements are basically rich, not as bad as expected.

When I arrived at the travel agency, I had just put down my backpack when a friend (wife) in Mei Zi called me to go downstairs for a walk. At this time, the sunset glow also came out. The beautiful clouds in the sky are gorgeous and should not be missed. Plum and I hurried downstairs with folding umbrellas, and the seven of us didn't know how to get to the city scenery. I turned on my mobile phone and took a quick look at Baidu map. I already know. This is my strong point. There is no need to kill a chicken and use an ox knife to enable outdoor assistants. Along the river, Dingjiaba Bridge and Bridge, while taking photos and enjoying the scenery, Mr. Zhou and I climbed a hill by the river, named Shuiyunjian-Yongshu Pavilion, with a circle of nearly 5 kilometers. We didn't get back to the hotel until after 8 pm, and our feet were tired.

Breakfast began at 7 o'clock the next morning. There is no restaurant in the hotel. I bought it from outside, one for each person, two vegetable bags, an egg and a cup of soybean milk. After breakfast, we set off. It was raining lightly and the wind was cold, but everyone's enthusiasm was higher in the cool wind. There are five scenic spots on today's trip. The first one is Leizu Temple. After arriving at the scenic spot, the tour guide handed us over to the tour guide in the temple (hereinafter referred to as the temple guide). At this point, it has started to rain cats and dogs. Many people rushed to buy a pair of plastic shoe covers at 10 yuan, and Mei Zi also bought a pair.

According to legend, Lei Zu was born in Xiling country five thousand years ago, which is now Yiling country in Yichang. She is a beautiful, intelligent and kind girl. One day, she found a kind of mulberry. Seeing that silk is tough and light, the girl weaves it into clothes for her parents to wear, and gradually masters the skills of sericulture and weaving. The news spread, and the Yellow Emperor also came to Xiling. They fell in love at first sight. After Lei Zu married the Yellow Emperor, he helped the Yellow Emperor to establish the country and become a leader.

There were so many tourists in the rain that the buses in front of the temple were full, so people had to enter in batches. The temple director said loudly, "When you enter the temple, don't take pictures or make noise. Never step on the threshold with your foot. You should lift your feet and cross the threshold. You can only cross the threshold. " The temple director began to publicize Leizu like a reed tongue.

After the hurdle, a huge statue of Leizu Buddha appeared in front of us. She sat firmly on the Buddha's platform, with a kind face and a calm expression, absorbed as if to save the people in from the mire by magic. The head of the temple said that many people died when Gezhouba was built. No one has died since the Leizu Temple was built and the Three Gorges Dam was built. Rezu is very effective. If you really mean it, you can go to the second floor and ask Leizu for a blessing. As long as 20 yuan can do a divination, you can resolve the risk.

At this time, I gently pulled Plum's clothes to show that she was not trapped. Plum ignored it and believed it. A dozen people followed the people in the temple to the second floor and then closed the door. A woman "master" in her fifties went to visit a fortune teller, asked Mei Zi about her zodiac sign, looked at her face, and said that Mei Zi was a man of his word at home, and her husband was honored, but her brow.

Plum quickly shook her head and said, "My husband is still outside the door. I want to discuss it with him. " The master said, "Don't you have the final say at home? Then come to me after you have discussed it. " Plum pulled away and left.

When I saw her coming out, I asked unhappily, "You idiot, they brainwashed successfully? How much did you fool? " Mei Zi replied, "Don't talk nonsense, it will offend the gods. I only spent 20 yuan on the second floor, burned incense casually on the first floor and donated 10 yuan. " Hehe, I'm sure there are basically no tricks. Later, some colleagues advised to donate 899 yuan, 699 yuan and 299 yuan, but no one paid attention to her. Gee, it's a bit difficult to get rich from bodhi old zu.

Out of Leizu Temple, the next stop is Quyuan Temple. Along the way, the tour guide told you an interesting story about the Three Gorges area. It is said that a great leader is not good at calligraphy, but likes inscriptions. When he wrote inscriptions for Yiling Yangtze River Bridge and Xiling Yangtze River Bridge, he wrote "Yiling Yangtze River Hot Pot" and "Xiling Yangtze River Hot Pot", and Yichang Sanshan Airport wrote "Yichang Three Gorges Machine Soup", which caused local people's ridicule and later had to be corrected. After listening to this story, I also laughed.

When you come to Qu Yuan's hometown scenic spot, you have to take a temperature measurement and put on a mask before entering, and then you can reach your destination in less than ten minutes by battery car. Qu Yuan's hometown scenic spot is located in the new county town of Zigui, covering an area of 500 mu, only 600 meters away from the Three Gorges Dam. With the theme of promoting Qu Yuan's patriotism and China's traditional culture, the scenic spot creates a series of tourism products with rich connotations. This is an open field near the Yangtze River. The opposite peaks are undulating, the mountains are steep, the trees are lush, the white clouds are hovering halfway up the mountain, and the majestic back (downstream) of the Three Gorges is presented in front of us, just like a fairyland on earth.

The number of the ancestral hall is located at the foot of the mountain, carving dragons and painting phoenixes. The signs of "Lonely Loyalty and Fragrance" and "Striving for the Sun and Moon" are particularly eye-catching. Ancillary buildings such as white clouds surround the ancestral temple. If there are big scenic spots, we are the only travel team. The tour guide slowly introduced Quyuan Temple to everyone with his unique volume: "This magnificent Quyuan Temple complex was copied from Quyuan's hometown, and the original one has been submerged because of the construction of the Three Gorges Reservoir. Qu Yuan is a great patriotic poet. In the famous lyric poem "Li Sao", there is an eternal famous sentence "The road is long and Xiu Yuan is awkward, and I will go up and down." There was a commotion in the crowd before the guide's "Suo" sound stopped. Tourists speak much louder than tour guides. People take pictures and laugh according to their own preferences, which is very sloppy and completely ignores the tour guide.

"What are you listening to? You like taking pictures, right? Then shoot it, I won't talk! " The tour guide was furious and turned away. A large group of people did not enter the Quyuan Temple, but went to the opposite river to shoot landscape paintings. Only Mr. Zhou and I continued to climb the steps and visit the ancestral temple. Without the introduction of the tour guide, I had to take a lot of photos, especially those with written information, so that I could take them back and enjoy them slowly.

Look at the time. It is almost eleven o'clock. We hurried down the mountain and walked out of the ancestral temple to the square. We saw the tour guide sitting impatiently on the steps of the square with his head down alone. "Young man, how old are you this year?" I asked. "Thirty-six years old," said the guide. "Ha ha, I'm not sure. I thought you were only about 28 years old. The Three Gorges has good feng shui. " The tour guide smiled. This is the first time I have seen him smile. I went on to say, "In the future, you can talk about yours and don't be disturbed by them. Some people are willing to listen, while others are unwilling to listen. This is normal, because some people are interested and others are not, right? You can't ask everyone to March in a hurry. " The tour guide nodded slightly and reluctantly agreed. Looking at the tourists playing Tik Tok by the river in the distance, I said, "Their interest is Tik Tok. If they don't get on the bus, they will keep shaking like this. Time is running out. Let's go? " So I called and waved to the distance, indicating that I should go quickly. At this time, it's almost 1 1 half past one, and the sun has already shot into the earth from the clouds. I feel a little fidgety and hungry.

The battery car continues to drive to Qu Yuan's hometown, the next scenic spot, and it will arrive in a few minutes.

The tour guide said that the legend of Zigui County came from Qu Yuan. Qu Yuan has a sister. Before Qu Yuan was exiled, she came back to comfort her brother. Her feelings are very touching. Later generations changed the name of the county to "Cassia" to show respect for this virtuous sister, which later evolved into today's "Zigui". Born in the beautiful Leping, Qu Yuan is an outstanding statesman with foresight, the first great poet in the history of China literature, and the "first-rate genius" of the Three Gorges. He was worried about the country and the people, and finally threw himself into the Miluo River. In order to prevent his body from being eaten by fish, people row boats and throw zongzi into the river, which is the origin of eating zongzi and rowing dragon boats on the Dragon Boat Festival.

"So Wang Zhaojun tombstone is here. Are they husband and wife? " Someone asked.

The tour guide said, "No, they are from different dynasties, separated by more than 200 years. Wang Zhaojun, the daughter of a county magistrate in Xingshan County, lives in Wangjiawan, Baoping Village. During the Han Dynasty, she was elected to the palace at the age of 16. At that time, the emperor had a rule that the painter's portrait should be given to the emperor first. The emperor took a fancy to it and summoned it himself. Because Wang Zhaojun's family didn't pay bribes to the painter, the painter deliberately drew an unlucky mole on Wang Zhaojun's face, which led to the emperor being left out in the cold. In 33 BC, the Xiongnu leader went to Beijing to discuss peace, and the emperor named him Wang Zhaojun. When he saw Wang Zhaojun's beauty, the emperor regretted it. After investigating the reasons, he was able to avenge himself by killing the painter. After Zhaojun left the fortress, the border customs ushered in lasting peace. "

Teacher Zhou and I are both listening carefully. We saw that the battery car was full of people and kept urging us to go. The guide looked at the people in the car with disdain. This time, the guide was not disturbed by the surrounding environment. He spoke carefully, thinking that he was a man with goods in his stomach, which made me have some good feelings for him.

Out of the scenic spot, stop at a newly-built scenic spot among online celebrities to take photos, and then eat Chinese food.

After lunch, the afternoon is the highlight of this tour, visiting the Three Gorges Dam. Tourists from all directions gathered here, forming a long and endless queue. It is roughly estimated that there are tens of thousands of people, mostly middle-aged, especially the elderly. I also paid special attention to whether there were foreigners in the crowd, but I didn't see any. Security inspection is particularly strict, and ID cards, epidemic prevention scanning codes and masks are indispensable. Almost all checkpoints are guarded by soldiers with live ammunition, and the position of national heavy weapons makes people feel very serious.

I don't know how many times I changed buses and took several mountaineering elevators, and finally I arrived at the observation deck of the Three Gorges Dam. Standing on the top of this mountain, I can see the magnificent Three Gorges Dam from all directions. Looking down from a distance, Wushan Yu Yun has been cut off, and the Yangtze River in Tao Tao, which has been running for many years, has finally been dominated by the people of China. This is not only a great project of the people of China, but also shows the great strength of mankind. Gaoxia Pinghu has benefited Chinese descendants. The wishes of generations of China leaders have come true. At this moment, how excited and heroic I am is beyond words.

The Three Gorges of the Yangtze River starts from Baidicheng, fengjie county, Chongqing in the west and ends at Nanjinguan, Yichang City, Hubei Province in the east, with a total length of193km. Along the way, there are steep peaks and cliffs on both sides, followed by Qutang Gorge, Wuxia Gorge and Xiling Gorge from west to east. 1994 and 65438+started construction in February, and grid-connected power generation was realized in August 2003. The power generation in 2020 is110/800 million kwh, which is more than the Itaipu hydropower station in South America, the second largest in the world. The tour guide said that the daily income of the Three Gorges Power Station was 654.38 billion RMB.

Don't want to miss any scenery, everyone rushed to take photos with the cornerstone of the dam site, posing various classic shapes with the dam as the background, as if telling the world that China people who own the Three Gorges Dam have a hard waist.

Along the asphalt road at the top of the mountain, after a drive, we arrived at the Interception Memorial Park. There are cone-shaped boulders for river closure, construction machinery with wheels close to 2 people's height, high-pressure ceramic insulation column with a height of more than 5 meters, and a scaled-down version of the Three Gorges Dam. , just to leave that magnificent history.

The end of the hike is to watch the Three Gorges Dam at close range. The mountains and deep valleys are calm, with a drop of 1.75 meters, and the energy is huge. Several iron towers and high-voltage lines are led out from the generator room. The tour guide said that the Three Gorges people don't need the Three Gorges electricity, because the high voltage of 500,000 volts can't be converted into civil low voltage locally, and there is no suitable transformer, so they can only supply electricity to Shanghai, East China and other places remotely. Local people use electricity from Dujiangyan Power Station.

The last day's trip starts from Yichang Port, goes upstream along the Yangtze River, and ends at Dam Pier. The voyage is about 45 kilometers and takes 4 hours. The green and swift Yangtze River flows down the canyon, nourishing the land of China. The scenery on both sides of the strait is wonderful and changeable, especially walking in the charming landscape gallery. The fresh and humid air has nurtured the people on both sides of the strait.

This is a four-story luxury cruise ship, which can carry 1000 people. When entering the ship, it feels like entering a five-star hotel. The hall can accommodate hundreds of people, and there are VIP seats upstairs. The cheapest is 268 yuan for a table in the lobby and more than 688 yuan for a private room, with the best viewing effect on the top of the ship. But everyone who collects 40 yuan kindly reminds us not to go to the top floor. It's boring to waste money. Third floor. In order to see the scenery, I have been going back and forth on the front and back decks on the second and third floors, shooting the scenery on both sides of the strait. It seems that there is an endless sea of clouds in Wushan and an endless river.

When crossing Gezhouba, the ship lock was slowly opened, and the cruise ship entered the channel from the low water level. Then the huge gate was slowly closed, and the water level rose rapidly until it was equal to the upstream. The cruise ship left the channel to complete the gate crossing. I asked the tour guide of another group how big the water level gap was. He said it was 22 meters. Tourists are constantly exclaiming, some say the boat crossing is clever, and some say it is an eye-opener.

Near noon, the cruise ship was about to reach the end, and the gentle voice of the female announcer came: "The people of the Three Gorges have lived halfway up the mountain for generations, and there is no land. What do they live on? " There are three sources, one is planted on the mountain, the other is picked from the tree, and the other is fished in the water. That's how generations have come. There are agricultural products brought by the governor and mayor. Now the limited time discount is 15 minutes, 100 yuan, including roast duck, Tujia roast pig and tea. /kloc-restore the original price after 0/5 minutes. Please go to the service desk on the first, second and third floors to buy it. "Quite a few people really bought it, which is a good thing for the people of the Three Gorges. The cruise ship finally landed at 12: 03, successfully ending the trip to the Three Gorges.