1. The Yellow River
Once upon a time, there was a young man named Huang He, who was a good-looking man, rode a powerful horse, drew a hard bow, and shot wherever he pointed to within a hundred paces, without any mistake. Every morning as soon as the sun was red, Huang He rode his horse out to hunt. Every time he passed through the garden of a family of foreigners. On this day, he came back from hunting, he passed by the garden again, and saw a girl of 18 or 19 years old on the wall looking at him with a smile on her face. The girl threw down a bracelet and hid behind the wall.
Huang He jumped down from his horse and picked up the bracelet, thinking that he had just met a fairy. From then on, every time he passed that garden he always looked up. However, except for the swaying flower branches on the wall, he could no longer see the girl. One day half a month later, Huang He came back late from hunting, and the moon had already risen. When he came to the garden, suddenly a person flashed out from the road. Huang He was so happy to see the girl. The girl said she came to meet him behind her father's back. They talked for a long time before saying goodbye.
The next day, when it was time for the appointment, the girl did not come. After that, for more than ten days, Huang He never saw the girl again. When he asked about it, it turned out to be that the foreigner knew about it and locked up his daughter. When Huang He heard about this, he swore, "I will save the girl even if the sky turns upside down." Afraid of offending Huang He, he made it difficult for people to build a rack in front of the door, hanging a coin on it, and posted notices around: whoever could shoot an arrow into the eye of the coin from a hundred paces away would marry his daughter. The news spread, wearing silk and satin came in droves. But no one was able to shoot an arrow into the eye of the money.
Huang He came out and drew his bow, only to hear the sound of "sough", the arrow flew out like a pop, not left, not right, right in the eye of the coin. The officer asked Huang He's second arrow to top the previous one, and Huang He did it. The officer made another problem, asking Huang He not only to shoot down the coin, but also to catch the money and not to allow the coin to fall to the ground. At this time, even the people who watched the game knew that Huanghe was trying to cheat. Huang He was so angry that he twisted his body and sent an arrow flying towards him. The officer was young and had practiced martial arts, so he dodged the arrow and shouted to his men to go and arrest Huang He. Everyone shouted for Huang He to be arrested, and they all shouted angrily.
Huang He squeezed out of the crowd and came to the mountain, he was not afraid that the officer would come to arrest him, he had never shot an arrow in vain, but this time he did not hit it, and he felt that the boss was ashamed of himself. He was determined to practice his martial arts in the mountains and forests, and then go to save the girl after he had practiced. After a year, Huang He practiced his martial arts better, so he set out to save the girl. Feeling hungry at noon, he shot down a big bird with an arrow. The big bird opened its mouth and said, "Good man, don't harm me, I can tell you about the girl." When Huang He heard this, he was busy pulling the arrow off the big bird.
Big Bird told Huang He that the officer forced his daughter to marry the rich man and the girl was so angry that she jumped off a building. When she was about to jump, she shouted, "Yellow River! Yellow River! The Yellow River ah ......" Yellow River heard, his heart like a mountain collapsed, he "poof" a sit on the ground, teardrops like spring water gushed out.
The big bird scared to fly to the sky, look down, the tears of the Yellow River into a river, the ocean, rolling eastward, the Yellow River into the "Yellow River"! The water of the Yellow River always rolls over the sky. People say, that is the Yellow River heart wrath, always want to approach the village to save the girl.
2. Why do the children of China call themselves the children of the Yellow River
About 2500 B.C., the Yellow River Basin appeared Xuan Yuan's Yellow Emperor this flag. As a result, a gorgeous flower of civilization blossomed successively from the Yellow Emperor, the founder of humanity. Yellow Emperor planted grain, Yellow Emperor made car, Yellow Emperor fishing, Yellow Emperor made mirror, Yellow Emperor spinning ...... in the dawn of Chinese culture, everywhere left the silhouette of the Yellow Emperor.
Meanwhile, another ancient hero of the Chinese nation also appeared on this Loess Plateau. He is Yandi. History tells us that he made Leiyu, teaching people to farm, tasting herbs and curing all kinds of diseases, so he was also known as Shennong's. The primitive tribes under his leadership were the most powerful in the world. Under his leadership of the primitive tribes, in the Loess Plateau on the Weihe River Valley, planting hundreds of grains and vegetables, so that this area of the Loess Land has become the birthplace of China's primitive agriculture.
Later, the two Emperors, Yan and Huang, united and defeated the Chi You tribe in the Zhuo Lu Battle, while in the Lone Spring Battle, the Yellow Emperor defeated the Yan Emperor. The Yellow River Basin experienced a great fission and fusion, and the two tribes, Yan and Huang, gradually merged and assimilated a number of other ethnic tribes, finally forming the multi-ethnic Huaxia race with the Yellow Emperor as the ancestor of the Yellow Tong. It is said that Zhuan Xu, Emperor ?u, Yao, Shun and Yu, the ancient heroes of the Chinese nation who are full of spiritual light, are all descendants of the Yellow Emperor. The ancestors of the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, who entered the stage of society, were also descendants of the Yellow Emperor. They called themselves "Huaxia", sometimes also called "Hua" or "Xia", and the Yellow Emperor as the ancestor, but also called themselves "Yanhuang Shihuang" or "Huang Shihuang", "Huang Huang" or "Huang Huang". The Yellow Emperor is regarded as the ancestor, and he calls himself "the descendants of the Yellow Emperor" or "the descendants of the Yellow Emperor". The heavy yellow soil, and thus unearthed an agricultural China.
Then yellow became the national color of China. Chinese dragons were mostly painted in yellow. After the Sui and Tang emperors wore the dragon robe, made in yellow; imperial court decoration, also the most fashionable yellow. Only to accept the congratulations of the officials; Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin is also in the Yellow River, "yellow robe", only to sit on the emperor's dragon chair.
The Yellow River, the Yellow Earth, the Yellow Emperor, the Yellow Emperor's children and grandchildren, is a group of symbols of great cultural significance. It is not difficult to understand why people often compare the Yellow River as the cradle of the Chinese nation.
3. Carp jump Dragon Gate legend
Longmen is located about 65 kilometers south of the Hukou Falls, in the southernmost Jin-Shaanxi Canyon. South of the Dragon Gate is the open and flat Guanzhong Plain. The water of the Yellow River suddenly enters into the wide riverbed from the narrow Dragon Gate, and the nature of the river changes greatly. The formation of Longmen is that the Longmen Mountain on its east and the Liang Mountain on its west each stick out their ridges and close to each other, forming a narrow mouth gate only 100 meters wide, as if it were a giant vise, binding the river and creating a turbulent current. Whenever the flood season, due to the congestion of the water level in the mouth of the gorge, and out of the canyon, the river valley suddenly widens, the water level is suddenly dropped, so the formation of the obvious difference in the level of the water in the Dragon Gate, so there is a "Dragon Gate, three water" said. The story of "Carp jumping over the Dragon Gate" refers to jumping over the falling water here. The story says that the small carp are not afraid of obstacles, have jumped the door on the road to become a dragon, can jump over the person, will be able to become a dragon. Only those little carp who are indomitable will eventually become dragons. This story has inspired the children of the Yellow Emperor for thousands of years to strive and struggle. In ancient times, people were incredibly impressed by the formation of this natural wonder, and imagined that it was a gorge cut by Yu, which is why Longmen is also known as "Yu Menkou".
4. The Story of Dayu's Water Remedy
Legend has it that during the time of Emperor Yao, the Yellow River Basin was frequently flooded. In order to stop the flooding and protect the agricultural production, Emperor Yao called a meeting with the tribal leaders and asked them to find a good waterman to calm down the flooding. Jiu Ji is recommended to be responsible for this work. Jiu Ji replied, "Father is son, father is son". Jiu Ji accepted the task, he used dike to block the water, and made a three-refined city, that is, he used a simple dike to surround the residential area to block the flood, which was unsuccessful for nine years, and he was finally banished from Yushan Mountain to die. After Emperor Shun succeeded the throne, Jiu Ji appointed Yu, his son, to treat the water. Jiu Ji replaces his father's experience in water treatment, father is son and son is son. Jiu Ji is the son of father, he is the father of son, he is the father of son. By channeling floodwaters into unblocked rivers, depressions, or lakes, the floodwaters could then be channeled to the four seas, thus calming the flooding and allowing the people to move from the highlands back to the plains to live and engage in agriculture. Yu became the first king of the Xia Dynasty and was known as "Shen Yu" for generations to come.
There are many touching stories about Yu's water-control efforts. Legend has it that he traveled up and down the river with the help of the primitive measuring tools he invented -- the quasi-rope and the rule, and used the divine axe to split open the Dragon Gate and the Yi-pout, and chiseled through the Jishi Mountain and the Qingtong Gorge, so as to make the river flow freely. He ruled the water to live outside for 13 years, three times and did not enter, even his newborn child did not have time to caress, not afraid of hardship, the first to fight, the sweat on his legs were worn out in the labor. He was the first water-control hero in Chinese history to successfully manage the Yellow River floods.
5. The origin of the name of Sanmenxia
Sanmenxia is the most dangerous mountain gorge in the last section of the gorge before the Yellow River enters the plain. The terrain here is steep, the current is fast, the stone walls on both sides are steep, and two stone islands in the river divide the rapids into three streams. People call these three waterways "Human Gate", "God's Gate" and "Ghost Gate", from which the name "Three Gates Gorge" is derived. The name "Three Gates Gorge" comes from this. Ghost Gate, God's Gate in the water is dangerous, it seems that only the ghosts and gods can pass through; people door water is a little slower, but is also deep and fast-flowing, boats are difficult to travel.
Today, the "Three Heavenly Gates" is no longer there, replaced by a dam across the gorge, like a silver satin stripe connecting Shanxi and Henan provinces, which is the first large-scale water conservancy project on the main stream of the Yellow River, started in 1957 -- the Sanmenxia Water Conservancy Hub, which is the first large-scale water conservancy project on the main stream of the Yellow River. -Sanmenxia Water Conservancy Hub.
6. Hukou Waterfall
The Yellow River flows to the Hukou, where Jixian County in Shanxi confronts Yichuan in Shaanxi, and you see the second largest waterfall in China, the Hukou Waterfall. The height of Hukou Falls is generally between 15 to 20 meters, although the height is not great among the many waterfalls in China, however, its water volume is the largest among the waterfalls in China. Rolling Yellow River water from high altitude into only 30~50 meters wide stone groove, water splash, water sound, surging torrent, fog in the sky. Climbing high to look at, as if a large teapot to pour water, the impulse is very large, forming a "mixed out of the Kunlun diffusion of the big stream, the Jade Pass nine turn a pot to collect" the scene. The name of the jug mouth will come from this.
Watch Hukou Waterfall, thrilling. Huge amount of water, like the Milky Way, the sea hanging upside down. That momentum, that sound, when it is the most majestic spectacle on the land of China! A few miles away, you can hear the roar of the Hukou Falls. The waterfalls stirred up a cloud of smoke and rain, can be seen from afar. If you walk to the rocks near the Hukou Falls, you will feel the land in the violent trembling, the valley is echoed in the rumbling thunder-like sound, as if the river's huge impact, the earth and the valley has felt unable to resist, only to let the river rampage, wash away the rocks, take away the soil.
Hukou Falls scenery, with the seasons and change. Spring Hukou Falls, the upper reaches of the ice began to melt, the so-called "peach news" to come. At the time of the peach and willow green, wind and sunshine, the distant mountains began to put on a layer of light green. However, the upper reaches of the ice still floats down from time to time, converging in the upper reaches of the Hukou wide river, and then pouring down, such as the landslide, Qiong Palace shocked pouring, stirring up the jade ice crystals, thrown around. At this time the water color and mountain light, looks particularly charming.
When summer comes, the Yellow River into the flood period, the river water level suddenly raised, but reduced the original fall of the waterfalls, so that over the mouth of the waterfalls into a bank of rapids, the river is wide, rough waves, unique.
And until the autumn high, the northern geese fly south, Qin Jin plateau cloudless. Climbing high and looking far away, Hukou Falls to the shape of the situation, at a glance, can not help but be refreshed. Whenever the sunrise, waterfalls under the smoke, refracted into a road rainbow, ring across the sky, illusionary scene. And when the rain poured, or after a burst of autumn rain, the Yellow River Hukou Waterfall is if the Yellow Dragon clouds driving fog, only to see the wind and rain smoke, filling the sky, heaven and earth, water, three bodies of one color, so there are "four times the fog and rain fans Hukou, the two sides of the wave shaking the Mengmen" of the poem.
Cold days, the Qin Jin plateau in the past the yellow earth suddenly disappeared, thousands of miles of ice, thousands of miles of snow, the mountain dance silver snake, the original wax elephants, a northern landscape. At this time of the Hukou Waterfall also turned into a white, especially fascinating.
To enjoy the momentum of the Hukou Falls, when the rocks down to the waist of the Hukou, and then raised his head, fell to the rocks, splashing countless beads of water, between the blink of an eye will be turned into a misty cloud, in the sunlight, a brilliant rainbow, across the sky. The river then rushed into a deep trough, rushing downstream. This scene is just like "the island came to the mountains, rolled into a thousand thunder quaking sound", "reflecting the sun rainbow even the mountains and water, full of wind and rain do not see the clouds".
If close to the waterfall, can be found in the Hukou Waterfall "mouth" in the middle, there is a shiny stone, seems to be in the waterfall in the rapids, floating up and down with the current, the shape of a tortoise playing with the water, it is known as "Turtle Rock". It is like a pearl, the two sides of the two waterfalls rolling down like two dragons, dragon and pearl leaping, forming an extremely vivid image of the picture of the two dragons playing pearls. For this strange stone, there have been many moving legends. Some say that when King Yu ruled the water, "the first Hukou, the second Mengmen, after the Dragon Gate, chiseled stone, draw water down", dredging the river, cured the flood, this piece of strange stone, is the treatment of water left behind by the "jewel"; there are also legends that this stone is Nuwa mending the sky left behind by the "sacred stone". The stone is also said to be left behind when Nvwa mended the sky "God stone"; there are also said to be Fuxi siblings get married when the "matchmaking stone".