Although it flows through Jin, Hebei and Henan, and is an important tributary of the Haihe River, its influence is far less than that of other large rivers.
In the dry and rainy north, for Licheng and even Changzhi, and even more places, but it is a real mother river.
Over the years, the regions around the Zhanghe water disputes, becoming one of the most frequent and serious water disputes in China.
Until it attracted the attention of the state, convened the parties to develop a water-sharing program, to be completely pacified.
Don't you think the river is important?
? Speaking of which, it is necessary to introduce the basic situation of the Zhanghe River.
Zhanghe is divided into two branches of the turbid Zhanghe and Qingzhanghe, both originating in the territory of Shanxi.
The turbid Zhanghe River has the south, north and west of the three sources, the south source out of Changzi County Hatchet Hill, west source out of the northwest of the village of Zhangyuan Qin County, the north source out of the Liulin River in Yushe County.
The south source of the turbid Zhang River is 134 kilometers long, flowing north to Xiangyuan County, Gan Village near the West Source convergence; West Source is 81 kilometers long, and the South Source convergence continues to the north, to Xiangyuan County, and the North Source convergence of the village mouth; North Source is 130 kilometers long, the three sources of convergence of the whole after the Turbid Zhang River, through the Lixing, from the Pingshun County, the next Mataying Village exit into the Henan Province.
In Shanxi, the river is 231 kilometers long, with a watershed area of 11,311 square kilometers.
The average annual runoff is 800 million cubic meters at Shiliang Station, and the average annual sand loss is 17.3 million tons.
The east source of the Qingzhang River is 104 kilometers long, the west source is 101 kilometers long, east and west two sources in the Zuoquan Shangjiaozhang village will meet, called the Qingzhang River, to the northeast of Licheng County, the village of the lower Qingquan injected into Hebei Province.
Qingzhang River is 142 kilometers long, with a watershed area of 4159 square kilometers, the average annual natural runoff of 400 million cubic meters.
Clear and turbid two sources in the southwestern border of Hebei Province in the village of Hezhang after the confluence called Zhanghe.
It flows eastward to Tantao and enters the Wei River.
The length is 466 kilometers (to Nantao), and the basin area (to Caixiaozhuang) is 18,200 square kilometers.
? Zhanghe River above Guantai section, both sides of the terrain is steep, narrow river valley, water flow twists and turns, in between, there are Chibi, Houbi, Tianqiao section of the natural fall barrier.
River out of the Guantai into the hilly areas, Yue Cheng Reservoir below the plains, to the Tantao County, Xu Wancang and Wei River convergence into the Wei Canal.
Zhanghe is a wandering river, known as "good silt, good decision, good migration".
In the 575 years from the Ming Dynasty (1368 AD) to 1942, there were as many as 50 major diversions and countless breaks.
The Haihe River Basin Comprehensive Plan says that the Haihe River originates from the Zhanghe River, which is located in Shanxi Province, which makes the Haihe River 1,032 kilometers long.
In addition, some water experts also believe that the origin of the Haihe River should be the Zhanghe River upstream turbid Zhanghe, which calculates the total length of the Haihe River 1329 kilometers.
? Zhanghe is a river flowing out of history.
One of the birthplaces of the Zhanghe River, Fat Hat Mountain in Changzi County, is a place where myths and legends are condensed.
In fact, Liu Yuking, Dean of the Faculty of Letters at Shanxi University, once boldly asserted that "the heroic myths that abound in Southeast Jin are the initial dawn of civilization" and that "the dawn of Chinese civilization breaks in Southeast Jin".
Only the many myths and legends of Southeast Jin - this oral history - can link the five thousand years of Chinese civilization.
Many myths and folklore, the most popular and popular stories, such as Nuwa mending the sky, Emperor Yandi tasted a hundred herbs, Jingwei reclamation, Yi shot the nine days, Yu Yu water, Yugong Yishan, the battle of Huangdi Chiyu, Kuafu chased the sun, Yao and Shun Zen, Chengguang prayer rain and so on, basically out of the Shangdan or Shangdan and have a thousand links.
Mr. Li Yueming said, Shanxi Xiangyuan may be one of the origins of the River Luo.
River out of the map, Luo out of the book is likely to be Zhanghe out of the map, Xiangyuan Luoshan out of the book! This is for reference only.
One of the sources of the Zhanghe River, Fajiao Mountain, is the original origin of the story of the filling of the sea.
Jingwei is the youngest daughter of Emperor Yan Di, the original name of the female child.
Licheng County, the Sui Dynasty "Baotai Temple Tablet" called this place "Yandi get Jiahe place".
Mr. Niu Yu Da, a writer, deduced through literature and field research that the ancient sage Emperor Yao was a native of Licheng.
The humanistic monuments, such as the Minshan Mountain, the Sai Bu Cliff, the Ear Washing River, the Xuyu Cave, and the ancient residence of Pengzu, "Pengzhuang", are not only supporting evidence for the folklore of "Xuyu's ear-washing", but also the stage where the real history took place.
? If the illusory history stays in the legend, the real history is born in the blood and fire.
Hebei Province archaeologists recently in the territory of Magnetic County, found that the early life of the Shang tribe of the cultural layer, for the academic community on the Shang tribe originated in the Zhanghe River Basin said to provide new evidence.
According to Mr. Zou Heng's analysis, if we exclude the factor of Xia culture in the first Shang site, the Zhanghe type should be a more pure Shang culture, which is likely to represent the original form of Shang culture.
? According to the literature, the south-central part of Hebei is the main area of Shang ancestors' activities, and this area has also been found to have the remains of pre-Shang and early Shang culture.
During the Shang Dynasty, Xingtai, the northern neighbor of Handan, was the capital of King Zuyi of the Shang Dynasty, and later King Pan Geng of the Shang Dynasty moved his capital to Anyang in Henan Province, the southern neighbor of Handan, which was then called Yin, and that is why the Shang was also called Yin.
? Some scholars believe that the name of the Shang tribe and the name of the country in the name of the water, the name of the place, the ancient Shangshui that is now the Zhanghe River, so the basin area is mainly in the south of Hebei Zhanghe River Basin should be the birthplace of the Shang tribe.
? Around the Zhanghe River, there was a lot of war in history.
The "Xibo Counterattack" is no longer a simple legend, but the basis for a real historical event.
The story of He Bo marrying a woman in the rule of Ximen Bao in Ye is a household name.
The story of Xiang Yu's kettle breaking and sinking his boat took place on the Zhanghe River, leaving behind an idiomatic expression as well as the imprint of war.
1,800 years ago, Cao Cao, the kingpin of the generation, drew the waters of the Zhang River to besiege Yuan Shang's Yecheng, and after conquering it, he operated it as Cao's base.
? Zhanghe is a river steeped in cultural elements and human emotions.
Not to mention the beautiful cultural pursuits of the ancients preserved in the many relics of the Shangdang area, not to mention the ruins of the Guantai of the Magnetic State Kiln, not to mention the many great operas of the clappers and loks that coalesced into folk songs, not to mention the long history of the eight sound will be a long time pouring out, not to mention the Buddhist temples, stone carvings, stone tablets and jewels, and not to say that the folklore folk customs of the competition ......, just In the ancient Yecheng, Cao Cao has repeatedly issued the order to seek talent, recruiting the world's talents, so Yecheng a moment of excellence, the formation of the "three Cao" and "Jian'an seven sons" as the main group of Yecheng literati.
These war-torn literati wrote a large number of generous and robust works, creating the epoch-making Jian'an Literature in the history of Chinese literature.
There are countless poems about and relating to the Zhanghe River.
In the history of modern literature, Ruan Zhangjing's narrative poem "Water of the Zhanghe River" has become a popular and immortal classic.
? Zhanghe River water is so nurturing, nourishing the mountains and rivers, grass and trees, ridge stone thick soil, thousands of people, but in the increasingly polluted both sides of the standoff, in the gradual no longer waves boiling today still drive the wheel of history forward.
I look forward to the future of the Zhanghe River, is Wang Zhihuan's song "Banquet", if this, for the well-being of the people, the future generations of the fortunate.
Wang Zhihuan wrote:
? The long embankment spring water is green and leisurely, drains into the Zhanghe River flow together.
Don't listen to the sound of urging to go to the rows, Peach Creek shallow place is not better than the boat.
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(Note: "Zhanghe" is the same as "Zhanghe."
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